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Provides outpatient substance use disorder treatment services for adults and adolescents, as well as substance use disorder prevention services within the surrounding community. Treatment services provided include substance use disorder evaluations, treatment planning, individual and group counseling services, and referrals to other community-based agencies as appropriate.

Offers a comprehensive, multi-week initiative designed for citizens returning from incarceration in order to develop skills for sustainable employment. Also provides assistance with having licenses reinstated.

Inpatient psychiatric services for adults and children ages 8-17; voluntary or involuntary referrals can be made 24 hours a day.

Provides a no-kill facility. Primary goals are to reduce pet overpopulation and find forever  homes for the sick, injured, abused, neglected, and abandoned animals in Decatur and Macon County that come into the facility. Offers discount spay/neuter program year round to low income, unemployed pet owners, senior citizens, and qualifying persons in need. TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) program for feral cats helps to reduce cat overpopulation.

Provides hot meals delivered around midday to home bound seniors on a general diet. This program serves seniors throughout Sangamon and Menard Counties.

Offers library services including free public access to computers and internet, seasonal reading and story time, assistance in locating and utilizing library resources, and meeting rooms. 

Provides the following services to assist blind and visually impaired individuals:

- transcribes materials on all subjects into large print, braille, and audio

• Provides indirect services through public/private facilities and cultural organizations to make their programs and physical plants accessible
• Sponsors an outreach community organization, The Weekenders, which provides opportunities to attend a wide variety of social and cultural events
• Processes monthly billing statements in braille, large print, and audio for utilities and banks
• Store at main location where you can purchase helpful products from the gadget gallery and devices

Counseling services include individualized master-level therapy/counseling, familial systems therapy/counseling, divorce mediation, parent-child counseling, grief counseling, adoption counseling, and pregnancy support counseling.

Therapeutic intervention for sexual abuse victims.

Provides weatherization services to low income households, which 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 installation, HVAC repair or replacement, electric base load reduction (lighting and refrigerator replacement), and air sealing.

Maximum $15,000 for energy-related weatherization and repair work (per client's home). Maximum $3,500 for health and safety-related measures.

Provides meals for anyone in need on Monday evenings.

Provides scholarships to school-aged children in income-eligible households wishing to attend a camp or enroll in a class such a swimming lessons, cooking, art, etc.

Offers professional therapists who provide individual, couple, child, and family counseling. Counseling focuses on a wide variety of issues including parenting, family conflict, relationships, depression and anxiety, issues of adult children of alcoholics, survivors of sexual abuse, and conflict resolution.

Offers art therapy.

Provides temporary financial assistance for pregnant women and families with one or more dependent children.

TANF provides financial assistance to help pay for food, shelter, utilities, and expenses other than medical.

Transitional services are also available to help families become independent, such as GED preparation, vocational training, job retention programs, etc.

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 individual, family, play, grief, and trauma-informed therapy services.

Offers to help children in grades 4-12 develop knowledge and skills. Services include learning about citizenship, leadership, cooking, arts and crafts, mechanics and technology, horticulture, agriculture, and other subjects. To teach young people about these subjects, the 4-H program uses the learn-by-doing method of instruction.

Low-income housing with some units available for individuals with disabilities.

Empowers and enables people with disabilities and mental illness to secure community-based employment.

Services for adults dealing with behavioral health and emotional issues. Services include:

-- Adult and senior therapy.

-- Case management.

-- Help with transitioning from homelessness.

-- Couple and relationship therapy.

-- Family therapy.

-- Group therapy.

-- Employee assistance program.

-- Bariatric counseling.

-- Women: pregnancy and childbirth.