Find help, things to do, counseling, and more around Boone County

You can download the latest version of this guide as a PDF document provided by the Boone County Health Department and Community Foundation of Boone County. Download the PDF version of the guide

The Boone County Asset Guide is a free guide hosted by Sylvia’s CAC. Families and children who come to Sylvia’s CAC are often referred to partners around Boone County by our Victim Advocates. These partners provide things we don’t, such as food, financial assistance, tutoring, things to do, counseling, and a whole lot more.

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Aspire Indiana Health

Counseling and therapy for children, teens and adults, with a 24-hour crisis line and sliding-scale fees.

  • Lebanon
  • Key resource
  • 24/7
  • Crisis line
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  • Deaf and vocational services
  • Community-based case management
  • Transitional employment
  • Sliding scale fees
  • Outpatient services
  • Substance abuse treatment
  • Medication therapy
  • Whole health primary care
  • Family medicine serving all ages
  • Walk-in appointments welcome
  • Federally Qualified Health Center
  • Accepts Medicaid/Medicare, and most private insurance
  • Housing assistance
  • Whole health behavioral treatment for children, adolescents, and adults
  • Child, individual, family & group therapy
  • Psychiatry services
  • Community-based behavioral health treatment
  • Substance use disorders treatment
  • Extended outpatient program
  • Medication assisted therapy
  • Crisis services
  • Employment services
  • Deaf services
  • Whole health substance use disorders treatment for adolescents and adults
  • Group, family, & individual therapy
  • Medication assistance therapy
  • Accepts Medicaid/Medicare and most private insurance

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Division of Family Resources

Determines eligibility for Medicaid, TANF (cash assistance), SNAP (food stamps), IMPACT (job training) and burial assistance. Apply online (computer available in office).

  • Lebanon
  • Key resource
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  • Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm
  • Determines eligibility for Medicaid, TANF (cash assistance), SNAP (food stamps), IMPACT (job training) and burial assistance
  • Apply online (computer available in office)
  • Apply online-computer available in office
  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), food stamps (SNAP), Medicaid, Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP)
  • Apply for and manage benefits online
  • Apply for Medicaid online, computer available

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First Steps of Mid-North Indiana

For children 0-3 years with developmental delays. Early intervention services at low or no cost.

  • Lafayette
  • Key resource
  • Free
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  • For children 0-3 years with developmental delays
  • Early intervention services at low or no cost
  • Wide variety of family-centered services
  • Referrals taken from agencies or individuals
  • Eligibility evaluations provided free of charge
  • Low or no cost/family centered services

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Love In the Name of Christ (Love, INC)

Operates as a call center (no walk-in requests). Not equipped for emergency requests.

  • Lebanon
  • Key resource
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  • Operates as a call center (no walk-in requests)
  • Not equipped for emergency requests
  • Volunteers available to follow-up on request
  • Construction of handicap accessibility ramps by volunteers (cost of materials not covered)
  • Life skills classes
  • Faith and Finance class
  • Affirming Potential class
  • Assistance with household needs, budgeting, food, and clothing
  • Emergency food pantry for those experiencing homelessness, Monday-Thursday, 10-am-4pm
  • By appointment

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Best Buddies of Indiana

Opportunities for one-to-one friendship, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

  • Indianapolis
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  • Opportunities for one-to-one friendship, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Blind and Visually Impaired Services

Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services

Provides services to eligible Hoosiers who are blind or visually impaired. Business enterprise program.

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  • Provides services to eligible Hoosiers who are blind or visually impaired
  • Business enterprise program
  • Older Independent Blind/Visually Impaired program (expands independent living services) for people 55+ with a severe visual impairment

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Bosma Enterprises

Bosma Center for Visionary Solutions (provides rehabilitation and training for people who are blind of visually impaired). In-home senior training and assessment.

  • Indianapolis
  • Free
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  • Bosma Center for Visionary Solutions (provides rehabilitation and training for people who are blind of visually impaired)
  • In-home senior training and assessment
  • Employment services for adults and youth
  • Salesforce administration training

Bureau of Developmental Disabilities Services District 5 (BDDS)

Programming to support children and adults with developmental disabilities. Caregiver supports/Medicaid Waivers.

  • Indianapolis
  • Free
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  • Programming to support children and adults with developmental disabilities
  • Caregiver supports/Medicaid Waivers

CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions Area 8

Relay Service: 711

Resource center on programs/services. Serves older adults and people with disabilities.

  • Indianapolis
  • Free
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  • Resource center on programs/services
  • Serves older adults and people with disabilities
  • Meal services (home meal delivery, non-perishable foods, farmers market vouchers)
  • Pet Connect (free delivered pet food and supplies)
  • Caregiver support
  • Online resource guide
  • Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm
  • Serves older adults and people with disabilities and their caregivers
  • Aging & Disability Resource Center, caregiver support, senior meals, transportation, care management, home modifications

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Disability & Rehabilitative Services

Provides assistance to identify and find resources to meet the needs of deaf and hard of hearing individuals and their families.

  • Indianapolis
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  • Provides assistance to identify and find resources to meet the needs of deaf and hard of hearing individuals and their families

Easterseals Crossroads

Employment, transition, veteran, and respite services for people with disabilities. Assistive technology services for people with disabilities.

  • Indianapolis
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  • Employment, transition, veteran, and respite services for people with disabilities
  • Assistive technology services for people with disabilities
  • Autism, behavior, early intervention, respite, camps, and outpatient therapy services for children with disabilities
  • Technology training, information, referral, equipment loans, and funding

Family and Social Services Administration

Resources for childcare, employment, food and cash assistance, health coverage, mental health, addiction, and more.

