Agencies

United Way of Rock River Valley works to mobilize the resources of the community to improve lives, strengthen the community, and build a stronger Rock River Valley. We partner with a range of nonprofit organizations.

American Red Cross, Rock River Chapter
727 North Church Street
Rockford, IL 61103
815.963.8471
www.rockriver.redcross.org

The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its congressional charter and the fundamental principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide relief to victims of disaster and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.

Angelic Organics Learning Center
1547 Rockton Road
Caledonia, IL 61011
815.389.8455
www.learngrowconnect.org

The Angelic Organics Learning Center empowers people to create sustainable communities of soils, plants, animals and people through educational, creative, and experiential programs offered in partnership with Angelic Organics, a vibrant biodynamic community supported farm.

Barbara Olson Center of Hope
3206 North Central Avenue
Rockford, IL 61101
815.964.9275
www.b-olsoncenterofhope.org

The Barbara Olson Center of Hope has been providing services to children and adults with developmental disabilities for over 60 years. They provide a variety of vocational, employment, educational, social and habilitative services for teens and adults with developmental disabilities living in Winnebago and Boone Counties and surrounding areas.

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Rockford YMCA
200 Y Boulevard
Rockford, IL 61107
815.489.1131
www.rockfordymca.org/BBBS/index.asp

BBBS offers the traditional Community Based Mentoring and School Based Mentoring. Currently Big Brothers Big Sisters of the YMCA of Rock River Valley serves children in Boone and Winnebago counties. Each year approximately 200 children benefit from the services of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Our goal is to reach more children!

Blackhawk Learning Connection
421 Buckbee Street
Rockford, IL 61110
815.962.8853
www.blackhawklearning.com

Blackhawk Learning Connection's mission is to provide quality, affordable child care so that low to moderate income families residing in Rockford can achieve and maintain economic independence. BLC is a licensed child care facility that provides care for children 6 weeks to 12 yearsof age. Adaily program is providedto meet each child's physical, emotional, social and intellectual needs

Booker Washington Center
524 Kent Street
Rockford, Il 61104
815.962.9117
www.bookerwashington.net

Booker Washington Center provides an environment thatpromotes the quality of life, values, and the welfare of the People of our community through education, art, recreational and cultural programs, and to promote learning and sharing within the greater multi cultural community.

Boy Scouts of America, Blackhawk Area Council
1800 Seventh Avenue
Rockford, IL 61110
815.397.0210
www.blackhawkscouting.com

The Boy Scouts of America is the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training. In the future Scouting will continue to: offer young people responsible fun and adventure; instill in young  people lifetime values and develop in them ethical character as expressed in the Scout Oath and Law; train young people in citizenship, service, and leadership; serve America's communities and families with its quality, values-based program.

Boys and Girls Club of Rockford
4920 Forest Hills Rd.
Loves Park, IL 61111
815.972.5973
www.rockfordboysandgirlsclub.org

Boys and Girls Clubs provide hope, stability and opportunity for youth and make a difference in their lives: a safe place they can call their own, a caring place where our professionals serve as role models and positively influence their lives, a positive place where they have the freedom to be kids and have fun while learning new skills, cultivating talents, enhancing their character and education, and learning how to live healthy and honorable lives.

Careers Etc.
5301 E. State Street Suite 207
Rockford, IL 61107
815.964.3491
http://careersetc.knowrockford.com

The Careers Etc. mission is to empower economically disadvantaged individuals to provide for themselves and their families by assisting them in the procurement of meaningful careers. Careers, Etc. has been providing job readiness training and resources to economically disadvantaged adults in Rockford since 1985.

CASA - 15th Judicial Court
113 South Peoria
Dixon, IL 61021
815.288.1901
www.casaleecarroll.com

Judge appointed advocacy for abused and neglected children. 

Catholic Charities, Rockford
102 South Madison
Rockford, IL 61104
815.965.0623
www.ccrfd.org

Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Rockford continues the ministry of Jesus in faithfulness to the Magisterial of the Church. The mission is to serve God's people for the common good with compassion, dignity and respect; to assist people in achieving a degree of independence consonant with their human dignity; and to work in solidarity with the Church and other people of good will in advocating for justice.

Children’s Home + Aid
910 Second Avenue
Rockford, IL 61104
815.962.1043
www.childrenshomeandaid.org

Children's Home + Aid remains committed to improving the lives of children and families throughout Illinois. As a leading social service agency, Children's Home + Aid serves more than 40,000 children and families in the need each year. It delivers over 70 social service programs throughout 40 Illinois counties.

