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Provides comprehensive classroom and home-based services to pregnant women and children birth to age five, including children with significant special needs.

CEFS Outreach offices do not serve the program; the program provides services from their own classroom/office locations. (See the notes in Coverage Area for more details.)

Provides free confidential HIV counseling and testing for at-risk individuals aged 12 years and older, with rapid testing devices delivering results in 15 minutes. STD testing and tuberculosis screening, including chest x-rays and skin tests to detect tuberculosis infections, are also available on-site.

Assists low-income children and families thorugh a continuum of care which includes academic tutoring, daycare services, emotional support, educational readiness, and computer techonology training services. All children enrolled in programs are assisgned and individualized educational plan (IEP) developed by teachers, parents, and other members of the school governing body. Students enrolled in before and after school care benefit from the following services:

• Assistance with character development
• Assistance with creative expression
• Assistance with social skills development
• Assistance with physical and motor skills development

During extremely cold weather situations, locations are opened to the public which allow them to come in out of the cold and warm up. To find all current warming center locations, visit the website at: https://publichealth.wincoil.gov/extreme-cold/

Provides law enforcement, fire/rescue, and caregivers with a program designed to protect, and when necessary, quickly locate individuals with cognitive disorders who are prone to the life threatening behavior of wandering.

The program is run at a municipality level by public safety agencies.

Provides assistance to individuals with developmental or mental health disabilities in obtaining and maintaining job training through subcontracts or community job sites.

Provides personal hygiene or care items such as soap, shampoo, toothbrushes and diapers when available. Can be used once per month.

Provides minor home repairs or modifications to rehabilitate substandard homes with an emphasis on health and safety issues. Some typical repairs under this program include, but are not limited to plumbing and electrical upgrades, roof repairs, and new heating systems.

Counseling and mental health services including individual, couples, and family counseling and anger management groups.

2025

Offers holiday assistance for parents who are unemployed or underemployed. Gift and food distribution will take place at the Midwest Food Bank, 2031 Warehouse Road, Normal (off of Northtown Road, north of I-55 in Normal).

Registration is online. Starting in mid-October, visit the website or Facebook page to access the form. the form swill jol longer be available one tall spots are filled.

Distribution, Dec 13, 2025 from 8 am-11 am. This will be a drive-in, drive-out event and packages will be loaded in vehicles. Children do not need to be present to receive a gift.

Offers FIP (Family Investment Program) a cash assistance program for children and their families who have low income, also available to relatives caring for children whose parents are not in the home. The goal of FIP is to help families leave poverty and become self supporting, can participate for up to 60 months. FIP is Iowa's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

Provides support groups for a variety of medical conditions and diseases. Call to find out more information about which support groups are offered and where.

Work activity centers in Red Oak and Shenandoah provide opportunities for people with disabilities to gain useful vocational training while earning a wage.

Day habilitation services.

Transportation to both services is available.

Provides inpatient and outpatient programs. Services include overcoming substance use problems, from unhealthy alcohol use to life-threatening addiction, treatment for depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, self-harm and suicidality, family/relationship problems, OCD, and confusion/memory loss. 

Offers a program that helps you to save time and money through planning your meals and shopping strategies. Programming and materials may also be available online. 

Offers a program that helps you to save time and money through planning your meals and shopping strategies. Programming and materials may also be available online. 

Offers a program that helps you to save time and money through planning your meals and shopping strategies. Programming and materials may also be available online.