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I
am
Mary
Ellen
ball.
I
am
the
CEO
of
impact
behavioral
health
partners.
We
are
located
at
2100,
Ridge
Avenue,
which
is
this
building
this
Civic
Center
in
the
garden
level.
320
you
can
contact
us
through.
Our
website
is
the
easiest
way
it
has
our
phone
number
our
address
and
important
people
to
talk
to
there.
It
is
WWE
impact
behavioral
org
for
the
contact
information,
okay,
great
and
Oh
phone
number,
eight,
four,
seven,
eight,
six,
six,
two
nine
77
and
you
can
always
call
3-1-1
they
can
get
to
us
easily
as
well.
H
N
H
Earlier
I
am
Mary,
Ellen
fall
and
the
CEO
at
impact
behavioral
health
partners,
I,
am
with
Maria.
She
would
introduce
herself
in
a
second
cuz.
She
is
the
true
star
of
this
show
I'm
just
going
to
give
some
background
about
the
agency,
so
we
have
been
around
for
thirty
years
here
in
Evanston.
We
are
here
requesting
a
renewal
of
our
$60,000
Mental
Health
Board,
grant
for
to
continue
our
clinical
services.
H
We
were
formerly
known
as
House
for
the
mentally
ill
in
Evanston,
then
shortener
housing
options
and
then
recently
we
have
changed
our
name
to
impact
behavioral
health
partners.
This
is
part
of
our
newest
three-year
strategic
plan,
where
we
have
decided
that
our
previous
work
of
the
30
years
was
critical
and
very
important.
We
need
to
continue
to
network.
We
need
to
clarify
our
mission
through
our
name.
Okay
point:
I
was
getting
phone
calls
for
refinancing
up
mortgages,
which
is
not
what
we
do
so.
H
Name
to
better
reflect
our
mission,
so
the
part
of
our
strategic
plan
was
them
and
the
other
part
is
learning
that
we
need
to
expand
their
services.
Our
services
are
critical
and
life-saving,
and
we
need
to
do
more
of
it,
so
we're
hoping
to
double
our
impact
in
the
next
three
years.
We
have
big
goals.
What
we
currently
do
and
what
we
want
to
do
more
of
I
always
say
that
we
have
three
schools:
three
legs
to
our
school.
We
have
housing
which
most
people
understand
right
away.
H
Housing
is
permanent,
supportive
housing,
meaning
people
can
stay
indefinitely.
It's
a
housing
first
model,
meaning
we
do
not
have
barriers
to
our
housing.
You
can
refuse
services,
you
can
not
take
medication,
you
can
be
an
active
drug
user.
We
believe
house
has
a
fundamental
right
and
you
can't
get
healthier
until
your
house,
so
the
housing
first
model.
That's
a
well
accepted
model
across
our
field,
so
we
believe
in
that
the
other
part
of
our
stool
is
thus
which
is
our
clinical
services,
but
you'll
hear
mostly
about
today.
We
are
very
proud
of
our
clinical
services.
H
We
are
unlike
many
other
agencies
in
the
sense
that
we
have
all
masters
level
clinicians.
We
believe
that
having
the
best
staff
possible
will
be
the
best
for
our
participants
that
continuum
of
care
to
be
there
for
them.
Many
of
our
clinicians
are
licensed
as
well,
and
then
a
third
leg
of
our
stool
is
our
Employment.
N
H
Which
may
have
heard
of
in
the
past
referred
to
this
I
work.
I
work
is
now
we
just
referred
to
as
the
Employment
Program,
this
competitive
employment
for
persons
with
mental
illness,
and
it's
not
about
having
the
ten
set-aside,
jobs
or
Giger's
and
approach
restore,
which
are
wonderful,
but
we
really
try
to
work
individually
with
each
person
to
see
what
they
want
to
do.
You
know
participants
come
to
us
with
PhDs
with
masters
and
GED,
so
we
want
to.
We
want
to
find
something.
That's
good
stuff
I
actually
have
forgot
the
most
important.
H
H
H
Q
I
I
I
Ever
since
I
was
in
school,
I
went
to
Loyola
University
in
Chicago,
I
graduated
in
southern
discovered
me
and
my
last
semester.
There
I
focused
on
community
mental
health,
so
that's
been
a
passion,
even
though
I
went
worked
in
the
hospital
in
a
medical
floor
for
years
in
an
inpatient
site
for
about
nine
years,
almost
and
then
that
day,
hospital,
outpatient,
mental
health
and
then
I
went
to
work
with
the
elderly
for
nine
years,
at
Council,
for
Jewish
elderly
CJE,
Senior
Life
and
at
Heartland
and.
I
I
have
so
much
respect
for
the
people,
I
work
with
not
only
the
clinical
team,
but
most
of
all
the
participants,
the
clients
we
work
with
for
their
resilience
and
their
their
strength,
but
they
need
support
and
I
want
to
be
part
of
that
support,
and
one
thing
that
we
know
is
that
people
with
mental
illness
tend
to
have
a
shorter
life
span
than
the
average
population.
Unfortunately,
why
is
this
part
of?
I
People
that
have
difficulty
accessing
services-
and
there
is
a
big
part
of
what
I
do
like
I,
said
I'm
fortunate
to
work
with
an
amazing
clinical
team.
We
work
together,
we
communicate
and
together
we
all
do
what
the
best
for
our
participants
and
we
what
the
most
important
thing
is,
is
the
outcomes
you
know.
How
does
this
impact
people
and
I
think
I
can
say
part
of
having
a
nurse
on
a
on
a
team
helps
hopefully
prevent
further
health
decline.
I
Helps
people
understand
what
profession
is
all
about
and
helps
them
feel
more
comfortable
access,
primary
care
services,
one
of
the
things
I
do
is
help
people
get
linked
with
primary
care
providers
that
don't
already
have
one
and
I
also
go
with
people
to
many
appointments.
Part
of
my
role
is
education
and
also.
I
Mental
health
that
don't
always
they've
always
had
that
and
they've
done
some
research
studies
that
in
community
health
care
when
a
person
is
linked
right
away
and
it
can
be
followed
by
a
complete
team.
Their
rate
of
hospitalization
and
the
health
decline
is
much
much
lower.
So
you
know
I,
think
that
that
was
I
was
very
proud
of,
and
something
I
was
very
fortunate
to
be
able
to
do
like.
I
Wonderful
team,
our
psychiatrist
is
great.
Dr.
Solomon
he's
been
there
since
the
beginning,
I
believe
and
he's
been
a
terrific
support
to
all
of
our
participants
and
our
team.
But
to
me,
when
I
deal
with
the
medications,
I
help
a
lot
with
people
managing
their
medications
and
other
Solomons
always
been
very
accessible.
In
fact,
he's
out
of
the
country
will
be
out
of
the
country.
He
said
I'll
just
call
me
if
you
need
me,
and
he
means
to
so.
