Offers educational opportunities and resources to service members, veterans, and their families. Trainings include: - Mental health and PTSD awareness - Military culture teach-ins - School outreach to share military/veteran history - Other speaking/educational engagements as requested

Provides intensive behavioral health treatment to adults with severe mental illness. Offers services in a community-based setting by an team of mental health professionals. Programs range from one of three levels of treatment intensity: - The Assertive Community Treatment - The less intensive Community Support - The Community Support Individual. Considered the final level of service before full self-sufficiency. Offers a multidisciplinary approach of intensive services provided where and when needed, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Teams include peer support specialists and practitioners with expertise in: - Psychiatry - Nursing - Social work - Substance use treatment - Employment These teams initiate: - A housing search - Developing a care plan - Continuing to work with clients over the long-term.

Mobile outreach vehicle where people can exchange used needles for sterile needles to reduce transmission. Also offers peer support meetings, education, and treatment navigation. "Look for the big purple truck!" For those in need of safe supplies (including needle and syringe exchange), please do the following: 1. Text or call 224-297-4393 2. Tell current location, including address (or the name of a building/store/service nearest) city and zip code, and the types of supplies needed 3. At that time, an outreach team member will attempt to schedule a phone or web call for harm reduction education and counseling. NOTE: This step is not mandatory to receive supplies. 4. An outreach team member will put together a supply request using gloves and other safety precautions. 5. A member of the team will coordinate a drop off, leaving the bag of supplies at the requested location. They will text when the supplies are delivered.**

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.

Provides education and immigration outreach services to Latino and other immigrant residents of Douglas County and the surrounding area.

Provides a place for older adults to socialize and make friends. Senior Center has board games, card games, television, books that can be borrowed, and Bingo. The engAGE program offers various monthly activities. Also performs community outreach. engAGED activities include: - Yoga. - Manicure Day - On The Page drawing courses. - pAGE Turner Book Club.

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.

- 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.

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.

This program uses a multidisciplinary team approach to provide intensive services where and when the clients need them—24 hours a day, seven days a week. Outreach teams include peer support specialists and practitioners with expertise in psychiatry, nursing, social work, substance use treatment, and employment. These teams initiate the housing search, develop a care plan, and continue to work with clients over the long-term. Because team members share responsibility for providing treatment and rehabilitation services, the entire team supports each client’s personalized goal of recovery.

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.

Outpatient mental health services, focusing on: - Anxiety disorders. - Depression. - Schizophrenia. - Bi-polar disorder. TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) is available. Homeless Mental Health Access Program aims to provide services to homeless individuals.

Provides social support to Latinos in the area. Services offered in Spanish. Services include: Social Services: - Risk education (alcohol, drugs, gambling, and other risk factors). - DUI assessments. - Interpreter services. - Help to complete community hours. - Healthy Choices Youth Program. - Youth Support Groups. - Early Intervention and Prevention.

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.

Offers telephone consultations and in-person visits to provide information and referral services, as well as case management to older adults in Champaign County.

Assists in securing COVID-19 vaccine appointments to older adults.

Outpatient mental health services, focusing on: - Anxiety disorders. - Depression. - Schizophrenia. - Bi-polar disorder. TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) is available. Homeless Mental Health Access Program aims to provide services to homeless individuals.

Outpatient mental health services, focusing on: - Anxiety disorders. - Depression. - Schizophrenia. - Bi-polar disorder. TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) is available. Homeless Mental Health Access Program aims to provide services to homeless individuals.

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.

Outreach staff visit older persons or their caregivers to inform them about available benefits and services. Outreach Services may include: - Encouraging older persons to participate in senior programs. - Assisting older persons in gaining access to needed services (Benefit Access Application, Medicare Part D, etc.). - Follow up with older persons and agencies to determine whether services have been received and the needs of the older person are met. - Provide client advocacy to secure benefits.

Provides outreach, emergency shelter, and transitional living services to homeless young adults (and any dependents). Participants can receive outreach services including basic needs, life skills, employment and education prep/support, transportation, health/wellness, and additional referrals. Participants may also access emergency shelter services in the event that all other shelter options have been exhausted, or an individual is unable to access shelter for any reason. These participants will be screened for acceptance into the emergency shelter and will have follow up case management services for as long as they are enrolled in the program.

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.

Outpatient mental health services, focusing on: - Anxiety disorders. - Depression. - Schizophrenia. - Bi-polar disorder. TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) is available. Homeless Mental Health Access Program aims to provide services to homeless individuals.

- Case Management- Coordinates services with other agencies and government services. Assists with cultural orientation, form/document completion. Provides ESL classes. Advocates for Hispanic population. Provides guidance and emotional support. - Interpretation and Translation Services - A pool of interpreters are available to provide services anywhere needed in the community. - Latino Counseling Services - Individual, child, family, and couples general counseling. Specific counseling available in areas of codependency, grief/loss, anger management, conflict resolution, and domestic violence. Crisis intervention available. Spanish-language services available. - Music Connection Foundation/Niños y música/Kindermusik: Developmental music program for children and parents to promote development. - Latino Women's Support Group: Gathering of mothers and children to discuss daily issues and share a meal. Limited space.

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.