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Tobacco resources including free and confidential counseling available 24 hours a day.

Coaching is also available online. After enrolling in the program, participants will receive information about how to access Web Coach. The program offers e-learning tools, social support, and information about quitting. Participants can interact with other people trying to quit or with Quit Coaches.

A free QuitNow mobile app is also available.

Provides psychiatric consultations for the treatment of:

-- OCD/Anxiety.

-- Self-harm.

-- Eating disorders.

-- Gambling addictions.

-- Depression.

-- Gender support services.

-- Autism counseling.

-- Smoking/Vaping cessation.

-- Dual diagnosis.

Offers IDPH Tobacco-Free Communities Project and Illinois Tobacco Quitline.

Offers Freedom From Smoking® classes available to anyone in the community interested in quitting tobacco products. Meeting with a small group ensures personal attention from the facilitator and provides support from others who are in the same situation.

Offers programs designed to prepare youth to make healthy choices through prevention, education, and enrichment activities. These services aim to provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to equip children and adolescents with the tools they need to stay on a positive path. Programs address a variety of critical issues, including:

- Substance Use Prevention

- Smoking and/or Vaping Cessation

- Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention

- Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention

- Suicide Prevention

- Youth Violence Prevention

- Juvenile Delinquency Prevention

- Human Trafficking Prevention

- Child Abuse Prevention

Additionally, youth enrichment programs are offered to promote healthy social interaction and help participants maximize their social, emotional, physical, and academic potential. These programs may include arts and crafts, academic workshops, sports, reading clubs, and other recreational, cultural, and civic activities.

Offers programs designed to prepare youth to make healthy choices through prevention, education, and enrichment activities. These services aim to provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to equip children and adolescents with the tools they need to stay on a positive path. Programs address a variety of critical issues, including:

- Substance Use Prevention

- Smoking and/or Vaping Cessation

- Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention

- Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention

- Suicide Prevention

- Youth Violence Prevention

- Juvenile Delinquency Prevention

- Human Trafficking Prevention

- Child Abuse Prevention

Additionally, youth enrichment programs are offered to promote healthy social interaction and help participants maximize their social, emotional, physical, and academic potential. These programs may include arts and crafts, academic workshops, sports, reading clubs, and other recreational, cultural, and civic activities.

Provides smokers interested in quitting information through KCHD or the Illinois Tobacco Quitline, a state-wide hotline for smoking cessation information and assistance.

Offers support, education, and instructions to Ford County residents on how they can receive counseling, support, and free nicotine replacement products through the Illinois Tobacco Quitline. Additionally, Ford County Public Health Department monitors compliance of the Smoke-Free Illinois Act.

Offers the following services, smoking cessation programs, women's health education and outreach, cardiovascular screening and education, unintentional injury prevention, car seat safety education and installation services, vision/ hearing screening and referral services, and diabetic self management and prevention classes.

Administers the following programs:

-- Women, Infant and Children Nutrition Program (WIC).

-- Family Case Management.

-- Adverse Pregnancy Outcome Reporting System.

-- Tobacco-Free Communities & Cessation Programs

-- Immunizations.

-- Blood Pressure Monitoring.

-- Lead Testing.

-- Tuberculosis Testing and Follow-up.

-- Basic Laboratory Services.

-- Vision and Hearing Testing.

-- School Health Services.

-- Communicable Disease Information and Follow-up.

-- Child Safety Seat Assistance.

-- Environmental Health Programs.

-- Emergency Preparedness.

-- Public Health Education.

-- Adult Foot Care Services.

Provide health education presentations on many topics, including healthy eating/active living.

Also offers an 8-week tobacco cessation program. The McLean County Health Department also encourages smoking cessation with assistance from the Illinois Tobacco Quitline. The Quitline is a free resource for individuals wanting to quit tobacco or tobacco-related products. Residents have access over the phone to nurses, respiratory therapists, and tobacco-cessation specialists who will help create a personalized quit plan. The Health Department also enforces the Smoke-Free Illinois Act and accepts local smoking complaints.

Health promotion and disease prevention education.

Emergency preparedness. Substance abuse prevention coalitions.

West Nile virus surveillance.