I
All
of
this
makes
it
a
wonderful
place
to
be,
and
I'd
like
to
be
able
to
continue
to
give
as
much
as
I
can
to
our
participants,
who
I
learned
so
much
from
with
their
resilience
and
I
only
give
you
one
example
of
some
people
has
a
harder
time
talking
to
their
physician
or
really
understanding,
and
most
many
people
are
they're
very
bright.
It's
got
nothing
to
do
with
it,
but.
I
Ever
done,
yeah
I
mean
he
doesn't.
He
does
not
just
get
like
that.
This
is
not
your
baseline,
so
I
thought
something's
really
going
on,
so
they
tried
to
do
an
EKG
and
he
wouldn't
allow
them
to
do
it
turns
out.
We
went
to
the
emergency
room
and
we
went
over
his
medications
and
one
of
the
medicines
he
was
honest
Authority,
primarily
because
he
partly.
I
I
Know
one
of
the
effects
of
Thorazine
is
akathisia,
which
is
this
restlessness
because
he
couldn't
sit
down.
He
decides
the
dizziness.
He
kept
getting
up
off
the
ER
been
going
to
the
walking
around
and
then
coming
back
and
saying.
He's
dizzy
turns
out
that
the
doctor
said
no,
no,
he
needs
a
Thorazine
and
they
sent
her
home.
So
we
can't
find
anything
and
I
said
respects
the
way.
I
said
it
just
because
you
can't
find
anything
doesn't
mean
nothing.
I
Is
there
and
I'm
afraid
when
you
end
it
doesn't
get
better
on
who
was
discharged
and
we
came
back
the
next
day
and
I
talked
to
the
doctor.
Again,
as
a
restlessness
got
worse,
it
turns
out
I
called
dr.
Solomon
I
said
we
can't
leave
here
until
we
know
why
he's
still
so
restless
and
still
dizzy
turns
out.
It
was
a
Thorazine.
It
was
at
Cathedral
Authority.
I
It
the
dizziness
went
away
I'm,
not
a
doozy.
Well,
the
dizziness
discs
are
to
go
away,
but
all
cell
deepam,
the
the
restlessness
he
also
had
anemia
and
I
asked
for
them
to
please
do
a
complete
blood.
Common
came
back
a
second
time,
and
he
found
out
that
his
hemoglobin
was
like
6
and
normal
is,
is
13
to
12
or
13
to
like
15
60,
so
I'm,
hoping
that
my
roll
helped
prevent
him
from
getting
worse.
I
I
Have
a
very
nice
relationship
with
areas
other
than
were
corrected
with
connections
for
the
homeless
by
voting
Erie
I
go
to
private
physicians,
I
go
with
people
for
what
I'm
going
with
someone
on
Monday
for
colonoscopy,
and
we
met
yesterday
for
like
an
hour
T
over
prep,
because
she
was
really
nervous
about
it
and
I
helped
and
I
called
the
office
to
clarify
something.
But
I
really
want
to
say
that
our
our
participants,
though,
are
doing
the
stars.
They
are
there.
We
have
a
recovery
model
and
they're
they're,
wonderful.
That.
I
Long
yeah,
it
doesn't
matter,
we
serve
everyone
and
I,
go
with
anyone
and
I
there's
a
certain
number
that
I
follow
a
little
bit
more
closely
because
of
their
health
needs
and
medication,
and
monitoring
that
but
I
have
accessible
to
the
entire
agency
as
always,
and
there
there's
no
it's
not
like
home
health.
Where
you
know
you
only
have
X
number
of
visits
for
one
specific,
targeted
area
such
as
after
surgery.
You
know
for
dressing,
changes
that
were
having
I'm.
I
F
H
F
D
See
them
in
South,
I'm,
sorry
now,
I'm
gonna
ask
the
question
and
and
then
it
has
this
question
of
every
agency,
so
we
have
a
very
difficult
problem,
because
the
requests
from
agencies
are
a
lot
greater
than
monies
available.
We
have
received
information
that
our
grant
award
this
year
from
the
city
that
we
internally
allocate
recommend.
The
allocations
for
the
agencies
is
going
to
be
four
percent
less
than
last
year
and
we
have
several
more
agencies
that
play
so
my
question
to
all
the
agencies.
Please
address
it.
H
So
I
know
I
can
speak
confidently
on
this
and
I
think,
probably
every
other
CEO.
It's
like
you're
out
there
and
the
three
will
say
the
same
thing
as
a
non-profit.
All
we're
doing
is
trying
to
raise
enough
money
to
keep
us
afloat
and
when
something
gets
cut,
it's
just
going
to
be
a
shift.
It's
going
to
be
a
shift.
If
we
have
one
money
for
one
program
that
we
can
continue
to
do
that,
and
if
we
don't
have
money
for
another
program,
it's
going
to
be
shifting
our
priorities.
H
All
of
our
programs
are
our
priority.
All
of
them
all.
Three,
all
three
of
the
legs
of
our
stool
are
critically
important
and
they
are
all
interwoven.
They
all
rely
on
each
other.
So
if
one,
if
one
leg
gets
weaker,
it
takes
out
that
so
it's
a
harder
it
for
the
whole
stool.
So
I
respectfully
disagree
in
that
something
I
think
we
do
need
this
money
for
us
to
continue
to
do
the
high
quality
work
that
we
do
and
for
us
to
continue
to
grow
with
the
demands
of
this
community.
So
I.
H
Much
agree
with
I
know
that
money
gets
cut
everywhere,
I
used
to
work
for
the
city,
so
I
know
exactly
where
justice
is
on
this,
so
I
do
believe,
they're
great
stewards
of
the
funds.
If
you
don't
get
fully
funded
me,
we
do
it
every
other,
nonprofit
community.
Does
we
make?
Do
we
fundraise
more?
We
we
cut
ours,
we
have
to
cut
ours,
but
we
still
want
to
serve
our
participants
in
the
full
continuum.
That
means
that
they
deserve
Thank.
Q
Good
morning
my
name
is
Jennifer
drinks
and
I'm,
a
senior
program
supervisor
for
Metropolitan
Family
Services
Featherstone
Skokie
Valley's
Metropolitan's
Evanston
Skokie
Valley
offices
are
8:20
Davis
with
218
in
Evanston
and
552
ten
main
in
Scottie.
The
main
phone
number
is
eight
four,
seven,
four
to
five
7,500
and
the
website
is
naturally
look.
Others
have
leadership
team,
our
current
fresh
Evanston,
Skokie
valley,
center
director
and
Roxanne
Nava,
our
executive
director
of
the
region
as
I'm
starting.
This
presentation,
I
would
like
to
have
you
think
about
a
situation
with
a
client
that
we
had
this
year.
Q
It
was
a
young
mother.
She
was
upset
frustrated
in
a
very
bad
place
in
terms
of
where
her
life
was,
and
she
told
the
family
support
and
prevention
therapist
that
she
wanted
to
smash
her
two-year-old
daughter's
head
against
a
wall
and
so
as
I
get
to
the
end
of
this
presentation.