Comprehensive Community Solutions
917 South Main Street
Rockford, IL 61104
815.963.6236
www.youthbuildrockford.org

Comprehensive Community Solutions, Inc. (CCS) brings about fundamental transformation of communities and the circumstances of those who live there emphasizing building human capital, communities and affordable housing.  Current programs critical to the community include; YouthBuild Rockford, AmeriCorps, The Way to Peace Project, GreenTek Construction, LLC, Salvage Too/Rockford Reuse Center, Neighborhood Tool Bank, Project Welcome Home, and Affordable Housing Development, through these programs and services, CCS, Inc. is providing affordable housing to low-and moderate-income people, through management, construction, and rehabilitation of homes.  Many of the programs and services are designed to implement self-sufficiency in at risk individuals, especially youth, through education, job training, counseling, and assistance in finding employment. 

Easter Seals Children’s Development Center
650 North Main Street
Rockford, IL 61103
815.965.6745
www.eastersealschicago.org

Easter Seals Children’s Development Center provides exceptional strength-based services, including family support, education, outreach, and advocacy to families and children in our community.  Easter Seals provides individualized services to parents of children with special needs, pregnant and parenting teen parents, and children with autism.

Family Counseling Services
210 North Longwood Street
Rockford, IL 61107
815.962.5585
www.familycounselingrockford.org

Family Counseling Services provides individual, couples, family and group counseling and family life education to children and adults in Winnebago and Boone counties.  Licensed professionals strengthen families by addressing psychosocial and mental health issues in order to help children and adults heal, build new skills, and develop the resiliency to meet life’s challenges. Fees are based on a sliding fee scale in order to make professional counseling affordable to everyone.

Focus House
3279 Highway 251 North
Rochelle, IL 61068
815.562.5881
www.focushouse.net

Focus House is a residential treatment program for adjudicated youth serving Ogle County.  

Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois
2101 Auburn Street
Rockford, IL 61103
815.962.5591
www.girlscoutsrrv.org

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. Girl Scouts – Rock River Valley Council is a non-profit organization providing friendship, empowerment, and the tools to grow strong, to over 5,000 girls in Boone, Winnebago, and Ogle Counties in Illinois. Since 1933, the Council has been celebrating girls, helping them grow strong by teaching them the values in the Girl Scout Promise and Law. July 13, 2003 marked the Council’s official 70th Anniversary.

Goodwill Industries – Abilities Center
315 North Main Street
Rockford, IL 61103
815.965.3795
www.goodwillni.org

Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois is a community-based not-for-profit organization that provides jobs, training, and placement services for people with barriers to achieve meaningful employment.  Goodwill’s retail operations sell donated, gently-used products as well as new items such as overstocks and close-outs from some of the best-known stores in the state.  Goodwill stores in northern Illinois (Rockford, Machesney Park, Freeport, Sterling, DeKalb (opening August 2009) and Beloit, Wisconsin employ more than 200 people

Harlem Community Center
900 Roosevelt Road
Machesney Park, IL 61115
815.633.5817
http://harlemcommunity.org

The Harlem Community Center (HCC) offers recreational, educational, and social activities for youth and adults living in Northern Winnebago County.  HCC opened its doors in 1957 and has grown into a regional center providing services and opportunities to over 100,000 individuals each year through its sponsored activities, its outdoor recreation areas such as Project Playworks, Skateworks, and the Sports Complex, or hosting visitors for tournaments or parties.  HCC is committed to providing a positive environment for individual growth while building a strong sense of community and neighborhood empowerment.  At HCC everyone participates in our recreational programming.  There are no residency requirements to participate in an HCC program.

Home of Hope Cancer Wellness Center
1637 Plock Road
Dixon, IL 61021
815. 288.4673
www.homeofhopeonline.com

Home of Hope provides programs to people living with cancer, including prevention education and grief counseling. 

Hope of Ogle County
PO Box 131
Rochelle, IL 61068
815.562.4323

Hope of Rochelle is a shelter providing comprehensive support services for victims of domestic violence in Ogle County. 

Hub City Senior Center
401 Cherry Avenue
Rochelle, IL 61068
815.562.5050

Hub City Senior Center provides comprehensive services and congregate meals improving the quality of life for senior citizens in Ogle County. 

Janet Wattles Center
526 West State Street
Rockford, IL 61101
815.968.9300
www.janetwattles.org

Janet Wattles Center improves lives by providing solutions through high quality, efficient and effective mental health services and education.  Janet Wattles Center provides an array of assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation for adults, children and adolescents. The professional staff at Janet Wattles Center treats a variety of mental illnesses from anxiety disorders and depression to schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder to A.D.D. and emotionally disturbed children. Janet Wattles Center offers board certified psychiatrists and a board certified child psychiatrist. The clinic provides group and individual therapy, financial assistance, living assistance and vocational help.

