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Offers education and support for low-income parents and expecting moms. The Nest program provides educational classes and an incentive program to help low-income parents purchase baby supplies. The Healthy Futures program offers one-on-one support to young moms including parenting skills training and screenings for child development and maternal depression. Services include: Screenings for maternal depression, child development, and home safety; parenting education about children’s development stages; and family assistance by providing referrals to appropriate resources. Special funds are also available to assist during a crisis (when available).
Offers help with rent, water, prescriptions, dental, optical, hearing aids, and car repairs.
Serves as the primary center for intake, screening, and service connection for Champaign County youth, aged 10 to 17, and families. YAC case managers screen at-risk youth and link them and their families with the community’s support and restorative services. Law enforcement personnel typically make referrals to the YAC as an alternative to prosecution and to help prevent further delinquent activities. Referrals can also be made by families and the community.
Before- and after-school care is provided at regional elementary schools.
YMCA Camp Days are available for working parents who are looking for a safe, structured, and nurturing environment for their child to have positive peer interaction on days when school is not in session.
Senior Enrichment provides care for emotional issues including depression, anxiety, and nerves on an outpatient basis. An individualized plan of care is developed to treat each senior’s unique needs. Services provided could include:
- Education by a specially trained nurse.
- Group therapy.
- Individual counseling.
- Medications.
- Nutritious meals.
- Communication with family members (with patient’s consent).
- Regular meetings with the treatment team and physician.
Jail offers counseling for inmates only, incarceration, GED program for inmates, and house arrest.
Community Center provides Work Release Program and Day Reporting program, which offers educational, rehabilitative, and counseling sessions for detainees.
Provides engineering and design of County roadway projects, including local resurfacing and bridge replacement. The division is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the County Secondary Road System, including ditch cleaning, roadway surface repairs, bridge and culvert repairs, and snow removal.
Provides temporary residential care for youth who are or are alleged to be delinquent and who pose a threat to themselves or to the community.
Offers a variety of programs and activities to assist communities, schools, workplaces, and organizations address substance use and prevention.
Provides services to all those who have adopted, placed a child for adoption, or been adopted through our agency. The services provided include, preparing an adoption history report of non-identifying information, conducting a full search to locate birth parents or adoptees, updating the file with locating information.
Provides city government departments and other city information.
Offers a program for parents and youth individuals ages 10-14 to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together.
Offers animal assisted therapy which works to enhance well-being and reduce stress through the bond with animals. This therapy integrates animals as key elements in treatment, assisting therapists in creating and sustaining effective, solution-focused programs.
Specific program services are available for the following - Veterans: Courage to Heal, At-Risk Youth: Path to Empathy, Students: Discovering Nature's Classroom, and Seniors: A New Lease on Life.
Vaccinations for those who are Iowa Medicaid eligible, American Indian/Alaska Native, Uninsured, or Underinsured (defined as a child with health insurance, but the benefit plan does not include routine immunizations).
Provides sex offenders treatment programs that involve assessment, evaluation, polygraph examination, plethysmograph examination, professional counseling, perpetrator treatment groups, partner and spouse groups, and intensive supervision of sex offenders either within residential treatment facilities or by cooperative supervision with the High Risk Unit.
Offers a variety of library services including a children's area where your child or a group can learn all the fun things about reading, a teen area for students wanting a quiet area to study or use the free WiFi and a public meeting room with a full kitchen area available.
2026 YouthHope Holiday Food Baskets
Holiday Food Basket Application begin October 1, 2026. Holiday baskets include holiday meal food items and a grocery gift certificate. Baskets are limited. Clients who apply for a food basket from another agency are not eligible. First-come, first-served. Basket recipients will receive a basket pick-up card at the time of application with details.
Application must be completed in-person during Food Pantry hours: Monday & Friday 9 am-12 pm. Families may select either Thanksgiving OR Christmas while supplies last. Please one ONE basket per family per year.
THANKSGIVING BASKET DISTRIBUTION: Thursday, November 19, 2026 (9 am-12 pm)
CHRISTMAS BASKET DISTRIBUTION: Thursday, December 17, 2026 (9 am-12 pm)
Public Health Department for Crawford County residents. Divisions include:
- Health Education.
- Environmental Health.
- Communicable Disease.
- Nursing Division.