I'm
going
to
tell
you
what
happened
in
that
case,
our
family
support
intervention
program
has
been
serving
vulnerable,
Evanston
families
for
more
than
20
years.
Q
The
only
support
intervention
is
a
program
that
completely
encompasses
Metropolitan's
mission
of
helping
families
to
learn,
to
earn
to
thrive
and
to
heal.
The
purpose
of
the
program
is
to
give
the
families
the
tools
they
need
to
be
able
to
effectively
parent
their
children,
thereby
enhancing
their
family
functioning.
As
we
strengthen
families,
we
reduce
the
risk
of
child
abuse,
a
program
which
works
exclusively
with
Evan
student
residents.
Evanson
families
offer
services
in
Spanish
and
English
and
they
offer
home-based
and
office
based
services.
Q
Therapist
has
a
master's
degree
a
bilingual
and
bicultural,
and
also
has
a
48-hour
domestic-violence
training
program,
focuses
on
families
with
multiple
problems
and
helps
to
address
core
issues
that
impact
the
child
and
family
functioning.
We
offer
intensive
counseling
case
management,
advocacy,
parenting,
support
and
referrals
as
needed.
Q
Google
staff
works
with
families
to
identify
the
problems
and
stressors
impacting
the
family.
We
assist
parents
and
children
in
developing
skills
that
meet
their
physical,
emotional,
social
and
developmental
needs
all
metropolitan
family
service
programs,
including
family
support
and
prevention,
provide
and
receive
data
on
outcomes
through
our
quality
and
evaluation
Department.
We
are
very
proud
of
our
outcomes,
which
includes
data
from
the
parenting
stress
index,
which
parents
complete
every
six
months,
as
well
as
data
from
progress
toward
their
treatment
goals.
Additionally,
an
emphasis
high
standards
are
acknowledged
by
its
National
Council
on
Accreditation
steps.
Q
Metropolitan
is
truly
grateful
for
the
current
funding
level
and
family
support
and
prevention
will
continue
to
maintain
its
strength
at
that
level.
Metropolitan
has
resources.
We
have
an
annual
fundraiser
that
we
up
here
for
Skokie
Evanston.
We
have
other
resources
where
the
agency
puts
contributes
to
the
budget,
and
so
obviously
we
request
the
amount
of
our
our
request.
However,
if
there
are
cuts,
Metropolitan
will
be
able
to
maintain
the
program
with
a
slight
cut.
I
would
say
so.
Q
Metropolitan
Family
Services
contributes
50%
to
the
overall
FST
program
budget
with
the
mental
health
court
funding
50%
of
the
program
m
FS
go
to
Delhi
has
its
own
30
member
board,
and
money
raised
through
those
event
supports
local
programs,
including
dental
supported
professional.
With
the
increase
that
ffs
received
last
year,
we
were
able
to
offer
parent
and
fundamentalist
this
program
that
offered
specifically
to
our
family
supported
prevention.
Q
Families,
parent
of
fundamentals
is
unique,
and
that
is
an
evidence,
evidence-based
program,
and
it
has
a
commitment
to
offering
parents
specific
information
and
problem-solving
based
on
the
age
of
their
child.
Here
are
a
few
comments
that
were
prepared
to
complete
an
eight-week
session,
and
these
comments
were
in
Spanish.
Our
group
was
in
Spanish
and
they
had
been
translated.
One
of
them
from
a
parent
was
I
learned.
What
was
abuse
and
what
was
neglect.
N
Q
Parent
I
learned
not
to
yell
and
to
not
spank
my
children,
another
one
I
learned
how
to
listen
to
my
children
and
to
solve
problems,
and
one
parent
wrote
about
on
a
question
of
how
will
your
child
benefit?
What
does
your
child
say
about
your
participation
in
parenting
fund
amounts
and
the
parent
growth?
My
daughter
says
that
I'm
a
better
mom,
so
our
partnerships
in
the
community
are
strong
and
they
include
a
group
that
the
family
supported
prevention,
therapists,
coda
subjects
with
staff
and
district
65
Family
Center
now
instant.
Q
Q
In
addition
to
district
65
in
Erie,
FSP
receives
referrals
from
area
to
hospitals
and
schools.
We
also
have
a
partnership
with
camp
echo
and
we
use
funds
from
separate
Korea
to
send
Evanston
families
to
camp
echo
in
Michigan
through
the
YMCA
one
family
Lee
sent
this
year
has
been
in
family
support
and
prevention
and
the
mom
and
the
dad
and
the
17
all
daughter
and
a
9
year
old
daughter,
all
went
for
weeks,
a
family
camp.
This
was
paid
for
by
Metropolitan
and
it
was
offered
to
this
family
for
being
in
family
support
and
prevention.
Q
Q
Q
Linked
parent
with
the
child
adolescent
program,
so
that
her
child
could
begin
receiving
mental
health
services.
So
gonna
end
in
my
presentation
by
telling
you
about
the
client
who
benefited
from
the
wraparound
services,
the
client
s
1723
program
for
over
two
years.
So
shortly
after
her
daughter
was
born,
she
was
referred
to
the
program
by
one
of
our
partners:
district
65.
At
the
time
she
was
separating
from
her
daughter's
father
and
during
the
first
year
of
services
there
she
was
it's
unhealthy
relationship.
Q
There
was
a
lot
of
conflict
in
the
relationship
she
was
able
to
separate
from
the
relationship
and
her
daughter
continued
to
have
contact
and
visitations
from
with
the
father.
However,
she
really
began
to
struggle
as
a
single
parent,
so
her
two-year-old
daughter
was
having
say
throwing
herself
on
the
floor.
Kicking
screaming
yelling.
The
client
was
unable
to
call
her
was
unable
to
regulate
any
of
those.
Emotions
didn't
know,
really
why
this
was
happening.
Q
What
was
going
on,
she
felt
frustrated
angry
and
alone,
and
she
told
the
family
supported
prevention
theories
that
she
wanted
to
smash
her
daughter's
head
against
a
wall.
The
client
was
seeking
a
safe
space
to
be
able
to
tell
someone
a
trusted
individual,
these
deep
inner
feelings
and
obviously
a
risk
assessment
was
completed.
A
safety
plan
was
done.
The
risk
assessment
revealed
that
the
client
had
never
physically
harmed
her
daughter
and
that
she
had
never
come
close
to
doing
it.
Q
She
had
the
thought
that
she
wanted
to
do
this,
so
what
we
did
was
we
immediately
increased
her
therapy
to
twice
a
week.
We
did
phone
check-ins
on
a
very
regular
basis.
We
created
a
safety
plan
so
that
she
knew
how
to
contain
her
daughter
and
walk
away,
what
she
needed
to
do
that,
how
she
needed
to
get
help
and
we
enrolled
her
in
parenting
fundamentals.
