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Provides job search and placement assistance to individuals with low-income or skill deficiencies.

Services include:

-- Interviewing and resume writing assistance

-- Access to computers, WiFi, and database to research employers

-- Financial assistance for obtaining new skills or certifications

-- Career counseling

Provides rent, rent deposit, and utility assistance for people who are in a homeless situation. Case management services are also available as part of this program.

Homeless Case Manager Counties and Contact Information:

Lyn Carlen - Housing Coordinator 217-923-3113 ext. 274, cell 217-208-9175

Courtney Arnold - Cumberland and Edgar County Case Manager 217-921-5505 ext. 276, cell 217-549-115

Alexa Nunez - Coles County Case Manger 217-961-0831 ext. 405, cell 217-549-1081

Honey Arnold - Coles and Douglas County Case Manager 217-961-0831 ext. 602, cell 217-549-2463

Greg Ridenhour - Coles County Case Manager 217-500-3120 ext. 585, cell 217-549-4122

Romana Rodriquez - Crawford, Lawrence, and Richland Counties Case Manager 618-395-5505 ext. 264, cell 217-508-8070

Selection center for the ITAC Amplified Phone Program. Those that have trouble hearing on the phone may be eligible for a free amplified phone and/or cellular amplifier. Individuals can receive an application packet, test, and select the equipment they would like to order at LIFE CIL.

Administers a wide range of programs covering standard probation and pretrial services. Programs are meant to enhance community safety while working with offenders.

Responsibilities:

- Monitoring, supervising, and providing guidance to offenders sentenced to probation, conditional discharge, or supervision by the Court.

- Enforcing the rules of probation to control the risk of offenders committing further crimes.

- Assisting offenders in establishing and achieving legitimate goals that lead them to become productive members of the community.

- Preparation of pre-sentence investigations.

- Operates a community service program.

- Networks with schools.

- Works with treatment providers and other facilities as necessary to guide the probationer through the supervision process.

- Operates special services that include adult and juvenile life skills programs, electronic monitoring, and drug testing.

Provides the city government departments and other city information.

Designed to help individuals explore their own use of substances and better understand the impact of those substances on their behaviors and driving skills.

Provides companion care services such as conversation, participation in daily living activities, supervision to reduce household safety risks, transportation assistance for appointments and errands, and daily routine oversight with guidance. 

Committed to strengthening military families by connecting them with their neighbors, both individuals and organizations, to create vibrant communities of mutual support.

Offers to match the caller’s legal problem with available resources, such as advice, extended representation, or referral. For most low-income applicants. Callers are screened for eligibility, and a determination is made whether eligible callers have a legal problem that falls within the priorities. If the caller’s legal problem is eligible for review for extended services, the caller is referred to one of our five regional offices. If the callers are not eligible for referral to a regional office, attorneys provide the caller with immediate advice or quick access to other information and resources.

Provides families support in preserving or reunifying with their children through tailored services, using a focused approach that builds on a family’s existing strengths.

Family Advocacy Center counselors provide the following services (in both English and Spanish):

- Home visits.

- General counseling.

- Referrals to community resources.

- Practical and emotional support during court, doctor, and other visits.

- Follow-up contacts with families.

- Parenting classes.

Administers immigration and naturalization functions and establishes immigration services policies and priorities. It handles immigrant visa petitions, naturalization petitions, asylum and refugee applications and changes in green card status. In addition to the laws, forms, services, and educational information on immigration, the USCIS website also has information on filing immigration-related Freedom of Information/Privacy Act (FOIA) requests and a genealogy section with information about immigration history and how to find out more information about immigrant relatives. Under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), battered immigrants can petition for legal status in the United States without relying on abusive US citizen or legal permanent resident spouses, parents or children to sponsor them.

Provides food pantry and resources.

The health department is constantly monitoring school absences in an attempt to determine a food borne outbreak or a disease outbreak. The health department is also required to have drills annually to see how quickly they could dispense medications to the population should a bioterrorist event or pandemic influenza occur.

The health department currently monitors what is happening in the world regarding different disease outbreaks.

If an individual has trouble hearing on the phone, he or she may be eligible for a free amplified phone. Individuals can receive an application packet, test, and select a phone they would like to order.

Provides a detention facility for juveniles between the ages of 10-21. Provides a safe, humane, and secure temporary custody for juveniles pending court proceedings, or those who have been adjudicated on delinquent charges.

In home health care services, including skilled nursing, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and home health aides.

Specialized nursing services include IV infusion therapy, wound care, tube feedings, men, orthopedic nursing, and care for people with chronic diseases, such as heart failure, diabetes, or COPD.

Rehabilitation services.

Public library. 

Provides help to low-income people and families buy food.

Offers the Restaurant Meals Program, which allows eligible SNAP customers to buy meals at authorized restaurants. (Available to SNAP customers who are homeless, elderly, and/or disabled.)

The LINK card is accepted at many farmers' markets.

Expedited/Emergency SNAP Benefits may be available (in 5 days or less from the date of application) to eligible clients if:

- Monthly income, cash, and bank accounts are less than client's rent or mortgage plus utility costs, OR

- Monthly income is less than $150 and client's cash and bank accounts are not more than $100, OR

- At least one person in the household is a migrant farm worker and client's cash and bank accounts are not more than $100.