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.

Provides a tool designed to be a one-stop shop for accessing child care information, whether seeking services, interested in starting a center, or engaging in advocacy to create child care solutions in the community.

Supports individuals with developmental disabilities and their families by advocating for individual funding, services, and community resources that meet individual needs and are key for independent living.

Aims to keep families together, empower caregivers, and improve support to families to prevent out-of-home placement.

Provides information and trainings to teach groups, schools, and communities about epilepsy and seizure response. Trainings are offered in-person or virtually.

Responds to inquiries from people with disabilities, family members, other service providers, the business community, and the general public on programs, resources, and other issues related to disabilities. Strive to answer every inquiry received and refers persons to other resources that may be of assistance.

Questions span a broad range of disability-related topics including, but not limited to accessible housing, transportation, employment services, personal assistants, assistive technology, and accessibility requirements.

Provides trained members who offer effective listening, response, and referral services to friends and neighbors in need. The program includes education on common mental health and substance abuse disorders and guidance on accessing appropriate help. Additionally, it offers companionship and linkage to services for individuals who are socially isolated, homebound, or otherwise in need of connection, aiming to brighten their day and maintain their contact with the outside world through activities such as reading, talking, listening, and other supportive tasks.

Provides support, information, training, and referrals to unpaid caregivers (age 18+) of Champaign/Piatt County residents aged 60+.

Information about healthy aging, legal rights, access to supplemental services via referral, support groups, and other relevant education and assistance.

Possibilities for respite care included via referral.

Provides information and referrals to area agencies that offer support services to the Washington and Marion County residents.

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

AARP's Fraud Watch Network

Free helpline. Speak to trained fraud specialists and volunteers who provide guidance: www.aarp.org/fraudwatch

Scam and Fraud Resources

Real-world tips and tools to help protect against fraud: https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/

AARP Webinars

Connect with resources and information to stay safe from common scams. Register: https://learn.aarp.org/

Provides help vulnerable adults with navigating abusive situations that they may encounter by providing resources to help mitigate risk of vulnerable adults that meet the criteria of the program.

Website offering information developed and designed to offer resources related to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in the form of research, training, special events, tips and techniques, and other information intended for use and application by families affected by autism and professionals in the field.

Medicare Questions and Answers

Information to help navigate Medicare, taking into account individual situations. The tool helps clarify eligibility and enrollment requirements and provides answers to questions on Medicare's plan options, coverage, and costs: www.aarp.org/health/medicare-qa-tool/

Does Medicare Cover Caregiver Costs and Services

The key to qualifying for some paid services is whether the care receiver is "homebound": http://www.aarp.org/medicaregiver

Offers individualized services and supports to families who have a child with a developmental disability or other special needs. Offering to assist families in understanding systems of support that are often fragmented and difficult to access. Provides, information and referrals, respite services, parenting skills classes, support groups and social opportunities.

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Brain injury information and resources available, including advocacy and support groups.

Provides a wide variety of independent living services for individuals with disabilities with the objective of helping them to function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment. Services may include information and referral services, referrals for attendant care, attendant recruitment and training programs, independent living skills training, assistance in meeting housing and transportation needs, peer counseling, transition from institutions into the community, deflection from institutional placement, transition from youth to adult services, and advice and guidance regarding legal rights and benefits eligibility.