Q
The
timing
was
actually
really
amazing
because
the
route
was
starting
in
that
this
was
happening.
So
we
were
able
to
connect
these
two
very
important
resources,
so
she
attended
the
first
class
and
she
will
concern
that
she
wouldn't
be
able
to
go
because
she
was
also
working
full-time
and
her
job
was
sometimes
she
worked
mornings
and
afternoons,
and
sometimes
she
worked
afternoons
and
evenings
and
the
schedule
was
done
and
she
had
to
show
up
when
she
was
scheduled.
Q
Q
Was
a
two-hour
class
for
80
weeks
childcare
was
provided
and
the
clients
received
lunch
when
they
came.
She
learned
about
child
development.
She
learned
about
what
her
daughter
was
going
through.
She
learned
about
herself
and
she
applied
this
to
her
daughter's
behavior,
so
she
was
able
to
identify
her
daughter
needed
more
attention.
Her
daughter
needed
consistency
and
her
daughter
needed
positive
redirection,
and
this
is
a
quote
from
her
I
learned
to
pay
more
attention
to
my
child
and
be
more
involved
in
games
and
have
more
time
with
her.
Q
The
clients
change
in
her
parenting
led
to
a
reduction
in
her
daughter's
Tantrums
and
the
Kleinberg
coping
skills
to
reduce
her
stress
began
feeling
more
positive
about
daughter.
The
therapists
continue
to
reinforce
these
skills
during
individual
sessions
and
the
client
has
been
able
to
follow
through
and
use
the
skills.
Q
There
is
no
risk
at
this
time
of
abuse
anymore.
She
has
reached
the
point
where
she
is
able
to
understand.
What's
going
on,
she's
able
to
parent
her
daughter
with
Paris
plan
has
also
been
working
on
the
loss
of
her
relationship
and
learning
about
healthy
and
unhealthy
relationships
and
how
she
can
really
build
her
own
life
increase
her
own
self-esteem
and
work
on
her
own
goals.
So
this
type
of
success
would
not
be
possible
without
the
support
of
the
mental
health
board.
Every
request
request
continued
funding
to
keep
supporting
Evanston
families
thanks.
Q
Know
what
so
generally
renee
and
services
if
they,
what
we
tell
them,
is
at
any
time
you
can
call
us
back
and
we
initiate
and
reopen
services,
and
so
we
have
has
families
who
may
close,
and
then
they
come
back
into
services.
We
do
also
have
some
families
who
will
stay
open
for
a
period
of
time,
and
then
we
maybe
call
back.
They
can
always
call
back
to
receive
help
if
they've
been
in
the
program.
E
Q
Some
part
of
it
with
things
like
depression,
anxiety,
some
PTSD-
that
we
do
our
therapist
is
a
master's
level
clinician.
If
there
are
other
more
severe
mental
illness,
we
assess
that
there's
more
severe
of
symptoms
than
we
would
refer
them
for
more
intensive
mental
health
services,
but
we
provide
mental
health
in
addition
to
parenting,
support.
U
Q
So
most
of
the
clients
who
come
into
our
program
are
struggling.
They
may
have
a
variety
of
issues
that
maybe
don't
know,
so
it
could
be
anxiety,
anxiety,
leading
to
stressors
that
happen
in
the
family.
There
could
be
financial
issues
that
lead
to
depression,
so
there
are
mental
health,
so
mental
health
is,
and
over
kind
of
over
reaching
overarching
issue
with
all
our
clients
in
this
program.
So
in
terms
of
what
services
they
receive,
we
really
focus
on.
It's
called
family
support,
intervention
to
kind.
J
Q
Q
The
therapist
works
on
motivational
interviewing,
which
is
a
strategy
to
help
somebody
kind
of
figure
out
whether
ambivalence
is
in
their
life
and
what
do
they
want
to
do?
What
are
what
are
some
of
their
goals
and
what
do
they
want
to
do
and
what
do
they
want
to
achieve
so
mental
health
services
as
part
of
family
support
vention
is
very
connected
to
the
parenting.
B
G
The
same
as
a
point
for
holidays
perfecting,
but
while
it
is
important
for
the
board
to
consider
mental
health
services
until
the
board
goes
to
City
Council
and
requests
to
only
focus
on
mental
health
services,
it
is
important
to
the
board
to
consider
all
of
the
funding
priorities
and
all
of
the
priorities
that
the
board
is
responsible
for.
Considering.
P
Susan
from
trilogy
this
is
authority
comedy
our
main
errors
is
1400
bus
benches.
We
also
have
an
office
at
8:38,
Howard
Street
in
Evanston.
We
are
behavioral
health
organization,
so
everything
we
do
in
a
behavioral
health.
So
our
position
that
we
are
applying
for
an
extension
that
we've
got
thirty
thousand
dollars
this
year
for
a
liaison
position
to
the
other
school
community.
P
So,
for
example,
we
have
open
it
open
access
hours
every
week
at
trilogy,
but
for
clients
who
are
reluctant
to
come
in
for
services,
the
Evanston
outreach
worker
will
come
to
somebody's
home.
One
of
them
from
our
success
stories
is
up.
I'm
McKenna,
who
expressed
he
came
into
the
Hudson
library
and
now
with
Becca.
Who
is
our
liaison.
P
P
Our
service
is
not
a
part
of
what
we
are
able
to
do,
because
the
our
Medicaid
payment
structure
doesn't
pass
to
do
that,
and
so
that's
part
of
the
beauty
of
this
position
is
Bethan
is
able
to
really
make
those
connections
in
a
way
that
is
not
part
of
our
normal
process.
So
this
year
we
could
able
to
serve
well.
We
anticipate,
by
the
end
of
this
year,
we'll
be
able
to
serve
75
new
epics
and
residents.
P
P
P
L
L
Have
a
lot
of
mental
health
needs.
One
of
the
things
that
makes
this
trilogy
unique
up
here
on
the
North
Shore
on
the
north
side
of
Chicago
is
we
have
assertive
community
treatment
and
community
support
teams,
and
so
these
are
very
intensive
outreach
teams
that
go
out
and
see
people
in
the
communities
in
which
they
live.
L
People
do
not
come
in
to
our
offices
to
see
us,
we
go
to
them,
and
so
what
vodka
has
been
able
to
do
with
a
great
in
the
last
year
is
to
be
able
to
engage
new
people
into
those
types
of
services,
so
the
the
permanent
Susan
reference
that
she
was
able
to
outreach
at
the
library
through
also
the
partnership
web
presence.
So
there's
a
presence
person
that
works
in
the
library.
The
president's
person
said:
hey
BEC,
I
think
you
need
to
go
talk
to
this
person.
She
met
with
him
many
many
times.
L
Where
people
can
come
in
to
make
an
appointment,
they
can
just
show
up
and
they'll
see
them,
but
for
many
many
different
reasons,
sometimes
people
don't
take
advantage
of
those
open
access
hours.
