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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.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Case/Care Management
Comprehensive Information and Referral

Assistance with goal setting to create stability; assistance with budgeting needs.

Offers case management services to families with at least one child under the age of 18. Case management works to help families reach stability. Goals created are client-oriented, and case managers connect clients to job training, health services, housing options, legal help, education, and more.

Offers visitation program for low-income families providing free services in partnership with their FaDSS Family Development Specialist who works with the whole family to address their basic needs, improve child well being, and develop career opportunities.

Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified Family Development specialist.
Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Provides in-home support to families receiving FIP (welfare) assistance, helping the family to increase stability and become economically self-sufficient. Family development specialists meet one-on-one with families in regular home visits. Families might pursue resources needed for stability, like emergency food, energy assistance, and stable housing.

Helps individuals achieve economic and social self-sufficiency.
FaDSS is a free and voluntary home visitation program that partners with families to set goals that lead to self sufficiency. FaDSS works with low income families, at or below 175% of federal poverty level based on family size or receiving cash assistance (FIP). FaDSS is a family based program, working with the whole family and offering activities and screening with children 0-5. FaDSS assists families in learning to set goals and advocate for themselves, as well as connecting with community resources.
Client centered intensive case management program to assist families in transitioning to stability.

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.

Proactive Families Financial Services 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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Medical Expense Assistance
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Case/Care Management
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Grants/Loans
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Work Clothing
Transportation Expense Assistance

Offers a program that consists of structured home visits conducted by skilled family development specialists that include: assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

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.

Categories

Rental Deposit Assistance
Work Clothing
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Case/Care Management
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Program designed to assist FIP recipients achieve self-sufficiency through a partnership between the family and certified Family Development Specialists. Staff works with the family to help them set goals and strive towards them while working with the family to help them overcome their everyday problems and barriers.

Assistance with goal setting to create stability; assistance with budgeting needs.

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Intensive case management for families with children. Works to set and attain goals to break the cycle of poverty.
Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.

Program of Illinois Department of Human Services that assists individuals and families in crisis by providing direct assistance when able and by helping clients navigate local social services.

Offers a food pantry and clothing pantry.

Provides referrals to appropriate services when needing emergency housing, transportation, help with medical bills, and job searching.

Provides management of the Opportunities Quad Cities initiative, a collaboration of volunteers who have experienced success in their lives ("Navigators") who work with individuals and families struggling with poverty ("Neighbors"). Navigators support Neighbors one-on-one to connect them to specific community resources that can alleviate a barrier to success and help them move forward permanently out of poverty. Navigators have worked with Neighbors to resolve legal issues, parenting struggles, continuing education, and many other situations that keep people in poverty. Services are offered at two separate locations in Davenport and Rock Island. The Davenport location focuses on helping individuals and families who have been victims or witnesses of crime (reported or unreported).

Categories

Comprehensive Information and Referral
Food Pantries
General Clothing Provision
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

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.

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. 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.

Categories

Rent Payment Assistance
Case/Care Management
Medical Expense Assistance
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Work Clothing
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Program supports families and individuals who want to further their self-sufficiency. Guides and motivates individuals to achieve workplace stability. Coordinators will provide support, opportunity and resources to identify and meet goals.

Offers visitation program for low-income families providing free services in partnership with their FaDSS Family Development Specialist who works with the whole family to address their basic needs, improve child well being, and develop career opportunities.