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Provides community based services to individuals with developmental, intellectual, or severe mental illnesses. The program focuses on goal-oriented, individualized and accessible support to improve self-sufficiency so that people can achieve recovery outcomes, personal growth and decreased need for costly institutional care. Services can include building living skills and learning how to navigate the community and services that are needed. 

Offers early childhood preschool programs, Head Start and Early Head Start, in both a center and in-home based settings. Programs are offered for free to eligible families who have children six-weeks to four-years-old.

Offers law enforcement services to the Winnebago County area. Issues gun/firearm permits, runs requested background checks, and manages the county Jail.

Provides supplemental food and nutrition education for the elderly ages 60 and over at no cost. Available foods include bottles juice, canned fruits and vegetables, hot and cold cereals, cheese, peanut butter, beans, pastas, shelf stable 1% milk and powdered milk.

Also covers the Jasper County area.

Provides temporary support up to $425 per month for Urbana residents who are disabled. Participants cannot be receiving any other cash benefit such as SSI/SSDI, TANF, or AABD. Assistance is provided regardless of immigration or criminal conviction status to the extent allowed by law.

Free printing, scanning and help with emailing documentation can be found at the Urbana Library, across the street from the Township.

Offers case management services to families with at least one child under the age of 18.  Case management works to help families reach stability. Goals created are client-oriented, and case managers connect clients to job training, health services, housing options, legal help, education, and more. 

Online registry designed for fathers who may not be living with their child's mother or who may not be legally recognized as a father. Registry information is used to locate a father in the event that his child is being placed for adoption. The site is designed to protect his confidentiality and rights as a father.

Interested parties may also search the registry, but must register before viewing the registry. These include:

- A child's mother or father.

- A child welfare agency to whom the mother has expressed an interest in making an adoption plan.

- The potential adoptive parents.

- The attorney for any one of the above parties.

State licensed residential program that offers support to individuals who need assistance transitioning back into the community after a psychiatric crisis. Temporary residence is provided for (28) days at two locations (32 total beds, 16 at each location). The intent of the service is to support the participant throughout the transition or break, provide linkages to needed services, and assist in stabilization and transition back into the community.

Program components include the following services: periodic safety checks and monitoring, medication monitoring and education, assistance with activities of daily living, limited transportation, and overnight accommodation including food and lodging; linkage to psychiatric services, referrals to needed community services and supports including, but not limited to, behavioral health services, substance abuse treatment services, and community housing; and 24 hour staffing.

Offered to children and adults who have have or need help with brain injuries, developmental disabilities or psychiatric case management. and who are eligible for Medicaid through the State’s Fee for Service Program (FFS) or Health Insurance Premium Payment (HIPP) Program.

Provides health care services for care of acute and chronic illness. Services can include breast exams and pap smears, immunizations, flu, and pneumonia shots, pregnancy testing, physicals for school, sports, and work, and sexually transmitted disease tests and treatment.

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.

Provides housing, meals, clothing, case management, life skills, health care and mental health care referrals, substance abuse treatment referrals, financial and job skills coaching, socialization and recreation opportunities to assist men experiencing homelessness to overcome the barriers that keep them from becoming housed and self-sufficient.

Cold Weather Shelter "Cold Cots": During the winter months when the temperatures are severely cold, the cold weather shelter opens expanding the 30 bed men's shelter to handle an additional 20 men providing them with a cot, a meal, and access to showers while space is available.

Full service police services for the city of Joliet.

SASS provides the following services for children and youth:

• Crisis intervention
• Short-term stabilization where a child is at risk of self-harm, or harming others
• Individual and family psychotherapy/counseling
• Mental health assessment
• Case management and information on community resources
• Psychiatric services

RSAC Prevention Educators are available to present professional trainings to organizations, companies, agencies, and schools. Educators have curriculum for many presentations but are open to new topics.

Professional trainings offered regularly include RSAC services and referral, how to respond to disclosure, childhood abuse, typical sexual development vs. red flag behavior, responding to sexual harassment, sexual assault and abuse, play therapy and sand tray therapy, and trauma and The Window of Tolerance.

Offers to protect the health and welfare of residents through the identification of potential communicable disease problems and to control the spread of infectious disease within the county. Offers investigation and follow up on communicable diseases, and an immunization program. 

Provides police and dispatch services responsible for emergency assessment and response.

Mental health services including outpatient psychiatric care, individual and family evaluation, medical management, psychotherapy, and group therapy.

Outpatient chemical dependency services.