It
is
still
kind
of
scary
to
get
up
out
of
bed
and
take
a
bus
or
drive
to
a
mental
health
center
and
get
those
services
that
you
need.
There's
a
lot
of
anxiety
around
those
things.
I
don't
want
to
be
those
people.
A
lot
of
misunderstanding
in
the
community
and.
L
L
Point
we
just
don't
have
the
we
know
the
capacity
to
do
that
people
make
appointments
and
they
either
show
up
for
them
where
they
do,
if
they
don't
show
up,
we'll
call
them
and
try
to
reschedule
that
they
have
to
return
those
phone
calls
having
somebody
that's
able
to
go
into
the
community
and
find
people
and
talk
to
them.
It's
absolutely
crucial
to
get
those
people
engaged
in
the
service
of
the
city.
So
we
hope
that
you'll
find
us
for
another
year
to
be
able
to
do
these
critical
services
here
is
heaven's
name?
Do.
D
V
V
L
Of
those
individuals
didn't
become
trilogy
clients,
many
of
them
are
receiving
those
a
CT
and
CSP
levels
of
services.
The
other
people
were
referred
to
other
services
in
the
Evanston
community,
more
appropriate
services
geared
toward
what
their
needs
were.
They
didn't
have
that
intensity.
We
work
to
get
them
linked
to
other
services.
This.
D
L
D
L
Don't
know
the
total
number
of
people
back
to
work,
but
I
know
that
the
person
that
Susan
is
talking
about
that
the
library
was
somebody
that
identified
as
homeless
and
we
also
we
do
have
housing
programs
so
again,
once
they're
in
linked
into
our
services,
they
get
the
full
the
full
variety
of
trilogy
services.
We
have
an
integrative
health
clinic
that
has
primary
care
and
psychiatry.
We
do
traditional
outpatient
therapy
type
services.
We
have
health
and
wellness
services
a
lot
of
different
group
offerings
in
addition
to
the
individual
services
Gayatri.
We.
P
L
I
believe
Becca
has
helped
at
least
six
people
apply
for
Medicaid
benefits
this
year,
so
people
that
did
not
have
insurance
when
they
came
through
her.
She
was
able
to
get
them
onto
Medicaid
onto
insurance,
and
then
we
were
able
to
open
them
over
there
for
more
intensive
services.
So
she
does
do
a
lot
of
work
to
help
people
which.
J
L
And
we
mean
it
would
be
difficult
for
us
to
continue
to
be
able
to
do
the
outreach
that
we've
been
doing,
because
what
somebody's
not
open
to
trilogy
and
they
don't
have
insurance.
We
have
no
way
of
getting
paid
for
those
services,
so
she
has
been
able
to
warm
these
critical
links
to
almost
30
other
evanston
organizations.
So
she
can
call
that
when
she's
got
something
that
she
thinks
would
benefit
from
their
services,
they
can
call
us-
and
that
takes
time
and
effort
to
create
those
linkages
in
not-for-profits.
L
Sometimes
people
come
and
go
as
they
get
other
job
opportunities
and
still
still
being
able
to
reach
out
the
new
people
are
and
make
sure
that
we
stay
on
their
radar
and
that
organization
stays
on.
Our
radar
continues
to
enhance
those
partnerships
that
we've
developed
in
the
last
year.
I
know
that
Beca
has
some
ideas
about
some
continued
partnerships
and
potentially
developing
new
partnerships.
Next
to
your
book
and
again
those
individuals.
Without
that
came
without
insurance,
we
would
not
have
been
able
to
help
them
get
the
insurance
okay.
T
T
We
can
imagine
100
percent
of
thinking
your
mind.
A
hundred
percent
of
the
individuals
we
serve
will
have
some
form
of
an
intellectual
developmental
disability.
Be
that
autism,
via
a
cognitive.
You
know
developmental
delay,
there's
a
number
of
different
diagnosis.
These
Franz
relax
that
we
see,
but
the
attitudes
of
me
you
know
most.
Everyone
has
that
in
common.
V
T
Processing,
if
it's
other
ways
that
the
information
has
to
be
presented
so
for
us,
those
40%
of
individuals
that
we
provide
support
for
really
need
a
niche
and
kind
of
a
double-hull
support,
and
that
is
really
what
the
mental
health
funding
has
allowed
us
to
do.
In
evanston.
Over
this
past
year
we
have
been
able
to
work
with
conflict
resolution,
creating
this
conflict
resolution
group
with
the
support
of
dr.
Smith
box.
T
Our
staff
will
also
our
contact
resolution
and
train
in
that
area.
We
have
also
been
able
to
continue
to
support
and
work
with
our
social
drop-in,
the
majority
of
people.
We
work
with
our
low,
very
low
priority
level.
You
know
most
individuals
with
intellectual
developmental
disabilities
severely
under
you
know
underemployed
or
they're
unemployed.
T
We're
committed
to
continuing
this
very
focused,
Mental
Health
Program,
where
it
complements
traditional
mental
health,
providing
provider
services,
but
it's
also
a
day
for
those
with
developmental
and
to
disabilities
and
learning
differences
right
now.
The
mental
health
investment
also
has
other
real
effects.
You
know,
by
having
someone
with
once,
we
can
have
a
really
assistant
house
on
the
with
that
intellectual
developmental
disability
get
employment.
T
You
know
to
be
able
to
maintain
that
employment
is
just
so
critical.
Really,
if
there's
a
diagnosis
of
mental
health,
to
be
able
to
provide
them
with
ways
to
better
manage
conflict
and
interactions
in
the
workplace
is
just
really
has
a
tremendous
economic
impact
in
helping
that
person
continue
with
their
employment.
There's
also
the
degree
to
which
you
know
minimizing
some
of
the
conflict.
K
T
Supports
and
help
people
continue
to
function
that
doesn't
require
additional
funding,
and
that
is
always
a
part
of
what
we
look
at.
How
do
we
utilize
and
create
natural
supports
in
Anniston
for
Evanston
residents?
Our
2018
Mental
Health
Board
grant
proposal
incorporate
ongoing
and
new
programming
in
this
focus
as
utilizing
new
and
recurring
funding
sources.
T
So
for
our
conflict
resolution
you'll
see
an
increase
in
the
budget
and
then
refers
really
was
that
last
year
was
our
first
year
of
funding
and
our
first
year
having
this
program,
we
were
trying
to
Jimmy
flexing
with
our
staff,
as
we've
been
going
through
this
year
to
say
you
know.
Right
now
we
have
a
dr.
Samuel
box
once
a
month
and
our
individual,
our
staff
members
saying
you
know
it's
really
impactful
when
she's
there
and
she
has
so
much.
T
You
know:
psychosocial
educational
information,
you
know
not
nonverbal
body
language,
also
many
things
that
she's
teaching
and
don't
he's
reinforcing
this
on
the
three
weeks
that
she's
not
there.
