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Provides legal services in order to help with elder abuse. Services include helping with financial exploitation, guardianship of adults to ensure health care, nursing home and home care issues, powers of attorney and other advance directives, and SSI and social security denials, cessations, terminations, overpayments, and garnishments.

Provides multiple forms of community services for individuals with disabilities. Specific services vary based on location, but generally include:

- Various kinds of activities.

- Community outings.

- Learning and developing social skills.

- Learning and developing basic skills.

Provides recreational, educational, and cultural opportunities for area residents, including access to public parks maintained for recreation and enjoyment. Also operates the children's museum Exploration Station.

Provides counseling and other adult, and child and adolescent outpatient mental health programs, first responder suicide prevention, substance use treatment, mobile crisis response and offers Naloxone.

Also helps to coordinate services with other community care providers. 

Provides inpatient and outpatient programs. Services include overcoming substance use problems, from unhealthy alcohol use to life-threatening addiction, treatment for depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, self-harm and suicidality, family/relationship problems, OCD, and confusion/memory loss. 

Provides the following services:

- Food safety

• Food service sanitation certification
• West Nile Virus surveillance, testing, and education
• Inspection of private water wells and sewer systems

Provides programs to build or improve housing, essential community facilities, and support business financing in rural areas of Illinois.

Programs available:

- Single-Family Housing Programs: Direct loans or loan guarantees for low- and moderate-income rural families for mortgages and home repairs. Additionally, grants are available for health and safety repairs for individuals over 62.

- Multi-Family Housing Programs: Loans for affordable rental housing for very-low- to moderate-income residents, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Funds may also be used to buy or improve land and provide necessary facilities such as water and waste disposal systems. Rent assistance is available for rural residents.

- Community Facilities Programs: Loans, grants, and loan guarantees for essential community facilities in rural areas, with priority given to health care, education, and public safety projects.

- Business Financing Programs: Financial support, including loans and grants, for individuals or groups seeking to establish or expand businesses in rural areas.

Provides the following services for children and youth:

-- Crisis intervention.

-- Short-term stabilization where a child is at risk of self-harm, or harming others.

-- Individual and family psychotherapy/counseling.

-- Mental health assessment.

-- Case management and resource linkage assistance.

-- Psychiatric services.

Helps highest-need children gain access to early learning and development programs, services, and resources.

Helps underserved Aurora parents with children from birth through age five by connecting and enrolling children to early childhood programs and education, parent workshops, and offering developmental screenings.

Serves as a single point of entry for Aurora families with children from birth to age 5 who are interested in learning more about and enrolling in early childhood programs and resources.

Developmental Screenings give parents time to talk about their child’s development and offers fun and simple activity ideas to use with their child to help them continue to learn and grow.

Encourages city, state, and federal representatives to raise awareness of the value and importance of early childhood development and to influence policy.

College scholarships for area students.

Provides door-to-door and fixed route transportation services. Transportation passes also available for purchase.

Age-appropriate programs on personal safety are available for pre-k through high school groups.Teen Prevention Program includes topics such as:

-Date rape.

-Dating violence.

-Gender equality.

-Risk reduction.

-Self-defense.

-Dispelling myths about sexual assault.

Community Education is also available to clubs, religious groups, corporations, and other organizations. Topics include:

-Adult sexual assault.

- Sexual harassment.

-Rape trauma syndrome.

-Child sexual assault.

-Prevention.

-ZCenter's services.

Offers in-person outpatient partial hospitalization programs (PHP) for adults, for treatment of substance use disorders.

The length of the program is individualized to a person’s specific needs. Individuals typically meet about 20 to 24 hours per week (four to five hours per day) in a structured setting for a few weeks.

Group counseling allows for connection and opportunities to develop healthy coping strategies and learn from others navigating similar challenges.

Offers a clothing and winter coat give away for individuals in the area.

Provides full range of outpatient mental health therapy. Addresses issues including addiction, anxiety, depression, severe mental illness, and relationships.

Offers rental education workshops, pre-purchase home buying counseling, and financial education workshops. 

Offers help to first and second-time parents managing the demands of caring for a child during the first three years of life. Family-support workers visit the home to encourage new parents by building on their strengths, emphasizing the joys of parenting and easing concerns with education and hands-on assistance. Services can start before the baby is born with prenatal home visits by a doula.

Provides assistance with rent, mortgage, and utility payments when funds are available.

Provides individuals who receive SNAP benefits and who volunteer an opportunity to gain work experience, earn cash assistance, and become self-sufficient. Participants are provided an orientation and a complete assessment to determine supportive service needs, such as transportation.

Offers bus driver training courses, including a segment of first aid procedures and school bus driver safety. Courses include 8-hour initial training for all new school bus drivers prior to getting a bus permit. Also includes, 2-3 hour refresher workshop in the 12-month period prior to renew a school bus permit.

Provides DUI Evaluation, DUI Risk Education, Intervention Classes, and Basic and Intensive Outpatient treatment services for substance use disorders.

Provides in-person and virtual tax assistance to anyone free of charge with a special focus on taxpayers who are over 50 or have low-to-moderate income for the 2026 tax season. Free, year-round tax assistance is also available on the Internet. Taxpayers can post tax questions to online tax assistors by visiting the website.