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28th Ward learns about prostitution from survivors
CCH’s Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART) held a film screening and panel presentation at St. Michael’s Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago’s West Side Thursday. Street-level prostitution is a big community concern in the 28th Ward/11th Police District, and our event was co-sponsored by the neighborhood’s alderman and state legislators. For the past six months, Senior…
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You can help Apartments.com support our work
Apartments.com has generously extended its Facebook campaign to raise funds and awareness for CCH for a second month, through Saturday, Dec. 31. CCH will receive a $1 donation for every “LIKE” that Apartments.com receives on its Facebook page in November and December. Headquartered in Chicago, Apartments.com is a national online apartment guide and relocation source. It takes less…
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Sweet Home Chicago goes to Cleveland
A delegation of 10 leaders and staff from the Sweet Home Chicago coalition, including CCH, left today for a two-day study trip in Cleveland. We are there to study the Cleveland Housing Network, which runs an innovative program that provides very low-income families the opportunity to rent-to-own single family homes and two-flats. The program has…
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Twitter: Chicago budget for homeless services up 7%
From today’s CCH Twitter: @ChiHomeless Good moves, urged by CCH & #homeless youth task force – Chicago adds 40 youth shelter beds (to 229) since last January: bit.ly/vlndVV The need? Chicago Public Schools counted 3,189 unaccompanied youth among 15,580 homeless students last year, 2010-11: bit.ly/tYWB0V
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Speakers Bureau a Sun-Times winner
Great news! Chicago Sun-Times announced today that the CCH Speakers Bureau has won a $5,000 grant through its Sun Shine Project contest. Homeless leaders and student volunteers who work with our Speakers Bureau are very grateful for this support. We’re just as grateful for the more than 45 wonderful testimonials we received during the online…
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Legislators vote to restore $4.7M to shelters
Kudos! Your calls helped CCH convince legislators Tuesday to vote to restore $4.7 million in state funding for emergency shelters and transitional housing programs across Illinois. Many homeless shelters for families and adults have been struggling to stay afloat since summer, when the General Assembly passed a FY2012 budget that cut 52% of shelter funding….
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Vote pending! Call for $4.7M shelter funding
Promising news from Springfield on Tuesday, but we need your help right away! Illinois House and Senate leaders have agreed to propose a supplemental human services appropriations bill that, among other things, would restore the state’s $4.7 million (52%) cutback to emergency shelter and transitional housing programs. The bill also restores funds for mental health…
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STUDY RELEASE: 55% of Illinois agencies about to run out of homelessness prevention funds
November 21, 2011 List of Statewide Contacts Available at End of Release Another Hole Appears in Safety Net for People Experiencing Homelessness Survey Shows Funds for Homelessness Prevention Not Available This Winter in Half of Illinois Communities Agencies that administer homeless prevention grants across Illinois report that 55% of them will run out of funds…
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Listening
To mark Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week, we asked staff, interns and volunteers to write about what motivates their work. Our last essay is from Ben Anderson, a Jesuit Scholastic earning his master’s in philosophy at Loyola University, on the path towards becoming a Catholic priest. Ben is completing the last of a three-year internship…
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My ‘big picture’ answer
For Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week, we asked the people we work with to explain what motivates them. Today’s essay is by Casey Wittekind, a policy intern at CCH in 2010 and one of the young professionals who serves on the CCH Associate Board. Casey earned a master’s degree in social justice from Loyola University….
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28th Ward learns about prostitution from survivors
CCH’s Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART) held a film screening and panel presentation at St. Michael’s Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago’s West Side Thursday. Street-level prostitution is a big community concern in the 28th Ward/11th Police District, and our event was co-sponsored by the neighborhood’s alderman and state legislators. For the past six months, Senior…
» Read More
You can help Apartments.com support our work
Apartments.com has generously extended its Facebook campaign to raise funds and awareness for CCH for a second month, through Saturday, Dec. 31. CCH will receive a $1 donation for every “LIKE” that Apartments.com receives on its Facebook page in November and December. Headquartered in Chicago, Apartments.com is a national online apartment guide and relocation source. It takes less…
» Read More
Sweet Home Chicago goes to Cleveland
A delegation of 10 leaders and staff from the Sweet Home Chicago coalition, including CCH, left today for a two-day study trip in Cleveland. We are there to study the Cleveland Housing Network, which runs an innovative program that provides very low-income families the opportunity to rent-to-own single family homes and two-flats. The program has…
» Read More
Twitter: Chicago budget for homeless services up 7%
From today’s CCH Twitter: @ChiHomeless Good moves, urged by CCH & #homeless youth task force – Chicago adds 40 youth shelter beds (to 229) since last January: bit.ly/vlndVV The need? Chicago Public Schools counted 3,189 unaccompanied youth among 15,580 homeless students last year, 2010-11: bit.ly/tYWB0V
» Read More
Speakers Bureau a Sun-Times winner
Great news! Chicago Sun-Times announced today that the CCH Speakers Bureau has won a $5,000 grant through its Sun Shine Project contest. Homeless leaders and student volunteers who work with our Speakers Bureau are very grateful for this support. We’re just as grateful for the more than 45 wonderful testimonials we received during the online…
» Read More
Legislators vote to restore $4.7M to shelters
Kudos! Your calls helped CCH convince legislators Tuesday to vote to restore $4.7 million in state funding for emergency shelters and transitional housing programs across Illinois. Many homeless shelters for families and adults have been struggling to stay afloat since summer, when the General Assembly passed a FY2012 budget that cut 52% of shelter funding….
» Read More
Vote pending! Call for $4.7M shelter funding
Promising news from Springfield on Tuesday, but we need your help right away! Illinois House and Senate leaders have agreed to propose a supplemental human services appropriations bill that, among other things, would restore the state’s $4.7 million (52%) cutback to emergency shelter and transitional housing programs. The bill also restores funds for mental health…
» Read More
STUDY RELEASE: 55% of Illinois agencies about to run out of homelessness prevention funds
November 21, 2011 List of Statewide Contacts Available at End of Release Another Hole Appears in Safety Net for People Experiencing Homelessness Survey Shows Funds for Homelessness Prevention Not Available This Winter in Half of Illinois Communities Agencies that administer homeless prevention grants across Illinois report that 55% of them will run out of funds…
» Read More
Listening
To mark Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week, we asked staff, interns and volunteers to write about what motivates their work. Our last essay is from Ben Anderson, a Jesuit Scholastic earning his master’s in philosophy at Loyola University, on the path towards becoming a Catholic priest. Ben is completing the last of a three-year internship…
» Read More
My ‘big picture’ answer
For Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week, we asked the people we work with to explain what motivates them. Today’s essay is by Casey Wittekind, a policy intern at CCH in 2010 and one of the young professionals who serves on the CCH Associate Board. Casey earned a master’s degree in social justice from Loyola University….
» Read More
