The Coles County Social Service Navigator Program has permanently closed.

The Coles County Social Service Navigator program was founded in the midst of a global pandemic with the mission to help our community find, understand, and obtain assistance. We are eternally grateful to the Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation for funding this program via Covid-19 grant funds thus giving us the opportunity to create and run this program. As the Charleston Carnegie Public Library, our ultimate goal is to help our community in any way we can, and we are so glad that we were able to run this program for as long as we did. It is with heavy hearts we announce the closing of the Coles County Social Service Navigator program. The Library will continue to help community members as much as we can, and the Library will continue to distribute Dial-a-Ride tokens to those in need. While this program’s time has come to an end, the Charleston Carnegie Public Library will never stop working to aid and help our community.