The
feeling
was
that,
if
she
could
be
there
every
week
with
that
type
of
repetition
and
expanding
skills,
we
would
see
greater
significant
gains
with
this
group.
T
There's
a
with
the
group
that
currently
we
start
over
six
it's
out
tonight.
You
know
there
is
a
sense
of
it.
You
know
what
is
a
therapeutic
point
really.
You
can't
really
do
group
that
well,
that
starts
getting
too
large
because
people's
voices
don't
get
her,
and
you
just
have
too
many
in
the
group,
and
so
one
thing
we
are
looking
at
this
year
that
you
know
we've
already
started
to
see.
T
This
individual
has
really
had
some
significant
gains
in
skills
and
by
others.
You
know
we
want
to
see
that
type
of
skill
development
really
happened
with
everybody,
and
we
are
thinking
about
splitting
the
script
cos
there's
more
people
who
want
to
participate,
but
we've
been
holding
back
right
now.
There
was
a
like
a
pretty
heavy
number
and
having
been
a
mediator
myself.
That
is
a
lot
of
people
to
be
working
as
far
as
conflict.
T
T
So
if
you
look,
you
know
our
program,
our
budget
this
year,
you'll
see
that
there's
also
transition,
drop-in
and
programming
things,
and
there
is
after
school
transition,
volunteer,
Club
crisis
management,
intervention
that
we
have
with
individuals
that
you
know
this
past
week
or
the
week
before,
and
one
of
our
tutors
was
able
to
intervene.
You
know
someone
who
is
planning
to
transfer
to
suicide,
so
those
crisis
intervention
we
never
mentioned
before,
because
it's
something
that
we,
our
staff,
provides
that
support
me
just
last
year
wanted
to
make.
You
know
come
to
me.
T
It
was
things
that
we
wanted
to
do
that.
We
did
not
currently
have
established
funding
for
so
now,
you're,
getting
a
more
bigger
focus
on
what
we
do
in
the
area
of
mental
health.
As
you
can
imagine,
a
40%
of
our
population
is
to
leave.
It
plays
a
significant
role
for
us
and
then
we're
continuing
on
over
there.
You
know
incident
on
stamping
services
rather
to
continue
to
build
everybody's
expertise
and
ability
to
really
work.
T
Those
positive
way
on
areas
of
you
know
anger,
borderline
personality
disorders,
its
affective
disorder
hoarding
those
type,
both
issues
that
we
find
or
someone
for
us.
As
far
as
outcomes
and
impacts,
you
can
see
them
the
quarterly
reports
and
the
reports
of
self
reporting
that
individuals
are
doing
along
with
the
report
from
dr.
Fox.
So
the
two
points
that
I
know
were
limited
with
time
here,
but
the
one.
T
Properly,
managing
relationships
and
anger
in
that
temple
and
her
response
to
me
was
you
know:
I
had
started
to
give
up.
I
had
started
to
think
this
is
the
best
it's
ever
going
to
be
me
and
her
protect
us
from
a
mother's
eyes.
There
is
that
zero.
She
has
seen
in
the
last
year
with
this
conflict
resolution
group
and
the
intervention
skills
that
she
sees
her
adult
child
exhibiting
out
where
things
as
she
didn't
think
would
be
possible
and
for
participants.
T
T
When
you
look
at
our
budget-
and
you
know-
you
see
what
you
say
well,
how
does
this
total
number
look
so
much
larger?
We
didn't
realize
last
year
that
you
want
to
see
all
the
programs
were
doing
in
we're
where
we've
already
secured
funding
or
we
have
fund
raised,
or
we
have
other
funding
sources.
We
didn't
put
that
in
last
year,
so
I
just
wanted
to
put
that
out
there,
because
you
know
we
just
I
wanted
to
explain
it.
So
if.
F
R
R
Our
mission
is
to
basically
help
struggling
families.
Most
of
them
are
living
in
the
low-income
bracket
and
have
are
faced
with
not
only
seeking
basic
needs
for
their
young
families,
but
also
struggling
in
terms
of
mental
health.
That
often
goes
hand
in
hand
as
I'm
sure
you
well
know.
Each
year
we
serve
four
hundred
and
fifty-five.
R
Recently
we
were
serving
455
children
directly
in
one
way
or
another
through
our
different
programs.
We.
In
addition,
we
advise
and
connect
families
far
above
that
number
to
other
services
where
they
can
receive
help
the
children
that
we
serve
our
age,
prenatal
to
age
5
and
we
serve
parents
as
well.
I
am
new
to
see
any
I
just
joined
at
the
end
of
April
and
I'd
like
to
make
sure
that
it
is
understood
that
we
are
an
organization
having
gone
through
many
transitions
too.
R
R
So
I
am
I,
am
new
to
see
any,
but
I
am
NOT
new
to
the
community
and
I'm,
not
new
to
the
early
childhood
community
and
or
the
world
of
disabilities.
Having
been
very
connected
to
the
Center
for
independent
futures
as
well,
I
need
to
qualify
that
just
for
technicality
purposes
that
we
are
Early,
Head,
Start
and
Head
Start
funded
organization,
and
there
are
some
protocols
that
need
to
go
through
before
my
official
title
is
executive
director.
F
R
We
are
trained
to
be
the
best
we
can
be
at
the
children
network
of
Evanston.
It
is
taking
all
of
our
staff
or
very
enthusiastic
and
dead
that
they
do
and
have
been
doing
for
a
long
time,
I'm
very
proud
to
become
their
leader
permanently
and
I
just
want
to
reassure
the
mental
health
board
that
we
are
on
the
right
track
to
be
the
best.
R
This
program,
this
funding
that
you
have
graciously
given
the
childhood
network
of
Evanston,
began
in
2001
and
I.
Remember:
2001
I
was
the
director
of
a
preschool
at
different
preschool
in
Evanston,
and
we
had
a
child
who
was
suffering
from
mental
illness
and
the
family
that
was
suffering
along
with
her
and
the
the
funding
I
I
was
a
new
director.
I
didn't
know
what
to
do.
R
I
called
the
child
care
network
of
Evanston
got
more
thoughts
and
who
are
you
who
immediately
responded
and
sent
aligning
together
a
mental
health
consultant
over
to
our
school
and
helped
us
throughout
the
year
today
that
young
woman
is
a
senior
in
college?
Doing
well
has
received
services
and
support
through
different
Evanston
venues
and
different
Evanston
organizations,
and
schools
and
mental
health
consultants
and
I
think
everyone
would
be
very
proud
of
her
today
have
just
come
to
give
you
a
little
introduction
of
we're
sort
of
the
State
of
the
Union
lives.
R
R
First,
we
have
Albert
and
she
is
going
to
tell
us
about
the
program
that
she's
been.