  • Indianapolis
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  • Resources for childcare, employment, food and cash assistance, health coverage, mental health, addiction, and more

GLOBO

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Interpreter and language training. Medical document, legal, corporate, and educational translation services.

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  • Interpreter and language training
  • Medical document, legal, corporate, and educational translation services
  • On-site, telephone, video remote, conference, and interpreting services for over 200 languages (including American Sign Language)

Great Lakes ADA Center

University of Illinois at Chicago

Provides information, materials, technical assistance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Provides information, materials, technical.

  • Chicago
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  • Provides information, materials, technical assistance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
  • Provides information, materials, technical

Hamilton, Boone, Madison Special Services Cooperative

Provides services for member school districts. Programming for vision/hearing impairments, emotional/learning disabilities.

  • Noblesville
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  • Provides services for member school districts
  • Programming for vision/hearing impairments, emotional/learning disabilities
  • Mental/developmental/physical disorders

IN*SOURCE: Indiana Resource Center for Families of Children with Special Needs

Parent-to-parent programming for parents of children with disabilities. Information, training, assistance, and support.

  • Mishawaka
  • Español
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  • Parent-to-parent programming for parents of children with disabilities
  • Information, training, assistance, and support

Indiana Children’s Special Health Care Services (CSHCS)

Provides supplemental medical coverage to help families of children ages birth to 21 years who have serious, chronic medical conditions.

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  • Provides supplemental medical coverage to help families of children ages birth to 21 years who have serious, chronic medical conditions

Indiana Family to Family

Provides information, training, and one-on-one support to professionals Indiana families of children and youth with additional health and education needs. Provides information, training, and one-on-one support to professionals and Indiana families of children and youth with additional health and education needs.

  • Fishers
  • Español
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  • Provides information, training, and one-on-one support to professionals Indiana families of children and youth with additional health and education needs
  • Provides information, training, and one-on-one support to professionals and Indiana families of children and youth with additional health and education needs

Indiana Reading and Information Services (IRIS)

Free audio reading service for anyone with a condition that affects traditional print. Free specially-tuned HD radio available to listeners who live within 45 minutes of Indianapolis.

  • Indianapolis
  • Free
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  • Free audio reading service for anyone with a condition that affects traditional print
  • Daily live broadcast (6AM-10PM) or streaming on-demand internet broadcast
  • Free specially-tuned HD radio available to listeners who live within 45 minutes of Indianapolis

Indiana Veterans’ Home

Provides long-term skilled nursing care, short-term rehabilitation, independent living, and memory care services to honorably discharged Indiana veterans and their spouses.

  • West Lafayette
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  • Provides long-term skilled nursing care, short-term rehabilitation, independent living, and memory care services to honorably discharged Indiana veterans and their spouses

Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Center (Formerly Herd of Hope Equine-Assisted Therapies)

Provides therapeutic horse riding, art therapy, therapeutic horsemanship, and hippotherapy. Serves children through seniors with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities.

  • Zionsville
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  • Provides therapeutic horse riding, art therapy, therapeutic horsemanship, and hippotherapy
  • Serves children through seniors with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities

New Hope of Indiana

Day, residential, transitional, behavioral, vocational, family, and community and services. Achieving Inclusion and Meaning (AIM): for young adults exiting high school.

  • Indianapolis
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  • Day, residential, transitional, behavioral, vocational, family, and community and services
  • Achieving Inclusion and Meaning (AIM): for young adults exiting high school
  • Food truck program
  • Camp Catalyst: summer camp for children 9-13 with and without disabilities

Project Lifesaver of Boone County

  • Lebanon
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Locations

Social Security Administration

Social Security Disability applications. Social Security Disability.

  • Crawfordsville
  • Español
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  • Social Security Disability applications
  • Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 9am-4pm
  • Wednesday, 9am-12pm
  • Social Security Disability
  • SSI & SS benefits, Medicare
  • Supplemental Security Income and Social Security benefits

Talking Book & Braille Library

Provides free library service to Indiana residents who can’t use standard printed materials.

  • Indianapolis
  • Free
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  • Provides free library service to Indiana residents who can’t use standard printed materials

The Arc of Greater Boone County

Mainstreet Enterprises: Work skill development. Job Connection (job search, on the job assistance).

  • Lebanon
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  • Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm
  • Mainstreet Enterprises: Work skill development
  • Job Connection (job search, on the job assistance)
  • Job Connection: job search, job assistance
  • Personal and Community Services: daily living skills training

Visually Impaired Preschool Services (VIPS)

Evaluations, in-home visits, and resources for caregivers of children with blindness/low vision. Orientation and mobility services.

  • Indianapolis
  • Free
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  • Evaluations, in-home visits, and resources for caregivers of children with blindness/low vision
  • Orientation and mobility services
  • Educational programs for toddlers and pre-k
  • Evaluations, in-home visits, and access to resources for caregivers of children with blindness and low vision

Vocational Rehabilitation Areas 13 & 14

Helps people with disabilities gain employment. New career and job advancement training available.

  • Indianapolis
  • Free
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  • Helps people with disabilities gain employment
  • New career and job advancement training available

Watch Us Farm

Provides inclusive employment opportunities for adults with intellectual disabilities with lower support needs. Lessons, classes, after school programs, and summer camps available.

  • Zionsville
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  • Provides inclusive employment opportunities for adults with intellectual disabilities with lower support needs
  • Lessons, classes, after school programs, and summer camps available
  • Farming, fiber arts, and other crafts
  • Employment opportunities for adults with intellectual disabilities and lower support needs

Listings come from the Boone County Resource Guide, 15th edition (March 2025), plus a few added by our staff. Download the printed guide (PDF). Tell us if something is out of date.