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Provides case management to older adults living in the community. Aims to help seniors to remain living at home or with caregivers. Services include:
- Congregate and Home-delivered Meals
- Transportation
- Employment and Job Training
- Benefits Assistance
- Family Caregiver Support (respite, support groups, and counseling)
- Housekeeping Chores
Services offered in-home or via telephone.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
DRS staff talk to persons with disabilities about their employment needs and help them find a job or get ready to go to work. They also make sure that people have the supports they need to stay on the job.
Specialized vocational rehabilitation services for people who are:
- Blind or visually impaired.
- Deaf or hard of hearing.
- Hispanic or Latino with disabilities.
DRS help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation.
DRS Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits.
DRS Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.
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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Provides assistance with utility bills, rent, medical bills, pantry and other immediate needs. Offers person-to-person service to those in need.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Offers health education and case management to help families gain access to care to live a healthy lifestyle. Also offers public benefit application assistance and bilingual social work support. Exercise classes and community gardening are also offered for community members. Provides referrals to outside resources and COVID-19 financial application assistance.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Provides recreational activities for older adults in the community. Programs and activities include:
- Book Clubs
- Music Classes
- Knitting
- Art classes: painting and drawing classes and art history
- Spanish classes
- Fitness classes: Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates, Dance classes
- Health and Wellness services: Blood pressure testing, cholesterol testing, and podiatry
- Card and Game Play: Ping pong, bocce, poker, canasta, bridge, table top games, mahjong, bowling
- Social events
- Social services: Loss and Bereavement support groups, Caregiver support groups, benefits assistance, and transportation services
- PTC Library: computer access, books, CDs, and DVDs
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
DRS staff talk to persons with disabilities about their employment needs and help them find a job or get ready to go to work. They also make sure that people have the supports they need to stay on the job.
Specialized vocational rehabilitation services for people who are:
- Blind or visually impaired.
- Deaf or hard of hearing.
- Hispanic or Latino with disabilities.
DRS help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation.
DRS Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits.
DRS Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.
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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Offers Senior Information Service (SIS) Outreach & Referral. Assistance is provided in our office, over the phone, during home visits by our Outreach SIS workers at our workshops held throughout Iroquois County.
Assistance includes:
- Answer all questions including qualification questions.
- Assess clients' needs and make client referrals.
- Help clients fill out and file application/documents required for various programs such as Benefit Access Application, P-Tax form, Senior Citizen Homestead Tax Freeze form, Medicare Part D and pharmaceutical programs, Medicaid/Snap applications, Social Security Extra Help program, and AARP Income Tax (only low income, times and days will vary each year).
- Advocate on behalf of clients to assure access to needed services.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Outreach Programs
Information and Referral
Designed to reach out to seniors to assist them in many ways:
- Insures that each senior is aware of services available to them.
- Helps seniors apply for needed services.
- Monitors service delivery to ensure that service begins promptly and continues satisfactorily.
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Outreach Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
- Trained workers provide in-office and outreach services.
- Information and assistance in applying for benefits such as the BAA program, Medicare, Medicaid, and other insurance.
- Needs assessment and referral follow-up.
- Assistance with access to other agencies.
- Assistance to caregivers and grandparents raising their grandchildren.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Information and Referral
Outreach Programs
Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports. Services include:
- Seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver’s licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing.
- SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions.
- Special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues.
- Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues.
- Tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.
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General Legal Aid
State Unemployment Insurance Appeals/Complaints
Taxpayer Advocate Services
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
The Oasis can provide assistance with completing the Illinois Department on Aging (IDOA) Benefit Access Program application in order to receive a discount on license plate fees and free rides on fixed-route transit systems.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Reduced Cost Motor Vehicle Registration
Transportation Passes
Provides information and comprehensive services for people with disabilities including:
- Peer support
- Independent living skills training
- Employment skills training
- Advocacy
- Assistive technology/adaptive devices
- Benefits counseling /Application assistance
- Personal assistant (in-home care) referrals
Also offers ongoing support services and transitional services, including:
- Community Transition Services that helps people transition from nursing homes to their own homes
- Pre-employment Transition 30 week program to prepare youth for the work force
- Youth Transition Services for youth to develop independent living skills to prepare for adulthood
Free Covid tests provided
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Caregiver services are available to informal or family caregivers of persons over the age of 60 or to grandparents raising grandchildren. Services can include respite care (services that give caregivers a rest), home modification, assistive devices, transportation, and financial assistance.
