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Provides refugee resettlement and immigration and citizenship services including refugee employment services, English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, housing, mediation, and counseling, assistance with green cards, citizenship, counseling, legal services.

On-site therapy, counseling, group-based programming, and individual/family case management to improve lives of immigrants who have experienced severe loss and trauma.

Also currently serving refugees from Ukraine.

Provides health care services to those in need. Services include sick care, chronic disease management, preventive care services, cervical cancer screenings (Pap smears), physical  exams, vaccinations, sexual health services, STI testing and treatment, wellness checkups, work physicals, laboratory and diagnostic testing, referrals for mammograms and other specialty care.

Provides list of minority job seekers with current job postings in the area.

Provides the following services for children and youth:

-- Crisis intervention.

-- Short-term stabilization where a child is at risk of self-harm, or harming others.

-- Individual and family psychotherapy/counseling.

-- Mental health assessment.

-- Case management and resource linkage assistance.

-- Psychiatric services.

Provides protective services for adults 60 and over, and adults with disabilities age 18 and over. Abuses of the nature defined by the Adult Protective Services program are a type of domestic violence that have a strong and lasting impact on adults with disabilities and older adults of our community. This type of abuse affects a victim’s overall health and well-being and can affect health concerns such as blood pressure, heart problems, and other medical problems.

Offers affordable housing under Section 42 as well as market rate housing. Accepts Section 8. Income Restricted.

Provides child vaccines. All scheduled childhood vaccines are available. Immunization for infants and children (6 weeks to 18 years of age) for uninsured, underinsured, and Medicaid/All Kid's recipients. 8 clinics per month, 6 total sites located throughout McHenry County

Adult Vaccines, all recommended vaccines for adults (19 years of age and older) for both uninsured and underinsured. 2 walk-in clinics per month. Travel vaccines are not offered.

Trick-or-Treat in Johnston is October 31, from 6 pm-8 pm. 

Community cooling stations open across the community.

- Kroc Center: 2825 Y Street; (402) 905-3500; Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4:30 pm. Offering water when forecasted temperatures have a heat index of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. Children are welcome. No animals allowed.

- North Corps: 2424 Pratt Street, (402) 451-4048; Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4:30 pm. Offering water when forecasted temperatures have a heat index of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. Children are welcome. No animals allowed.

- Salvation Army Renaissance Village (Heritage Place): 3612 Cuming Street; (402) 898-5900; Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4 pm. Offering water when forecasted temperatures have a heat index of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. Children are welcome. No animals allowed.

- Citadel Corps: 3738 Cuming Street; Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4:30 pm.

- Burrows Center lobby: 6101 NW Radial Highway; (402) 898-6090; Operational times not listed, call for information.

Offers to bridge the gap between abundance and hunger by collecting and redistributing surplus food to food access partners like meal sites, pantries, shelters, and youth programs

Filing of mental health board petitions for involuntary commitment to a mental health hospital.

- The patient must be dangerous as well as mentally ill.

- There must be an overt act of dangerousness to the patient or to someone else occurring within the last three months.

- There must be information establishing mental illness.

- Subject must be found in Douglas County at time Petition is filed.

The Petition will be presented to the Deputy County Attorney to determine if there is sufficient evidence of dangerous acts and mental illness for approval of the filing of the Petition.

Petitioner and other witnesses may have to appear at the commitment hearing to give sworn testimony to the evidence of dangerousness to self or others as well as mental illness. The subject and his/her attorney will be present. Failure to appear might result in the dismissal of the Petition.

- A Public Defender will be appointed to represent the subject if he/she is indigent.

- The only testimony permitted to be introduced at the hearing is first hand information. No hearsay evidence can be introduced.

- The commitment hearing will be held within 7 days after patient is admitted to hospital.

- Commitment by the Board of Mental Health is for persons who refuse voluntary treatment.

- The Board of Mental Health does not commit persons solely on the basis of having an intellectual or cognitive disability.

- The Board of Mental Health does not pay for the care of patients or pay for the Physician while subject is in the hospital.