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Established in 1989, ResCare is one of the leading providers of human services in the United States. The organization provides a variety of services for individuals with cognitive, intellectual and developmental disabilities. It offers skilled nursing, therapies and medical social services. - In addition, ResCare provides homemaking and transportation, as well as personal, respite and live-in care services for individuals of all ages. The organization supports community care service, long-term care and independent care waiver programs. It administers the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. ResCare provides workforce investment and residential monitoring and response services. The organization s clients include individuals recovering from illnesses, injuries and surgeries, people living with chronic disabilities; and senior citizens dealing with the natural process of aging.

A Few Facts About Adams County: Adams County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Blue Creek, French, Hartford, Jefferson, Kirkland, Monroe, Preble, Root, St. Marys, Union, Wabash and Washington. Adams County was organized March 1, 1836. A large tract of land lying between Allen and Randolph counties had been previously called Adams County, however, no organization had been effected. Decatur is the County Seat. Samuel Johnson offered as an inducement to have the county seat located on his land, the sum of $3, 100, four church lots, half an acre for a public square, one acre for a seminary and two acres for a cemetery. He further agreed to pay the expenses of the locating commissioners, and furnish a house to hold court in until suitable buildings could be erected. The county commissioners promptly accepted the offer "and proceeded to the aforesaid town site, and marked a white oak tree with blazes on four sides, on each of which they individually inscribed their names." Decatur was probably named in honor of Commodore Stephen Decatur and in 1849 it had seventy houses ( three of which were brick, twenty-one frame and the remainder of logs ) with a population of about 400.