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PAWS Chicago Lurie Clinic provides spay/neuter for free and at a reduced cost to make sure it is accessible for all pets. Pricing is tiered so everyone can afford it. In addition to spay/neuter surgeries, the Lurie Clinic offers optional low-cost annual preventive services during Vaccine Clinic hours, including: vaccinations for rabies, distemper, bordetella, and canine flu, canine heartworm testing, feline FeLV/FIV combo testing, microchipping, Bravecto for flea and tick prevention, and Tri-Hear for heartworm prevention.

Teddy Bear Day Care offers child care services to children from ages 3 to 5.

Chicago Park District offers a 6-week long summer day camp where youth can engage in sports, arts, fitness, and outdoor activities. Ideas of civic engagement, environmental awareness, inclusion, collaboration & team building, brain play, reflection & journaling, and friendship & kindness are woven into the camp experience. Lunch and snacks will be provided. Online registration begins April 15 & 16. Camp runs June 24 - August 2.

The Institute for Nonviolence Chicago job readiness program prepares participants with the skills, tools, and techniques to obtain, keep, and excel at a new job. Participants will develop communication, problem-solving, resume-building, interviewing, and soft skills.This program is 12 weeks long and provides a weekly stipend of $200. The group meets in person Monday through Thursday for 2 ½ hours a day. On Fridays, they meet remotely.

Planned Parenthood of Illinois offers emergency contraception (morning-after pill), pregnancy testing, and rape crisis counseling referrals, as needed. They offer services including:Levonorgestrel Morning-after Pill (Plan B and similar brands)Ulipristal Acetate Morning-after Pill (Ella)IUDs (Paragard, Mirena, and Liletta)

Heartland Human Care Services' Building Stable Communities (BSC) is a rapid re-housing program that provides rental assistance and supportive services for single adults and families in their transition from homelessness to permanent housing and self-sufficiency. Participants live throughout Chicago in scattered-site, privately-owned apartments in their community of choice. The program pays a rental subsidy directly to the landlord, and in most cases, the lease is in the participant's name. To help the participants and their families achieve stability and independence, a range of essential, supportive services are provided, including: housing location/inspection, intensive case management, employment case management, clinical services including mental health and substance use counseling, children's services, and referrals to other services such as education, primary care, and legal services. This program serves approximately 280 households per year and includes former "Families Building Community" (FBC) and "Stable Futures" housing programs.

Chicago Public Library offers YOUmedia digital learning spaces where teens can hang out, mess around and geek out. All YOUmedia locations have laptops, cameras, music, and gaming equipment, and some YOUmedia locations have 3D printers, vinyl cutters, and more. It's an open environment where you choose what you want to do and skilled library staff provides coaching and assistance.

Hoffman Estates Park District's teaches the basics of knot tying, casting, unhooking fish, and baiting the hook. All equipment is provided, and participants 6 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Power Hour: Making Minutes Count provides Club professionals with the strategies, activities, resources, and information to create an engaging homework help and tutoring program that encourages Club members of every age to become self-directed learners.

Thorek Memorial Hospital's recently added a new Center for Primary Care, which is a general medicine clinic that provides the following services: Family Medicine; Internal Medicine, Senior Health and more.

ACCESS Community Health Network (ACHN) operates a number of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) that provide onsite benefit specialists who work with care teams to provide patients with benefits enrollment, Medicaid redetermination and enrollment, insurance open enrollment assistance, and WIC/SNAP assistance.

Some Chicago Park District locations have at least one air-conditioned room available for public use during periods of extreme heat.

Agents of Hope Training and Information Center's Behavioral Health Program offers services including:CounselingCase ManagementCommunity Support Groups/Individual and Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR)Supported Housing ServicesSkills TrainingCo-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance use Disorder (COPSD) ServicesChild and Adolescence Services

Schaumburg Township District Library offers a variety of technology for public use at the Central Library and branch locations.

Chicago Public Library acts as a warming center free to the public during periods of extreme cold.

Near North Health is a federally qualified health center (FQHC) where a registered dietitian offers both individual and group counseling, along with follow-up care for adults and children needing nutritional therapy for managing conditions like diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, HIV/AIDS, and more.

This food pantry is operated in partnership with the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) locations act as a cooling center free to the public during periods of extreme heat.

Midwest Express Clinic provides walk-in treatment for individuals with minor illnesses or injuries that do not require a hospital emergency room.

Care Coordinators assess seniors' needs and connect them to the services that best fit their needs. The goal is to help seniors age in place, living independently or with caregivers. They work with individuals and families to develop a plan of care help identify appropriate services and review costs.

Saint Leonard's Ministries provides supportive transitional housing for formerly incarcerated men and women through Saint Leonard's House, Grace House (women only), Saint Andrew's Court, and Harvest Commons Residence. This includes case management, benefits application assistance, AA groups, NA groups, relapse prevention, spiritual enrichment, and permanent housing search assistance.

Heartland Human Care Services' Refugee Employment Services links refugees to employment opportunities, leading them to self-sufficiency.

After-School Programs bring children into an educational and safe environment with activities such as homework help, games centered on STEM lessons, literacy through creative writing, visual and performing arts, character development, and socioemotional learning, life skills training, and more. Many programs also provide support services to families of participating children.

Planned Parenthood of Illinois provides gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) to transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive individuals ages 16 and up.

This program addresses trauma at the most critical stage in a child's development and involves the entire family in the healing process. Interventions provide case management and family support services tailored to the needs of each individual family. Therapy used to address trauma uses child-parent psychotherapy (CPP), and family therapy. In each approach, the interventions focus on the caregiver, not the therapist, as the primary source of support for the child.