Ken-Rock Community Center
3218 11th Street
Rockford, IL 61109
815.398.8864
www.kenrock.org

Ken-Rock Community Center serves all residents in the Rock River Valley through education, recreation and social service programs. Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for individuals and families in recreation, education and social services in the Rock River Valley.

La Voz Latina
412 Market Street
Rockford, IL 61107
815.965.5784
www.lavozlatina-rkfd.org

The organization maintains a strong focus on English and GED classes, tutoring for youth, health and family education, and employment readiness. Consumer workshops, resettlement orientation and personal counseling are part of the winning formula used to ease cultural barriers and promote self-sufficiency.Most importantly it has helped thousands of local Hispanics increase their skills, prepare for a better job, and lead healthier lives.

Lifescape Community Services
705 Kilburn Avenue
Rockford, IL 61101
815.963.1609
www.lifescapeservices.org

Lifescape Community Services is the largest agency serving the needs of older adults in northwestern Illinois. The mission is to promote independent living and enhance the quality of life for individuals by providing affordable nutrition and other services for aging adults.  Lifescape programs, Meals on Wheels, Senior Dining, SeniorAssist, Adult Day Services and Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) assists older adults to remain independent with an acceptable quality of life, while also providing them with a sense of accomplishment and purpose by keeping them productive and participating members of society throughout the aging process.

Lutheran Social Services Of Illinois
314 South Ottawa
Dixon, IL 61021
815.626.7333
www.lssi.org

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois Provides intensive individual and family counseling, including early intervention school based programs for at-risk youth in Ogle County. 

Lydia Home Association
2323 South Sixth Street
Rockford, IL 61104
815.966.0039
www.lydiahome.org

Lydia Home Association has served the homeless teen population, students suspended from the public schools, and chronic truants. These experiences demonstrated the students' needs were not able to be met within the scope of the traditional school setting. To address those needs, Lydia developed Lydia Urban Academy a non- traditional alternative school for students who have dropped out, failed or been unsuccessful in the traditional learning environment.

Mt. Morris Senior Citizens Council, Inc.
9 East Front Street
Mt. Morris, IL 61054
815.734.6335

Mt. Morris Senior Citizens Council provides programs to improve the quality of life for senior citizens in Ogle County.              

Northwest Community Center
1325 North Johnston Avenue
Rockford, IL 61101
815.964.6885
www.northwestrockford.org

Northwest Community Center is a catalyst for personal, social, professional, and economic development. We exist to enrich the quality of life for the diverse population of northwest Rockford. For over 60 years, Northwest Community Center has served the human service needs of the diverse population of northwest Rockford. Serving more than 7,500 of our neighbors annually, Northwest Community Center is a focal point for community development and an important resource for people of all ages

Ogle County Hospice Association
PO Box 462
Oregon, IL 61061
815.732.2499
www.oglecohospice.net

Ogle County Hospice Association is a certified hospice serving the terminally ill and their families in Ogle County.

Patriots Gateway Community Center
615 South Fifth Street
Rockford, IL 61104
815.967.0413
www.patriotsgateway.org

Patriots Gateway Center provides a neighborhood community center offering life-enriching opportunities for those who live, work, play, and learn in the Near-Southeast Rockford community with an emphasis on youth.

Prairie State Legal Services
303 North Main Street, Suite 600
Rockford, IL 61101
815.965.2902
www.psleagal.org

Prairie State Legal Services offers free legal services for low income persons and those over 60 who have serious civil legal problems and need legal help to solve them. Throughout its history, Prairie State has focused on providing legal services to the most vulnerable groups in our society, the poor, the elderly, the physically and mentally disabled as well as other vulnerable or disadvantaged people.

RAMP
202 Market Street
Rockford, IL 61107
815.968.7467
www.rampcil.org

RAMP, a Center for Independent Living (CIL) emulates the Independent Living Philosophy with its mission to promote an accessible society that allows and expects full participation by people with disabilities for over thirty years. RAMP empowers people with disabilities to realize there are no limits to what they can do which is accomplished by assisting people with disabilities to live independently, make changes in their own lives, seek peer support, obtain resources and remove barriers that threaten their dreams of independence.Additionally, RAMP advocates the implementation of current laws, promotion of needed legislation and improvement of existing systems for people with disabilities while working to diminish negative attitudes that threaten to impede equal access.

Remidies (formally PHASE and WAVE)
516 Green Street
Rockford, IL 61102
815.962.0871
www.remediesrenewinglives.org

Remidies is a health and human services agency that helps adults and their children deal with problems arising from substance abuse or domestic abuse. Remedies substance abuse treatment programs offers adult and adolescent outpatient andoutpatient substance abuse treatment, and ancillary methadone medication services. Remedies offers case management, education, advocacy, and emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.

Rochelle Christian Food Pantry
770 West Lincoln Avenue
Rochelle, IL 61068
815.562.6654
www.northernilfoodbank.org

Providing food for individuals and families in need in Ogle County.         

Rockford MELD
3703 North Main Street #107
Rockford, IL 61103
815.633.6353
www.rockfordmeld.org

Rockford MELD’s Mission is to strengthen families and youth. Through its programs and services MELD offers support and resources, life and job skills training, parenting information, emergency shelter and housing, and prevention education. MELD provides programs for young parents up to 21 years of age, their children, and youth in the community.

Rock River Center
215 West Washington Avenue
Oregon, IL 61061
815.732.3252
www.rockrivercenter.org

Rock River Center (formerly known as Ogle County Senior Services) has been serving the residents of Ogle County since 1975. Over the years, The Rock River Center has developed a solid reputation for providing core, quality of life services such as outreach and referral to families or adults seeking government assistance, Medicare guidance and other benefits such as prescription assistance, help with the cost of home utilities, tax preparation, para-transit/ transportation, and volunteer opportunities.

Rockford Sexual Assault Counseling
4990 East State Street
Rockford, IL 61108
815.636.9811
www.rsaconline.org

Rockford Sexual Assault Counseling provides comprehensive services for survivors of sexual assault and abuse ages three to adult.  Services include 24-hour crisis intervention, medical and legal advocacy, counseling, prevention education and professional training.

Saint Elizabeth Catholic Community Center
1536 South Main Street
Rockford, IL 61102
815.965.6526
www.stelizabeth-rockford.org

St. Elizabeth Catholic Community Center is a center of Christian Service endeavoring to improve the quality of life in our community.  As we move forward in faith and compassion, our goal is to provide services for support and aid in the development of personal and community goals.  Our programs include early education, youth services, youth and family counseling, senior services, emergency services and community outreach.

Shelter Care
412 North Church Street
Rockford, IL 61103
815.964.5520
www.shelter-care.org

Shelter Care serves families who are homeless and adults living with mental illness while they move to self sufficiency. The Emergencyand Transitional Housing Programs serve homeless families with minor childrenwho are experiencing complex problems such asabusive relationships, lack of education and poorlife skills while providing case management and afurnished apartment tokeep the families together. MAYA’s HouseDrop In Day Care providesstructure and an educationalenvironmentforthe children of families in homelessness. The Jubilee Center Drop In Centeris open five days a week to provide a safe, secure, social environment for adults living with mental illness

Shining Star Children’s Advocacy Center
215 East First Street, Suite 110
Dixon, IL 61021
815.284.1891
www.shiningstarcac.org

Shining Star Children’s Advocacy Center provides a coordinated multi-agency approach and prompt response to the investigation, intervention and treatment of sexual and physical abuse of children residing in Lee and Ogle counties of Illinois.

The Literacy Council
982 North Main Street
Rockford, IL 61103
815.963.7323
www.theliteracycouncil.org

The Literacy Council exists to provide literacy instruction to individuals and families to strengthen communities.  All services are offered free, regardless of means or ability to pay. The Council strives to improve quality of life for individuals and to advocate for literacy awareness and servicesin the greater Rock River Valley region.

The Ogle County Reporting Center
3279 Highway 251
Rochelle, IL 61068
815.562.5881

Serves truant and expelled youth by providing all-day or afterschool tutoring and counseling. 

The Salvation Army
416 S. Madison
Rockford, IL 61103
815.972.1135
www.salvationarmyusa.org

The motivation of the organization is love of God and a practical concern for the needs of humanity. This is expressed by providing basic needs such as food, clothing, furnishings, etc. through the social service programs. The Kilburn Community Center offers computer classes for all ages, tutoring, after-school care and supervised recreation.  Shelter for women released from correctional facilities is provided for mothers and children at the Women’s Restorative Justice facility.

Village of Progress
P.O. Box 418
Oregon, IL 61061
815.732.2126
www.vopinc.org

Village of Progress was founded in 1969 to meet the training needs of adults with disabilities who reside in Ogle County. The purpose of the Village is to provide training services to persons with disabilities age 16 or older so that they may live a fulfilling life as contributing members of their home and community.

Youth Services Network
3703 North Main Street
Rockford, IL 61103
815.986.1947

Youth Services Network provides strength-based, family centered, culturally competent services to youth ages 0-21 and their families. YSN helps resolve trauma, reduce crisis, and stabilize youth in their community through counseling, case management, and mentoring services.

Zion Development Corporation
P.O. Box 4387
Rockford, IL
815.964.8280
www.ziondevelopment.com

Zion Development provides decent, safe, affordable housing to families with middle and lower incomes by purchasing and rehabilitating dilapidated multi-family buildings in Rockford's Mid Town District. Currently ZION manages over 100 rental units and plans to purchase and renovate more. ZION also renovates and sells single-family homes.