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Offers SERVSAFE® classes for food service professionals, providing comprehensive training on food hazards, proper food handling practices, and regulatory requirements to ensure food safety and prevent foodborne-illness outbreaks. 

Provides a critical care hospital with 24-hour access to emergency and critical health care services.

Offers both short and long-term experiences for youth. Short-term experiences include afterschool programs, camps, school-sponsored activities, conferences, and other events. Long-term experiences include learning communities in agriculture such as county clubs.

Provides mental health and substance abuse counseling services to veterans. Services include treatment for addictions, depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and OCD.

Provides emergency response to incidents, including accidents, fires, floods, storms and other disasters in the county.

Provides one-on-one, in-home classes for clients who came to America with refugee status. Offers acclimation education regarding cleaning (how to maintain a home) as well as fire safety.

Offers a program to improve basic reading, writing, math, life skills, and employability. The class English as a Second Language is also offered. Volunteer tutoring available.

Offers all DHS offices across the state during open hours for people to use as a warm/cool place to stay.

Two-year program where individuals who have a history of serious mental illness interact with practitioners and peers in individual and group settings as they work toward their mental health recovery goals.

Individuals are required to participate in the program eight hours each week.

Must participate in one group in-person session each week. Individuals participating in the program must live within driving distance of the center, to effectively participate in the program.

DCFS has the primary responsibility of protecting children and strengthening families through the investigation and intervention of suspected child abuse or neglect by parents and other caregivers.

DCFS links families with community services to address struggles families are having, offers preventative services to referred families in an attempt to keep family units together to address findings of abuse/neglect, and works with families who have children under the legal custody of DCFS while working to reunify families when possible or provide a permanent home for children.

As part of its duties, DCFS also licenses and monitors all Illinois child welfare agencies, child care agencies, domestic and international adoption providers, and group homes in the state.

Vocational, residential, and day services support and training to persons with developmental disabilities and/or related conditions.

Donations of new and gently used coats and other winter wear items are being accepted. All sizes from infant to adult are needed. Coat donations accepted until November 2024. Coat Distribution will be open in November 2024, after the coat drive, to Veterans and their families.

Reimburses for funeral and burial expenses when a person's resources and all other sources of payment are less than the DHS standard payment rates. The maximum amount that DHS will pay is $1370 for a funeral and $686 for a cremation/burial.

Provides services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking. Services include 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, and guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.