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Works to achieve widespread emotional acceptance and intellectual understanding about the misconceptions and lack of information about blindness. Contact for information on chapters and support groups across the state.

Promotes preventative healthcare practices including responsible behaviors to prevent unintended pregnancy and reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Testing available for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea.

Provides a dual-diagnosis/co-occurring mental health and substance abuse treatment facility. Services include treatment to those with substance use disorder, with or without a mental health diagnosis. Substance use treatment options vary by location, but may include residential treatment, outpatient treatment, virtual addiction treatment, and detoxification.

Also provides medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services.

Discusses therapy options and an individual treatment plan to help clients achieve optimal health.

​Services offered:

- Psychiatric Medication Management (Provided by our Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner)

- Mental Health Counseling

- Group Counseling

- Teletherapy

Equipment available includes seating/positioning devices, bathing/toileting equipment, standing devices, wheeled mobility, and electronic aids to daily living. Evaluations and fittings provided.

Specific programs include:

- "Amtryke" program provides adapted tricycles.

- "iCan Bike" program teaches children how to ride a bicycle.

- Augmentative/Alternative Communication uses high-tech devices and low-tech strategies to facilitate communication and speech development.

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 low-income public housing.

Offers home health care and hospice services. Care may include:

• Regular visits to patient's home to provide care.

  - Coordinate services needed from other healthcare providers, including doctors, therapists, social workers and nurse aides.

• Keeps family and primary care physician informed about progress and care plan.

  VNA will also answer questions about hospice care or end-of-life questions, even if a patient is not ready for hospice care at this time. Topics include:

• Advance directives.

• End-of-life issues.

• Making plans to provide care for a loved one with a terminal illness.

• Grief and loss issues.

• Understanding palliative care vs. curative treatment.

Provides a food pantry for those in need. USDA government commodities are distributed along with purchased and donated food, including weekly donations of perishable items from Trader Joes.

Assists individuals in Illinois in becoming licensed foster parents. Also provides follow-up training for foster parents to help meet the various needs of their foster children.

Services provided:

-- LCFS team provides guidance and support through the foster care experience.

-- Health insurance for the children placed in a foster home.

-- Therapy, counseling, and academic counseling, and special education services when needed.

-- Training programs, support groups, and newsletters geared to foster families.

-- Monthly financial support for the foster child(ren's) basic needs, including food, clothing, and housing costs.

-- Funding for daycare, after-school care, and extracurricular activities including sports and art programs for eligible children in foster care.

Public Health Department for Crawford County residents. Divisions include:

- Health Education.

- Environmental Health.

- Communicable Disease.

- Nursing Division.

Reimburses for funeral and burial expenses when a person's resources and all other sources of payment are less than the DHS standard payment rates. The maximum amount that DHS will pay is $1370 for a funeral and $686 for a cremation/burial.

Acute care facility offering emergency care as well as a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, including:

- General surgery.

- Laboratory.

- Pulmonology.

- Sleep medicine.

- Urology.

Provides emergency financial assistance for rent evictions and utility shut-off notices.

Offers developmental training and sheltered/vocational workshop. Offers employment program through Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS).

Provides end-of-life care for patients whose life expectancy is 6 months or less. Services include nursing care, social work and counseling, chaplain and physician support, and palliative care evaluations.

Provides activities for youth in order to learn more about themselves and the world around them. This co-ed program emphasizes four main areas known as the A-L-P-S model adventure, leadership, personal growth, and service.