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Connects youth and families to resources and support. Navigators help "fill gaps" by helping agencies partner around a common goal or by utilizing flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Community Prevention reduces unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. Coordinates existing resources and matches participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Rental Deposit Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Work Clothing
Transportation Expense Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Case/Care Management
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Limited funds for camps, respite care, disability-related items when no other funding is available.

Provides financial assistance to senior and disabled individuals with unmet needs. Services could include car repairs, eye glasses, medical equipment, dental care, or help with clothing.

Senior Basket Program assists seniors with various items that cannot be acquired with food stamps. Basket varieties include things like cleaning supplies, kitchen items, or personal hygiene supplies. Two Baskets are distributed each year in the Spring and Fall.

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Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Medical Expense Assistance
Clothing Vouchers

Provides quality, affordable primary medical, dental, and behavioral healthcare to anyone who visits the clinic, without regard to insurance status or ability to pay. Services include but are not limited to:

-- Well-child visits

-- School and sports physicals

-- Prenatal care

-- Chronic disease management

-- Counseling

-- Medication Assistance Recovery treatment

-- On-site lab

-- On-site pharmacy

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Community Clinics
Medication Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Prenatal Care
Dental Care
General Laboratory Tests
Well Baby Care
Pharmacies
General Counseling Services
General Medical Care
Chronic Disease Self Management Programs
General Physical Examinations

When funding allows, may be able to help with limited financial assistance for basic needs such as childcare payments, rent, rent deposits, utilities, food, hygiene products, car repairs, transportation, prescription costs, etc., through the Community Services Block Grant. Eligibility requirements will apply, and ongoing case management will be required. Contact your local County Outreach Office for more information.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Child Care Expense Assistance
Food Vouchers
Medical Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Personal/Grooming Needs

Provides emergency assistance:

-- Rent.

-- Utilities.

-- Mortgage.

-- Medicine.

-- Temporary financial assistance.

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Temporary Financial Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Medication vouchers for a local pharmacy are administered on an emergency need basis every 6 months.
Administers the General Assistance Program for Chickasaw, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek counties to offer emergency financial assistance with rent, utilities, food, burial/cremation, and prescription medications.

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Prescription Medication Services
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Food Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Administers the General Assistance Program for Chickasaw, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek counties to offer emergency financial assistance with rent, utilities, food, burial/cremation, and prescription medications.

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Prescription Medication Services
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Food Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

When funding is available, assists those who are at least 55, are income eligible, and who have no insurance or other methods in which to pay for needed dental work. Applicants must be experiencing current dental pain and/or have difficulty eating/chewing, or have missing/broken and/or decayed front teeth.

The program uses a voucher system and allows recipients to receive treatment from a provider of their choice. Cannot pay for dental work completed before the date of MCHA's dental voucher. This program is funded by The McHenry County Senior Services.

Provides emergency financial assistance for rent, mortgage, utilities, food, and prescription medication costs.

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Food Vouchers
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Provides general assistance to those in need. Must meet income guidelines.

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Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Prescription Medication Services
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance

Provides emergency assistance for utilities, housing (including rent and mortgage assistance), some medical expenses, and gas vouchers. Consideration may be given to other emergencies to determine if it is a necessity. Does not assist with housing/utility deposits.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to "fill gaps", either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Limited funding sometimes available for vehicle repair, minor home repairs and dental work.

Community Response is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. By utilizing Central Navigation, the goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Medical Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Work Clothing
Case/Care Management
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Dental Care
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Offers Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to help prevent the transmission of HIV.

Provides medical and cash assistance for customers who are 65 years of age or older, blind, or disabled. Also includes the QMB (Qualified Medicare Beneficiary) program which provides payment of Medicare premiums and some Medicare co-payments.

The online application is called "Application for Benefits Eligibility (ABE)." When applying, the state will determine the applicant's eligibility for this AABD, as well as SNAP and medical assistance (Medicaid).

Medication assistance program for indigent patients.
Go to website to print discount card. Cannot use card with insurance.

Prescription discount card program may help individuals save an average of 24 percent off the full retail cost of prescription medications that are not covered under a traditional insurance plan; the program is offered through the National Association of Counties (NACo) in partnership with Caremark.

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Prescription Medication Services

Patients in need of help paying for a prescription can obtain assistance through a voucher.

Funding source for local nonprofits providing services in education, financial stability, and health. Provides financial oversight and collaboration between nonprofits for collective impact and change.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Charities/Grantmaking Organizations

In-house, full-service pharmacy, filling all medications on-site.

Assists with insurance plans and questions, including Medicaid and Medicare.

Provides medication delivery options and prior authorization assistance.

Provides sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment as well as Hepatitis A, B and C testing. Can also prescribe medications for those living with HIV.

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Prescription Medication Services
Hepatitis Testing
Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening
Sexually Transmitted Infection Treatment
Can assist, when funding is available, eligible individuals and families with limited resources in need of help with past due or disconnected utilities, past due rent or mortgage, emergency medical and/or dental services, costs to engage in Mental Health services, costs to maintain or gain internet or phone access, transportation, vehicle repairs, swim lessons, seasonal swim passes, and costs associated with participation in extracurricular activities.

**While some costs may be covered under Federal funding sources, the Crisis Assistance program is largely funded by grants and donations. All Assistance identified above is dependent on available funding.

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Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance

Helps patients understand their medications and vaccinations and be able to obtain them affordably and ask any questions they may have. A patient's care team includes a pharmacist who will provide support in understanding their health and medications.