Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Supplemental Food Program provides nutrition education, specific foods, and health screenings to qualifying pregnant women, or nursing women (up to 12 months post partum), non-breastfeeding (up to 6 months postpartum), and infants and children up to the age of five years.

Family Case Management
This program is designed to assure adequate prenatal and post-partum care for eligible pregnant women and infant care up to age 1, and to age 2 for high-risk infants. Case management services include physical assessments, nutrition counseling, prenatal education, and limited financial assistance for pregnant women who do not have insurance, as well as Illinois Department of Human Services KIDCARE/MPE to promote early prenatal care. Referrals are made to Prenatal classes offered at the Family Resource Center in McLeansboro.

Case management extends services for children ages birth to one, and Title XX Family Case Management funding covers high risk families above 185% poverty level. Those services include: help obtaining medical care; education on parenting, infant care and safety; developmental screenings; referrals to WIC, TANF, Immunizations, Well Child Care, and Early Intervention; and other needed community services. Limited financial assistance is available to help pay for well child care for non-Medicaid clients. These services are also provided to DCFS wards up to age 6 who are placed in Hamilton County and to families referred by area hospitals to the Adverse Pregnancy Outcome Reporting System (APORS). Hamilton County Health Department serves as an outstation site for completion of KIDCARE applications.

Family Planning Program
Services are provided through the client’s private provider, and nursing supervision and follow-up for family planning clients are provided at Hamilton County Health Department. Health education materials and consultation are available on STDs, HIV, SBE, Prenatal care, etc.

Communicable Disease Control
Hamilton County Health Department is responsible for the reporting, investigation, and control of communicable diseases.

Childhood and adult immunizations are provided for Hamilton County residents. Ensuring adequate immunization status is essential in prevention of vaccine preventable communicable diseases. Routine child immunizations are given in weekly clinics. Referrals to travel clinic for those residents traveling out of the country are done through HCHD.

Environmental Health Programs—These programs concern areas of our physical environment that so often have a direct bearing on our health and well being. Basic program services include the protection of water and food we consume, the proper disposal of our sewage and garbage, and the abatement of health hazards in general. The goals of this program are to prevent unhealthful conditions from occurring, and to correct them when they develop.

Chronic Disease—Blood pressure screenings are offered on a walk in basis. Health educational materials are available on hypertension, cholesterol, cardiac risk assessment, smoking cessation, etc.

Tobacco Education
This program is funded by an Illinois Department of Public Health grant called Illinois Tobacco Free Communities. Smoking is the #1 preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Several programs are offered through this grant:

• Smoke Free That’s Me
• Freedom From Smoking—classes or individual counseling
• Smoke Free Restaurant Recognition Program
• Fresh Start Family—offered to WIC and Family Case Management clients participating in those programs.