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Cradles to Crayons; Formation: 2002: Founder: Lynn Margherio: Type: nonprofit: Focus: Cradles to Crayons works to end children's Clothing Insecurity across the United States and provides clothing and essentials to children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, for free, by connecting communities.
Through its partnership with the National Association of Educators for Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY), Feed the Children has distributed more than one million Homeless Education and Literacy Program (H.E.L.P.) backpacks containing school supplies, food, and personal care items to at-risk or homeless children enrolled in U.S. public schools.
The Cathedral Shelter of Chicago was founded in 1915. It began as a storefront mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, attached to the former Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, providing food and clothing to the poor and homeless. In 1920, they began offering substance abuse treatment.
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CHICAGO — The city and state are in the planning stages to combine Chicago’s legacy homeless shelter system with its system for migrants, according to government officials, and turn it into a ...
About 17,000 of Chicago’s homeless population, or 25%, are children. Electa Bey, 66, became homeless when her husband unexpectedly died from illness in 2019. They were evicted.
The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless was founded in 1980 with a clear mission statement to organize and advocate to prevent and end homelessness, because they believe housing is a human right in a just society. [2] In the early days, the CCH focused on advocating for basic rights for the homeless. In December 1992, Illinois passed the first ...
Nearly 19,000 people were experiencing homelessness in Chicago in January, more than three times as many as last year, as the city struggled to manage the thousands of newly arrived migrants in ...