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A
Welcome
everybody:
this
is
our
second
meeting.
Second
meeting
community
development
block
grant
proposals,
and
so
first
item
is
to
recognize
that
we
have
a
quorum
and
we
do
I
had
a
couple
of
questions
of
clarification.
If
that's
all
right,
Sarah
on
several
proposals
that
we
received
at
our
last
meeting
and
this
meeting,
there
are
commentaries
by
staff
indicating
that,
if
a
certain
number,
because
a
certain
number,
either
clients
or
increases
or
whatever
hadn't
been
achieved,
then
the
program
would
not
meet
CDBG
guidelines
for
a
certain
percent
increase.
B
You
alderman
Aranea
and
members
of
the
committee
Sarah
flax,
housing
and
grants
administrator
one
of
the
requirements
that
the
HUD
has
for
public
services
is
that
if
there
is
and
well
if
it's
a
newly
funded
public
service,
you
need
to
show
an
increase
over
what
you
were
serving
before.
In
other
words,
you're
getting
you're
asking
for
funding,
because
they're
trying
to
prove
that
funding
isn't
being
displaced.
That's
already
in
place,
you
know
so.
B
In
other
words,
they
don't
want
to
see
a
switch
out
if
a
program
has
been
funded
in
the
past
in
the
prior
year
and
is
asking
for
significantly
more
money
than
we're
supposed
to
try
to
evaluate
for
a
reasonable
increase
in
client
services
to
justify
that
and
there
can
be
gray
area
because
it's
you
can't
just
take
when
you're.
Looking
at
a
program.
You
can't
just
expect
like
okay,
if
I
divide
it
the
budget
by
the
number
of
people,
how
much
you
Scott!
B
Does
it
cost
per
person
because
program
budgets
don't
necessarily
expand
that
simply
and
in
cases
new
components
are
added
to
a
program,
so
there's
greater
depth
of
service,
so
staff
has
done
it's
best
to
determine
if
we
think
the
request,
if
funded
fully,
would
push
that
limit,
that
doesn't
mean
they
shouldn't
receive
any
or
couldn't
receive
any
incremental
funding.
So
there
is
some
gray
area
and
you
know
well.
A
The
interesting
thing
about
it
is
in
most
cases
where
you've
said
that
and
I
know
you're
not
saying
that
you're
telling
us
what
HUD
says.
The
funding
that
they're
asking
for
is
the
same
funding
that
they
requested
previously,
which
we
did.
We
didn't
give
exactly,
are
not
even
asking
for
more
funding
there
they're
just
asking
for
more
funding
than
they
were
than
they
were
awarded
right.
A
Need
we
need
$100
to
serve
these
50
people,
we
give
them
25,
so
they
come
back
the
next
year
and
they
say
we
need
to
serve
35
people.
We
need
$100,
actually
they're,
making
it
easier
on
us
and
and
yet
we're
saying
HUD
is
saying:
oh,
you
can't
get
an
increase,
we're
not
asking
for
an
increase.
So
anyway
I'm
just
saying
Aldrin
Wilson,
you.
B
A
D
D
You
I'm
sue
Murphy
I'm,
the
executive
director
of
interfaith
action,
and
my
phone
number
is
8:
4
7
8,
6,
9,
O,
3,
7,
o
I,
a
at
interfaith
action
of
Evanston
org.
Our
mission
is
to
serve
the
hungry
and
homeless
people
of
Evanston.
We
have
a
hospitality
Center
at
Saint,
Mark's
Church,
that's
open,
Monday
through
Friday
from
7:00
to
11:00,
and
we
provide
breakfast
employment,
counseling
computer
training
and
we
get
an
average
of
35
homeless
people.
D
Each
morning
we
have
warming
centers
that
open
afternoons
November
through
March
and
they're
at
six
different
faith
communities
throughout
downtown.
We
have
soup
kitchens
there's
at
least
one
every
day
we
run
four
of
them
with
teams
of
people
and
remember,
member
faith.
Communities
of
the
organization
run
the
rest
of
them.
We
get
about
70
people
for
lunch,
about
120
people
for
dinner
each
day
about
half
of
those
people
are
homeless
and
the
other
half
are
just
people
who
live
in
our
community
and
do
not
have
enough
to
eat.
D
We
also
have
a
protist
mobile.
You
may
have
seen
it
we're
in
partnership
with
the
Greater
Chicago,
Food,
Depository
and
Robert
Crowne
community-centered
gives
us
their
parking
lot
and
in
the
winter
they
let
us
come
inside
the
second
Tuesday
of
each
month.
We
get
a
semi
truck
filled
with
fresh
produce,
volunteers
box,
it
all
up
and
we
get
250
to
300
families
who
come
and
get
fresh
produce,
and
that's
for
anybody.
Well,
we
don't
take
ID,
we
any
buddy
in
Evanston,
but
anybody
could
actually
come.
D
What
we
are
asking
for
funding
for
tonight
is
the
overnight
emergency
shelter.
Last
year
we
raised
the
temperature
for
opening
to
15
degrees,
the
previous
about
10
years.
We
opened
it
at
5
to
5
degrees
before
that
zero
degrees.
Thanks
to
the
grant
that
we
got
from
you,
we
were
able
to
raise
that
temperature
to
15
degrees.
We
were
open
twenty
five
nights.
We
had
a
mild
winter,
so
we're
prepared
to
be
open
as
many
nights
as
we
have
to
be.
D
We
always
provide
hot
drinks,
but
we
were
open,
Christmas
Eve
because
it
was
really
cold
and
that
faith
community
provided
dinner
for
the
people
who
came.
We
had
32
people,
I
believe
who
came
on
Christmas
Eve
and
they
also
made
fresh
cinnamon
rolls.
We
don't
usually
give
any
food
fresh
cinnamon
rolls
in
the
morning
and
one
of
the
gentlemen
who's
a
regular
and
also
someone
you
would
see
on
our
street
corners
said
that
he
woke
up
feeling
like
he
was
home
a
little
boy
again
home
because
he
could
smell
the
cinnamon.
D
So
it's
just
a
really
nice
thing
to
do.
For
people
we
had
83
different
people
spend
the
night
last
year,
591
different
visits,
but
83
individuals,
we
average
24
a
night,
but
there
were
some
nights
when
there
were
30
or
more.
We
added
five
faith
communities
for
years
that
had
just
been
at
st.
Paul's,
but
now
we
have
six
faith
communities.
They
age
take
three
weeks
and
we
increase
our
volunteers
from
50
to
142.
D
D
We
have
volunteers
who
set
up
volunteers
who
clean
up
in
the
morning,
but
it's
harder
to
find
someone
who
can
spend
the
night,
but
I
can
tell
you
that
if
you
do
spend
the
night,
you
get
to
talk
to
people
and
learn
their
stories,
and
so
those
people
on
our
street
corners
become
people
that
you
nod
to
and
smile
at.
But
you,
you
know
who
they
are.
D
D
D
Mark's
and
he
had
this
green
apple
in
his
hand,
and
he
had
gotten
it
from
the
tree
out
in
front
of
the
church
that
was
on
the
ground
and
he
really
gently
sit
sit
down
next
to
me
and
says
this
Apple
signifies
kindness,
it's
the
kindness
that
I
received
from
the
volunteers
at
the
door
when
I
come
inside
and
they
say
hello
and
I
said.
Oh,
you
know
that
is
so
nice
of
you
and
I
pick
it
up
because
don't
eat
it.
D
E
Good
evening,
in
our
notes
from
staff,
they
did
raise
the
issue
that
you
are
hoping
to
open
the
shelter
in
the
coming
season
for
sixty-five
nights
and
that's
assuming
that
the
temperature
will
drop
to
15
on
65
nights.
That's
far
above
what
it
has
hit
in
recent
years.
So
I'd
like
to
know
how
you
came
to
that
number
or
would
interfaith
action.
Consider
raising
the
temperature
even
more
to
accommodate
this.
Yes,.
D
We
can't
the
number
really
comes
from
looking
at
past
years
last
year
was
just
so
mild
that,
even
though
we
thought
we
would
be
open
more
often
we
weren't,
so
we
are
thinking
that
is
if
we
as
we
get
into
the
winter,
if
it
like
another
warm
winter,
we
can
raise
that
temperature
and
also
we
think
about
storms.
At
this
point,
we've
not
said
that
we
would
open,
usually
when
it
snows
it's
not
that
cold,
but
that
could
be
another
thing.
D
People
say
that
the
worst
part
about
being
out
in
in
the
winter
isn't
the
cold
as
much
as
getting
wet
and
they
can't
get
dry.
So,
yes,
we
talk
about
that
and
we
meet
often
to
evaluate
it.
Last
year
we
were
more
worried
about.
Would
we
have
enough
money
to
pay
for
what
we
had?
So
we
were
careful,
but
this
year
we
feel
like
we
can
be
a
little
bit
looser
well.
E
D
A
F
Thank
you
we'll
do
our
best.
Oh
thank
you,
you're
fabulous,
I,
just
yeah
I
know
thank
you
for
having
us
here
tonight.
I
think
this
is
my
fourth
time.
