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Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to "fill gaps", either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Community Response is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. The goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Work Clothing
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.

Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to "fill gaps", either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Community Response is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. The goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

Categories

Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Work Clothing
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Mental Health Expense Assistance
An in-home family development program for FIP recipients and their families. Focus is to support families in moving toward self-sufficiency, meet their goals, attaining skills and employment.
An in-home family development program for FIP recipients and their families. Focus is to support families in moving toward self-sufficiency, meet their goals, attaining skills and employment.
Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

Offers a partnership with families who receive FIP to provide them with the support they need to gain independence from public assistance. The program is voluntary and does not affect FIP benefits. It is focused on families success and growth. Contact your local outreach center for more information.

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TANF
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Assistance with goal setting to create stability; assistance with budgeting needs.

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

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.

Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to "fill gaps", either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, medical expenses, and more.

Community Response is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. By utilizing Central Navigation, the goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

Categories

Medical Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Case/Care Management
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Comprehensive Information and Referral

Program of Illinois Department of Human Services that assists individuals and families in crisis by providing direct assistance when able and by helping clients navigate local social services.

Offers a food pantry and clothing pantry.

Provides referrals to appropriate services when needing emergency housing, transportation, help with medical bills, and job searching.

Provides management of the Opportunities Quad Cities initiative, a collaboration of volunteers who have experienced success in their lives ("Navigators") who work with individuals and families struggling with poverty ("Neighbors"). Navigators support Neighbors one-on-one to connect them to specific community resources that can alleviate a barrier to success and help them move forward permanently out of poverty. Navigators have worked with Neighbors to resolve legal issues, parenting struggles, continuing education, and many other situations that keep people in poverty. Services are offered at two separate locations in Davenport and Rock Island. The Davenport location focuses on helping individuals and families who have been victims or witnesses of crime (reported or unreported).

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General Clothing Provision
Food Pantries
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

Program designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers.

Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help.

Works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.
Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.
Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.
Client centered intensive case management program to assist families in transitioning to stability.

Offers a partnership with families who receive FIP to provide them with the support they need to gain independence from public assistance. The program is voluntary and does not affect FIP benefits. It is focused on families success and growth. Contact your local outreach center for more information.

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TANF
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

Provides assistance with a variety of needs, including translation, interpretation of documents, benefit applications such as SNAP, Medicaid, ADC and SSI.

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Immigrant Benefits Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Program designed to assist FIP recipients achieve self-sufficiency through a partnership between the family and certified Family Development Specialists. Staff works with the family to help them set goals and strive towards them while working with the family to help them overcome their everyday problems and barriers.
Program designed to assist FIP recipients achieve self-sufficiency through a partnership between the family and certified Family Development Specialists. Staff works with the family to help them set goals and strive towards them while working with the family to help them overcome their everyday problems and barriers.
Provides in-home support to families receiving FIP (welfare) assistance, helping the family to increase stability and become economically self-sufficient. Family development specialists meet one-on-one with families in regular home visits. Together, specialists and families address the barriers affecting success by completing assessment tools and developing goals around areas critical to the family's overall well-being.

Free, voluntary program where coaches work with families for 3-6 months to help navigate and access resources in the community, increase families' protective factors, and problem-solve to address challenges a family may be facing. A coach is assigned to meet with the family and connect them to needed support.

The program offers case management support, mental health services for parents/guardians and children, education support, and some supports to meet basic needs and ensure safety.

Other support includes assistance finding safe, stable housing, connections to local food resources, help applying for benefits and tracking application status, budgeting and employment assistance, and education supports for parents/guardians and children.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Case/Care Management