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Provides an educational program for children and youth ages 12-21 with intellectual disabilities. The program stresses self-help skills, communication skills, socialization skills, functional academics, and vocational skills. Referrals for school enrollment come from the student's special education program. Ruby Van Meter also has a Related Arts program that provides education in the areas of Physical Education, Music, Work Experience, Home Living Skills and Swimming.

Provides emergency housing and supportive services to homeless individuals and families. Services include case management, information and referral to community resources, education assistance, workshops, and access to food pantry.


Cold Shelter available on nights when it is 20F or below.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Food Pantries
Homeless Shelter
Life Skills Education
Case/Care Management

Offers community classes covering a variety of topics including Life Skills Training - Family Life Series, Stepping Up, personal development, anger management, and Positive Parenting.

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Life Skills Education
Parenting Skills Classes
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Anger Management

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

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Medication Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Life Skills Education
In Person Crisis Intervention
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
General Psychiatry
Psychiatric Medication Services
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Mental Health Evaluation
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
General Counseling Services

Offers educational courses which are free to the public. Each month a different topic is explored. Vouchers to ATLAS's Christmas Store or School Supply drives may be earned by attendees for active participation.

Courses offered may vary and may cover topics such as:

- Public Speaking

- Setting Boundaries

- Learning to Budget

- Grief Recovery

- Life Skills for Teens

- Parenting

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Parenting Skills Classes
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Financial Literacy Training
Life Skills Education

A 12-week education course for individuals who are unemployed, underemployed, or hard-to-employ designed to promote personal growth and professional success. Program participants receive mentors, weekly job leads and referrals, transportation, food, housing, and more. A job fair is held at the end of each course.

Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Music Therapy, Speech Therapy, Exercise and Sports Development Program, Counseling and Psychological Services, Nursing Services, Life Skills, Dietary services, Recreational Services.

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General Counseling Services
Nutrition Education
Occupational Therapy
Life Skills Education
Speech Therapy
Physical Therapy

Provides assistance in age-appropriate techniques to manage a child's behavior in school, at home, and in the community. Offers individualized services to focus on developing crucial life-skills involving action-oriented interventions for both the child and their family.

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Life Skills Education
General Counseling Services
Child Guidance

Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

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Life Skills Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Literacy Programs
English as a Second Language
Tutoring Services
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Career Counseling
Adult Basic Education
Citizenship Education
Community Colleges

Provides a structured and therapeutic environment for individuals with documented intellectual, physical, or mental disabilities. The program supports participants in building self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-belief by fostering independence and community integration.

Offering services such as individual, group, and family therapy, social and recreational activities, and adjunctive therapies to address acute or chronic mental or emotional disturbances. The program aims to help individuals develop their potential and work toward purposeful employment.

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Adult Day Programs
Psychiatric Day Treatment
Life Skills Education
Self Esteem Workshops

Tenant education program that helps people learn how to find and keep decent rental housing and how to become more successful renters. Renters who complete this program of six modules earn a certificate of completion to show potential landlords and property managers that they want to be reliable tenants.

Rent Wise modules are offered quarterly.

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Life Skills Education
Financial Literacy Training
Support and mentorship for high school girls ages 15-18. Offers weekly sessions in the evening related to careers, college, financial literacy, and identity development/diversity.

Provides a holistic approach to changing unhealthy lifestyles, addressing issues that have caused chronic homelessness and preventing relapse to offend. Program uses group, one-on-one, referral, and follow-up contact to address all barriers to healthy, independent living.

These barriers may include, domestic violence, mental health, physical health, substance abuse, parenting, sexual health, employment issues, literacy and educational advancement, and budgeting and maintaining a household.

Offers work training to young men and women 18-25. Program offers opportunities in job training, goal setting, life skill classes, and discipleship.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Life Skills Education

Provides outreach, emergency shelter, interim housing, and transitional living services to homeless youth ages 16-24. Services include:

-- Shelter and/or Housing

-- Individual counseling

-- Drug and alcohol assessments

-- Tutoring for GED and High School diplomas

-- Employment services

-- Money management

-- Life Skills

-- Referrals with other community resources.

Youth under the age of 18 will reside at shelter located in Springfield. Those over 18 may reside at the shelter, receive interim emergency housing in a community apartment, or reside in their own community-based apartments.

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Life Skills Education
Youth Shelters
General Youth Employment Programs
Runaway/Homeless Youth Counseling
Runaway/Homeless Youth Helplines

Offers to teach the life skills necessary to prevent further involvement with the criminal justice system. Life skills taught include, Decision-making, Conflict resolution, Coping, Communication, Future goal development.

Supports people with disabilities in learning new skills in the following areas: intellectual functioning, physical and emotional health and development, language and communication, cognitive functioning, social and community integration, functional skill development, behavior management, responsibility and self direction, daily living activities, self advocacy and mobility.

Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

Categories

Life Skills Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Literacy Programs
English as a Second Language
Tutoring Services
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Career Counseling
Adult Basic Education
Citizenship Education
Community Colleges

Provides help to individuals with develop and to achieve life goals. Offers participants social-emotional support and acts as a bridge in making connections to immediate needs, as well as developing life-changing skills. The program has 3 phases, each phase lasting 60 days. The participant will meet one on one with a Fountain of Youth professional each week to see how they are progressing with their goals and what can be done to help. This program consists of each participant making an individual success plan that pertains to one of the following areas: knowledge of self and others, citizenship, basic life skills, education, health and wellbeing, financial literacy and workplace success. The program is a minimum of 60 days commitment and a maximum of 6 months.


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Life Skills Education
Personal Financial Counseling
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

Using an evidence-based poverty alleviation curriculum, individuals attend an 8-10 week long Getting Ahead class in a cohort of 12-14 people meeting once or twice per week, followed by Life Skill Coaching with certified coaches for as long as needed.

Individuals identify resources, tools, and skills needed to remove barriers to success in their lives. Participants, aka "Investigators", investigate the root causes of poverty and how to make changes needed in their lives toward stability and self-sufficiency, through learning soft skills, SMART goal setting, building assets, decreasing debts, increasing salary and wages, learning and discussing hidden rules of economic classes, learning emotional regulation, and much more.

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Financial Literacy Training
Life Skills Education

Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

Categories

Life Skills Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Literacy Programs
English as a Second Language
Tutoring Services
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Career Counseling
Adult Basic Education
Citizenship Education
Community Colleges

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

Medication Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Life Skills Education
In Person Crisis Intervention
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
General Psychiatry
Psychiatric Medication Services
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Mental Health Evaluation
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
General Counseling Services

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

Medication Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Life Skills Education
In Person Crisis Intervention
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
General Psychiatry
Psychiatric Medication Services
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Mental Health Evaluation
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
General Counseling Services

Provides transitional services to formerly incarcerated individuals.

Services include, but are not limited to:
- Transitional housing
- Counseling
- Vocational assistance (including job skills training and career counseling)
- Life skills development (including budgeting, health and wellness information, parenting training, etc.)

In some cases Neuro/Bio-feedback can be provided to help those with damaged or toxic brains. This portion of the program is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and can begin after a person is stabilized with Neuro/Bio-feedback.

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Transitional Housing/Shelter
Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Life Skills Education
Ex-Offender Counseling
Ex-Offender Employment Programs

Provides agricultural and life skills services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Also provides a food pantry and mobile meal program. Works with Dekalb School District 428 on food education for students.

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Life Skills Education
Nutrition Education
Mobile Food Pantry Programs
Food Pantries