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Caregiver Counseling
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Respite Care
Directs individuals and/or their family members to available services and community resources which meet the individual's expressed need, such as enrollment activities related to the pharmaceutical assistance programs such as Medicare Part D.
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Information and Referral
Outreach Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
In-house SNAP Outreach Coordinator can discuss eligibility, help an individual fill out an application for assistance, and answer questions related to SNAP benefits. The Coordinator visits partner agency sites periodically to promote SNAP and help people determine if they might qualify to apply for benefits.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Can provide a variety of services in English or Spanish for any immigrants who would like added support, information, or assistance. Services can include:
- Professional Spanish translation and interpretation.
- Assistance in meeting needs like obtaining public benefits or child care.
- Other ways to connect people with opportunities.
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Language Translation
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Language Interpretation
Answers questions regarding government benefits and community resources such as: Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Benefits Access Application (driver's license discount, seniors and persons with disabilities ride free), energy assistance (LIHEAP), intervention and advocacy on a client's behalf, assessment of need and referral for services, and assistance in the completion of forms and applications for benefits.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Reduced Cost Motor Vehicle Registration
Outreach Programs
Transportation Passes
Information and Referral
Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports. Services include:
- Seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver’s licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing.
- SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions.
- Special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues.
- Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues.
- Tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.
Services
General Legal Aid
State Unemployment Insurance Appeals/Complaints
Taxpayer Advocate Services
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
DRS staff talk to persons with disabilities about their employment needs and help them find a job or get ready to go to work. They also make sure that people have the supports they need to stay on the job.
Specialized vocational rehabilitation services for people who are:
- Blind or visually impaired.
- Deaf or hard of hearing.
- Hispanic or Latino with disabilities.
DRS help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation.
DRS Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits.
DRS Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.
Services
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Helps immigrant and refugee families apply for community resources, especially if those families have limited English. Programs include:
- Technical Assistance for the Community (TACOM): Housing assistance to locate government-subsidized housing.
- LIHEAP.
- Immigrant Family Resource Program (IFRP): Access for programs such as food stamps and Medicaid.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
The Senior Center offers many programs which include:
- Senior Citizens Nutrition Program: Congregate and home delivered meals.
- Senior Benefits Assistance (BAA Program).
- Health Insurance and Medicare Assistance (SHIP Program).
- Pharmaceutical assistance.
- Legal Aid for seniors.
- Transportation for age 60+, anywhere inside city limits. Wheelchair lift vans available.
- Recreation: Pool, TV, exercise equipment, quilting, painting, bingo, etc.
- Fitness programs: Exercise classes, bowling.
- Health screenings: Blood pressure, flu shots.
- Telephone reassurance/wellness checks.
- Home visits.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Senior Centers
Congregate Meals/Nutrition Sites
Home Delivered Meals
Prescription Expense Assistance
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Senior Ride Programs
General Legal Aid
Centro de Information provides various information and assistance to Immigrants and Hispanic individuals, including:
- Information and referral.
- Educational Seminars addressing employment, housing, immigration and naturalization, financial literacy, health issues, and more.
- Job-seeking training and tips.
- Medicaid information and counseling.
- General Benefits assistance.
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Information and Referral
Prejob Guidance
Medicaid Information/Counseling
Financial Literacy Training
Life Skills Education
General Benefits and Services Assistance
DRS staff talk to persons with disabilities about their employment needs and help them find a job or get ready to go to work. They also make sure that people have the supports they need to stay on the job.
Specialized vocational rehabilitation services for people who are:
- Blind or visually impaired.
- Deaf or hard of hearing.
- Hispanic or Latino with disabilities.
DRS help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation.
DRS Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits.
DRS Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.
Services
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Home visits to adults to assess needs, inform individuals of services available, and to assist them in accessing needed services.
Help with applications for Benefits Access Application, Medicare Part D, and more. As well as information and referrals for other social services, including grandparents raising grandchildren.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Outreach Programs
Information and Referral
Provides options counseling, information, agency referrals and services to those who need assistance with LIHEAP, Benefits Access Program, Medicare Part D/Supplements, and workshops.
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General Benefits and Services Assistance