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Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Offers help with limited financial assistance (as funding allows) for basic needs such as rent, rent deposits, utilities, food, hygiene products, and more.

Clients must participate in ongoing case management.

Provides a program for youth who have limited or no prior work experience and are experiencing barriers to employment to have an opportunity to participate in a paid work experience with local businesses. Work experiences are typically 4-12 weeks in length, but may be longer depending on the needs of the participant.

Services include:

- Career and guidance counseling.

- Education preparation and planning.

- Paid vocational training.

Crisis intervention for run-away, locked-out, homeless, and ungovernable youth. Ensures youth get emergency psychiatric or substance abuse treatment if needed, follow-up care plan for youths reunited with family, and short-term or long-term placements if reunification is not immediately possible.

Provides legal services in order to help with the following:

- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

- Guardianship of adults to ensure health care.

- Nursing home and home care issues.

- Powers of attorney and other advance directives.

- SSI and social security denials, cessations, terminations, overpayments, and garnishments.

Provides a variety of family health services including:

- WIC

- APORS (Adverse Pregnancy Outcome Recording System)

- Breastfeeding Peer Counseling

- Family Case Management

- HealthWorks

Offers school readiness program and additional comprehensive services to children and their families. Additional services include:

• Health and dental care
• Nutrition services
• Special needs services
• Mental health support
• Transportation
• Information about community resources

Information pertaining to all aspects of Huntington's Disease. Referrals to local support groups, chapter social workers, physicians, nursing home, and a variety of other resources via local representatives.

Provides physical, emotional, spiritual, and social support to individuals who are living with terminal illnesses. Care is provided in the home, nursing homes, and residential care facilities. If appropriate, complementary therapies can also be provided. Complementary therapies include:

• Tails of Joy (pet therapy)
• Music therapy
• Message therapy
• Respiratory therapy

Short-term emergency assistance available to veterans and their families for rent or mortgage payments, utility payments, and transportation to VA Medical Centers.

Provides recreational activities, including:

• Bingo
• Games
• Crafts
• Television
• Visiting
• Reading

• Educational opportunities in conjunction with John A. Logan College
• Two computers for internet usage and email
• On-site painting class
• Rules of the Road and Defensive Driving classes
• Low impact stretching and exercise classes for those with arthritis

Food pantry available to individuals in need.

Provides information, assistance, and referrals to caregivers of older adults to help with necessary services and supports. Staff can also help the caregiver determine if the person they are caring for is receiving benefits they may be eligible for that could reduce the caregiver's costs.

Offers affordable public housing, including multi-family developments, scattered site homes, and high rises.

The Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8) is designed to assist very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market. Families who are issued a voucher locate a single family home, town home, or apartment, with the correct number of bedrooms. The voucher holder then enters into a lease with the private owner. The Housing Authority will also enter into an agreement with the private owner for the subsidy payment.

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Resale/thrift stores that sell tools, household items, furniture, clothing, shoes and boots, kitchenware, electronics, toys, books, and movies. Donations are accepted at stores when open.

When funding is available, may be able to assist with emergency funding that covers utilities or rent. 

Ostomy products for the uninsured and underinsured.