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SouthSTAR Services
SouthSTAR Services is a sixty-one-year-old nonprofit organization that is primarily dedicated to assisting individuals (especially children) with developmental disabilities to enable them to improve their abilities to become productive citizens and lead fulfilling lives that include maximizing their employment prospects (southstarservices.org). SouthSTAR Services maintains a Day Services consisting of senior services, vocational educations, developmental training, and both adult and child home-based assistance services. The organization maintains Community Living Services, Employment and Volunteer Services, and a new Service Center in Indiana that provides community transition services, residential habilitation and support, workplace assistance, family and caregiver training, rent and food assistance for unrelated caregivers, and respite and transportation services for individuals in need. SouthSTAR Services employs more than 130 professionals with specialized training in providing developmental assistance to individuals in need (southstarservices.org).
Proactive Community Services
Proactive Community Services is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to providing public health-related services to members of the community in need and to those at greater risk of communicable diseases (proactivecommunityservies.org). More specifically, the organization is intended to help resolve health and social inequities throughout the Southern Cook County community it serves and to provide the means to help individuals to improve their productivity and their opportunities in society. Toward that end, this organization maintains programs dedicated to reducing susceptibility to sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancy, addressing...
It also provides job training assistance and employment placement services (proactivecommunityservies.org).
Southwest Community Services
Southwest Community Services is a forty-one-year-old nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping children and adults suffering from developmental and physical disabilities, mental illness, hearing and vision impairments, and learning disabilities (swcsinc.org). In principle, the mission of the organization is to increase the self-sufficiency of individuals in need by helping them secure the necessary training and related vocational assistance necessary to overcome their disabilities and achieve their highest educational, employment, and social opportunities in their community (swcsinc.org).
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The community of Chicago Heights, Illinois is one that is in need of social and community services, largely because of fewer employment opportunities and a lower average income than residents of the state of Illinois. In addition to vocational training and employment assistance, Chicago Heights residents are also in need of services to help them overcome developmental and other disabilities and various social problems and health inequities linked to low income communities. The nonprofit organizations detailed provide many services of the type most needed by members of the community.
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