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Health education programs, including topics such as nutrition, tobacco, cholesterol, childhood obesity, heart health, and more.

Offers a coaching program comprising six to eight sessions over four or five months in an older adult's home. The older adult learns about what depression is and helps them develop the skills to have more active, satisfying, self-sufficient lives. Useful for older adults with mild to moderate depression symptoms.

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

Offers support groups for those who have lost a loved one to suicide.

National service program where members earn money for college or to pay off student loans, gain job skills and give back to local communities.

Provides inpatient and outpatient substance use disorder programs for adults.

Provides services to veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to financial hardship, unemployment, addiction, mental health, or justice involvement. Services include immediate food and shelter assistance, including both transitional and permanent housing, outreach to community shelters and places not meant for human habitation, job training, life skills development, and education, financial support to prevent homelessness, addiction and mental health treatment, and justice system navigation and community reentry from incarceration.

Offers attendance and truancy prevention and intervention services. Truancy Specialists make contact via letter or phone call to discuss attendance concerns with parent(s)/guardian(s), conducts home visits, provides one-on-one informal attendance counseling between Truancy Specialist and student, works as a liaison between student, family, and school district, and links students and families to local area social service as needed.

Offers Credit Recovery to all districts in the coverage area and it is provided via on-line instruction. Students who have failed courses required for graduation, can be referred to TAP for Credit Recovery, contact school's guidance counselor.

Helps young people develop knowledge and skills to become productive citizens. Young people in 4-H learn about citizenship, leadership, cooking, arts and crafts, mechanics and technology, horticulture, agriculture, and other subjects. To teach young people about these subjects, the 4-H program uses the learn-by-doing method of instruction.

Offers to help get State ID's and birth certificates. When resources are available, yearly bus passes may be purchased for community members who demonstrate a need.

Bus Pass applications accepted on randomly selected days between the 20th and 25th of each month.

Provides temporary homes for children of families in crisis. Services allow parents an opportunity to resolve a temporary crisis while reducing risk of abuse, neglect, and isolation for children. Connects families with a family friend, who offers a healthy relational support as the family navigates the situation. Also connects the family with a family coach, who can provide linkage to services in the community and set goals to reach a place of stability. 

Offers a transitional living program for youth ages 12-21. Services include mentoring and teaching the youth in getting and maintaining a job, managing money, completing education, housekeeping, daily living skills, and connecting to community resources. Life skill coaches may be available to the youth 24 hours a day.

Offers housing support services to youth who have aged out of foster care, ages 18-21, who are either homeless or having problems with housing. These same services are available to Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) involved families with a referral from their caseworker.

This program provides assistance for those suffering due to a natural disaster such as a fire, tornado, or flood. Emergency disaster service workers are always trained with the most current techniques, classes, and equipment for any type of disaster. Provides long term relief that aids with rebuilding, grief/spiritual guidance, donation distribution, and social services.

Provides an early intervention program. Services are designed to improve a child’s growth in the areas of language, speech, motor coordination, self-help skills, and social development. Developmental, physical, and speech therapies are available as part of the comprehensive overall early intervention program. Parental involvement is an integral part of the program. This approach is designed to teach parents how to incorporate these skills into their child’s daily routines.