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Daily Shelter and Cooling Center | Generation Diamond Corporation

Provides daily services for homeless, low-income, and recently incarcerated individuals, including meals, showers, and a safe environment. The center assists with obtaining state identification, birth certificates, and social security applications.

Employment information and guidance are available, along with bus tickets (subject to daily availability), clothing, and opportunities for community service. Cold breakfast, lunch, and water are provided daily.

During periods of extreme weather, the center serves as a warming or cooling center, offering a heated or air-conditioned environment to protect individuals from extreme cold or heat. Water and other liquids are available to prevent dehydration.

The center is not a shelter or food bank.

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Transitional Services and RISE Program | New Life Transitions of Northern Illinois

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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Lary A Nelson Center | Department of Correctional Services - Sixth Judicial District of Iowa

Provides supervision, housing, programming, and emotional support for adults ordered to reside in the facility as a condition of their probation, parole, early release from prison, or who are ordered to serve a prison sentence for drunk driving. The facility also offers guidance and information to assist residents in coping with their adjustment to life in the community following release from a correctional facility. The facility is operated by the Sixth Judicial District Department of Correctional Services.

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FACT Program | Eyerly Ball Community Mental Health Services

Offers the FACT (Forensic Assertive Community Treatment) program, which provides services to individuals in the criminal justice system with a serious mental illness. FACT works to help people live successfully in the community while avoiding a return to jail, prison, or unnecessary psychiatric hospitalizations. Services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The program focuses on person-centered treatment planning and operates as a mobile outreach team - meeting clients in the home or community to provide services.

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Labyrinth | YWCA McLean County

Reintegration services for formerly incarcerated women. Programs include:

- Mentoring: Eligible clients are based with trained community members as additional support to work on personal/career goals, coaching, and personal empowerment.

- Economic/Employment Services: Classes explore resume development, interviewing, financial literacy, explaining a criminal record, and uncovering careers that can lead to economic stability and success.

- Labyrinth House: A transitional living program for formerly incarcerated women. Residents live in a shared two bedroom furnished apartment and receive on-site support from residential counselors each evening.

- Outreach Case Management/Counseling: All eligible clients meet with a case manager/counselor to complete an intake and determine their personal goals. Services are provided, based on an individual level, for as long as they are needed. Outreach services include on-site support groups and skill-building workshops.

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