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Offers a recovery home to individuals who may come from residential treatment centers to continue their recovery. Recovery homes are free from alcohol and drugs.

There is oversight to residents 24 hours a day. Residents attend treatment and implement sober living skills with other individuals in early recovery. The Recovery Homes are currently available to adult men and adult women who struggle with a substance use disorder to assist in their long-term recovery.

Counseling services covering a range of topics, including:

- Depression and anxiety.

- Grief and relationship concerns.

- Alcohol and drug use, including opioids and heroin.

- ADHD assessment and treatment.

- Bipolar Disorder.

- Difficult life transitions.

- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

- Health issues related to diet, exercise, tobacco use, etc.

Counseling services also available at certain local schools.

Provides mental health education, support, and advocacy for individuals, family members, and communities.

Services include:

- Speech and Language Therapy.

- Inclusive Child Care (0-6 years old).

- Inclusive Child Care (6-18 years old).

- Social Skills Camp.

- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).

- Social Skills Supports.

- Autism Resource Room: Open to general public by appointment.

Sells donated household items at a discounted price. May include furniture, kitchenware, books and magazines, appliances, hardware and tools, doors, and more.

Offers comprehensive and multidisciplinary response to child sexual abuse and serious physical abuse allegations. Services include discussing and making decisions about the investigation, treatments, and prosecution. The team typically includes law enforcement, DCFS, medical professionals, case managers, and crisis intervention counselors. 

Community-based non-profit organization committed to serving at-risk youth of all ethnic groups, to provide underprivileged youth with strategies, tools and coping mechanisms to raise self-esteem, confidence and self-worth, so they can make better choices, understand the value of education, and be contributing members of society.

Offers:

- Rites of Passage: Leadership development for youth ages 7 to 18.

- Job Readiness: Preparing youth ages 14 to 21 for jobs in retail, customer service, and manufacturing industries.

- Skills and Drills Basketball: Sportsmanship and teamwork to encourage positive social and academic engagement, for youth ages 7 to 15.

- Mentoring (In-school and Afterschool): To be the positive role model, mentor, and father figure to at-risk youth ages 7 to 18 to help them build confidence, raise self-esteem, and reach their full potential at school and in life.

- FIRE Intervention Program: Interventions for students with low academic performance, especially for students who have been suspended, arrested, defiant, and totally disconnected from the education process.

Scouting programs are designed to be fun while building desirable qualities of character and ethical behavior as well as helping scouts to develop in the areas of citizenship, leadership, and physical/mental fitness.

Scouting provides an environment for learning to try, fail and succeed with positive reinforcement for each type of experience through the use of a reward-based advancement program. Scouting shows adults how to work with their children in a positive and constructive manner through Scout Leader training programs. Career awareness is provided for students through the coeducational Learning for Life and Career Exploring Programs.

Scouting programs are designed to be fun while building desirable qualities of character and ethical behavior as well as helping scouts to develop in the areas of citizenship, leadership, and physical/mental fitness.

Scouting provides an environment for learning to try, fail and succeed with positive reinforcement for each type of experience through the use of a reward-based advancement program. Scouting shows adults how to work with their children in a positive and constructive manner through Scout Leader training programs. Career awareness is provided for students through the coeducational Learning for Life and Career Exploring Programs.

Offers a 24 hour Mobile Crisis Response Team. Anyone experiencing a mental health crisis can call to have the Mobile Crisis Unit dispatched.

Food pantry.

Provides information, assistance, and referrals for challenges seniors face with independent living.

Assists seniors with Medicare enrollments and Part D changes (SHIP), Medicaid enrollment and recertification, SNAP applications, LIHEAP applications, and referrals to community programs that would be useful to seniors, including food assistance, mental health needs/counseling, transitioning to senior housing, assisted living, or skilled nursing facilities.

Offers a matching fund program to help with utility bills for Ameren customers only.

Free school supplies and backpacks are available to children in need via the Ramblin' Rose bus, and at the regular Effingham location. The bus travels to towns in the seven-county area to provide the supplies.

School clothing is also available from the bus, or families may choose to receive a voucher and shop for their clothing at Second Hand Rose Resale Shoppe in the Effingham Catholic Charities location.

Family Planning services include:

-- Education and counseling directed toward health promotion and disease prevention

-- Physical exams

-- Pap smear

-- Breast cancer screening

-- Sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia according to the Illinois Department of Public Health guidelines

Blood pressure, weight, height, urine, hematocrit and pregnancy tests are available, if needed.

Provides information and assistance for seniors, caregivers, and professionals. Information related to senior living is collected and available for review. Information concerning financial assistance, assistive technology, housing, energy assistance, pharmaceutical assistance, and other relevant topics are available. 

Offers support groups for individuals who have experienced strokes or cancer and individuals who had weight loss surgery.

Provides information online regarding services for the blind. Also advocates for people who are blind or visually impaired.

Provides information to coalition and community members about the substance use problem in the community, state, and country. Information about the consequences of alcohol and/or drug use and addiction the incidence and prevalence of specific drug use. Information is made available through a variety of formats including trainings/workshops, publications, FaceBook postings, and staff presentations to community groups and schools.

In addition, the Coalition provides parents and caregivers with information and resources they need to address alcohol and other drug use with their children including: Tips for talking with children about substance use, what to look for with suspected use, consequences of youth substance use, understanding why children start using drugs, and resources to answer tough questions. The coalition offers parent education classes and can provide help in developing Family Substance-Free Pledges.

Offers dental services for children covered by the All Kids Program. Services include:

-- Exams.

-- Cleanings.

-- Fillings.

-- Sealants.

-- X-rays.

-- Root Canals.

-- Extractions.