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24 hour nationwide hotline providing short-term counseling and crisis intervention to children and families experiencing any type of difficulty in their lives. Provides information about help agencies and programs throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Website, YourLifeYourVoice.org, offers an online resource for kids/teens where they can communicate with trained counselors four different ways - by text, email, online chat, or by calling the Hotline. The website also offers tips on how to deal with challenging situations, a bulletin board where teens ask questions regarding different topics that are answered by counselors and then posted so others can read and relate, and journal pages where teens can download and print worksheets to help them work through issues and create solutions.

Text VOICE to 20121 - available every day 2 pm-1 am CST.

Provides parks, golf courses, pavilion rentals, and more. 

In home health care services, including skilled nursing, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and home health aides.

Specialized nursing services include IV infusion therapy, wound care, tube feedings, men, orthopedic nursing, and care for people with chronic diseases, such as heart failure, diabetes, or COPD.

Rehabilitation services.

Provides weatherization services to low income households. Helps conserve fuel and reduce energy costs by making homes and apartments more energy efficient. Also provides many health and safety upgrades.

Services vary, but may include insulation, furnace work, and air sealing.

Assists individuals in overcoming substance use problems, from unhealthy alcohol use to life-threatening addiction. Inpatient and outpatient programs available. 

Provides hope to lower income people, including those who are homeless and people with disabilities through the healing power of art.

Offers 10-week long internships for individuals with disabilities that provide vocational skills in a variety of hospital departments. At the completion of the internships, students are placed into competitive employment.

Three main categories of internships:

- Operations: stocking linens and supplies, dock, assembling and cleaning equipment, delivering linens/equipment, completing work orders, sanitizing, etc.

- Clerical: data entry, scanning, making and receiving phone calls, alphabetizing, minimal patient interaction, shredding, using copying machines, sorting mail, etc.

- Hospitality: food and beverage prep, customer service, cashiering, stocking food items, cleaning spills, catering, refilling creamer and coffee machines, catering, identifying specialty items, etc.

Offers scholarships, amounts are dependent of funding levels, to income eligible individuals in Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, Wabash, Wayne or White County, who are planning to attend accredited Illinois University, community college, technical or vocational schools. Preference is given to applicants of racial or ethnic minorities.

Provides emergency financial assistance to low income individuals, without minor (age 17 and below) dependents, and who do not qualify for other financial aid programs (such as Social Security or TANF).

Provides health care and specialty health care services, including ambulatory and extended care and geriatric rehabilitation services. 

Advocates for nursing home residents' rights, investigates complaints and abuse allegations, provides consultation on how to choose a nursing home, and mediates solutions to problems. Works with families and residents.

Provides services related to business and charity evaluation, dispute resolution, and consumer education.

Offers 11 free weekly support groups. In-person groups cover the Chicago and Vernon Hills areas, and virtual groups serve women and girls nationwide.

Groups cover the topics of neurodivergent women, sexual abuse, domestic abuse, narcissistic abuse, boundaries, chronic pain/chronic illness and medical trauma, trauma and abuse, teen girl group, emotional abuse, anxiety and depression.

Visit website to sign up.

A protective service for limited-income seniors who need help managing their finances. Bill payer volunteers assist individuals who are able to make decisions about their financial affairs but who need help organizing bills and paying them on time.

Representative payee volunteers are appointed by Social Security to receive and manage benefits of a person who is determined incapable of managing his or her own finances. In contrast to the bill payer program, the representative payee signs the checks and has full control of the benefits. They pay bills and make sure the client's needs are being met.

Offers the following services:

- Online Voter Registration.

- Polling Place Locator.

- District Locator to Find Elected Officials.

- Voting by Mail Application.

- Election Information.

- Campaign Disclosure Information.

- Information on how to Run for Office.

- Information on Candidate Filing and Results.

- Board Meetings and Information.

Providing creative arts large and small motor skill development, math and manipulative activities. Offering different opportunities for learning are provided using center-based exploration, sensory tubs, developmentally appropriate literacy and math lessons, props, and manipulative's.

Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes

- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.

• Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
• Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.

  EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.

Provides housing counseling on the topics of pre-purchase home buyer education, budget and credit workshops and counseling, post-purchase counseling, repairs for homes, delinquency and foreclosure prevention counseling.

Provides dental services to individuals ages 0-20. Services include cleanings, x-rays, fluoride application, fillings, extractions, and referrals to specialists.