View Search Results

Provides a variety of services for children and families in order to support and facilitate recovery for mental illness, trauma, disruptive behavior disorders, family relationship problems, and school issues. Services include individual therapy, family therapy, parenting education and skill building, group therapy, consultation to schools and other agencies and psychiatric services.

Serves victims, witnesses, family members and significant others who have been a victim or a witness to a crime. The Primary goal is to assist the victims of crime in obtaining available services and reduce the trauma of victimization. This is accomplished by assisting a victim through legal process and ensuring direct services to meet special needs of the victim is met.

Provides hospital services that include x-ray and lab, nutrition services, home health care, physical rehabilitation services, emergency room and surgery. 

Offers early childhood preschool programs, Head Start and Early Head Start, in both a center and in-home based settings. Programs are offered for free to eligible families who have children six-weeks to four-years-old.

Offers food and other essentials for the community.

Provides assistance for stray cats and dogs, barking dogs, biting incidents, and the capture of domestic or wild animals posing a health or safety threat. 

Provides individualized programming for adults with developmental, physical, and medical disabilities. Offers the following services:

• Developing social skills and other everyday skills
• Various kinds of therapy
• Activities of daily living
• Pre-vocational and vocational skills training
• Communication development
• Community/vocational outings.

Provides services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking. Services include Orders of Protection for people experiencing domestic violence, divorce, custody, or child support in cases involving domestic violence or child endangerment, elder abuse, including financial exploitation, other court orders to stop abuse, harassment, or stalking, immigration issues faced by survivors of domestic violence and trafficking, and guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.

Offers free access to books, educational materials, and family resources. Stop by to take a book or leave a book.

Assessment:

-- Determines what treatment, if any, is needed.

-- Based on assessment results, a unique treatment plan is created. Length of treatment depends on the person's progress toward goals.

Outpatient Treatment:

-- Treatment that lets individuals work on their recovery while living at home.

-- Involves up to eight hours of counseling each week.

Intensive Outpatient Treatment:

-- Treatment that lets individuals work on their recovery while living at home.

-- Requires nine or more hours of counseling each week.

-- Treatment occurs in a small group setting.

-- Length of treatment is determined by the patient's needs.

Residential Treatment:

-- Treatment is for adults who need a structured and supportive environment to maintain recovery.

-- Residents participate in individual, group, and family counseling.

-- Care is supervised 24 hours a day.

-- Residents have access to a psychiatrist, medical services, catered meals, and recreation.

Medication Assisted Treatment:

-- Combines medication, counseling, and community support to help individuals overcome dependence on opiates.

The facility is not prepared to work with persons who are experiencing serious medical problems or complications. The unit is staffed with nurses and behavioral technicians, but it is not a hospital.

Administers COVID-19 vaccines in accordance with state guidelines.

Offers free Spot vision screening. The screening quickly detects indications of vision issues such as near-sightedness (myopia), far-sightedness (hyperopia), unequal refractive power (anisometropia), blurred vision, eye structure problems (astigmatism), pupil size deviations (anisocoria), and eye misalignment (strabismus). The program evaluates visual functioning and may recommend assistive technology products, such as visual or reading aids, to address identified needs. 

A centralized location to service all city needs, including but not limited to: applying for permits/licenses, filing complaints or appeals, reporting issues, requests for information and/or assistance, register for programs, and paying city bills.

Provides long-term care information which enables participants and their caregivers to make informed decisions based on the options available in their community.

Options discussed include home and community-based services like in-home care and adult day services, home-delivered meals, and other services available in their community.

Other options include supportive living facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing facilities.

Offers Adult Basic Education (ABE), High School Equivalency (HSE) preparation classes (traditional and online), English Language Acquisition (ELA) classes, citizenship information, community tutoring for adult learners (Oglesby location only).

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.

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.

Provides an environmental health program that completes retail food, temporary or mobile food, septic, and well inspections. The program also inspects larvicide, West Nile Virus, and Tobacco with the Smoke-Free Illinois Act. Services include new construction or remodel consultations for retail food establishments, food establishment, retail food store permits and inspections, temporary and mobile food permits, food-borne illness complaints and investigations, offer private water well sample kits, water well permits for new and modified wells, private sewage disposal investigation, inspection, and consultation, sewage permits for private sewage disposal systems, nuisance complaint investigation, collection of dead birds for testing during season, WNV prevention, trapping, collection, and testing of specimens, larvicide application, tanning and body art facility inspections, and public health emergency preparedness.

Provides a senior center where seniors can come to share companionship, meals, and recreational activities. Services include congregate and home delivered meals, recreational activities that include a pool and exercise equipment, quilting, painting, bingo, exercise classes, and bowling.

Outpatient behavioral health services, including partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs.