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Environmental Health Protection Division: Educates on recycling and other topics.

Vocational Rehabilitation and Special Education share responsibility in preparing youth with disabilities for transition from high school to post-high school employment, education, specialized training and independence.

Utility Assistance: Provides assistance to low-income individuals for electric bill assistance. Partial payments are made to avoid utility cut-offs.

Provides a wide range of services, programs, and collections to encourage lifelong learning.

Provides food to those who are in need. Depending on need and availability might also include: harm reduction kits, personal hygiene, socks, gloves, hats, scarves, snacks, water, condoms, and resource cards.

Care Connection for Aging Services and Vernon County Senior Center provide a volunteer transportation service for older adults who need access to medical appointments and other essential services.

Providing services and basic needs (including beds, backpacks and other items) for kinship, foster and adoptive families; as well as support for older youth ages 17-26 with foster care history. Financial assistance can be offered if clients meet eligibility.

The Missouri Board of Probation and Parole, as an essential part of the criminal justice system, is to provide for the professional assessment and release of offenders and their supervision in the community, using appropriate treatment, sanctions, and controls, with the primary consideration being promotion of public safety.

Each participating household receives an allotment of food benefits based on the USDA's Thrifty Food Plan. This allotment is adjusted annually according to the U. S. Department of Labor's analysis of the cost of food. Missouri Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) is the method by which households receive and use food stamp benefits. Households may use their Missouri EBT card in any grocery store or retail location anywhere in the United States that has been authorized by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service and displays the Quest sign. The benefits may be used to purchase any food or food products prepared for human consumption except alcoholic beverages and tobacco, hot foods, or foods prepared for immediate consumption. Benefits may also be used to buy seeds and plants for use in gardens to produce food for the personal consumption of the household. Under certain conditions, members of the eligible households who are 60 years of age or older may use the benefits to pay for home delivered meals and other meals prepared for elderly persons.

Provides a variety of rehabilitative services such as aquatic therapy, water exercise, and adaptive swimming instruction. Each participant has a customized program to enable the person to achieve better overall health, mobility, and psycho/social well-being, improving their quality of life.

Assists people with enrolling and applying for Medicaid.

Operates as the Police for Sparta, Illinois responsible for protecting lives and property.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Provides benefits to families with needy children (due to death, desertion, mental, physical problems or unemployment).

The Missouri Board of Probation and Parole, as an essential part of the criminal justice system, is to provide for the professional assessment and release of offenders and their supervision in the community, using appropriate treatment, sanctions, and controls, with the primary consideration being promotion of public safety.

Partnering with the St. Louis Area Diaper Bank to provide families in need with a supply of diapers. Families can pick up a supply of appropriately sized diapers or training pants for children ages 3 and under.

Responsible for the coordination of emergency management activities, including planning, preparedness, response, and recovery. Serves as the central point of contact for reporting emergency/disaster incidents in Douglas County, Missouri.

Provides programs that evaluate an individual's capacity for self-care and his or her ability to function independently in the context of everyday living and which, where necessary, may recommend rehabilitative services (e.g., independent living skills instruction), supportive services (e.g., attendant care, personal care or home health care), or an alternative residential setting (e.g., an assisted living center or nursing facility).

Meeting room available to the public.

Responsible for the control and extinction of fires in urban or wilderness areas.

Public health department providing information on various vaccines. To register for the COVID-19 vaccine, please call 417-223-4351. For information about testing and vaccines for Monkeypox please go to https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html Mon – Fri 9:00am to 4:00pm

Provides adult basic education classes.

This program is responsible for inspecting: food establishments, private water and sewage, septic systems, day care inspections, daily incoming complaints, and other environmental health issues.

Provides a smoking cessation program.

Offers broad range of information: topics include nutrition, business, personal budgeting, gardening, babysitting, 4-H youth, etc. Speakers available. If they don't have a specialist in their area, they work with other extension offices to find the program.

Provides speech therapy services to individuals diagnosed with a speech language disorder.