Referrals.

Immunizations.

Worksite Wellness including on-site employee health screenings and wellness programs.

School-based youth oral health program.

Provides medical, dental, and specialized clinics serving low-income, uninsured residents. Services include care for illness and injury, medication assistance, flu immunizations, TB screening, smoking cessation, women's health, mammograms, wellness checks, lab services, chiropractic, physical therapy, health planning, vision, dental services, pediatric care addressing the physical, emotional, and social health of children and adolescents, and podiatry services for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of foot-related conditions.

Addresses major factors in ill health such as Smoking and tobacco use, Substance abuse, Nutrition, STDs, HIV, abstinence, and sexuality education.

Provides the following services:

-- Audiology Clinic

-- Breastfeeding

-- Consultation

-- Case Management

-- Colorectal Cancer Screening Program

-- Developmental Screening

-- Diabetes Prevention

-- Immunizations

-- Infectious Disease Surveillance

-- Nutrition Counseling

-- Prenatal and Postpartum Fairs

-- Stroke and Vascular Screening

-- Tobacco Cessation

Offers e-learning tools, social support, and information about quitting.

Services offered include:

- Emergency preparedness

- Health Promotion Education

- Preventative dental services

- Health Classes and Workshops (including Living Well With Chronic Disease, Diabetes Prevention Program, Stepping On, Tai Chi, Question Persuade Refer Suicide Prevention Training, and more)

- Public Health Nursing and Community Health Workers

- Medicaid Application Assistance

- Patient Navigation

- Family Support Services and Home Visitation

- Car Seat Fitting Stations (by appointment)

- Bike Safety Events and Helmet Fittings

- Medication Assistance

- Environmental Services

- Disease investigation of food poisoning, influenza, rabies and West Nile virus

- Tobacco Cessation Programs (Beat the Pack or Freedom From Smoking, also local information sessions)

Hospital. Services include:

- Home health, hospice and personal care, (402) 562-3300

- General health education programs on topics such as nutrition and diabetes, (402) 562-4462

- Occupational health and safety education, including flu shots, and treatment of injuries, (402) 562-4480

- Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and medically at-risk wellness program, open to the public, (402) 562-3344

- Columbus Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Clinic, (402) 562-4700

- Columbus Otolaryngology Clinic, (402) 562-4720

- Columbus Psychiatry Clinic, (402) 562-4765

- Columbus Cardiology Clinic, (402) 562-4835 and cardiac catheterization lab, (402) 562-4835

- Columbus Cancer Care, (402) 562-4840

- Columbus Dermatology Clinic, (402) 562-4870

- Rehab services for physical, occupational and speech therapy, (402) 562-3333 or (402) 562-4600

Provides addiction recovery services.

Services include:

-- Addiction counseling

-- Individual, family, and group therapy/education

-- Inpatient Detox (at BroMenn)

-- Partial Hospitalization Treatment (at BroMenn)

-- Intensive Outpatient Program

-- Continuing Care

-- Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

-- Smoking Cessation

-- DUI Services (evaluation, classification and treatment, denial letter consultation)

-- Family counseling

Services include:

- Child health services

- Maternal health services

- Home health care and homemaker services

- Hospice care

- Cancer screening for women

- Health education, community education, and health planning

- Immunization clinics for children and adults

- Family planning services

- Blood pressure checks

- Disaster planning and preparedness

- Tobacco cessation classes

- Parent education classes

- Home visits for children ages 0-5

- Life Assist Emergency Response Alert

- Public health nursing visits

Offers a variety of wellness classes and programs for the community aimed at improving physical health, mobility, and overall well-being. Services include:

- CPR Classes.

- Diabetes Education. 

 - Financial Wellness Workshops.

- First Aid Workshops. 

 - Healthy Living Class.

- Class for managing falls and increasing activity levels in older adults, with a focus on enhancing mobility and reducing risks associated with physical limitations.

- Class for preventing type 2 diabetes.

- Smoking Cessation Classes.

- Lung Cancer Screening Program.

- Safe Sitter Class.

Programs incorporate elements that promote physical activity and functional improvement, aligning with principles of physical therapy to support individuals in maintaining or restoring their ability to perform daily activities.