Guides families through their child's journey with a medical condition. Works with doctors, schools and community groups to create a seamless support system.

Care coordination team works together with families to develop a plan of care that addresses a child's medical, social, behavioral, educational and financial needs. Care coordination is free for all children who have eligible medical conditions, regardless of their family's income level.

Care coordination can include finding specialized medical care, helping families understand their child's diagnosis and medical treatment plan, explaining insurance benefits and attending school meetings.

Helps children who are medically fragile remain in their family home rather than a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Assists with:

- Finding specialized medical care

- Making sure families understand their child's diagnosis and medical treatment plan

- Helping families understand their insurance benefits and maximize their coverage

- Attending IEP /504 Plan school meeting

- Connecting families with financial support, grants and other community resources

- Preparing for the transition to adulthood

Provides case management to individuals who receive services at Warren Achievement Center. Includes intake services, advocacy, service monitoring, and service linkage with other agencies.

Offers daytime homeless services including, use of shower, laundry, provision of clothing (if available), and case management.

Also acts as a warming center during general intake hours.

Assists individuals with mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and developmental disabilities in accessing needed services and supports. Coordinators provide information, referral, assess individuals for needs, develop a treatment plan, and coordinate funding as needed.

Provides family case management to help and support income-eligible pregnant women and children. The needs of each family are assessed to determine which services would be beneficial. Family case managers also conduct developmental screenings, maternal depression screenings, and make genetic referrals as appropriate.

Services include:

-- Planning services

-- Referrals

-- Health education

-- Home visits

-- Advocating on behalf of the client

The goal is to keep troubled families together by offering them intense case management, education in parenting, and links to community resources. A caseworker will help the family to develop a short-term, agreed upon plan to make the changes that will help keep the children safe. Services such as counseling, domestic violence prevention, substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment, parenting coaching/classes, or housing can be provided.

Provides rental/mortgage assistance, utility assistance, approved case management, and approved supportive services directly related to the prevention of homelessness to eligible individuals and families located in Kendall County who are in danger of eviction, foreclosure, or homelessness or are currently homeless.

Eligible individuals in Grundy County can contact We Care of Grundy County at (815) 942-6389

Full assessments and tailored plans for individuals dealing with substance abuse.

Facilitates individual, group, and family counseling.

Can make referrals for:

-- Psychiatric consultation

-- Medication management

-- Crisis services

-- Child care

-- Employment training

Assists individuals with mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and developmental disabilities in accessing needed services and supports. Coordinators provide information, referral, assess individuals for needs, develop a treatment plan, and coordinate funding as needed.

Case Management services to caregivers age 18 and older, living with and providing daily care to a care receiver age 60 or older or with a dementia-related diagnosis.

Case management services for victims of gun violence and their families, as well as for perpetrators of gun violence and their families.

- Counseling Referrals: Case Managers will assist in finding appropriate referrals to providers in the community for both individual and group therapy.

- Community Resource Referrals: Case Managers will help clients navigate and understand available community resources, including food, clothing, housing, partner social service agencies, etc.

Mental health case management. Aids in assessment, planning, and support for a variety of needs. Assists with housing, public income entitlements, accessing various services, and more.

Case management services include, advocacy for mental health and other services, identifying and linking individuals with necessary resources, building skills for daily living.

Families are given a personal case worker to help assess the causes and symptoms of the current issues. From here, a personalized action plan is mapped out in order for the family members to learn how to achieve their goals. Along the way, the family is not only connected to The Salvation Army's resources, but also to other outside resources that benefit their personal growth and support.

The Hispanic Center provides families with information in Spanish and links them to services in Spanish. Services provided include:

-- Outreach

-- Advocacy

-- Interpretation

-- Translation

-- Case Management

-- Information and Referrals

Provides in-home case management as well as 24-hour response to emergencies. Services include a case manager who will monitor individuals weekly to ensure they are linked with the necessary resources and referrals for both inpatient and outpatient drug treatment programs. Services may also include weekly in-home and out-of-home counseling for adults, children, couples, and families. Families may also be referred to a number of community-based services, including medical services, counseling, drug or alcohol treatment support groups, food pantries, housing, employment training, and continuing education programs.

Works with pregnant woman, or families with a high risk infant, or a foster child under 6, to obtain health care services or other necessary services needed to have a healthy pregnancy and to promote the infant or child's healthy development. Services include health counseling, evaluation of medical and social needs, referrals to needed services or supports, high risk infant follow-up for those in need and DCFS medical case management.

Outpatient services include:
- Counseling services for children, families and adults
- Case management
- Community support
- Crisis intervention
- Psychiatric care (including psychiatric assessment and medication assessment, prescribing, and monitoring)

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, medical expenses, and more.

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.

Provides case/care management assessments for seniors who may need homemaker services.

Provides help to senior citizens, who might otherwise need nursing home care, to remain in their own homes by providing in-home and community-based services. Services include, comprehensive care coordination, adult day services, in-home services such as cleaning, meals, laundry, shopping/running errands, and personal hygiene, emergency home response service, and automated medication dispenser service.