Events

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...

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...

Join Illinois Partners for Human Service for a virtual training on creating complete stories that lead with values, utilize a systems lens, and center the human experience in narratives around aging.   Human service programs use stories in numerous ways, but in...

Join The Reunion Project and the National Working Positive Coalition for a two-day town hall for long-term HIV survivors. Day One, Friday, May 17, will be an employment forum for long-term HIV survivors interested in discussions, information, services, and resources...

The National Council on Aging is hosting the 7th annual Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Day Symposium, an online event. NCOA anticipates offering free continuing education credit for several professions. The daylong online event will be held Thursday, May 2, 9 am...

Our coalition partner ACCESS Living is hosting an Open House. This event is a wonderful opportunity to see what an organization run by people with disabilities, for people with disabilities, looks like. After months of closure due to flooding, the Access Living...

Join Illinois Partners for Human Service for “Intersectionality & Equity in Aging,” a conversation about the importance of considering how aging is impacted by the historical marginalization of individuals and communities. While aging is universal, the experience...

Illinois is working to implement Summer EBT, the first new federal nutrition program in 50 years. Summer EBT will provide a grocery benefit to families with school aged children in the summer months when school is out. Unfortunately, children in Chicago Public Schools...