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Early Learning Academy Child Care: Provides full-time and part-time childcare, where children can learn foundational skills, develop healthy, trusting relationships, and build self-reliance. Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks are provided. Youth membership is included with enrollment.

SAFE Before and After School Care: Program provides an inclusive atmosphere where kids are nurtured and encouraged to achieve success both academically and socially. At SAFE kids can get homework help and participate in activities. SAFE is located on school premises and offers homework assistance, enrichment activities, athletic play, and social activities. A snack is served in the morning and afternoon. All SAFE students receive a free youth membership. Flexible attendance options are available.

Summer Camp: Provides a summer camp experience for school-aged children. Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack is provided. Children can bring a snack lunch if they wish, but home lunches should not contain nuts.

Provides outdoor public parks and open space to the community.

Provides the city government departments and other city information.

Offers a food pantry.

Provides school supplies to Henderson County students, that are in need, at the beginning of the school year.

Provides short-term assistance to relatives or close family supporters (fictive kin) who have been caring for a child/children informally. Relative caregivers receive assistance in obtaining guardianship of the child for whom they are providing care. Also helps resolve any crisis the family may be facing and prepares the relative caregivers to achieve permanency for the child as well as for them. Services aim to prevent children's entry into out-of-home care and help children achieve permanency.

Additionally, families are provided with financial assistance, if needed, to address needs such as clothing for the child(ren), additional needed furniture to accommodate the child(ren) such as mattresses, beds, and linen, and helping the child(ren) to be enrolled in school by acquiring birth certificates of child(ren). Also helps family identify appropriate additional benefits to which they may be entitled.

Services may include:

-- Assistance in obtaining guardianship.

-- Education on navigating the court system and proceedings.

-- Help obtaining a child-only grant, subsidized day care and other entitlements.

-- Guidance on enrolling children in local schools.

-- Assistance with financial and housing issues.

-- Cash and in-kind assistance to help meet the basic needs of the family.

-- Referral linkages to other needed community resources including legal services, and medical and mental health services.

Provides recreational and social activities for seniors. Activities include bingo, cards, painting, dancing, group exercise sessions and lunches.

Provides energy assistance for eligible low income families in which a benefit is paid directly to the utility companies on behalf of eligible households, or directly to renters if the utility costs are included in their rent.

Some applicants may qualify for the Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP), where an eligible client pays a percentage of their income, receives a monthly benefit towards their utility bill, and receives a reduction in overdue payments for every on-time payment they make by the bill due date. Contact for more information.

If the homeowner's furnace is not working or is dangerous or emitting carbon monoxide into the household, LIHEAP may be able to provide a furnace repair or replacement. Contact for more information.

Offers GED classes, and GED, HiSET, and TASC testing.

Provides aging and adult protective services throughout East Central Illinois. Services provide case workers conducting investigations and working with vulnerable adults in resolving these abusive situations financial exploitation, physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse. 

Offers a food pantry for individuals and families in need. 

Provides domestic violence and sexual assault services for DeKalb County. Services provided include a 24/7 crisis hotline, an emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children, transitional housing for victims of domestic and sexual violence, individual, group and family counseling for adults and children experiencing domestic and sexual assault or abuse, legal advocacy including help obtaining Orders of Protection and support at court, medical advocacy to victims at hospital emergency rooms, and prevention and professional education in schools, with police and other first responders, and to community groups.

Offers in-home and emergency respite services for families/caregivers. The Emergency Respite Care Program offers funding and resources to support caregivers of children and adults with special needs who are not receiving any respite services and have an urgent need for respite care in the absence of any other funding source.

Provides several individualized services in order to deter child abuse. Services provided:

- When first contacted, several members of BACA will ride to the child's house and present the child with a patch, stickers, and a photograph of the child with their new biker family. Two bikers are assigned to the child as their primary contacts.

- If abuse or harassment continues, members will create a presence at the home, being visible at times when the family may be most vulnerable.

- Court appearances are also available. Assigned bikers will appear in order to provide support for the child and reduce fear about testifying against their abuser.

Other services available:

- Providing escorts if the child feels unsafe.

- Riding by the child's home on a regular basis.

- Staying with children if they are alone or frightened.

- On-site support if needed, for the child's reassurance.

Provides placement and casework services for children who have been removed from their birth families because of abuse or neglect. Provides training, licensing, and services for foster families.

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 mental health and psychiatric services to children, adolescents and adults. Services include assessment, diagnosis, therapy, psychoeducation, and crisis intervention.

Psychiatric services are provided by a psychiatrist or psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner via telehealth, and in full collaboration with Crusader medical and behavioral health staff.

Investigates allegations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older adults and individuals with disabilities who live in a domestic setting. Interventions and referrals offered to any victims including but are not limited to in-home services, legal, medical, relocation, and counseling.

Provides city government departments and offers information for the city.

Thanksgiving and Christmas food boxes and Christmas gift distribution for families in the Tri-City area, all on a registered basis.

Please note: To better process information in a timely manner, TSA asks that registrants bring all of the required documents with them at the time of registration. If residents do not have all the information requested, TSA will be unable to process their request. Also, please leave children at home with an adult due to the lengthy registration process.

Provides assessments and treatment services for adolescents and adults suffering from alcohol and drug use. Services include group therapy, intensive outpatient treatment, DUI evaluation, and educational services. Various outpatient interventions are offered and delivered to residents and their families.

Bridgeway’s Prevention Program provides alcohol and drug prevention education for youth, through an evidence-based curriculum, throughout local school districts in Illinois.

Offers government subsidized housing for older adults and people with disabilities.