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Social skills group for adults with disabilities. This is a social and recreational program focusing on social competence and self-help skills. Activities can include (but are not limited to):

- Family swim night.

- Hobbies and crafts.

- Year-round recreational sports.

- Cooking classes.

- Outings to community activities.

- Shopping trips.

- Bingo.

Provides public housing apartment units across 4 communities in Macomb and Bushnell, Illinois.

Provides informational and educational programming targeted toward a consumer or a group of consumers with the intent to develop or increase the skills, knowledge and/or abilities required to live, work and play in the community.

Programs offered include self-advocacy and awareness, life skills training, braille training, TTY training, personal assistant information, interpreter referrals and equipment demonstration and loan.

Provides door-to-door rides for seniors to go to the senior center, club meetings and socializing, grocery shopping, hair salon, errands, medical tests/treatments, and doctor visits.

Provides prevention activities and training to help build effective prevention efforts in the community.

School Based Prevention Programs, Kindergarten through 12th Grade, Body safety lessons are intended to teach valuable safety skills, in an age-appropriate format and fulfill the Erin's Law mandate.

College preventionists are available to speak at college campuses - at club meetings, events, and during lectures.

Student Advisory Committee a student-led group that is committed to ending sexual violence and changing social norms within high schools. The committee is composed of students from different high school across the county who meet and plan social events for their peers to raise awareness about sexual harm. Committees are active in both Kankakee and Iroquois counties.

Training for Educators, Body Safety Training Provides training for educators who work with children from grades PreK to 3rd grade. Training will help fulfill the Erin's Law mandate. Participants learn tips and tr

Offers confidential HIV, HCV (Hepatitis C), Gonorrhea, and Chlamydia testing and screening. If tests are positive, provides referrals and connects individuals to medical care.

Accepts walk-in ill visits for persons experiencing symptoms of the following minor, acute illnesses:

-- Sinus Infection

-- Pink Eye

-- Earache or Ear Infection

-- Seasonal Allergies

-- UTIs

-- Swimmer's Ear

-- Diarrhea

-- Vomiting

-- Nausea

-- Sore Throat

-- Tension Headaches

-- And many more.

Although walk-in ill visits are accepted, scheduled patients will take priority.

Shelter open year round, also provides heated facilities during cold weather and air conditioned facilities during hot weather.

Offers supportive care. Patients may receive visits or phone calls from a nurse practitioner, a nurse, or a social worker. Supportive care offers visits at FHN offices and at FHN Memorial Hospital, in long-term care facilities, and in the home for those unable to travel to the clinic due to physical disabilities or distressing symptoms.

Provides free or low-cost health coverage to people with low incomes, families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

DHS administers the applications for Medicaid through ABE (Application for Benefits Eligibility), which is the part of the DHS website where Illinois residents can apply for Medicaid, SNAP, and cash benefits.

Designed to prevent entrance into foster care and provide comprehensive support with the guardianship process. Services include assistance to obtain guardianship, help accessing the Child Only Grant and other entitlements and benefits, support enrolling children in school, referrals to additional services, cash assistance to meet the child’s basic needs, and financial aid to cover child care expenses in licensed child care centers, private family child care homes, or in-home care settings. These services aim to support caregivers who are providing care for their relative’s children without formal involvement from the Department of Children and Family Services.