I.
Think
the
first
time
I
was
here
two
weeks
into
my
role
and
I
didn't
have
a
clue
what
I
was
talking
about,
but
yeah
so
I
think
everybody's
really
familiar
with
youth
job
center.
F
F
We
need
to
help
young
people
move
into
careers
and
we
also
in
our
high
school
programs,
are
doing
much
more
around
post-secondary
planning
because
too
many
young
people
leave
high
school
with
a
plan
they
see
in
place
and
then
things
change
and
they
don't
know
what
to
do
so.
I'm
gonna
have
these
fabulous.
Youth,
Job,
Center
career
advisors
introduce
themselves
in
just
a
second,
but
I
wanted
to
share
just
a
couple
things.
F
Last
year
we
served
we
had
515
students
and
young
adults
enrolled
in
programs
and
enrolled
in
programs
as
ongoing
services,
so
it's
more
than
just
a
one-off
training.
In
addition,
we
had
about
200
that
came
to
one-off
training
events
so
like,
for
example,
we
do
pre
training
before
the
mayor's
Summer
Youth
Employment
Program.
Every
year
we
have
multiple
at
the
high
school
and
so
about
300
of
those
were
enrolled
in
programs
at
the
high
school
200
and
out-of-school
youth.
F
We've
got
a
deep
partnership
with
the
city
here
and
they'll
share
a
little
bit
more
about
each
of
those,
but
really
one
of
the
things
that
we've
done
in
the
last
few
years
is
gotten
more
diligent
around
data.
What
are
we
doing?
How
are
we
counting,
and
so
sometimes
our
numbers
have
changed,
but
we've
also
changed
the
definition
of
how
we
serve
people.
So
the
differentiation
is
it's
much
more
important
to
have
ongoing
support.
That's
where
we
can
really
have
an
impact.
F
G
Good
evening
my
name
is
Lynn
Felton
I'm,
a
career
advisor
at
the
new
job
center
I
work
with
our
out-of-school
program.
Our
out-of-school
programs
serve
young
people,
young
adults
from
the
age
of
18
to
25
I
just
want
to
share
a
couple
of
things
with
you
folks
tonight.
I
think.
The
thing
that
we
do
really
well
at
the
youth
Job
Center
is
I
think
we
do
a
great
job
of
meeting
these
young
people
where
they're
at
we
don't
care.
G
If
you
have
a
college
degree
or
no
GED,
if
you
you
know,
spent
the
last
two
or
three
years
working
or
you
never
had
a
job
before
I
think
we
do
that
really
well
and
another
thing
we
do
really
well
I
think
is
we
customized
all
of
our
training
to
those
individual
needs,
their
strengths
and
their
weaknesses,
and
things
like
that.
So
how
do
we
get
young
people,
jobs?
There's
two
ways
we
do
that
first
is
our
core
program.
So
basically
what
our
core
program
is.
G
Let's
say
a
young
person
comes
in
he
or
she
has
working
for
a
while
and
they
figured
they
just
want
something
different.
They,
you
know
been
working
at
Jewel
Osco,
for
example,
and
they
say
you
know,
I,
don't
see
myself
going
anyplace
else.
What
else
can
I
do
and
we,
you
know
say:
hey:
have
you
ever
thought
about
working
in
an
airline
industry
because
that's
customer
service
have
you
ever
thought
about
working
at
a
bank?
That's
customer
service
and
they
never
do,
and
so
we,
you
know,
show
them
down
a
different
path.
G
So
that's
one
way:
we
do
that
also
our
career
pathways
and
basically,
what
that
is.
We
have
one
going
on
right
now
at
Evanston,
Township,
High
School
is
our
automotive
program,
and
so
basically
what
it
is
is
a
12-week
end
school
program
where
we
have
a
young
man
meeting
every
Monday
and
Wednesday
over
at
the
high
school
and
they're
learning
basic
automotives
and
so
then
followed
by
a
10-week
internship.
So
they
get
internships
either
at
a
car
dealership
or
a
mechanic
shop,
and
they,
you
know,
they're
actually
don't
know.
G
You
know
the
turning
of
bolts
and
stuff
like
that
and
getting
that
on-the-job
experience
and
then,
after
that,
we
help
them
with
job
placement
and
things
like
that
in
closing.
I
just
want
to
share
a
story
with
you.
Folks,
a
year
ago
mr.
Brown
and
its
outreach
team
brought
in
young
men
to
our
door
and
when
this
young
man
came
in,
he
was
homeless.
He
goes
20
years
old,
never
worked
before,
didn't,
have
her
driver's
license
and
talked
about
how
he
wanted
to
go
to
college,
and
you
know
mr.
Brown,
his
team
and
I.
G
H
Hi
everyone,
my
name,
is
Diana
bite
on
I
work
on
the
high
school
team
at
the
y
jc--,
most
specifically
with
e
th
s.
So
a
d
th
s.
Our
program
is
a
little
bit
different,
but
we
work
one-on-one
with
students
throughout
the
year
to
provide
job,
counseling,
so
resumes
interviews,
and
we
also
bring
in
about
two
to
three
employers
to
e
th
s
every
month,
so
that
the
employers
are
actually
meeting
students
where
they're
at
and
they
have
an
opportunity,
engage
with
students
that
way
and
to
provide
job
opportunity.
H
So
out
of
the
we
had,
nine
employers
come
last
year
about
they
made
about
34
offers
to
students
and
they
saw
about
70
students
throughout
the
that
they
interviewed
directly.
During
that
time,
we
also
do
in
classroom
workshops
in
classroom
after
school,
really
focusing
on
conflict
resolution.
How
do
you
really
manage
working
with
coworkers
if
you
have
conflicts
or
your
supervisors?
What
do
you
do
if
you're
running
late
to
work
and
so
on,
which
is
which
are
things
that
really
14
year
olds
15
year
olds?
H
Maybe
they
haven't
really
thought
about
yet
or
talked
about,
and
they
really
need
to
focus
on
at
that
age.
So
we
also
do
after-school
workshops
and
we've
worked
a
lot
with
for
the
mayor's
Summer
Youth
Employment
Program.
We
run
pretty
job
fair
workshops
in
classrooms.
In
after-school
we
saw
about
200
students
last
year,
who
also
came
to
the
job
fair,
which
is
really
exciting,
and
we
also
have
a
summer
program
that
hires
14
to
18
year
olds,
this
past
summer,
through
our
partnerships
with
district
65
and
the
ovens
in
public
library
and
Evanston
Community
Foundation.
F
I'll
just
share
a
couple
more
things,
so
one
thing
diana
mentioned
is
we're
in
the
classroom
now
and
that's
new,
that's
been
in
the
last
few
years
we
used
to
have
all
their
programs
were
after
school
and
it
really
makes
a
huge
difference
being
able
to
impact
the
students
while
they're
in
the
classroom.
So
it
demands
a
really
high
strong
partnership
with
the
high
school
and
we're
really
fortunate
to
have
that,
and
this
post-secondary
planning
piece
really
does
have
the
potential
to
be
preventative.
F
There's
something
like
90,000
what
they
call
opportunity,
youth
in
the
greater
Chicagoland
area
and
that's
out
of
a
report
from
UIC,
and
that
means
16
to
24
year
olds,
who
are
not
connected
to
work
or
school.
So
if
we
can
really
help
these
young
people
before
they're
out
of
high
school
and
help
them
on
a
transition
to
a
path
to
a
living
wage
career
or
whatever
their
post-secondary
option
is,
we
can
potentially
prevent
that.
A
I
Quick
comment:
every
year,
just
in
partnership
with
our
youth
Department,
the
numbers
have
increased
and
the
kids
are
coming
better
prepared.
So
it's
something
that
I
noticed,
particularly
with
the
kids
that
are
coming
nice.
You
know
bright
and
early
in
the
morning,
so
good
job.
With
with
that
partnership
and
we'll
continue
to
watch
our
numbers
grow
well,.
F
Thank
you
and
one
of
the
things
we
really
value
is
this
partnership
with
the
city
of
Evanston,
because
we
really
do
have
to
form
a
community
around
these
young
men
and
women
and
lenss
mentioned
several
times
where
someone
doesn't
show
up
and
we
can
call
Kevin's
team
Stacey
and
they
go
find
him
and
bring
them
in,
and
so
it
really
does
take
all
of
us.
I
really.
A
A
That
all
the
numbers
are
very
important
and
all
of
the
programmatic
issues
are
very
important,
but
when
you
come
up
here
and
you
fill
in
all
those
questions
that
we
didn't
have
to
answer
all
the
answer-
I
mean
it's
just
so
helpful
and
it's
so
intriguing
to
listen
to
the
stories
that
you
tell
very,
very
good
and
very
helpful,
very,
very
good
I.
Just
really
yes,
yeah.
F
Diana
mentioned
we
try
to
have
two
to
three
employers
at
the
high
school
every
month.
We
also
try
to
have
hiring
events
on
site
at
yjc
regularly
at
least
once
a
month
and
then
job
fairs
in
the
community.
So
what
we
do,
though,
is
we
have
certain
employers
that
have
such
a
high
demand.
They
keep
coming
back,
and
then
we
have
other
employers
who
maybe
only
need
to
hire
a
couple
people
a
year.
F
But
one
of
the
things
we're
trying
to
do
is
we're
trying
to
build
deeper
relationships
with
employers,
because
sometimes
we
can
do
a
really
quality
job
of
pre-employment
training
and
they
still
might
need
some
continued
support
or
a
mentor
in
the
workplace
or
an
orientation
that
really
sets
them
up
for
success.
So
so
there's
a
lot
of
different
employer
relations.
We
have
a
total
of
400
on
our
books.
I
would
say
we
probably
have
about
50
that
are
really
strong.
Okay,.
F
I've
got
some
of
the
demographics,
so
almost
all
the
youth
we
serve
are
low
income.
It's
like
85
percent,
the
out-of-school
youth.
So
in
our
intake
process
we
collect
a
lot
of
data,
but
it's
self-report.
So
in
our
out-of-school
youth
program
program
we
have
approximately
16%
that
report
a
criminal
background
zero
at
our
high
school
level,
which
is
another
potential
for
preventative
work,
but
we
think
that's
really
low.
We
also
have
in
some
of
our
data
changes.
F
We
we
were
previously
asking
people,
you
know
to
select
from
a
bunch
of
choices
around
their
housing,
so
it
could
be.
They
were
living
with
parents
or
living
with
parents,
family
or
they
were
living
on
their
own
or
homeless
or
whatever,
and
so
our
homeless
and
transitional
housing
percentages
are
really
low,
because
we
do
know
that
a
lot
of
the
out-of-school
youth
that
we
work
with
are
living
with
family,
but
it's
not
necessarily
stable.
They
might
be
living
with
someone
but
they're.
F
A
F
You
know
we
went
through
in
our
last
strategic
plan.
Our
board
actually
wanted
to
think
about
employers
as
clients,
and
we
got
into
attention
in
that
because,
first
and
foremost,
we're
here
to
serve
young
people,
we
can't
do
the
work
without
employers,
so
we
have
to
have
really
strong
partnership
with
employers,
but
they're.
F
Not
it's
a
different
kind
of
relationship
we
want
to
have
with
them
and
what
we're
trying
to
do
is
help
them
understand
best
practices
employed
in
employment
because
there
actually
are
a
lot
of
challenges
in
that
so
sometimes
like
split
shifts,
are
really
difficult.
We
get
a
tremendous
amount
of
young
people
that
can
only
get
part-time
jobs,
with
no
benefits
so
they're
trying
to
pull
together
multiple
part-time
jobs
without
benefits
to
make
ends
meet,
and
then
scheduling
becomes
a
nightmare.
So
you
know
really
thinking
about
helping
the
employers
understand
best
practices.
L
I'm
Chris
Cooper
I'm,
the
Employment
Service
Manager
at
impact,
behavioral
health,
formerly
housing
options.
If
you
haven't
heard
the
name,
that's
why
I
look
familiar?
We
would
change
their
name
rebranded
in
the
start
of
the
fiscal
year
this
year,
so
around
July.
Our
website
is
now
impact
behavioral
org.
If
you
want
to
go
in
and
look
at
the
high
quality
services
we
provide
were
a
mental
health
agency
providing
housing,
clinical
services
and
employment
services.
I
am
here
to
speak
about
our
requests
for
continued
funding
for
our
Employment
Program.
L
We
work
at
one-on-one
with
our
clients.
We
most
of
the
information
is
in
the
handout
that
I
provided.
So
I'll
just
give
you
kind
of
a
basic
overview.
We
help
them
with
a
job
search
that
takes
whatever
shape
they
need.
We
see
all
different
types
of
clients,
they
are
all
adults
with
persistent
severe
mental
illness
and
we
work
with
them
with
what
they
need,
so
that
can
be
resume
resume.
Writing
cover
letters
how
to
do
a
good
application,
how
to
do
those
45-minute
assessments
online,
how
to
craft
a
parameter
for
your
job
search.
L
So
these
are
the
type
of
things
that
you
need.
These
are
the
type
of
the
barriers
that
you
have.
These
are
things
you'd
like
to
do.
This
is
where
you
can
get
to
so,
let's
figure
out
what
applications
you
should
be
putting
in
and
which
ones
you're
never
going
to
get
to,
or
just
aren't
going
to
work
out
for
you.
L
Working
with
employers
is
extremely
important.
We
approach
them
to
find
out
information,
that's
important
to
our
clients,
as
well
as
to
get
information
that
will
help
them
get
the
job
that
they
want.
When
we
first
go
into
an
employer,
we're
going
to
find
someone
with
hiring
authority
and
we're
gonna,
just
barrage
them
with
questions.
What's
what's
the
schedule,
what
are
the
responsibilities?
What
type
of
positions
you
have?
How
do
you
apply?
What
do
you
look
for
when
you're
looking
through
resumes?
L
What
get
someone
an
interview
where
what
are
issues
you've
had
in
the
past,
with
employees
that
you'd
like
to
avoid
in
the
future?
We
like
to
get
a
really
good
picture
of
what
the
job
is
and
the
jobs
type
of
job
seeker
that
they're
looking
for
and
then
we'll
take
that
information
back
to
our
client,
we'll
talk
to
our
client
about
the
job,
we'll
provide
them
with
that
information,
decide
if
it's
a
good
fit
if
they
like
what
they
hear,
and
they
feel
that
it's
going
to
be
a
good
fit
for
them.
L
We'll
have
them
apply
and
then,
with
their
permission,
we'll
go
back
to
the
employer
and
say
based
on
what
you've
told
us.
We
think
we
have
something
that's
going
to
work
out
for
you
now.
That
means
a
lot
more
to
the
employer,
because
we've
went
in
and
we've
asked
them
exactly
what
they
want
and
we
got
a
really
detailed
picture
of
what
they
four.
So
usually
that
has
a
lot
of
credibility
behind
it,
so
they
will
either
go
find
the
application
and
review
it
for
us,
or
sometimes
just
schedule,
an
interview
on
the
spot.
L
We
like
to
say
we
put
the
thumb
on
the
scale,
for
you
know
the
arm
our
clients
over
the
average
job
seeker,
because
we
do
that
networking
piece.
The
then
comes,
so
that's
the
placement
port
of
ES
and
then
comes
support.
So
once
the
client
gets
the
job,
we
don't
just
leave
them
to
go
ahead.
Good
luck!
Let
us
know
if
it
works
out,
we're
still
there
providing
ongoing
support,
and
that
is
through
individual
meetings
and
counseling
on
issues
that
are
coming
up
in
the
job.
L
A
lot
of
our
clients
have
not
worked
in
years
and
years,
so
all
that
all
that
stuff
that
they
may
have
learned,
you
know
fresh
out
of
high
school
no
longer.
You
know
they
kind
of
forgot
a
lot
of
that.
Some
of
it's
like
riding
a
bike.
Some
of
it,
you
kind
of
forget
so
we'll
work
through
that
stuff
with
them
and
if
there's
issues
at
the
workplace
that
need
to
be
resolved,
we
still
have
that
relationship
with
the
employer,
so
we
can
go
and
talk
to
the
employer.
L
We
also
can
talk
to
the
employer
about
how
the
client
is
doing
and
bring
that
information
back
to
the
client
and
let
them
know
these
are
the
things
that
maybe
we
should
work
on
or
just
let
them
know,
hey,
you're
doing
a
good
job,
because
a
lot
of
our
clients
have
really
high
anxiety
and
it
helps
to
know
that
people
are
saying
that
they're
doing
a
good
job,
both
behind
their
back
and
in
front
and
to
their
face.
So
it's
very
helpful
for
our
clients.
L
We
like
to
think
that
the
proof
is
in
the
numbers
are
put.
Our
retention
rate
to
90
days
is
67%.
Our
placement
rate
is
60%
statewide,
it's
traditionally
around
41
42
%,
so
we
do
have
a
pretty
high
placement
rate
as
far
as
our
services
in
Evanston.
So
thus
far
in
2017,
we've
been
able
to
serve
31
sevenson
residents
of
those
30
118
and
found
employment
of
those
31.
L
Six
were
direct
referrals
from
the
office
of
general
assistance,
and
ten
of
them
have
either
been
on
or
are
on
general
assistance,
so
I,
say
or
we're
on,
because
when
individuals
find
employment,
they
get
income
from
network
and
there
are
no
longer
dependent
on
general
assistance
funds
they're,
thus
making
it
available
for
other
individuals
in
the
community
and
then
one
last
thing,
because
I've
made
a
big
deal
about
job
development.
We
thus
far
in
this
year
this
calendar
year,
we've
already
surpassed
350
job
contacts.
L
Each
of
my
staff
makes
at
least
six,
if
not
more
every
week,
and
we
feel
that's
extremely
important
and
that's
that's
new
contacts.
That's
so
we're
not
counting
when
they
go
back
to
do
that.
Follow-Up
work.
So
we
try
to
make
a
big
impact
on
the
community.
We
are
one
of
the
programs
that
is
asking
for
a
little
the
same
amount.
We
asked
last
time
we
were
able
to
meet
the
numbers
we
promote
proposed
last
time,
but
we
feel
we
can
make
it
even
bigger
a
bigger
impact.
A
L
We
will
go
into
any
employer
that
our
clients
want
it's
a
very
individualized,
so
one
of
the
tenants
of
IPs
is
job
diversity
and
the
way
the
reason
they
look
at
that
is
because
what
they
don't
want
is
for
us
to
say
jewel,
hires
a
lot
of
baggers.
Why
don't
we
just
take
all
of
our
clients
to
Jewel
and
then
we'll
have
really
good
placement
numbers.
So
one
thing
we
take
pride
in
is
our
job
diversity,
and
so
I
can
give
you
a
kind
of
a
list
of
some
of
the
employers
that
we've
got.
L
A
E
For
the
years
I've
watched
this
program
grow,
and
it
really
excites
me
because
one
of
the
things
they
really
like
when
we're
able
to
help
people
with
Workforce
Development,
is
that
that
means
that
that
money's
going
to
come
back
into
the
community,
but
I
have
an
ancillary
question
that
you
may
or
may
not
be
able
to
answer
in
placing
people
with
serious
mental
health
conditions
into
work.
Environments
where
they
can
potentially
thrive,
are
their
health
care
providers.
Seeing
any
benefit
from
this.
Yes,.
L
And
that
goes
into
just
a
large
Bank
of
research.
If
you
were
to
go
to
IPS
works,
org,
that's
kind
of
like
the
national
community
for
this
model
and
there's
a
when
I
pee
s
is
an
evidence-based
practice,
which
means
there's
a
lot
of
research
behind
it
as
a
model
and
what
it
shows
is
higher:
quality
of
life,
better
health
outcomes,
better
mental
health
outcomes
and
we've
seen
in
our
personal
experiences
once
someone
gets
a
job,
they
kind
of
get
hungry
for
more
success,
and
they
are
the
clinicians
in
our
agency
and
other
agencies.
L
We
work
with
just
really
see
a
you
know:
rejuvenated
purpose-driven,
I
want
to
I
want
to
be
more
successful.
You
know
the
next
thing
I
want
to
do.
Is
you
know,
I
want
to
find
independent
housing
or
I
want
to
find
education,
so
I
can
get
that
full-time
job.
Now
that
I
got
this
part-time
job
and
it
is
really
exciting
to
see
those
benefits.
Thank.
I
Thank
You
Lorraine
just
two
quick
questions,
so
the
request
is
for
25,000
and
I'm
trying
to
get
and
looking
through
this
an
understanding
of
how
many
Evanston
residents
you're
serving
so
in
the
one
section
you
give
the
number
70
in
terms
of
unduplicated
services
and
I'm
on
page
30
of
the
packet
for
those
either
they're
tracking,
and
then
you
come
back
in
the
second
page
and
I
see
the
total
is
564.
But
it
looks
like
it's
broken
down.
I
And
so
out
of
so
thank
you
for
that
and
then
the
other
question
that
I
have
is
I'm
just
looking
through
the
budget
and
I'm,
seeing
a
huge
increase
over
the
year,
looking
at
your
2018
numbers.
So
what
almost
almost
close
to
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
additional
revenue,
if
I'm
reading
that
correctly.
L
You're
talking
three
hundred
thousand-
it's
probably
not
just
the
Employment
Program,
my
accountant,
the
accountant
at
our
agency.
Does
the
budget
reflections
I
can
say
what
we're
looking
to
do
is
with
so.
As
I
said,
we've
established
relationship
with
turning-point
right
now
we
have
a
waiting
list
of
11
individuals
waiting
for
services
and
we
would
like
to
probably
in
2019
hire
an
additional
employment
specialist
to
expand
our
capacity,
as
well
as
our
ability
to
have
an
impact
on
the
community.
The
employment,
employment
community.
I
L
So
that's
another:
we've
been
selected
as
a
demonstration
site
for
a
social
security
study
to
investigate.
If
you
provide
high
quality
employment
services
to
individuals
before
they
get
on
disability
benefits
with,
will
they
will
they
then
head
towards
independence
with
a
full
time
job,
or
will
they
still
end
up
getting
on
disability
benefit?
We
were
selected
at
one
of
thirty
sites
across
the
country
to
provide
this
demonstration
project
so
that
that
reflects
income
that
will
be
for
that
specific
program.
L
L
Is
our
our
state
contract?
We
get
funded
by
DHS
division
of
rehabilitative
services
for
placement,
it's
a
pay
for
performance
program.
We
get
paid
for
retention
essentially.
So,
if
someone
makes
fifteen
days,
we
get
a
small
chunk.
Forty
five,
a
little
more.
Ninety
a
little
more,
it's
not
enough
to
cover
the
program,
but
it
is
a
funding
source
that
we
utilize.
L
And
that's
a
reflection
of
our
success
as
a
program,
our
high
placement
numbers.
We've
got
an
increase.
If
you
look
back
that
number
has
grown
every
year
because
we're
able
to
and
also
our
staff
has
grown
every
year
because
of
that.
So
every
time
we
get
more
money
from
DRS.
We
hire
more
people
because
we
just
want
to
expand
our
impact.
J
Evening,
everyone,
it's
nice
to
be
back
before
you
all.
My
name
is
Karen
singer
I'm,
the
CEO
of
the
YWCA
Evanston
North
Shore
and,
as
you
know,
we've
been
working
in
this
community
for
80
years,
35
of
which
has
been
focused
on
domestic
violence.
The
YWCA
is
located
at
1215
Church
Street.
Our
administrative
phone
number
is
eight
four,
seven,
eight
six,
four,
eight
four,
four
five.
Our
24-hour
hotline
is
eight
seven,
seven,
seven
one,
eight
one,
eight
six,
eight
and
our
website
is.
M
Good
evening
everybody
can
you
hear
me
all
right?
Okay,
so,
as
you
know,
we
are
the
only
comprehensive
domestic
violence
provider
serving
the
northeastern
Chicagoland
area.
Our
comprehensive
domestic
violence
services
include
emergency
shelter
and
crisis
intervention,
legal
support
at
the
Skokie
Courthouse
community,
counseling
and
long-term
housing,
and
together
we
serve
over
800
survivors
of
domestic
violence
annually.
Over
the
last
couple
of
years,
we've
been
accelerating
our
work
in
several
areas
to
deepen
our
impact
and
ending
domestic
violence.
M
Deepening
our
work
involves
offering
those
fleeing
violence
the
extended
time
they
need
to
heal
and
gained
full
independence
and
prevent
and
preventing
violence
before
it
begins
in
our
community.
Our
newer
long-term
housing
facility
in
Evanston
serves
15
survivors
and
their
children
provides
them
with
the
the
long-term
stability
in
the
time
they
need
to
heal,
go
back
to
school,
prepare
for
secure,
secure
jobs
and
move
on
to
stable
housing
and
independence
long
term
our
relationship,
violence
prevention,
work
aimed
at
preventing
relationship
abuse
before
it
happens,
continues
to
expand
inside
and
outside
of
Evanston.
M
Last
year
we
served
over
4,000
youth
and
districts
65
and
202
combined
over
the
last
four
years.
We
have
worked
with
a
group
of
young
men
at
eth
s,
helping
them
redefine
their
own
masculinity
and
helping
them
to
step
out
of
the
man
box
as
they
call
it
and
advocate
for
violence,
free
relationships
within
their
own
peer
groups
and
with
those
young
men
or
boys
that
are
younger
than
them
at
middle
schools.
M
This
work
and
what
we've
learned
from
it
and
the
importance
of
providing
a
space
for
those
boys
to
explore
alternative
healthy
ideas
about
masculinity
is
really
the
basis
on
which
we
are
launching
our
new
men's
Leadership
Initiative.
This
fall.
Our
aim
is
to
engage
men
in
evanston
and
becoming
allies
to
end
gender
violence.
Over
200
men
attended
our
first
event
in
April
this
past
spring
and
we
are
launching
a
men's
training
program
next
month
and
we've
already
begun
this
important
work
with
community
partners,
including
the
city
of
Evanston
and
et
HS
athletic
department.
M
We
are
exciting
excited
about
deepening
our
work
to
illuminate
the
personal
impact
we
are
making
on
the
lives
of
Evan
stone,
Ian's
I'm,
going
to
turn
it
over
to
our
iris,
our
employment
and
housing
specialist.
To
describe
how
we
are
deepening
our
work
in
helping
women
achieve
longer-term
stability,
one
of
the
key
components
in
helping
them
escape
violence.
Thank
you.
N
It's
all
individualized
work,
safety
plans
and
work
plans
for
housing
and
employment.
There's
no
cookie
cutter
answer
when
working
with
survivors
and
victims,
I
also
partner,
with
a
financial
literacy
educator
on
my
team
to
host
the
basic
money
management
for
renters
group
how
to
avoid
scams.
Housing
scams,
especially
for
section
8,
staying
safe,
while
looking
for
housing
as
in
protecting
your
and
your
identity,
Dress
for
Success
employment,
soft
skills,
training
and
employment,
employee
best
practices
with
our
clients,
groups
along.
