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AbleLight, formerly known as Bethesda Lutheran Communities, is a non-profit human service organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through faith-based programs. Bethesda, a 501(c)3 non-profit, provides supports and services for more than 2,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their ...
In response to the rapidly growing programs, the Women's Home Missionary Society of Southern Illinois Conference in 1914 provided the funds for a new building at the comer of 9th and Winstanley. In 1939, the a new building was constructed and names the after Mrs. Frank L. Davis (Lessie Bates, the wife of a physician, who raised the $125,000 ...
LSSI Services include foster care, [7] [8] mental health services, alcohol and drug treatment, [9] affordable senior housing, [10] residential programs for people with developmental disabilities, and services that help families who have been impacted by incarceration. [4] [1] [11] LSSI serves over 50,000 Illinois residents each year. [12] [4] [6]
(The Center Square) – The state of Illinois is launching a portal for families seeking youth mental health services and care. It's called BEACON, which stands for Behavioral Health Care and ...
The program serves more than 1,000 students each year with after-school programs, life-skill training and more. A metro-east nonprofit increases after-school programs with help from Illinois grant ...
Every school day, when the bell rings at Shields Elementary School, more than 100 kindergarten to fourth grade students head to the after-school program inside the Brighton Park school, where they ...
The first state-funded school was the New York Asylum for Idiots. It was established in Albany in 1851. This state school aimed to educate children with intellectual disabilities and was reportedly successful in doing so. The school's Board of Trustees declared, in 1853, that the experiment had "entirely and fully succeeded."
The Division of Developmental Disabilities provides community and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities. In 2006, the division had approximately 45,000 clients. The Division of Human Capital Development is the primary welfare agency of the state of Illinois. It oversees programs such as TANF and food stamps.