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Provides assistance to eligible families in need. Assistance may include rent, auto repairs, gas cards, help with medical care, homelessness, referrals to other organizations, etc. Clients must agree to allow a two person team to make an in-home visit to review the situation.

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Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Provides temporary emergency financial assistance to families and individuals for shelter, utilities, rent, prescription medications, necessary medical transportation and burial/cremation expenses.

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Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Rent Payment Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Prescription Medication Services
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Offers emergency prescription assistance and co-pay assistance, when grant money is available, to people age 55 years and older, with proper identification.

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

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).

Provides limited funding for DeKalb County residents who need financial assistance to purchase prescribed psychiatric medications.

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or mortgage payments, utilities, burial expense, prescription medication co-pays, non-emergency medical transportation, and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Medical Expense Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Offers emergency assistance, including help with rent and utility bills, prescriptions, and transportation expenses. Provides personal hygiene and baby supplies, such as diapers and formula. Offers thrift store vouchers for clothing and household supplies.

Provides fans during the summer to eligible households.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Diapers
Rent Payment Assistance
Formula/Baby Food
Transportation Expense Assistance
Clothing Vouchers
Personal/Grooming Needs
Medical Expense Assistance
Household Goods Vouchers
Fans

Provides emergency financial assistance to those who qualify. Assistance includes rent, mortgage and utility payment assistance, and the cost of life saving prescription medications.

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

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 expense assistance for prescription medications to those who are eligible.
Provides uninsured and underinsured individuals with free screening mammograms. Patients must call to register, and then will receive a voucher in the mail. Letter will include scheduling information for hospital closest to patient. Screening mammograms are done at fifteen locations in Chicago. Patients must make their own appointments.

Adult wellness clinic offers full lipid profile (Cholesterol) with glucose, tuberculosis clinic, adult immunization clinic, immunization clinic.

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Medical Expense Assistance
General Immunization
Cholesterol/Triglycerides Tests
Communicable Disease Control

Information concerning Leukemia, Lymphoma, Myeloma and other blood related cancers for professionals and the general public. Patient services, science and research and advocacy information. Free education, literature, and video and audio tapes.

Transportation assistance program and co-pay assistance program.

Telephone support group and traditional support groups are available for patients and families of any age who have leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, or myeloma. Call for support group times and location.

Peer Support for newly diagnosed patients who wish to talk to a person going though the same situation (trained volunteers).

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Medical Expense Assistance
Disease/Disability Information
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

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.

Partners with nearly all pharmacies nationwide to negotiate prescription discounts, so participants receive a lower price. The pharmacy discount card is for everyone nationwide, whether someone has health insurance coverage or not.
Prescription drug discount card program through FamilyWize.Org.

Provides a range of services to healthcare consumers, including:

- Certified Application Counselors.

- Enrollment in free or affordable health insurance.

- Access to free or affordable health care.

- Medicaid and SNAP (food stamp) applications.

- Assistance with Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug plans.

- Access to free or affordable dental care.

- Access to free or affordable eye exams and glasses.

- Access to free or affordable prescriptions.

- Dealing with medical bills and applying for hospital financial assistance.

- Applications for SafeLink phones.

Other services include:

- Information and referrals.

- Assistance.

- Advocacy.

- Case management.

- Disability Services.

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Medicare Information/Counseling
Medical Expense Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Affordable Care Act Insurance Information/Counseling
Medication assistance program for indigent patients.
Provides financial assistance to low income Benton County residents on an emergency basis. The applicant must meet financial guidelines established by the Benton County Board of Supervisors and have applied for all other means of assistance. Veterans must meet with Veterans Affairs for assistance first. Cannot assist students, be on subsidized housing or receive Social Security benefits. Assistance may include rent, utilities, burial. Referrals to food pantry may be given with no regard to income.

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Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Prescription Medication Services
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical and financial services including prescriptions, rent, utilities, and vouchers for personal care items.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
General Relief
Personal/Grooming Needs
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Community clinic providing a variety of family practice services.

Women's health, including pap tests and prenatal care visits.

Physicals for anyone, including well-child checkups, kindergarten physicals, sports physicals.

Acute care.

Immunizations, including flu shots.

Tests for diabetes, high blood pressure, HIV, tuberculosis.

STD testing and treatment.

Medical assistance program assists low income individuals in applying to drug companies for a reduction in the cost of monthly/regular prescriptions.

Behavioral health care for routine conditions such as anxiety and depression.

Counseling provided by a licensed practitioner (PLMHP).

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Sexually Transmitted Infection Treatment
HIV Testing
Pap Tests
Birth Control
Community Clinics
General Immunization
Diabetes Screening
Blood Pressure Screening
General Counseling Services
Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening
Prescription Medication Services
Prenatal Care
Tuberculosis Screening
Flu Vaccines
General Physical Examinations

Provides primary health care for acute and chronic problems. Also offers

- Orthopedic medical services (available once per month, by appointment)
- Eye doctor (available once per month, by appointment)
- Women's health services
- Diabetes education
- Pharmaceutical assistance program, including dispensary for in-house prescriptions

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Community Clinics
Eye Care
Pap Tests
Mammograms
Pharmacies
Diabetes Management Clinics
National non-profit organization that maintains a website of free information on programs that help people who can't afford medications and healthcare costs. Maintains updated data on over 9,000 assistance programs, 15,000 free/low-cost/sliding scale clinics, and nearly 1,500 drug discount coupons. Publishes information about resources for specific diseases. All information is accessible online, at no charge and without registration.
People requiring services are asked to call and inquire about the status of the services required. The Health Insurance Premium Payment Program provides a program that helps people get insurance or keep insurance they already have by paying for the premiums.