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The Illinois Department of Human Services is one of the state's largest agencies, offering the SNAP/Link, Medicaid, TANF, and AABD (Aid to the Aged, Blind, or Disabled) programs, among others.

Eureka Area Meals on Wheels offers hot, nutritious meals Monday through Friday to anyone who could benefit from the service. Meals can be ordered daily, a few days a week, or as needed under special circumstances. The program currently delivers to Eureka, Roanoke, and Metamora.

Community Harvest offers food collection volunteer opportunities.

Tazewell County Health Department offers childhood immunizations.

The West Jersey Township Office administers limited community assistance/general relief for qualifying township residents. General relief is considered a form of assistance of "last resort" and is often very limited when compared to other public assistance programs. IMPORTANT: West Jersey Township covers a sparsely-populated rural area in Stark County that contains no cities, towns, or villages. It is largely in the 61483 (Toulon) zip code, but does NOT include the actual city of Toulon. It also includes some of the Laura zip code of 61451 but NOT the actual town of Laura. PLEASE CONFIRM your township using the map link below. To confirm that you are in West Jersey Township, please view the following map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/West+Jersey+Township,+IL

The Institute for Human Resources offers comprehensive outpatient substance use disorder treatment.

The Gateway Foundation's Peoria location provides outpatient psychiatric care and substance use treatment (and linkage with/transportation to inpatient treatment at their other Illinois locations) for people age 18+.

The East Village Growth Cell Tax Increment Financing District (TIF) Housing Program helps property owners in the East Bluff neighborhood to make improvements to the outside of their homes. Homeowners and landlords can apply. The EVGC TIF Housing Program is a 50/50 match grant program that gives between $1,000 to $15,000 of assistance to property owners of single-family homes. Eligible Projects: New garages New gutters New porches, steps, or railings Driveway and walkway (private property) improvements Roof replacement New siding or painting New windows New fence

Children's Home is helping to keep families involved with DCFS through in-home counseling contracts. Family Based Intervention (FBI) provides individual and family therapy to children as young as two-years-old up through adults with trauma or mental health concerns who have an open case with Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and reside in Peoria, Tazewell, or Woodford counties. The counseling services address individual concerns and family dynamics, crisis intervention, parent education, advocacy, and community outreach. The goals of the program are to keep families together who are still intact and to reunify families whose children are youth in care. For more information, please contact Faye Kesselmayer, LCSW at [email protected] or call 309-687-7413.

The OSF Care-A-Van focuses on the under-served areas of Peoria, providing free healthcare services that include blood pressure screenings, doctor consultations, nurse visits, exercise consults, dietician consults, health education, insurance consults, linkage with a primary care doctor, discussion of general health concerns, and spiritual support. The program can be accessed without an appointment, on a first come, first serve basis. All services are free of charge.

The Illinois Emergency Management Agency & Office of Homeland Security serves to better prepare the State of Illinois for natural, man made, or technological disasters; hazards; and acts of terrorism. The 24-hour lines (217-782-7860 & 800-782-7860) can be used for reporting -Oil and hazardous material spills in water or on land -Releases of harmful quantities of toxic substances into the air -Emergencies involving wastewater treatment systems and public water supplies -Emergencies involving solid waste disposal sites -Fish kills caused by pollutants- Abandoned hazardous waste incidents posing immediate hazards -Illegal burning of waste

The Emergency Management Agency was created to combine all Emergency Preparedness Programs including Civil Defense. By state law, the Emergency Management Agency is a required County Department. The purpose of the Emergency Management Agency is to mitigate potential hazards, plan for, coordinate, respond to, and aid in recovery from all disaster situations whether natural or man-made.

The Center for Senior Behavioral Health at Carle Health Proctor Hospital is an inpatient specialty unit for adults ages 65 and older in need of care for emotional or behavioral concerns. Services include individual, group, and family therapy guided by a team of clinicians, activity therapists, nurses, and psychiatrists.

OSF Institute for Women’s Health and Fertility assists women in monitoring their reproductive and gynecologic systems naturally through the use of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System. We find solutions to underlying issues within a woman’s body including: Chronic discharges Hormonal abnormalities Infertility Irregular or abnormal bleeding Menstrual cramps Ovarian cysts Painful periods Polycystic ovarian syndrome Postpartum depression Premature birth prevention Premenstrual syndrome Recurrent miscarriage The patient will chart her cycles to determine when she is fertile and infertile. Charting can also uncover abnormalities within a woman’s gynecological system. Our system has numerous advantages. It’s effective, affordable, eco-friendly, and completely natural with no known medical side effects.

As of fall 2025, Tazwood Community Services, Inc. administers the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for Peoria County. ======================================================== 2025-26 LIHEAP Energy Assistance Program Tazwood Community Services continues to set appointments, as they become available, for 2025-26 LIHEAP Energy Assistance, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-Noon & 1-4 p.m. Online scheduling is available at www.tazwoodcs.org/appointments If there are no appointments available when visiting the scheduling system, that means they are filled up for the full 60 days ahead at that time. IF IN A CRISIS SITUATION, SUCH AS PENDING DISCONNECTION OR ALREADY BEING DISCONNECTED , IT IS RECOMMENDED TO STILL CALL ANYWAY, EVEN IF NO APPOINTMENTS ARE LISTED ONLINE. PLEASE NOTE THAT FURNACE ASSISTANCE IS A SEPARATE PROGRAM, SO YOU SHOULD GO AHEAD AND CHECK WITH TAZWOOD, REGARDLESS OF WHAT IS LISTED ONLINE. In addition, customers can either call or go to their local office, but this is ONLY to schedule an appointment. When calling into the office, you might get a recorded message stating that the phones are disconnected, the number cannot be completed as dialed, all circuits are busy, etc. The type of message you receive varies based on your phone carrier. Unless Tazwood makes a post on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064748766860) the phones ARE working. There can be thousands of customers calling on a given day, and Tazwood has around 20 staff answering the phones and scheduling appointments. It is important to remember that LIHEAP runs from October 1, 2025 - August 15, 2026, or until funding is exhausted. Customers can opt to wait and come in during the winter months if they would like to avoid the rush that that beginning of the program year brings. ================================================= ADDITIONAL LOCATION DETAILS: This office is in the University Professional Center Building. When you enter the parking lot follow it to the BACK of the building. Tazwood LIHEAP is located on the 2nd floor. You will enter through the back entrance where there are stairs and an elevator. Please be advised that the elevator is a little narrow in width. Customers with issues getting into the building or to the 2nd floor, please call (309-690-6500) and a staff member will come down to the lobby to assist you. This office location is on a bus route with a shelter in front of the business next door. ====================================================

