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Provides programs to build or improve housing, essential community facilities, and support business financing in rural areas of Illinois.

Programs available:

- Single-Family Housing Programs: Direct loans or loan guarantees for low- and moderate-income rural families for mortgages and home repairs. Additionally, grants are available for health and safety repairs for individuals over 62.

- Multi-Family Housing Programs: Loans for affordable rental housing for very-low- to moderate-income residents, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Funds may also be used to buy or improve land and provide necessary facilities such as water and waste disposal systems. Rent assistance is available for rural residents.

- Community Facilities Programs: Loans, grants, and loan guarantees for essential community facilities in rural areas, with priority given to health care, education, and public safety projects.

- Business Financing Programs: Financial support, including loans and grants, for individuals or groups seeking to establish or expand businesses in rural areas.

Offers a food pantry by appointment only. Can receive help once every 6 weeks. Personal care items are also available.

Offers flood insurance to homeowners, renters, and business owners. Visit www.floodsmart.gov for more information on available insurance coverage.

Provides kindergarten through 12th grade students with hands-on learning experiences to help them connect what they are learning in school with life outside of the classroom. The organization’s sequential programs focus on career readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy skill development.

Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports.

Services include seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver’s licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing, SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions, special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues, Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues, and tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.

After school program for children and youth. Includes a daily snack and lunch.

Disaster preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation. Information and education on emergency disaster preparedness.

Provides art therapy services to aid clients in accessing verbal and non-verbal ways of processing changes or difficulties in their lives and work towards meeting treatment goals. Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress.

Offers the following Community Services:

Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) provides services for adults with intellectual or mental disabilities, a qualifying brain injury or handicapping condition. Individualized support is provided in the client's home or other community-based settings and is available 24 hours.

Home-Based Habilitation Services (HBHS) are designed to assist individuals with serious and persistent mental illness with the acquisition, retention or improvement in skills related to living in the community. Services assist in the daily living needs of the client and can be provided 24 hours a day.

Community Support Services (CSS) provide integrated services and supports to persons with a serious mental illness. Interdisciplinary teams provide assessments and service planning, monitoring of mental health symptoms, medication management, problem-solving assistance, coordination of appointments and transportation and support.

Provides commodity food packages to eligible participants age 60 and older. Participants are given a pre-packaged grouping of foods by participant pick up or home delivery.

Offers HAWK-I which provides the CHIP benefits (Children's Health Insurance Program) which offers health care insurance coverage for Iowa children in families with limited incomes. Depending on the size of the family Hawk-I is from free to no more than $40.00 per month; See website for income guidelines.

Helps people with little income buy food for a healthy diet. An application for Food Assistance must be completed to receive this assistance. Call or visit website for more detailed information.