Rebecca Woodard
Family and Community Development
Phone: (217) 328-3313, X180
Email: rwoodard@ccrpc.org

Champaign County Regional Planning Commission
1776 East Washington Street
PO Box 17760
Urbana, Illinois 61803-7760
Phone: (217) 328-3313
IL Relay: 711
Fax: (217) 328-2426

The Family and Community Development (FCD) Specialist partners with you based on mutual respect, trust, responsibility and hope, to assist in bringing you to a higher level of self-sufficiency.

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About the Program

The FCD Program will help you examine where you stand and chart your progress based on the areas the program examines:

• Income

• Employment

• Education

• Transportation

• Chidcare

• Parenting/Relationships

• Substance Abuse

• Health

• Health Insurance

• Housing

• Food/Nutrition

During your first meeting with a specialist, you will explore your family strengths, resources, and vision for your future. By using the family self-sufficiency assessment tool we will determine your self-sufficiency score based on the ten areas the program examines. Together we will use special tools to help understand your family's priorities.

Based on your vision for the future, staff will help you plan both short and long term goals, and list the things you'll need to do to meet those goals.

As you meet regularly with your specialist, you will receive support and encouragement to help you prepare and adjust to employment, think through difficult situations, find and use community resources, and build on your strengths. Staff will be there to help you meet your goals. As you complete tasks and achieve your goals, you'll be able to see your progress.

The FCD Program can:

• Find your strengths, skills, and interests.

• Help you develop your own short-term and long-term goal plans.

• Teach you critical thinking skills, budgeting, coping strategies, and problem solving.

• Help you through the sometimes frustrating maze of social services to meet your needs.

• Prepare you to find a career, not just a job.

• Provide limited financial assistance for emergency needs when no other community resources are available.

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