This site houses two services/programs: A. Tazewell County Legal Self-Help Center Provides information to Tazewell County residents about their legal rights and responsibilities, instructions on how to handle common legal problems, assistance with some legal documents and forms, and referrals to free and low-cost legal services. The Legal Self-Help Center does not provide legal advice to its patrons. Instead, it offers legal information to customers on such topics as instructions for available forms, answers to general legal questions, and information on court procedures. ========================== B. Tenth Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee of the Public Interest Law Initiative's (PILI) Self-Represented Litigant Help Desk The Help Desk is staffed virtually by pro bono attorneys who provide brief advice referrals, and limited scope representation to eligible self-represented litigants for approximately 30 minutes per litigant at designated areas in the Peoria and Tazewell County Courthouses. To be eligible for assistance, the self-represented litigant must meet the following criteria: -The litigant must be proceeding in the matter for which they are seeking assistance on a self­-represented basis and not be receiving the assistance of an attorney in the matter; -The litigant’s household must be within 200% of federal poverty guidelines; and -The litigant must not have received assistance through the Help Desk previously on this matter.

Trillium Place Access Center, an affiliate of Carle Health, provides information and linkage to Trillium Place mental health and substance use programs and services located in Central Illinois. Trillium Place provides comprehensive mental health and substance use disorder services. Mental health outpatient services include counseling, community-based services, and psychiatry. Substance use disorder programs include inpatient, outpatient, medication assisted treatment, and detoxification services. Contact Trillium Place Access Center to learn more about available services or to get linkage information. Proudly affiliated with Carle Health, Trillium Place is a not-for-profit organization originally formed in April 2019 by joining UnityPoint Health Behavioral Health Services, the Human Service Center, and Tazwood Center for Wellness. With locations in Peoria, East Peoria, Pekin, Lincoln, and Eureka, Trillium Place provides a comprehensive range of mental health and substance use disorder services.

Sophia's Kitchen offers meals to those in need (menus vary daily), as well as a food pantry and pet food assistance.

Tazewell County Health Department offers communicable disease control.

The TCRC Sight Center in Morton, Illinois provides innovative services for the blind and visually impaired. The Center helps patients remain independent and self-sufficient through low vision optometric assessments, mobility services, specialized computer technology, community rehabilitation, optical aids and devices, and other support services.

It is our goal to promote, coordinate and direct a comprehensive emergency management program which addresses mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery relative to disaster and major emergencies.

Tri-County Opportunities Council is a community action agency serving Bureau, Carroll, LaSalle, Lee, Marshall, Ogle, Putnam, Stark, and Whiteside counties. ============================================== 2025-26 LIHEAP Utility Assistance Details Please call after September 16, 2025 to schedule for October onward. Marshall County LIHEAP Office: 309-246-2200 Stark County LIHEAP Office: 309-286-0001 Putnam County, please use main office line for LIHEAP: 815-625-7830 October Appointments - priority scheduling for: -Seniors (60 & over) -Disabled individuals -Families with children 5 & under -Households disconnected or under imminent threat of disconnection November-Open enrollment for all households. In addition to LIHEAP, Tri-Counties Opportunities Council offers the "Neighbor to Neighbor" program for possible utility assistance.

The Emergency Management Agency was created to combine all Emergency Preparedness Programs including Civil Defense. By state law, the Emergency Management Agency is a required County Department. The purpose of the Emergency Management Agency is to mitigate potential hazards, plan for, coordinate, respond to, and aid in recovery from all disaster situations whether natural or man-made.

Libraries double as warming or cooling centers: Toulon Library (617 E. Jefferson St., Toulon): 309-286-5791 Mon: 9am-5pm Tues, Wed, Thurs: 9am-8pm Fri: 9am-5pm Bradford Library (111 S. Peoria St., Bradford: 309-897-8400 Mon,: 10am-7pm Tuesday through Friday: 10am-5pm Sat: 9am-12noon Wyoming Library (119 N 7th St, Wyoming): 309-695-2241 Mon through Fri: 10am-5:30pm Sat: 9am-12noon If in need of a warming or cooling center outside of library hours OR have a disability/inability to get to a warming or cooling center, please call the Henry County Office of Emergency Management at 309-937-3999 (after hours numbers are 309-937-3911 and 309-286-2541). IF IT IS AN EMERGENCY, PLEASE CALL 911.

Mercy Medical Angels provides free, non-emergency transportation assistance for patients who must travel long distances for medically necessary care. Transportation may be provided by volunteer pilots, commercial flights, or ground transportation, depending on availability. Services are not immediate and require advance application and eligibility screening. Assistance is not guaranteed and is subject to volunteer and funding availability. Appropriate for individuals traveling to specialized medical appointments when local or insurance-based transportation options are unavailable. Use only after local transportation options (Medicaid, public transit, local nonprofits, hospital programs) have been explored.