N
We
do
that
with
the
community,
along
with
our
shelter
clients
and
then
our
long-term
housing
clients,
as
well.
By
having
these
programs
and
working
together
as
a
team,
I've
had
great
success
working
with
the
women
and
some
men
as
well,
who
are
walking
clients
looking
for
housing.
One
example
would
be
a
female
that
I
a
survivor
facing
many
barriers
due
to
her
physical
limitations,
along
with
ensuring
ensuring
employment
that
allowed
her
to
wear
her
religious
attire.
N
She
felt
that
she
was
being
held
back
for
a
lot
of
things,
a
lot
of
prejudice,
but
we
worked
with
the
community
on
her
strengths
and
what
she
was
looking
to
be
employed
in
and
she
was
able
to
gain
employment
in
evanston,
working
with
children
and
daycare
and
she's.
She
was
very
excited.
Just
she
didn't
want
to
do
the
you
know
just
little
jobs
here
and
there
that
would
end
her
part-time
or
temporary.
So
it
was
great.
She
was
able
to.
You
know,
provide
that
I
can't
be
part
of
the
Evanson
community.
N
Again
I
also
worked
with
this
young
lady
younger
dog
she's
in
her
mid-20s
who
came
seeking
safety
in
Cook
County
and
in
Evanston
from
Lake
County.
She
had
a
job
and
housing
in
my
County,
but
unfortunately
she
had
to
flee
from
her
home.
So
when
she
arrived
in
shelter,
we
came
together
and
working
with
her
previous
landlord
in
order
to
ensure
that
it
didn't
become
an
eviction
because
she
did
abandon
her
lease.
So
we
were
to
work
on
that
she's
also.
N
She
was
also
in
confliction
a
little
bit
too
just
because
she
did
want
to
go
back
a
little
bit
till
they
County.
She
had
some
family
there,
but
we
wanted
to
work
on
safety
and
getting
her
back
on
her
feet.
She's
also,
she
had
she's
the
survivor
of
cancer,
her
life
as
a
teenager
and
just
wanted
to
gain
her
independence
back.
So
we
work
together
and
ensure
again
that
their
apartment
did
not
result
in
eviction.
She
was
able
to
have
a
clean
record.
N
She
worked
with
me
and
getting
employment
in
Evanston
as
well,
and
she
loves
working
with
people.
She's
always
smiling.
She
just
became
part
of
the
community
and
her
physical
limitations
didn't
limit
her.
She
loves
walking
around
the
neighborhood
she
likes
going
and
she
got
used
to
the
public
transportation
here.
So
she
really
enjoys
it
at
the
end
of
her
stay.
N
She
just
she
decided
to
stay
in
Evanston
and
we
were
working
really
really
hard
in
order
to
make
sure
she
was
able
to
afford
Evanston
hustle
living,
and
luckily
she
became
part
of
our
bridges
long-term
program.
She
gained
steady
employment,
continued
on
her
steady
employment
here
in
Evanston
and
has
has
been
working
with
our
long-term
housing
program.
She
participates
in
group
services
and
now
working
on
stable
employment,
night
of
5,
working
with
in
customer
service,
which
she
loves
working
with
people.
N
She
really
enjoys
so
we're
hoping
that
you
know
with
these
services,
along
with
our
other
residents
and
other
clients,
we
serve.
You
know
growing
and
gaining
more
experience,
working
one-on-one
growing
within
companies
and
staying
stable
jobs
and
housing,
safety
and
again
independence
work.
So
thank
you.
I.
J
Just
want
to
underscore
the
importance
of
some
of
this
deepening
work
for
us.
You
know
we
have
run
an
emergency
shelter
for
33
34
years,
where
women
can
stay
for
up
to
90
days
and
we
keep
women
and
children
safe
every
night.
But
when
we
start
started
many
years
ago
to
look
at
the
day,
what
we
see
is
that
many
women
cannot
achieve
stability
and
heal
from
the
trauma
and
go
on
to
live
independently
in
90
days.
J
So
we
have
been
working
really
hard
over
the
last
three
years
to
try
and
provide
women
with
longer-term,
more
stable
options.
So
they
have
not
only
the
ability
to
heal
from
the
trauma,
but
they
have
the
safe
place
and
the
support
around
employment
and
education
and
job
search
and
child
care
that
they
need
to
be
able
to
stay
free
from
their
abuser.
And
this
work
has
been
accelerating
over
the
last
several
years
and
we're
really
very
proud
of
it.
I
Thank
you
for
everything
that
you
do
in
the
community.
Thank
you
for
the
new
initiative
with
men's
program,
I've
participated,
a
couple
of
discussions
and
I've
found
them
very
enlightening
and
challenging.
So
thank
you
for
that.
Just
a
quick
budget
question
I'm.
Looking
at
the
first
of
the
revenue
mm-hm,
the
under
government,
mm-hmm
you're,
showing
a
nice
little
increase.
You
want
to.
J
We
are,
and
that
is
because
of
the
expansion
of
our
program.
We
have
been
awarded
a
much
larger
grant
from
VOCA,
which
is
by
victims
of
crime
act,
and
the
state
of
Illinois
gets
that
money
and
channels
it
through
the
Illinois
Coalition
Against
Domestic
Violence,
and
there
was
a
very
large
supplemental
amount
given
because
the
fed
it
their
federal
dollars
have
been
building
up
and
they
haven't
been
distributing
them.
J
E
It
even
more
telling
I
want
to
thank
you
for
sharing
that.
It's
never
left
me
I've
shared
that
information
with
other
people
to
make
that
can
make
real
to
them
what
what
the
stakes
are
in
this.
The
second
item
is
a
question.
I
have
knowing
now
that
you've
expanded
your
work
out
to
young
men
in
the
community.
Do
you
have
plans
to
work
with
children
who
have
witnessed
violence
in
their
homes
to
prevent
that
cycle
from
repeating.
J
We
have
a
potential
partnership
and
we
have
a
grant
out
to
office
of
violence
against
women
and
the
partner
in
that
grant
is
district
65
and
if
we
receive
the
grant,
we
can
work
much
more
closely
to
establish
a
presence,
on-site
and
work
with
young
kids,
who
are
in
fact
district
experiencing
violence
in
their
homes,
and
we
will
have
staff
at
the
school
to
help
with
that.
So
that
will
be
what
we
should
know
that
within
10
days,
dad
is
so
great
I'll
keep
you
posted.
A
C
Hi,
thank
you.
My
name
is
Ed
Reid
I'm,
the
director
of
clinical
training
at
Jewish,
Child
and
Family
Services
believe
this
is
our
first
time
requesting
funding
from
the
city
of
Evanston
I'm
here
to
talk
about
a
very
small
part
of
our
agency
in
a
very
small
service,
that's
actually
embedded
in
our
mental
health
counseling
program
and
it's
a
very
small
service
that
we
have
two
full-time
staff
who
do
this
service
I
happen
to
be
here
because
I've
worked
for
the
agency
for
almost
40
years.
C
One
thing
that's
very
unique
about
our
program.
Is
we
serve
very
low
income
clients?
We
serve
low
income
clients,
we
also
serve
middle-class
clients,
starting
in
about
2008
2009.
When
we
entered
the
great
recession,
we
started
to
see
a
number
of
middle-class
families
getting
in
deep
financial
trouble
due
to
long
term
unemployment.
C
C
They
kind
of
hit
a
rough
point,
they
get
into
a
financial
crisis
and
we
can
kind
of
help
them
get
through
that
crisis
and
hopefully
restore
them
to
their
prior
level
of
functioning
and
usually
it's
with
cash
assistance,
a
one-time,
sometimes
two
times
cash
assistance
and
then
a
lot
of
help
finding
other
resources
in
the
community,
some
of
them
public
resources
and
thinking
very
creatively
about
how
they
might
increase
their
income
or
reduce
their
expenses
and
that's
kind
of
the
financial
counseling
aspect
of
our
program.
It's
not
sophisticated
financial
planning.
C
People
don't
have
investments,
they
aren't
worried
about
balancing
their
stock
and
behind
portfolio.
They
are
really
living
day
to
day
many
of
the
clients
who
receive
our
service,
our
clients
in
our
mental
health
program
and
also
people
who
are
coming
to
us
who
aren't
clients
in
any
of
our
other
programs.
C
So
they're
coming
to
us
from
the
community
coming
directly
because
they've
heard
that
possibly
we
can
help
and
we
also
run
educational
groups
trying
to
help
people
understand
their
finances
a
little
better
get
to
gives
them
some
strategies
to
be
a
little
more
savvy
in
terms
of
how
they
spend
their
money
where
they
might
borrow
money.
All
sorts
of
things
like
that's
a
little
tricks,
little
kind
of
little
survival
strategies
financially.
C
The
other
thing
that's
happened
to
this
little
service
is
in
the
past.
Our
agency
goes
back
a
long
time.
I
think
we
started
somewhere
in
the
1850s,
so
financial
assistance
to
to
families
to
immigrants
to
people
being
resettled
in
the
United
States
has
been
a
long
history
and
a
huge
part
of
our
agency,
and
so
what
I've
kind
of
lost
my
train
of
thought.
But
what
we
used
to
do
is
provide
this
service
through
our
mental
health
counselors.
C
So
financial
assistance
was
just
something
we
gave
often
as
part
of
the
counseling
process,
and
we
realized
that
probably
wasn't
the
best
way
to
do
this
and
so
about
about
eight
years
ago,
or
so
we
decided
to
create
sort
of
specialized
positions
to
do
this
service.
So
we
have
specialized
financial
counselors
who
provide
this
service
and
that's
pretty
much
all
they
do.
We
started
with
three
of
those
counselors
who
are
serving
the
whole
metropolitan
Chicago
area,
and
we
now
because
of
budget
cuts,
have
had
to
reduce
our
staff
to
two.
C
We
had
to
close
them
all
because
of
changes
in
the
DCFS
funding
strategy
and
residential
services
had
been
a
part
of
our
agency.
Actually,
since
the
beginning.
So
that's
been
a
huge
change
for
us
and
we're
a
large
agency,
but
we
also
have
lots
of
financial
struggles,
so
we're
trying
to
keep
this
little
financial
service
thing
going,
because
I
think
it's
a
very
valuable
service
I
think
would
make
a
huge
difference
in
people's
lives.
C
We
aren't
touching
a
tremendous
number
of
people.
I
think
we
serve
330
clients
or
households
all
together
in
the
whole
Chicago
area
about
30
30
to
35
of
those
households
are
from
Evanston.
We
serve
the
Evanston
clients
from
our
office
in
Skokie,
and
we
do
also
a
lot
of
counseling
for
Evan's
Evan's
residents
as
well
I
happen
to
be
an
Evanston
resident
myself,
but
I
work
in
the
Skokie.
C
Okay,
so
86%
of
our
clients
in
this
service
are
low-income.
64%
of
that
of
the
clients
are
african-american.
The
average
age
is
48
more
than
half
of
the
clients.
We
serve
our
single
heads
of
households,
so
it's
a
one
parent
parenting,
often
a
number
of
children.
We
also
are
serving
many
grandparents
who
are
raising
grandchildren.
C
And
the
Evanston
residents
make
up
about
a
third
to
a
half
of
our
clients
that
we
serve
out
of
the
Skokie
office
and
we
serve
all
the
suburbs
north
of
Chicago
and
in
Cook
County.
So
we
kind
of
serve
residents
all
the
way
up
to
the
lake
county
border
and
west
may
be
desplaines,
so
we're
serving
Evanston
Skokie,
Wilmette,
Glenview,
Niles,
Morton,
Grove,
desplaines
I
believe
so.
C
C
C
C
C
95%
of
our
clients
will
develop
a
clearer
understanding
of
the
causes
and
conditions
that
led
to
their
financial
crisis.
70%
of
the
clients
will
experience
an
increase
in
access
to
resources
and
cash
grants
awarded
will
make
a
positive
impact
on
95
percent
of
our
clients,
guiding
them
toward
a
pre
financial
pre-financial
crisis
level
of
functioning.
C
One
thing:
that's
unique
about
our
program.
Again,
as
I
mentioned,
we
don't
have
a
an
income
requirement
for
for
our
clients.
Anybody
can
be
a
client,
regardless
of
their
income.
We
don't
cap
the
amount
of
assistance
that
we
give,
although
the
average
is
between
700
and
$1,000,
that's
roughly
equivalent
to
one
month's
rent
or
more.
Sometimes
it
can
be
higher
than
that.
We
have
a
little
flexibility
in
that.
Sometimes
we
can
be
really
creative
about
what
we
we
help.
People
with
sometimes
we've
replaced
furnaces.
C
We've
replaced
hot
water
heaters,
we've
helped
people
clean
up
flood
damage,
so
there's
there's
all
sorts
of
create
creative
ways.
We
can
operate
without
a
lot
of
guidelines,
so
we
also
collaborate
quite
a
bit
with
other
agencies
in
the
community.
Sometimes
we
actually
partner
with
other
agencies
that
provide
financial
assistance
and,
as
you
might
know,
there
are
fewer
and
fewer
agencies
actually
providing
cash
assistance.
We've
noticed
that
over
the
last
10
years,
the
number
of
agencies
helping
with
cash
is
really
shrinking,
which
is
actually
increase.
C
The
number
of
people
coming
to
us,
but
we
haven't
really
been
able
to
expand
the
number
of
staff
working
in
this
program,
but
we
collaborate
a
lot
with
other
agencies
that
do
provide
financial
assistance
and
sometimes
on
one
situation.
We
can
combine
funds
and
pay
for
a
larger
expense
than
any
one
of
those
agencies
could
do
by
themselves.
So
that's
kind
of
an
interesting
arrangement.
We
have
probably
two
or
three
other
agencies
in
the
area,
so.
A
A
C
C
I
can
give
you
an
example
of
an
interesting
case,
just
a
small
short
example,
and
it's
an
example
of
situation
where
I've
been
doing
this
work
a
long
time
but
learning
all
the
time,
and
this
was
a
situation
that
kind
of
got
my
attention
and
I
learned
something
with
this
situation
myself,
which
is
this
was
a
woman
who
had
a
pretty
good
job.
She
owned
the
condominium.
She
had
some
medical
large
medical
expenses
that
really
threw
her
budget
off
and
what
she
decided
to
do.
C
She
thought
well
I
can
afford
my
mortgage
I
can
keep
myself
going.
I
can
pay,
keep
the
lights
on
I,
keep
the
gas
going,
but
this
a
condo
assessment
is
really
hurting
me,
so
she
decided
could
she
she
really
wanted
to
reduce
temporarily
the
amount
she
paid
in
her
assessment
wrote
a
letter
to
her
condo
board.
C
Condo
board
did
not
answer
her
letter,
so
she
just
took
it
upon
herself
to
lower
her
assessment
briefly,
and
the
condo
board
decided
to
take
her
to
court
asked
her
to
not
only
pay
the
amount
from
her
assessment
that
she
didn't
pay.
So
he
was
in
arrears
but
to
pay
all
the
legal
expenses
that
the
condo
board
incurred,
and
this
amounted
to
quite
a
large
sum
of
money.
They
were
also
threatening
to
seize
her
apartment
or
seized
her
condo.
C
Take
it
over
evict
her
and
rent
out
her
condo
to
someone
else
until
they
could
recover
the
money
that
she
owe
them.
This
was
the
learning
piece
for
me.
I
didn't
know
that
that
was
legal
in
Illinois,
but
it
is
so
what
we
were
able
to
do
for
her
is
talk
and
she
was
going
to
go
to
court.
She
didn't
have
a
lawyer.
C
We
weren't
able
actually
to
find
someone
to
represent
her
because
she
was
going
to
small
claims
court,
but
fortunately
we
had
an
attorney
who
works
in
our
Disability
Services
department,
who
was
able
to
kind
of
give
us
some
coaching
and
some
advice.
We
gave
those
clients
some
strategies
that
she
could
apply
in
court.
A
I
C
I
Our
program
that
we
have
and
it
just
in
listening
to
your
stories
and
reading
through
the
application,
it
strikes
me
that
you
might
be
very
nimble
with
your
funds.
Yes,.
C
C
I
O
P
Hi
I'm
Liz
Novak
manager
of
institutional
getting
at
connections.
This
is
my
first
time
doing
this
and
first
time
doing
anything
like
this.
So
please
bear
with
me,
but
I
will
be
brief.
We
submitted
a
crust
to
the
city
seeking
support
for
our
individual
supportive
housing
program.
This
program
provides
chronically
homeless
individuals
with
a
disability
with
permanent
housing.
We
currently
operate
34
units
of
scattered
site
apartments
across
Evanston
32
of
our
units
are
located
in
Evanston.
P
In
addition
to
housing,
we
also
spread
a
series
of
supportive
services,
including
case
management,
employment,
education
and
health
and
wellness
services
to
each
of
our
participants.
We
provide
housing
first,
so
people
have
a
place
that
is
safe.
That
is
affordable,
that
they
can
stabilize
and
recover
from
trauma
at
the
core.
This
is
this
program
helps
to
end
chronic
homelessness
in
our
community.
P
There
is
very
little
duplication
of
supportive
housing
programs
in
our
community.
There
are
other
agencies
that
provide
it.
However,
we
all
operate
at
capacity
and
we
continue
to
see
high
demand
and
we
have
very
low
turnover.
The
average
time
in
our
program
is
currently
3.5
years,
and
so,
as
you
can
imagine,
in
34
units
of
housing,
there's
not
a
lot
of
folks
moving
in
and
out
they're
staying
there.
P
Since
our
previous
request,
submitted
to
the
city
last
year
for
support
CDBG
support,
the
program
has
remained
relatively
the
same.
We
have
implemented
some
new
processes,
a
part
of
our
as
part
of
our
work,
with
our
continuum
of
care,
the
Alliance
to
End,
Homelessness
and
suburban
Cook
County.
So
as
part
of
that
they
are
now
managing
our
waitlist.
We
no
longer
internally
manage
our
waitlist,
so
the
entire
waitlist
for
suburban
Cook
County
is
managed
by
the
Alliance.
O
O
She
had
several
children
who
were
grown
and
there
were
a
series
of
family
difficulties
with
the
kids
which
triggered
some
mental
health
issues
with
her
particularly
sort
of
debilitating
anxiety,
and
she
ended
up
losing
her
job
and
was
unable
to
sort
of
cope
with
how
one
recovers
from
that
and
eventually
was
living
in
her
car
lost
touch
with
her
children
and
then
I
ultimately
lost
her
car
as
well.
So
she
was
living
on
the
streets
and
she
told
us
stories
about.
O
You
know:
spending
the
nights
in
an
all-night
Walmart
walking
around,
because
that
was
the
only
safe
place
she
could
find
and
then
going
to
sleep
at
the
library.
During
the
day
she
entered
our
supportive
housing
program
about
a
year
ago,
and
since
then,
she
has
engaged
in
some
pretty
intensive
medical
care.
Both
some
physical
as
well
as
you
know,
getting
some
treatment
for
her
anxiety.
She
has
participated
in
our
community
garden,
actually
working
with
other
people
on
that
and
she
has
entered
Oakton
Community
College.
O
She
just
completed
her
first
quarter
over
the
summer
and
she
is
planning
on
going
I
think
for
another
year
and
she
will
end
up
with
two
associate's
degrees,
which
should
allow
her
to
get
a
job
and
get
more
of
her
self-sufficiency
back.
She's
also
reconnected
with
her
family.
Another
story
is
about
a
man.
I'm
actually
excited
because
I
played
a
part
in
this
I
go
to
the
movies
every
Friday
night,
with
my
husband
and
my
father,
it's
date
night
and
we
I
run
across
the
same
man
every
Friday
night
and
he's
there.
O
Panhandling
and
I
started
talking
to
him
and
sort
of
feel
for
him.
Just
a
little
bit
of
a
conversational
relationship,
eventually
divulged
that
I
worked
at
connections,
he
indicated
sort
of
despair
with
all
of
the
social
services
in
town
and
I
asked.
When
was
the
last
time
you
talked
to
anybody
at
connections
and
it
had
been
a
good
five
six
years.
Probably
so
I
said:
well,
you
know
programs
change,
there
might
be
something
for
you
there.
He
wasn't
about
to
go
to
drop-in
or
anything.
O
So
I
asked
if
I
could
give
his
name
to
our
outreach
person
Tito
our
outreach
guy
found
him
and
they
started
talking
and
this
week
this
man
moved
into
an
apartment.
For
the
first
time
in
about
ten
years
he
is
thrilled.
I
am
thrilled
because
I
saw
him
last
week,
knowing
that
he
wasn't
going
to
be
able
to
get
housing
and
he
looked
awful.
O
He
was
getting
thinner.
He
was
eating.
One
of
those
sweet
rolls
that
you
buy
at
you
know
the
gas
station
that
was
his
dinner
and
yeah.
He
really
looked
awful,
so
I
haven't
seen
him
since
he
found
out,
he
was
getting
the
housing
and
I
think
he
should
I,
don't
know
if
he's
moved
in
yet
but
it'll
be
within
the
week.
So
those
are
the
kinds
of
things
we
do
now
when
somebody
is
in
housing,
I
mean
I,
told
you
what
happened
with
this
woman.
This
man
might
continue
to
Panhandle.
O
He
may
still,
you
know,
spend
a
night
on
it
on
the
street
now
and
then,
but
he
is
going
to
have
a
safe
place
to
go,
he's
going
to
be
able
to
have
a
base
from
which
to
get
his
medical
issues
taken
care
of
his
terrible
back
problems
and
he's
going
to
he's
going
to
survive
so
yeah.
That's
what
we
have
any
questions,
Ginni.
E
Thank
you
for
sharing
these
stories,
they're
very
helpful
to
all
of
us.
It
makes
these
programs
real
and-
and
it's
not
just
for
us,
but
everyone
at
home
gets
to
know
what
this
accomplishes.
I
have
a
quick
budget
question
to
ask
of
you:
I'm,
looking
at
the
overall
funding
sources
and
revenues
on
your
application,
and
it
shows
that
in
2017
you
collected
client,
rent
payments
of
thirty
six
thousand.
Ninety
three
dollars
and
two
thousand
eighteen
shows
no
figure.
Are
you
no
longer
going
to
be
collecting
rent
from
clients
towards
their
housing?
No.
P
We
continue
to
collect
rent
from
clients.
It's
part
of
the
stability
plan
for
clients,
so
folks
that
have
that
are
receiving
some
form
of
income
do
give
a
certain
percentage.
However,
this
is
actually
general
operating
support
for
our
agency
so
last
year,
because
of
this,
this
chunk
of
funding
we
needed
it's
come
from
somewhere,
so
it
just
happened
to
come
from
that
area.
So
that's
what
that's
showing,
but
we
still
continue
to
collect
client,
rent
payments.
Thank
you.
Yep.
Q
So,
yes,
staff
did
have
a
conversation
with
some
of
the
key
members
applying
for
this
grant.
We
explained
our
position
in
the
staff
recommendation
so
that
it
wouldn't
come
as
a
surprise
and
we
offered
to
work
with
the
church
to
help
them
gather
the
information
that
we
would
need
in
order
to
potentially
consider
this
capital
improvement
project
moving
forward
and
I
think
that
this
is
just
not
something
that
they
were
going
to
move
forward
with.
I
A
This
time
I
mean
there
is
a
way
to
fund
it,
but
not
under
these
conditions,
so
be
better
not
to
have
all
right.
So
thank
you
all
we're
going
to
deal
with
the
city,
projects
and
staff.
How
do
you
want
us
to
do
this?
Just
begin
on
down
the
line.
I
mean
I
because
I
know
are
you
going
to
present
other
than
for
Kevin?
We.
R
Chair
members
of
the
committee,
it
is
a
pleasure
to
stand
here
to
talk
about
the
certificate
of
rehabilitation
program
which
has
been
in
effect
since
2013.
As
a
result
of
of
your
generous
funding,
I
wanted
to
briefly
and
I
want
to
introduce
mr.
Stacey
morenae
who's
standing
behind
me.
Who
is
the
lead
recruiter
for
the
program
and
he
will
have
some
comments
to
make
after
I
speak.
I
was
asked
to
come
tonight
to
share
some
information
about
the
program
but
I
before
I.
Did
that
I
wanted
to
give
you
some
context
about
the
program.
R
We
also
work
on
workforce
development
and
employment
for
at-risk
youth.
We
also
help
in
the
recreation
department,
with
alternative
recreational
activities
for
at-risk
youth
and
we're
actually
partnering
with
Northwestern
University,
to
engage
in
some
civic
engagement
activities
for
youth.
We
have
had
a
great
deal
of
success
since
2012,
serving
thousands
of
students
in
Evanston
in
a
variety
of
different
programs.
R
Recently
we
have
reached
out
to
Northshore
health
systems
and
we
are
partnering
with
them
on
a
workforce
project
to
employ
young
adults
in
Evanston.
It
is
going
extremely
well.
You
also
know
about
the
skilled
trades
program
with
Northwestern
University,
which
is
employing
young
adults
in
Evanston
and
at
great
investment
by
the
University.
So
we've
done
a
number
of
things,
but
the
certificate
of
rehabilitation
program
is
one
of
the
I
say
a
core
aspect
of
the
work
that
we
do
to
work
with:
at-risk
youth
and
and
young
adults.
R
R
Excuse
me:
I
have
allergies,
so
it's
it's
getting
to
me
a
little
bit,
expunging
sealing
and
arrests
and
a
criminal
record,
and
we
try
to
improve
their
educational
outcomes,
their
employment
outcomes,
housing
opportunities
through
the
legal
assistance
which
reduces
a
negative
impact
of
a
criminal
record.
I
was
listening
to
all
the
presentations.
I
appreciate
you
all
for
the
work
that
you
do.
It's
very
difficult
to
make
the
monetary
choices
that
you
have
to
make
to
fund
these
programs.
I
felt
you
know
I
kind
of
feel
what
you
feel
it's.
R
We
try
to
extend
the
city's
resources
by
finding
those
individuals
that
need
these
services
and
then
shepherding
them
to
the
services
so
that
they
can
become
self-sustaining
and
more
empowered
adults
and
individuals.
So
the
work
that
we
do
is
pretty
critical
through
the
certificate
of
rehabilitation
initiative.
R
R
We
I
think
that
we
would
serve
more
Latino
residents
Evanston,
but
there
is
a
great
fear
about
working
with
government
and
we
are
trying
to
partner
with
our
faith-based
community
and
other
partner
Latino
Resources
organizations,
to
try
to
correct
that.
But
I
can
tell
you
because
of
the
current
political
climate.
It
is
extremely
difficult,
but
we
will
continue
to
try
to
up
those
numbers.
The
median
age
35
years
old
and
a
little
more
than
half
our
clients
are
male
before
entering
prison.