W
Administering
hi,
my
name
is
Cara
Alpert
I'm,
a
early
childhood
social
worker
I'm,
a
supervisor
in
the
learning
together
program
and
I've,
been
learning
and
CNE
for
over
12
years
in
the
learning
together
program
learning
together
as
an
early
childhood
mental
health,
consulting
program
based
out
of
the
neutron
star
now,
revenue
learning
together
provides
free,
social,
emotional,
developmental
behavioral
and
speech-language
therapy
consultation,
yeah,
six
Evanston,
full-day
child
care
sites.
Learning
together
helps
really
try
to
have
teachers
in
their
classrooms.
We
help
parents
understand
their
children
in
a
deeper
way.
We
help
directors
make.
W
Appropriate
decisions
about
staffing
and
programming
within
their
centers,
and
we
help
children
feel
more
comfortable
and
confident.
Navigating
the
complexities
of
early
childhood
learning
together
is
the
only
program
of
its
kind
that
exists
anywhere
within
the
North
Shore,
while
learning
to
put
together
program
is
small
in
relation
to
other
social
service
programs
with
in
Evanston,
the
footprint
of
impact
is
large.
W
In
addition
to
the
breadth
of
coverage
of
the
learning
together
program,
there
are
several
specific
activities
that
demonstrates
the
delicate
services
that
the
program
provides,
learning
together,
work
with
teachers
and
administrators
support
the
amethyst
in
cradle
to
career.
Additionally,
the
targets
to
improve
the
quality
of
early
childhood
education
experience
through
the
training
of
skills
to
facilitate
a
child's
social,
emotional
and
behavioral
development.
W
Research
has
shown
that
social-emotional
skills
in
the
early
years
are
very
indicator
of
a
child's
future
school
success
than
early
academic
skills,
and
that
is
exactly
what
learning
together
house,
teachers
and
parents
to
understand
that
their
child's
social
emotional
needs
will
foster
their
long-term
development
and,
with
these
social,
emotional
skills,
they
will
go
on
to
the
path
of
success,
academically
and
socially
and
emotionally.
But
without
of
that
social-emotional
success
in
those
early
years.
Those
next
years
and
ongoing
for
their
academic
success
will
be
that
much
more
challenged.
N
W
With
the
new
Illinois
law
right
Illinois
bill,
HB
2
663
prohibits
the
expulsion
of
a
child
from
an
early
childhood
program
as
a
response
to
challenge
challenging
classroom
behavior.
Instead,
it
charges
that
the
early
childhood
program
has
the
responsibility
to
ensure
that
the
child
participates
safely
in
the
program
by
utilizing
arranging
community
resources,
including
model
available
interventions
and
support
recommended
by
a
qualified
professional
learning
together,
provides
the
necessary
expertise
for
required
interventions.
Developing
intervention
plans,
training
support,
provisional
professional
development
resources.
W
To
understand
and
respond
appropriately
to
inappropriate
behaviors,
while
maintaining
a
healthy
and
safe
classroom
environment
for
all
children
over
the
18
years,
the
learning
together
program
has
been
providing
services.
We
have
seen
an
ongoing
success
with
program
participants,
children,
teachers,
administrators
and
parents,
but
I
thought
it
would
be
nice
to
share
two
specific
stories
and.
D
C
S
I
already
talked
bast
I'm
Carolyn
was
gods,
can
manage
our
systems,
navigation
missing
in
each
out
their
network
events,
and
we
are
basically
the
intake
group.
It's
so
we
meet
families
at
the
front
door
were
the
first
communication
with
and
I
want
to
tell
you
a
little
bit
about
that
process
and
a
little
bit
how
the
scholarship
money
that
the
Mental
Health
Board
provides
all
of
our
and
taste
our
systems.
Nanometers
returns
social
workers.
S
We
try
ideally
to
meet
with
every
family
in
person,
so
we
receive
a
phone
call
from
my
family,
which
is
asking
for
child
care,
sometimes
that's
as
simple
as
providing
a
resource
list
of
early
child
care
providers
in
our
community,
and
sometimes
it's
a
lot
more
complicated.
Sometimes
that
family
will
come
in
and
it
turns
unless
the
mother
has
mental
health,
leads
that
they've
never
applied
for
early
card
and
that
they
need
child
care.
S
So
our
goal
is
to
help
with
all
of
those
needs,
and
often,
as
Carol
mentioned,
that
means
we're
burying
families
out
places
where
they
can
receive
that
help
and
then
directly
helping
them
with
their
child
care
needs.
Families
who
have
that
many
needs
often
qualify
for
some
of
the
other
programming
that
we
offer,
which
can
include
early
headstart
of
Head
Start
or
the
child
care
assistance
program,
which
is
a
state
of
Illinois
subsidy
for
child
care
services.
S
The
scholarship
program
is
aimed
to
meet
families
who
are
just
above
the
levels
of
health
mandated
by
those
programs.
All
of
those
programs
have
income
limits,
and
once
you
pass
that
income
limit
you're
not
eligible
for
those
subsidies
anymore,
the
scholarship
program
is
for
those
families,
because
those
in
is
still
are
struggling
to
pay
for
child
care
in
our
community,
but
don't
while
other
subsidies.
S
So
we
go
through
a
very
detailed
process
with
the
families
looking
at
their
entire
and
kind
of
picture,
to
figure
out
what
the
best
match
for
them
is
in
terms
of
services.
We
also
if
the
family
does
apply
for
the
scholarship
program,
have
a
very
detailed
analysis
of
that
family
situation
in
order
to
determine
who
is
the
best
qualify
for
the
program.
I
do
want
to
point
out
that
serving
next
year
we
are
planing
to
change
the
scholarship
go
into
one
year
award.
S
We've
historically
done
the
awards
in
the
six
month
periods,
but
we've
heard
a
constant
feedback
from
the
family.
They
don't
really
qualify
for
another
six
month
period.
It's
devastating,
there's
very,
very
few
supports
available
for
the
families
who
don't
qualify
for
state
or
federal
subsidies,
so
to
lose
that
scholarship
in
the
middle
of
an
academic
year.
It
is
very
hard
for
the
family,
so
we're
changing
it
to
one
year
in
order
to
help
the
families
in
a
more
comprehensive
way
and
to
maintain
continuity
of
care
for
the
children
enrolled
in
the
program.
S
Our
only
simulation
with
a
care
provider
that
families
choose
is
that
it's
Evanston
based
and
licensed.
So
the
the
nice
thing
about
that
program
is
that
it
makes
it
unique
families
come
to
us
and
they're
able
to
choose
any
provider
of
their
choice,
which
you
know
every
family
has
a
different
circumstance
and
a
different
care
provider.
That
means
their
needs.
So
we
feel
that's
a
really
special
aspect
of
this
program.
S
We're
currently
partnered
with
over
ten
different
child
care
providers
in
Evanston,
so
the
farmers
go
to
each
of
those
providers
that
the
family
chooses,
but
I
just
want
to
give
you
a
little
bit
of
a
sense
of
what
those
for
federal
and
state
I
have
an
idea
where
these
families
are.
