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Provides alcohol and drug-free living environments, for men and women, with structure and peer-led recovery support groups.

Provides information about job vacancies, career options, and employment offers. Services include job search assistance, interview training, referrals to other job training programs or support services. For a small fee, business may receive assistance with recruiting new employees, training employees, and connecting to information for managing a business. 

Offers pediatrics, well child visits, developmental screenings and guidance on nutrition, growth and safety to support children's well-being up to age 21.

Services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking:

- Orders of Protection for people experiencing domestic violence.

- Divorce, custody, or child support in cases involving domestic violence or child endangerment.

- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

- Other court orders to stop abuse, harassment, or stalking.

- Immigration issues faced by survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.

- Guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.

Offers to match the caller’s legal problem with available resources, such as advice, extended representation, or referral. For most low-income applicants. Callers are screened for eligibility, and a determination is made whether eligible callers have a legal problem that falls within the priorities. If the caller’s legal problem is eligible for review for extended services, the caller is referred to one of our five regional offices. If the callers are not eligible for referral to a regional office, attorneys provide the caller with immediate advice or quick access to other information and resources.

Organization that investigates and treats the sexual and physical abuse cases of children. Children are interviewed in a comfortable environment to gather information regarding the child's experience. Services offered include:

- Crisis counseling.

- Victim advocacy and support.

- Case management.

- Legal, medical, and resource advocacy.

Provides military families who have children with special needs the resources needed to make informed assignment decisions and experience easier transitions. Two types of directories are offered:

- Early Intervention Directory provides information on early intervention services for children birth through 3 years old.

- School-Age Directory provides information on special education services for children ages 3 through 21 years old.

Provides hot meals during the weekdays.

Provides a nutrition and wellness program that offers information and guidance on canning, freezing, and drying food for preservation, healthy foods webinar series, feeding baby - from cradle to table, and the Food Service Sanitation Managers Certification.

Serves as a crisis team with an Engagement Specialist and Crisis Counselor providing mobile crisis response intervention including on-site counseling, mental health evaluation, and assessment for psychiatric hospitalization.

The health department is constantly monitoring school absences in an attempt to determine a food borne outbreak or a disease outbreak. The health department is also required to have drills annually to see how quickly they could dispense medications to the population should a bioterrorist event or pandemic influenza occur.

The health department currently monitors what is happening in the world regarding different disease outbreaks.

Offers home visiting, parental support, parent workshops, community referrals, and play groups. Free developmental screenings are offered for all children 0-3 residing in Decatur Public District 61.

Offers hospital services, including primary care, specialty care, virtual care, and more.

Offers several different mental health education programs.

- Family-To-Family: Provides a free, 12-week course for family caregivers of individuals with severe mental illness. The course is taught by trained family members. All instruction and course materials are free to class participants.

- Course includes: Current information about schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder (manic depression), panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder, and co-occurring brain disorders and addictive disorders.

- Up-to-date information about medications, side effects, and strategies for medication adherence.

- Current research related to the biology of brain disorders and the evidence-based, most effective treatments to promote recovery.

- Gaining sympathy by understanding the subjective, lived experience of a person with mental illness.

- Learning in special workshops for problem solving, listening, and communication techniques.

Offers a food pantry to those in need.

Helps low-income people and families buy food.

Offers the Restaurant Meals Program, which allows eligible SNAP customers to buy meals at authorized restaurants. (Available to SNAP customers who are homeless, elderly, and/or disabled.)

The LINK card is accepted at many farmers' markets.

Expedited/Emergency SNAP Benefits may be available (in 5 days or less from the date of application) to eligible clients if:

- Monthly income, cash, and bank accounts are less than client's rent or mortgage plus utility costs, OR

- Monthly income is less than $150 and client's cash and bank accounts are not more than $100, OR

- At least one person in the household is a migrant farm worker and client's cash and bank accounts are not more than $100.

Provides individual, group, family, and child counseling for both survivors and their non-offending significant others.

Provides guidance and inspections in the areas of food, private septic, and private well water safety to prevent disease and protect the community. Issues food, private sewage disposal, and well water permits. Approves plans for new sewage disposal installations, inspects and approves well installations, and reviews plans for proposed food establishments. Investigates foodborne or waterborne illness complaints, sewage complaints, and collects well water samples. Conducts health and safety inspections for public and semi-public swimming pools and spas and responds to complaints regarding stagnant or unsecured private pools. Additionally, offers radon detection services through onsite testing or the provision of test kits for homes and other buildings.

RAMP advocates for individuals who want to learn to use RMTD's fixed route public bus system. Employees can assist with navigating the cost of the fare, planning a route, and education of bus behavior. Advocates also train RMTD's bus drivers on proper use of lifts and disability awareness.

Provides a public bus service in DeKalb. Bus routes and schedules available on website.

Paratransit available for people with disabilities and who are unable to use regular bus service. Both points of destination must be within the DeKalb Urbanized Area (map online).

Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) program: Transportation to medical appointments within 35-mile radius of DeKalb.

Offers space where people share their experiences, strengths, and hopes with each other so that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from their addictions. Groups serve as emotional support to help people stay free from cocaine and all other mind-altering substances.

Provides financial assistance to those wanting to get their GED. Assistance includes covering the costs of books and/or GED test fees.