R
The
the
program
has
about
seven
different
aspects:
its
client
recruitment,
record,
lookup
and
counseling
expungement
ceiling
for
ID
theft,
certificates,
clemency
court
appearances
and
then
we
do
provide
some
other
services,
but
I.
Think
one
of
the
one
of
the
really
critical
things
that
I've
learned
in
the
last
few
years
about
this
program
is
that
this
program
has
given
us
an
Avenue
into
the
lives
of
parents
of
children
that
we
work
with
and
so
I
think
it
was
I,
think
it
was
kind
of
unintended.
R
But
the
fact
that
we
were
working
with
children
who
then
expressed
concerns
about
their
parents
and
we
were
able
to
then
connect
with
Kent
parents
and
find
out
these
particular
difficulties
that
some
of
the
parents
have
actually
helps
to
strengthen
the
outreach
program
that
we
currently
have
so
I
just
wanted.
That's
an
important
point.
I
wanted
to
make.
R
Lastly,
we've
served
since
2013
374
clients,
91
of
them,
have
we've
been
able
to
work
within
sealing
their
criminal
records,
which
has
really
helped
them
in
terms
of
employment.
We
also
do
expungements
about
26
people.
We've
obtained
11,
Healthcare
waivers.
Three
individuals
have
received
clemency
from
our
previous
governor,
which
is
you
know
an
amazing
job
and
I
have
to
congratulate
Patrick
Keenan
Devlin
and
his
crew
at
the
Moran
Center.
R
One
of
the
certificates
of
rehabilitation,
that
is
a
the
certificate
of
rehabilitation,
is
a
recommendation
from
the
circuit
court
judge,
there's
a
very
difficult
piece
of
paper
to
obtain.
We
have
more
than
20
people
that
are
sort
of
in
process,
but
there
is
a
lot
of
work
that
has
to
go
into
it
so
thus
far,
we've
only
had
one
person
actually
received
a
certificate,
but
the
major
benefit
of
the
program
has
been
expungement
and
the
record
sealing,
which
has
helped
us
to
help
individuals
to
obtain
employment.
R
Don't
capture
the
other
legal
services
that
these
individuals
are
receiving,
motions
to
vacate
judgments
for
bond
forfeitures
motions
for
partial
fee
waivers
immigration,
legal
support,
petitions
for
identity
theft,
police
station
visits
with
by
mur
Anson
or
attorneys
emotions
to
vacate
felony
convictions
and
appealing
to
Department
of
Children
family
services
for
negative
findings
of
abuse.
There's
a
lot
of
work
that
is
going
on
to
support
members
of
our
community
to
help
rehabilitate
to
give
people
second
chances
and
to
help
them
to
move
forward
and
move
on
with
their
lives.
I
wanted
to
give
Stacey.
R
Let
me
just
let
me
just
add
this
final
thing
before
I,
let
you
go,
we
were
asking
for
additional
money
this
year
and
I
know
it's
a
big
increase,
but
one
of
the
reasons
we
were
asking
for
an
increase
was
we've
had
such
great
success
with
the
mayor's
Summer
Youth
Employment
Program
this
year.
We
we
exceeded
all
of
our
expectations.
We
had
over
800
students
come
to
the
job
fair.
R
One
of
the
things
that
we
did
learn
working
with
the
Moran
Center
is
that
we
have
a
lot
of
students
that
have
infractions
and
other
items
that
are
part
of
their
record.
That
they're,
not
even
aware
of,
and
so
we
wanted
to
create,
not
only
an
educational
program
but
also
an
effort
to
help
students
through
the
job
fair
who
could
also
participate
in
this
process.
So
we
feel
like
we
could
expand
the
process.
R
S
S
We
had
a,
for
example,
we
had
a
client
that
I
encountered
while
doing
outreach
street
outreach
and
she
was
so
depressed
about
not
being
able
to
get
a
job.
Her
house
in
her
children
disrespecting
her
and
she
said
the
reason
was
because
her
background
and
so
I
did
the
paperwork.
I
did
the
paper?
Excuse
me:
I.
Did
the
paperwork
signed
her
up
Florida
certificate
rehabilitation
through
diligent
effort?
S
R
S
A
R
We
have
I
mean
I.
Could
I
could
give
you
a
list,
but
the?
But
the
other
thing
that's
important
to
note
about.
We
call
them
returning
citizens
that
you
people
used
to
refer
to
people
as
ex-offenders.
We
call
them
returning
citizens,
they
have
a
higher
retention
rate
in
employment,
people
that
really
want
a
second
chance.
Aclu
just
did
a
report
and
a
study
and
found
that
these
individuals
are
more
loyal
to
employers
than
people
who
don't
have
criminal
records
and
I.
Q
R
Workers
are
bringing
in
we're
able
to
provide
forums
as
we're
doing
at
the
library
where
we
will
a
hundred
people,
but
I
would
say
we
don't
have
a
waiting
list
per
se,
because
there's
some
and
really
it's
because
of
the
immigration
issue.
We
have
a
tremendous
number
of
people
in
this
community
that
are
sort
of
in
the
shadows.
They
need
this
service
and
we
are
trying
to
figure
out
a
way
to
diligently
sort
of
connect
with
those
individuals
and
I'm,
not
talking
about
undocumented
people.
O
A
B
A
B
Actually
got
approval
from
HUD
to
let
rumble
Park
they've
gone
through
all
their
stuff
to
actually
purchase
their
equipment
and
sign
their
contracts,
because
I
have
been
told
that
we
should
have
our
grant
agreements.
Maybe
this
month
you
know
it's
really
hard
to
get
programs
and
projects
going
when
we
have
this
kind
of
a
delay.
Jessica
has
done
a
great
job,
getting
working
with
all
of
our
public
services,
so
we
have
information
on
them.
B
You're
still
going
to
get
the
grant
agreements
out,
they'll
be
able
to
bill
everything
that
they've
done
and
use
their
whole
grant
amount.
It's
much
more
difficult
to
get
some
of
the
capital
programs
going.
The
city
has,
of
course,
done.
We've
got
well
I
shouldn't
say
that,
of
course,
even
don't
necessarily
we
have
the
alley
paving
and
the
street
resurfacing
in
progress
right
now,
so
that
should
be
completed
this
year,
I'm
working
with
Children's,
Home
and
aid
there.
The
other
agency
that's
farthest
along
on
its
capital
project,
but
they're
still
finalizing
their
grant
agreement.
B
Many
of
those
projects,
the
capital
projects
carry
over
into
a
next
year.
That's
common,
but
it's
especially
difficult
because
we
don't
want
to.
We
have
two
things
that
make
this
difficult.
We
don't
want
the
city
to
get
too
far
out
front
of
getting
our
money
because
then
we
could
leave
agencies
without
the
ability
to
get.
B
You
know
paid
back,
it's
not
something
that
the
city
will
do,
which
is
to
release
money
way
in
advance
of
when
we
can
draw
it
down
from
HUD,
and
the
second
thing
and
I
discussed
this
with
our
HUD
rep
is
we
aren't
supposed
to
commit
more
than
25%
of
our
grant
before
we
get
our
grant
agreements
and
I
said
well,
guess
what
we're
way
over
that,
because
we
are
almost
3/4
of
the
way
through
our
fiscal
year,
you're
ending
your
fiscal
year
at
the
end
of
September.
So
don't
look
at
that?
B
Okay,
because
I
can't
you
know
we
can't
do
anything.
You
know
because
we
will
still
be
expected
to
try
to
make
our
timeliness
of
expenditures
which
is
determined
whether
or
not
we
have
more
than
1.5
times
our
current
grant
amount
in
our
line
of
credit
at
the
end
of
October,
so
I
just
said:
I,
don't
know
if
we're
gonna
make
that,
because
we,
you
know,
I
mean
we're
trying
to
comply
but
pay
work
with
us.
B
So
it's
we
really
I
mean
it's
impossible
to
predict
its,
but
it
really
is
hard
to
maintain
any
kind
of
reasonable
programs
in
in
this
year
we
had
two
agencies
that
were
funded
for
capital
programs
that
they
really
hadn't
thoroughly
defined.
One
is
the
infant
Welfare
Society
for
their
external
play
space
and
their
parking
lot
I've
been
in
discussions
with
them.
B
And
things
like
that,
because
we
do
have
to
now
that
we're
on
this
grant
based
accounting
system.
We
have
to
track
every
project
to
the
year
that
it
was
funded
in
and
we
have
actually
they're
fairly
generous
timeframe
is
to
expend
that.
But
we
really
need
to
keep
track
of
it
and
our
goal
is
to
keep
money
moving,
because
there's
not
that
much
of
it.
So
I
think
staff
will
probably
come
to
the
committee
with
a
recommendation
of
if
an
agency
doesn't
have
its
act
together.
B
If
you
will,
by
a
certain
point,
we
will
pull
back
funding
and
they
can
reapply
it's
it's
a
such
point
as
they
have
it.
This
year
we
will
have,
we
will
be
reallocating
the
$80,000
that
had
been
awarded
to
family
focus
for
tuckpointing,
and
this
we
have
to
do
because
they
hadn't
started
that
project
and
now
that
they've
announced
they
could
sell
the
building.