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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Your life is busy enough without having to worry about eating healthy! Perk Center Cafe, conveniently located in the lobby at Park Center, serves up Seattle's Best Coffee, breakfast. lunch, snacks, salads, wraps, hot dogs, children's meals, slushies, energy drinks, and more at prices that won't hurt your pocketbook. Open Mon.-Fri. 8 am-4 pm and Saturday 8 am-2 pm
Perk Center is a non-profit food service concept whose focus is to train & employ individuals with developmental disabilities. |
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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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