Community Living Inc. provides life-enriching services to over 1,000 individuals with disabilities in the community. Community Living’s mission and programs reach over 1,000 individuals and their families. From children to seniors, Community Living provides people with disabilities the opportunity to learn, live and work in the community, which makes the community inclusive, diverse and a better place to live.

Since 1916, Riverbend Head Start & Family Services has been focused on improving the lives of mothers and children in our community. Today, we accomplish our mission through our Head Start and Early Head Start programming. For the young child we offer early childhood education, as well as health and nutrition services. For families and individuals we offer parenting education, social services, family literacy and various individual strengthening and family support services. All services are provided at NO COST TO THE FAMILY.

• Created and monitored individualized support plans for the persons supported, including annual review assessments, goals, and progress reports. • Scheduled and led regular interdisciplinary team meetings.

Illinois Assistive Technology is a nonprofit organization management company based out of 1 W Old State Capitol # 100, Springfield, Illinois, United States.

Community Opportunities for People with Development Disabilities is a company based out of TROY, MO, United States.

The St. Louis Area Foodbank is the bi-state region’s largest non-profit 501(c)(3) food distribution center dedicated to feeding those in need. Through our network of more than 500 partner agencies, we distributed over 42 million pounds of food in 2016. Thanks to the generous support from our donors and volunteers, we provide food assistance to more than 57,000 individuals each week in 26 counties in Eastern Missouri and Southwestern Illinois. The St. Louis Area Foodbank is a proud member of both the United Way and Feeding America – a nationwide network of over 200 food banks.

NECAC is a 12-county area not-for-profit social service, community health and public housing Community Action Agency. NECAC serves the needs of the low-income, elderly, youth, handicapped and disadvantaged through contractual partnership agreements and grants with government agencies, private businesses and other non-profit groups. NECAC provides temporary assistance to our neighbors in need, helping them to become self-sufficient to build better lives. NECAC and Community Action ... helping people, changing lives!

BCI offers a continuum of employment and training opportunities for adults with disabilities. This plan reflects our firm belief that, while each person has his or her own unique abilities, everyone can contribute. Our Organizational Employment Program offers paid jobs in a fully supported environment at BCI Packaging with continuous opportunities to advance. Our dedicated team of Employment Support Specialists works to accommodate each individual’s unique needs. Through regular training and assessment, we ensure the highest level of success for every person we serve. We focus on abilities rather than disabilities, and we transform a desire to work into something meaningful and fulfilling. Our Competitive Employment Program empowers people to successfully claim their place in the local workforce. With Competitive Employment, the client’s goal is to work alongside non-disabled individuals while earning the same opportunities, benefits, and pay. With a constant focus on long-term goals, we work with them to create goals, ready skills, and seek opportunities. Once employment is secured, we remain available for follow-up support as needed.

THE WILLIAM M. BEDELL ACHIEVEMENT & RESOURCE CENTER is a company based out of 400 S. MAIN STREET, WOOD RIVER, Illinois, United States.

ILLINOIS VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is a hospital & health care company based out of 223 S MACOUPIN, Gillespie, Illinois, United States.

Beverly Farm is a planned community that looks and feels like a neighborhood. There are homes and grass, and a recreation center with a pool; there is an equestrian center, a pavilion, jobs, all kinds of activities, medical services, therapies, and much more. Cottages, group homes, apartments, and community-based options make up the landscape, people make it home. Nearly 400 individuals who live with intellectual or developmental disabilities call Beverly Farm home. We challenge and encourage them to live their best life.

The government of Illinois, under the Constitution of Illinois, has three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial. The executive branch is split into several statewide elected offices, with the Governor as chief executive, and has numerous departments, agencies, boards and commissions. Legislative functions are granted to the General Assembly, composed of the 118-member House of Representatives and the 59-member Senate. The judiciary is composed of the Supreme Court and lower courts. The government of Illinois has numerous departments, agencies, boards and commissions, but the code departments, so called because they're established by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, provide most of the state's services: Department on Aging Department of Agriculture Department of Central Management Services Department of Children and Family Services Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Department of Corrections Department of Employment Security Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Department of Healthcare and Family Services Department of Human Rights Department of Human Services Department of Juvenile Justice Department of Labor Department of the Lottery Department of Natural Resources Department of Public Health Department of Revenue Department of State Police Department of Transportation Department of Veterans' Affairs