Here is the list of charities benefitting from this year's event.
 Since its establishment in 1955, Clearbrook has emerged as a leader in the field of developmental disabilities by creating innovative opportunities for approximately 3,000 children and adults. Based in Northern Illinois, Clearbrook provides specialized children’s, day training, employment, residential and clinical services at more than 40 locations throughout the Chicagoland-area. While major diagnoses include mental retardation, autism, Down syndrome and cerebral palsy, 83 percent of every dollar raised by Clearbrook goes directly into programs and services.
Clearbrook continues to serve Glenview through the LIFE (Living and Learning in Family Environments) Program. Designed to support children and young adults in their family environments, LIFE focuses on goal setting and developing new skills to help them move towards independence and integration into the Glenview community. For more information please visit clearbrook.org.
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The Family Service Center offers individual, couples, and family therapy for a wide range of emotional, relationship, and substance abuse problems. The staff of highly experienced mental health professionals provides up to date, affordable, and quality care at three convenient locations. The Center also offers a range of community and professional educational programs throughout the year.
The family is the basic unit of well-being...it is our belief that families have the resources to adequately respond to life's challenges. Our job is not to do for, but to facilitate the efforts of individuals and their families to more effectively resolve the problems in their lives and improve their ability to respond to events.
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Glenkirk provides high-quality lifetime support and services that empower individuals of all ages with developmental disabilities to participate fully in community life, based on the principles of informed choice, personal dignity, responsibility, and individualization. Our services are community-based, span the entire lifetime from infancy to old age, and are individually designed to address the needs and interests of our participants. Currently, Glenkirk serves more than 1,200 infants, children and adults at 52 locations in Northern Cook and Lake Counties. Programs include early childhood intervention therapy, family support, community-based homes, vocational training and job placement, a senior center and ancillary services.
Glenkirk was founded for the benefit of children with special needs and remains committed to their well-being to this day. Glenkirk has continually evolved since its inception, adding innovative new programs and services as the needs of people with developmental disabilities were identified and became better understood. Glenkirk was a pioneer in the state of Illinois in developing and offering early intervention and respite care services for children with developmental disabilities. The DAISIES program in Glenview addresses the need for such therapeutic interventions in order to improve the physical
and mental development of young children with developmental delays. The program also focuses on the needs parents have for education, advice, and emotional support in caring for their children and responding constructively to their situations. In addition, DAISIES provides families with information, guidance, and specialized resources to enhance the development of their children with special needs.
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The Josselyn Center has been a pioneer in providing quality mental health services to families and individuals of all socioeconomic backgrounds on Chicago's north shore. In 1967, the Center moved to its current location in Northfield, Illinois, near Willow Road and the Edens Expressway, where it continues to serve the communities of Bannockburn, Deerfield, Glencoe, Glenview, Golf, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Northbrook, Northfield, Riverwoods, Wilmette and Winnetka .
As an integral link in the chain of community based services for these northern suburbs, The Josselyn Center has provided help and hope to over 78,000 individuals in the last 58 years.
The Josselyn Center is a community mental health organization providing individual, family and group counseling for the full range of mental health and substance abuse problems. We are pleased to offer these services on a sliding fee scale to the people residing, working or attending school in fifteen north suburban Chicago communities.
Problems of an emotional nature are common yet often misunderstood in today's society. Individuals and families everywhere are in some way touched by mental illness. At the Josselyn Center, we provide a confidential, supportive environment in which these issues are understood and treated effectively. Our focus is on treating the whole person, as well as providing support for the family when necessary. |
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The Northfield Township Food Pantry was started over 30 years ago to assist Township residents who, for various reasons, found it difficult to provide enough food for themselves and their families. In April 2003, the Pantry received its 501(c)(3) status and became an agency of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. The Pantry’s continued hard work and commitment to assisting our neighbors in need has been recognized by the Greater Chicago Food Depository which awarded us its Pantry of the Year Award (2005), Quality Performance Award (2005, 2007), and Best Outreach Efforts Award (2006).
The Pantry’s mission is simple: Hunger is Unacceptable in Our Community. Each month the Pantry provides groceries and grocery store certificates to over 360 families living in Northfield Township, which includes Glenview, Northbrook and part of Northfield. All Pantry clients have demonstrated financial need. The Pantry is supplied entirely by the community it serves.
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Sister Paulanne’s Needy Fund
The purpose of the Needy family Fund is to help people in crisis in OLPH parish and throughout the Glenview Community. People who are out of work and cannot pay their mortgage or utility bills, single mothers who receive no child support and have minimum wage jobs, families with children who lose a young father. These are all examples of people who struggle. Our fund continues to respond to these needs.
The needy family fund tries to help families save their homes. Losing one’s home is not only a hardship but a profound emotional strain on children. We have also paid for the funerals of several young children in our community who died from an accident or illness. The fund has helped pay for child care for the children a mother must leave at home to return to work when she loses her husband. The needy family fund tries to respond when possible.
We have a responsibility as a caring community to help the poor better their lives through education and job skills in order to become self-sufficient. Sister Paulanne’s Needy Family Fund continues to do this by responding to the needs of people in the Glenview community. We rely on your support in order to have the funds available to meet these needs.
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The mission of Wesley Child Care Center is to provide a nurturing, secure, and developmentally appropriate environment for children, incorporating the diverse needs of individual families within the community. Open since 1972, Wesley is one of the first child care centers in the United States to achieve accreditation by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs. A nonsectarian, not-for-profit organization, Wesley is licensed b the Department of Children and Family Services. Highly qualified teachers with strong backgrounds in early childhood education staff the preschool program. Low child/teacher ratios and small classrooms size allow greater personal attention for each preschool child.
Wesley Programs include: All Day Preschool/Child Care Program, Kindergarten Enrichment Program, Before and After School Programs, Summer Camp, and Day Off School Programs. Through a cooperation network, Wesley works daily with all six District 34 schools and the Glenview Park District to provide praiseworthy school age programs. Last year Wesley provided 52 scholarships totaling $89,917 for families unable to pay the full cost of child care. For more information please visit Wesley's website, wesleychildcarecenter.com. or call the center at 847-720-0184.
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Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook began in 1972 as the communities’ response to the needs of its children. It is the only agency of its type in this area and offers services that are not provided elsewhere. We are devoted to the mental health, character development and physical well-being of children and families in our communities. We strive to help young people realize that they make choices that impact the quality of their lives, and although they cannot always control what happens to them, they can control how they react to the problems they face.
YSGN serves 3,500 young people and their families each year through 35+ programs designed to meet the needs of the community. Sixty-five (65) percent of the people we serve come from disadvantaged families. Programs fall into two categories: 1) Prevention, 2) Intervention and include counseling, crisis intervention, services to Spanish speaking students, therapeutic mentoring, social skills groups, and a youth employment program. Our approach to young people is informal and incorporates recreation as a therapeutic tool.
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