Human Resources Center of Edgar and Clark Counties

Human Resources Center of Edgar and Clark Counties To help people help themselves through exceptional human services and community collaboration.

Our Vision HRC is the premier provider of comprehensive behavioral healthcare in east central Illinois. HRC is a highly valued collaborator and a powerful agent for positive community change, recognized for its ethical and professional staff, therapeutic environment, innovative treatment approaches, and commitment to individual empowerment, growth, and recovery.

Recovery is not a solo project.It happens in living rooms, church basements, and quiet conversations with people who've ...
05/28/2026

Recovery is not a solo project.

It happens in living rooms, church basements, and quiet conversations with people who've walked the same road. It happens at HRC's Living Room Program. It happens in West Union and Darwin and every place where one person decides to reach out, and another decides to answer.

If today feels like a starting place for you or someone you love, we're here.

📞 HRC Main Line: 217-465-4118 (your gateway to all HRC services)
📞 Living Room Program: 217-712-9766 (24 hours, free, confidential)
📞 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline (call or text, 24/7)

🌐 hrcec.org

Some of the best moments happen around a table, over a cold glass of iced tea and easy conversation.This week, several o...
05/28/2026

Some of the best moments happen around a table, over a cold glass of iced tea and easy conversation.

This week, several of the neighbors we walk alongside spent time at Kyle’s Corner in Savoy, sharing a meal and good company right out in the heart of the community. This is what CDS Without Walls is all about. Life is meant to be lived in the places where folks gather, in the cafes and on the main streets of our towns, not behind closed doors.

Kyle, who owns the place, has a real heart for our folks. He greets each person by name, asks about our program every time we stop in, and makes everyone feel like a regular. When Sara got to talking horses with him, the joy on both their faces said it all. As it turns out, Kyle and his wife Chelsea also run TM Horse Haven near Tolono, a welcoming spot built around rest, restoration, and renewal.

Bradley has become a familiar face there too. These small, steady connections are how a town becomes a home.
When a community opens its doors and its heart, our neighbors with intellectual and developmental disabilities are not on the outside looking in. They belong here. They are known. They are valued.

Curious about Community Day Services or how HRC walks alongside neighbors with disabilities across our area? We would love to visit with you.

📞 HRC Main: 217-465-4118 (the front door to all of HRC’s services)
📞 IDD Services: 217-463-3076
📞 Living Room Program: 217-712-9766
📞 Crisis Line: 988

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Today, our friends at Decatur Earthmover Credit Union drove down from Decatur to deliver something special: a check for ...
05/27/2026

Today, our friends at Decatur Earthmover Credit Union drove down from Decatur to deliver something special: a check for $610.03 to HRC.

Here is the part that made our hearts full. When DECU set out to honor Mental Health Awareness Month with a staff shirt fundraiser, they asked their Paris branch team which local nonprofit needed support. The answer came back without hesitation. HRC.

The shirts carried a quiet but powerful message on the back. "Break the Stigma."

That message has been walking through grocery aisles, sitting in pickup trucks, and showing up at family dinners across our community. Every shirt that left a closet this month helped chip away at the silence that keeps so many of our neighbors from reaching out when life gets heavy.

To Katie Wright, Heather Wright, Stephanie Cooper, and the entire DECU family: thank you. Thank you for your stewardship. Thank you to your Paris branch team for thinking of us. And thank you to every employee who wore that shirt and decided that mental health was worth talking about out loud.

This is what an outpouring of support looks like in our corner of Illinois. Neighbors choosing neighbors. A credit union choosing a community. A staff shirt becoming a quiet act of love for people they may never meet.

📞 217-465-4118 — HRC Main (primary gateway to ALL HRC services)
📞 217-712-9766 — Living Room Program
📞 988 — Crisis Line

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We are grateful beyond words.

If you or someone you walk alongside is carrying a heavy season right now, please know HRC is here. You are not alone. Help is available, and healing is possible.

A word of caution from your neighbors at HRC.Yesterday the Illinois Department of Public Health issued a health advisory...
05/27/2026

A word of caution from your neighbors at HRC.

Yesterday the Illinois Department of Public Health issued a health advisory about two new dangers showing up in the unregulated drug supply across our state. We're sharing it plainly because the people we walk alongside, and their families, deserve to know.

What's emerging:
Cychlorphine. A new synthetic opioid roughly ten times more potent than fentanyl. It has already been linked to fatal overdoses in Illinois. It is often mixed into other substances, and standard fentanyl test strips may not detect it.

"Pink co***ne" (also called tucibi, tuci, or tusi). A pink powder, sometimes with a sweet smell, that can contain ketamine, M**A, methamphetamine, co***ne, and opioids in unpredictable amounts. Each batch is different. Effects can include seizures, heart problems, and respiratory failure.

What this means for our communities:
Any unregulated drug can carry these substances without warning. From Casey to Chrisman, from Marshall to Hume, no town is too small for this to reach.

