by Pat Cinquini | Mar 13, 2023 | 2022, News
The Cook County Department of Public Health has announced Shelter is one of 18 recipients out of 140 applicants to receive a Behavioral Health Initiative Grant (BHI) to support behavioral health services for Cook County’s most vulnerable communities. The BHI program...
by Pat Cinquini | May 25, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
Yesterday, 19 elementary school children and two teachers were shot dead at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, by a lone 18-year-old with an assault rifle. For many of the students in the school for 2nd-4th grade that morning, the end of the school year and the...
by Pat Cinquini | Jan 11, 2022 | News
On December 29, 2021, six-year-old Damari Perry of North Chicago was forced by a relative to stand in a cold shower as a punishment, for an extended period, when he began to vomit. Though he became unresponsive, and his condition critical, no one called 911, and...
by Pat Cinquini | Oct 13, 2020 | Advocacy, Community Education, News
For the majority of voters, the judicial races, aka all those unfamiliar names at the bottom of the ballot, get either a default vote of “yes,” “no,” or they skip over them, saying, “I don’t know anything about them.” Local judges have as much impact on your life, if...
by Pat Cinquini | Aug 17, 2020 | Emergency Group Homes, Features, Foster Care Program, Healthy Families, News
Our collective mental health is taking a hit every day as the world seems to head further into despair. We are bombarded with bad news and negativity from every direction, and our new normal has become a defensive position in a climate of crisis we believe is beyond...
by Pat Cinquini | Jul 13, 2020 | Advocacy, Community Education, News
Though part of our country’s history has been men and women fighting and sometimes dying, for our voting rights, voting hasn’t always been an easy process. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln couldn’t cast his own ballot to be re-elected because his home state of...
