Illinois Partners for Human Service

IMPORTANT! If you are using SNAP or have a Link card, the rules have changed. Take action now to make sure your information is up-to-date and confirm that you are meeting new requirements.

Follow the steps at chicagosfoodbank.org

Save Our Snap is here to help! If you have any questions about your case or you are having issues contacting IDHS, please call the Greater Chicago Food Depository's Benefits Specialists at 773-247-3663

After three years of negotiations, debates, and many committee hearings, Forefront was able to pass our Community Partner Fair Contracting Act alongside our partners Illinois Collaboration on Youth and Illinois Partners for Human Service. We want to thank our legislative sponsors Leader State Representative Dagmara Avelar and State Senator Mike Halpin for their tireless efforts in ensuring this bill passed. More to come on this bill soon!

Join us for Reframing Aging: Advocacy Through Storytelling!

This interactive training will explore how to use reframing aging strategies to strengthen your advocacy and storytelling, helping shift narratives and influence systems for greater equity and justice. You’ll learn practical, research-based communication tools, hear real-world examples of advocacy campaigns that center older adults, and receive a companion guide to support your work

This training is FREE for all attendees.

Register here https://bit.ly/49HijE2

Your opinion matters! We want to hear from you. Take a few minutes to fill out our quick survey and help us gather insights for the fourth installment of our Federal Changes, Community Consequences research series.

Click here to view a preview PDF of the survey questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mwSzMmxncBrmGbz_cKqWfCnkt8B_vSK2/view

Click here to take our survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WRQLBZB

Over 200,000 Illinois residents are facing losing their federal food assistance over the coming year. Thousands have already been cut off due to rigid, failed work requirements.

We have the power to change this. Illinois legislators have introduced bills (SB3277/HB4730 and HB4831/SB3167) that would provide hundreds of millions in emergency food funding to protect these families.

Scan the QR code or visit here https://bit.ly/4u08kRs to contact your legislators!

Illinois Partners is proud to be members of the Responsible Budget Coalition and Illinois Revenue Alliance.

Decades of inaction have left our state on shaky ground, and Trump's cuts have turned the situation into a full-blown crisis. Now it's time to make the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share so Illinois can deliver for the people who need it most.

Check out our latest OpEd "Donald Trump’s cuts broke Illinois’ budget. It’s time to make the wealthy pay to fix it." published in the Chicago Tribune. https://bit.ly/43q0Pbw

Join Access Living for 'Being an Immigrant and Disabled in the US: Immigration Enforcement, Family Separation and What Communities Carry,' a community webinar exploring the impacts of immigration enforcement on disabled immigrants, disabled family members, and mixed-status households and the importance of integrated disability and immigration advocacy

Participants will hear from eaders whose work spans disability justice, immigrant justice, community wellness, family preparedness, Deaf advocacy, and policy analysis to better understand providers can do to better support immigrant families with disabilities and access needs.

Register here: https://bit.ly/4enzs8O

Acompañe a Access Living en el seminario web comunitario "Ser inmigrante y tener una discapacidad en los EE. UU.: control migratorio, separación familiar y lo que cargan las comunidades," un espacio para explorar los impactos de la aplicación de las leyes de inmigración en los inmigrantes con discapacidades, sus familiares con discapacidades y los hogares de estatus mixto, así como la importancia de una defensa integrada de la discapacidad y la inmigración.

Los participantes escucharán a líderes cuyo trabajo abarca la justicia de la discapacidad, la justicia del inmigrante, el bienestar comunitario, la preparación familiar, la defensa de la comunidad sorda y el análisis de políticas, con el fin de comprender mejor qué pueden hacer los proveedores para apoyar de manera más efectiva a las familias inmigrantes con discapacidades y necesidades de acceso.

Regístrese aquí: https://bit.ly/4enzs8O

📞 WEEK OF ACTION DAY 3: RSVP FOR OUR PHONE BANK! 📞

It’s time to finalize our push for the Living Wages, Thriving Communities Campaign Week of Action! Join us for a virtual phone bank on Thursday, May 14th at 12 PM to make our collective voice heard.

We are calling on our State Senators and Representatives to secure critical funding for the Human Services Professional Loan Repayment Program. This is a vital investment in the financial stability of our frontline workers and the communities they serve.

How to get involved:

-RSVP NOW: Register here to participate in our virtual phone bank: https://bit.ly/3P3xJv7

Visit us at livingwageil.org for more details on the campaign.

FAIR PAY FOR HUMAN SERVICES NOW!

#LIVINGWAGEIL Living Wages, Thriving Communities is advocating for increased state funding for human services and pushing for wage increases for workers in the sector in Illinois. Our campaign engages frontline...

📢 WEEK OF ACTION DAY 2: SHARE YOUR STORY 📢

Today we want to hear from YOU! As part of our ongoing Week of Action, we want to highlight the real-life impact of student debt on our essential human service workforce.

We are advocating for the Human Services Professional Loan Repayment Program because frontline workers shouldn't have to choose between their passion for service and their financial survival.

How to Participate Today:

Share your experience as a human services worker to help legislators understand why this program is vital. You can post a photo, write a message, or record a short video.

Not sure what to say? Try the prompts listed in the graphic you see below and find more tips in our social media toolkit: https://bit.ly/4ewzAD1

Don't forget to use the hashtags! and

Visit Us at livingwageil.org

FAIR PAY FOR HUMAN SERVICES NOW!