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Provides practical information for anyone to access in the areas served. Education services include agriculture, horticulture, family and consumer economics, nutrition and wellness, and youth development. The website has information about different programming options available.

Provides financial help with heating and electric bills. Applications are accepted starting October 1st through August 15th or when funding is exhausted.

October is a priority period reserved for elderly, disabled, families with children 5 and under, and disconnected households. The general population can apply starting November 1st.

This program is not designed to pay a household's total energy costs. The amount of the benefit is based on number in the household, the 30-day income of the household and the source of heat. This is a one-time payment to the household's energy provider.

Provides inpatient and outpatient substance use disorder programs for adults.

A short-term, in-home, community-based, intervention program (6-9 months) that works with families who have been identified by DCFS as at risk for foster care placement.

Designed to help families identify strengths, set goals and modify behaviors that put their children at risk, with the goal of safely maintaining the children in the home.

Provides an emergency food pantry.

Offers a weekly support group for anyone who could be considered a caregiver.

Builds safe, affordable houses for qualified homebuyers.

Each Habitat home is built in partnership with homeowner families, sponsors, and volunteers and sold to the partner family, who repays an affordable mortgage over 20 years. Homeowners attend a series of workshops on financial literacy and home maintenance so they are well-prepared for home ownership.

Offers a recovery hotline open to anyone needing substance abuse support resources and services.

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. 

Offers a broad range of comprehensive services to older adults, including but not limited to:

- Primary care

- Complex medical management

- Annual Medicare Wellness Visits

- Memory and Cognitive evaluations

- Walking/gait disorders

- Imbalance and falls

- Frailty Assessments

- Medication management

- Wound Care

- Care of the homebound patient

- Advance Care Planning

- Palliative Care

- Case Management

Provides services in the office, patient homes, hospitals, rehabilitation units, assisted living facilities, memory care facilities, long-term care facilities, as well as via telehealth visits.

Offers a broad range of comprehensive services to older adults, including but not limited to:

- Primary care

- Complex medical management

- Annual Medicare Wellness Visits

- Memory and Cognitive evaluations

- Walking/gait disorders

- Imbalance and falls

- Frailty Assessments

- Medication management

- Wound Care

- Care of the homebound patient

- Advance Care Planning

- Palliative Care

- Case Management

Provides services in the office, patient homes, hospitals, rehabilitation units, assisted living facilities, memory care facilities, long-term care facilities, as well as via telehealth visits.

Offers mental health, medical, dental, developmental, and educational services to children in foster home placement, specific to each child’s needs.

Also offers therapy, training, and peer support for parents and caregivers.

Provides an opportunity for a caregiver to receive appropriate, temporary, substitute care and supervision of a functionally impaired person. Aim is to enable the caregiver to maintain his or her support/assistance to the older person. Respite services can be used for a variety of reasons such as a day out with friends, to attend church, vacation, and attend support group meetings.

Provides an alternative school giving students another change to succeed. Offering tools, support and different teaching methods to help students learn in the way that works best for them. 

Offers medication management, a strategy for engaging with patients to create a holistic approach to mental health. It includes prescribing medication, possibly changes to an existing prescription or simply refilling a current medication.

Assists women and men who are studying to take the naturalization test and to become informed and participative U.S. citizens.

Provides two 12-week semesters of group classes to provide explanation, reinforcement, and practice. Volunteers work individually with those who are scheduled to take their naturalization test.

All classes and tutoring are in English.

Provides emergency financial assistance to those who qualify, when funds are available. Assistance includes rent, mortgage and utility payment assistance, and the cost of life saving prescription medications.

Offers rent and utility assistance when funds are available. May also help with household goods, clothing, and eyeglasses.

Assists adoptive families with the process of adoption. Adoption specialists available to provide support and guidance before, during, and after adoptions.

Adoption programs:

-- Domestic Identified Adoption: Prospective adoptive families and birth parents connect with each other directly or through an intermediary. LCFS can provide guidance to the prospective adoptive families.

-- Interstate Adoption: LCFS can assist prospective adoptive families in Illinois who identify prospective birth parents in another state. LCFS can also assist prospective adoptive families living outside of Illinois who have located expectant parents living in Illinois who are considering an adoption plan.

-- Adopting Children in Care: LCFS can assist prospective adoptive parents who are interested in adopting youth in care who are waiting for adoptive families.

-- International (Home Study Only) Adoption: LCFS can complete a home study for Illinois prospective adoptive parents who are working with a Hague-accredited placing agency.

Provides the city government departments and other city information.

Provides classes for instruction/education in the Creighton FertilityCare System and Natural Family Planning, for family planning to avoid pregnancy or achieve pregnancy. Also helps with understanding hormonal/reproductive disorders in women.

Women are taught to chart their cycles, to assist in treatment of painful/heavy menses, PMS, irregular cycles, PCOS, infertility, family planning, and women's health.

Provides abstinence/chastity education.

Offers educational presentations to groups, as well as educational resources such as a lending library, pamphlets, books, and YouTube videos.

Offers assistance to women coping with premenstrual syndrome symptoms, infertile couples, and Sympto-Thermal users.

Offers counseling and wellness services for youth, adults, and families in the community who are experiencing difficulty in relationships, socialization, physical or mental wellness and emotional concerns. Some services/counseling types include, individual and family counseling, group sessions, case management, child abuse, sex abuse, and neglect, domestic violence, major depressive disorder, bi-polar disorder, and other mood disorders, parent/child relational issues, and PTSD and other anxiety disorders.

Provides both practical and social/emotional help to older adults adjusting to vision loss.

Content (online, large print, braille and audio) is available free of charge to anyone with a visual impairment and to those who support them.

Library of learning content ranges from tips and techniques for everyday living with low vision to an extensive range of instruction on assistive technology and braille.