If you or someone you love uses drugs, please:
• Carry naloxone (Narcan). It still works on cychlorphine, but more than one dose may be needed.
• Never use alone. The Never Use Alone hotline is 1-800-484-3731. They will stay with you on the phone.
• Use test strips when you can, and know that cychlorphine may slip past them.
• Call the Illinois Poison Center at 1-800-222-1222 for any suspected overdose with unusual symptoms.

And when you are ready to take the next step, HRC will be here. Restoration is possible. New beginnings happen every day in our two-county area. We have walked this road with many neighbors, and we'll walk it with you.

Help is real. Healing is real. You are not alone.

📞 217-465-4118 (HRC Main Line. Your front door to every HRC service.)
📞 217-712-9766 (Living Room Program. Free, walk-in support, available 24/7.)
📞 988 (Su***de and Crisis Lifeline. Call or text, free and confidential.)
📞 833-234-6343 (Illinois Helpline for Opioid and Other Substances. Text "HELP" to 833234.)

Source: Illinois Department of Public Health Health Advisory, May 26, 2026.
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Less than two weeks until the Team HRC Special Olympics Bake Sale.Monday, June 8 ★ Stagecoach in Paris ★ 7:00 to 11:00 A...
05/27/2026

Less than two weeks until the Team HRC Special Olympics Bake Sale.

Monday, June 8 ★ Stagecoach in Paris ★ 7:00 to 11:00 AM

Picture this: Sunday morning coffee. A still-warm cinnamon roll on a paper plate. A short conversation with the HRC team about the athletes you're helping support. A good start to a good day.

That's the plan. Hope to see you there.

📞 HRC Main Line: 217-465-4118 (your gateway to all HRC services)
📞 HRC I/DD Services: 217-463-3076

🌐 hrcec.org

Anxiety can sneak up on a Tuesday morning in Redmon. Depression can settle in over a quiet weekend in Metcalf. Mental he...
05/26/2026

Anxiety can sneak up on a Tuesday morning in Redmon. Depression can settle in over a quiet weekend in Metcalf. Mental health is part of everyone's life, not a problem reserved for someone else.

HRC has walked alongside neighbors in Edgar and Clark Counties since 1968. That work is made possible by people who believe in it.

If our mission speaks to you, would you consider a blessing to keep this work going? Every gift, big or small, helps a neighbor find their footing again.

💝 Give online: zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/help-us-create-life-changing-experiences
✉️ By mail: HRC, PO Box 1118, Paris IL 61944

📞 HRC Main Line: 217-465-4118 (your gateway to all HRC services)
📞 Living Room Program: 217-712-9766 (24 hours, free, confidential)
📞 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline (call or text, 24/7)

🌐 hrcec.org

The best classrooms don't always have walls.For the adults in HRC's Community Day Services, learning happens at the Hume...
05/24/2026

The best classrooms don't always have walls.

For the adults in HRC's Community Day Services, learning happens at the Hume park, at the Brocton ballfield, at the Vermilion library, at the Rec center, and at the grocery store. We call it CDS Without Walls.

Real skills are built in real places, alongside real neighbors. That's how community works.

If you're a family member curious about CDS for your loved one with a developmental disability, we'd love to talk.

📞 HRC Main Line: 217-465-4118 (your gateway to all HRC services)
📞 HRC I/DD Services: 217-463-3076

🌐 hrcec.org

Memorial Day weekend means cookouts, parades, and a long-overdue rest for a lot of folks. For others, the long weekend c...
05/23/2026

Memorial Day weekend means cookouts, parades, and a long-overdue rest for a lot of folks. For others, the long weekend can feel longer than expected.

If you're walking through a difficult season and the holiday weekend feels heavier than it should, please know you don't have to face it alone. A phone call can be a first step.

From Marshall to Kansas and every county road in between, HRC is here.

📞 HRC Main Line: 217-465-4118 (your gateway to all HRC services)
📞 Living Room Program: 217-712-9766 (24 hours, free, confidential)
📞 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline (call or text, 24/7)

🌐 hrcec.org

Recovery doesn't always look like the movies. Sometimes it looks like a Friday night without a drink for the first time ...
05/23/2026

Recovery doesn't always look like the movies. Sometimes it looks like a Friday night without a drink for the first time in years. Sometimes it looks like asking for help. Sometimes it looks like simply showing up for another day.

In Chrisman, in Westfield, in every community we serve, neighbors are walking the long road of restoration. And they are not alone.

If you or someone you love is weary of the same hard story, HRC's recovery team is here. New beginnings happen every day, in towns smaller than Paris.

📞 HRC Main Line: 217-465-4118 (your gateway to all HRC services)
📞 Living Room Program: 217-712-9766 (24 hours, free, confidential)
📞 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline (call or text, 24/7)

🌐 hrcec.org

Address

753 E Court St
Paris, IL
61944

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 1pm

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