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This month, the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago announced the launch of the new Transgender and Gender Diverse Wellness and Equity Program. This new program funds 15 organizations that currently serve...
Applications are now open for the Resurrection Project's Colibrí Fellowship for DOJ Accreditation. The first-of-its-kind professional fellowship is for individuals seeking partial and full Department of Justice (DOJ) Accreditation. The goal is to train future...
This month, our coalition partner, Chicago Jobs Council hosted their 43rd annual meeting. The conversation focused on intentional and coordinated collaboration for greater impact. We enjoyed connecting with many of our coalition partners and supporters at this...
This year we launched our training and technical assistance program for human service professionals. Thank you to all of you who participated in our inaugural Reframing Aging training series. In these training sessions, we shared strategies and examples to build a new...
We are excited to announce the launch of a new racial equity training designed for and with the input of human service leaders. Illinois Partners has developed a curriculum that prioritizes strategies for structural change, confronts the ways systemic racism...
After a long week and a protracted timeline, the legislature finally passed the FY25 State Budget. It was a long and messy budget process, with some areas of human services seeing increases and others experiencing cuts. To learn more about high impact health and human...
We are so excited to report this victory. The funds for the Human Service Professional Loan Repayment Program will be given directly to frontline human service workers for loan repayment assistance, and provide an incentive to stay in community-based human service...
This workshop is an introduction to the past and present connections between race, colonialism, and the gender binary. Participants will discuss, reflect on, and learn about sex and gender through the lens of race and imperialism, analyzing how racial hierarchies have...
The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago recently released a new research report focused on factors driving racial disparities in Black homelessness in Illinois. “Black Homelessness in Illinois: Structural...
Illinois Partners is a proud member of the Illinois Family Caregiver Coalition, a statewide coalition working together to support unpaid and informal caregivers. In April, the coalition released “Caregiver Stories”, a report highlighting the challenges unpaid family...