These
are
not
wealthy
families
who
are
receiving
the
scholarships
for
Early,
Head,
Start
and
Head
Start.
S
The
income
limit
for
those
programs
is
between
100
and
130
percent
of
the
federal
poverty
limit,
that's
somewhere
in
the
range
of
16
to
20
thousand
an
email
income
for
a
family
of
two,
a
mother
and
child,
but
the
child
care
assistance
program.
It's
just
over.
Twenty-Six
thousand
dollars
a
year.
That's
the
cap,
that's
the
point
at
which
you
become
ineligible
for
those
funds,
so
scholarship
means
those
families
who
might
be
in
a
hundred
and
sixty-three
percent.
S
The
federal
poverty
limit
twenty
seven
thousand
dollars
a
year
if
you're,
paying
private,
parriage
private
pay
child
care
services
in
our
community.
It's
over
half
of
your
income
immediately
out
the
door
so
that
you
can
go
to
work
so
these
grow.
The
this
program
is
again
specifically
geared
for
those
family
just
above
those
limits
and
don't
have
other
options.
You
may
have
heard
that
elluminate
is
going
to
raise
the
income
limits
at
a
child
care
systems.
S
Program
they've
in
the
last
three
years,
dropped
it
down
to
50%
below
the
federal
poverty
limit,
then
raised
it
back
to
one
hundred
and
sixty
two
percent
of
the
federal
poverty
limit,
and
we
just
received
notice
that
there
go
back
to
100
85
percent,
which
is
great
news.
I
mean
it's
really
what
we've
been
waiting
for
a
long
time
to
happen,
but
I
want
to
point
out
there.
N
C
C
R
O
O
O
We
have
two
grants
and
I'm
going
to
speak
about
the
infant
toddler
program,
which
serves
children
who
are
in
family
child
care
homes
in
Evanston,
and
there
are
play
with
this
program,
serves
primarily
low-income
families.
These
are
single
mothers
who
are
working
there,
often
in
the
service
industry.
Many
of
them
it's
their
first
child
they're,
very,
very
young,
and
the
process
of
child
care
can
be
very
daunting.
O
We
are
siteadmin
for
the
child
care
assistance
program
in
the
state,
which
means
that
we
can
help
these
parents
with
this
admission
packet,
which
is
several
debut
on
and
asks
a
lot
of
questions
about
their
family
size,
their
incomes.
Sometimes
they
don't
understand
that
if
they
live
another
family
member,
that
you
don't
have
to
count
that
family
members
income,
so
we
are
family,
childcare,
education
manager
and
our
center
manager.
O
Who
also
is
a
site
administrator
person
can
walk
the
parents
through
this
process
and
within
24
hours,
come
up
with
their
copay
enrollments
and
give
this
child
get
the
child
into
care,
which
is
really
important
because
oftentimes
they
have
a
job
waiting
for
them.
They
can't
start
work
until
they
have
child
care.
The
child
care
program
won't,
let
them
start
child
care
unless
they
have
a
job.
So
we
need
to
do
two
things
simultaneously.
Fortunately,
we
do
it
very
well,
some
of
the
things
that
make
our
program
you
need.
O
First
of
all,
there
is
no
other
program
like
this
in
the
state.
Recently
I
was
contacted
by
someone
who
worked
in
another
organization
in
Evanston
was
now
Wisconsin
who
would
like
to
have
a
similar
program
Tarbes
up
there,
so
we
provide
not
only
the
support
for
the
administration
portion,
family
childcare
providers,
freeing
them
to
that
really
do
care
and
education,
the
children,
rather
than
shaking
no
paperwork
or
payment,
served
by
even
the
state
to
get
paid
on
time.
O
We
also
provide
a
network
of
other
stuffs
types
of
support,
including
training.
You've
heard
talk
today
about
trauma-informed
care
and
the
levels
of
expulsion.
It's
really
important
to
meet
children
near
to
early
age
and
build
these
social-emotional
skills.
A
child's
personality
is
pretty
much
set
by
the
time,
they're
five
years
old
and
entering
kindergarten,
so
dispositions
of
learning
and
stuff
so
that
these
children
don't
grow
up
feeling
hopeless
in
front
of
depression
and
other
forms
of
mental
illness.
O
The
screenings
that
we
do
in
our
program
are
partially
funded
by
a
film
of
fair
society,
and
they
help
us
to
identify.
Children
who
have
special
needs
can
be
overwhelming
for
a
parent
to
find
out
that
their
child
has
delays,
whether
they
be
in
speech
cognitive
or
physical.
Our
family
childcare,
Connexions
manager
works
with
childhood
family
connections
in
Arlington
Heights.
The
services
are
provided
in
the
childcare
providers
home
the
childcare
provider
learns
things
that
they
can
do.
The
parent
learns
things
that
they
can
do
so.
Children's
development
can
continue.
O
We've
had
a
huge
success
in
this
in
this
area.
Sometimes
the
parents
need
help
navigating
the
systems
to
with
payment
plans
how
to
budget.
So
we
try
to
provide
some
trainings
around
that
some
one-on-one
time
is
really
good
for
that
a
lot
of
times
when
a
parent
needs
help.
There's
a
statement
involved
in
that
so
having
a
group
setting
might
not
work
so
having
a
family
childcare
manager
talk
to
them.
One-On-One
is
really
really
important.
O
So
tracking
of
ourselves
is
kind
of
like
one
of
the
front
doors
of
learning.
You
know
a
lot
of
times.
People
think
that
babies,
they
can't
really
learn
they're
just
there
and
we
kind
of
care
their
basic
needs.
Our
program
has
a
roving
literacy
person.
It's
a
musician
that
comes
out
to
the
homes
and
immerses
the
children,
music
and
songs,
and
finger
plays
it's
great
to
see
the
babies
just
moving
their
little
bodies,
one
with
it.
It
builds
literacy
skills,
it
builds
math
skills
and
it
builds
that
self-confidence.
M
My
name
is
Leslie
Percival
I'm,
the
executive
director,
a
learning
grant
early
education
center
and
were
located
14
8,
1840,
Asbury
Avenue.
Our
phone
number
is
eight
four,
seven,
eight,
six,
nine
two
six,
eight,
oh
and
our
website
is
held
the
EEC
for
an
our
email.
If
necessary
is
admin
at
LBE.
You
see,
if
anything
else,
for
the
name
change
we
shortened
our
email
address
to
11.
M
With
the
scholarship
funding
that
you
awarded
us
last
year,
we
were
able
to
help
families
such
as
Anthea
and
Richard,
and
Aaron's
been
working
at
Edmiston
hospital
for
over
ten
years
and
makes
just
over
the
eligibility
amount
for
the
child
care
assistance
program
with
a
scholarship
from
you
have
an
original
remaining
care
and
prepare
for
entering
kindergarten,
which
will
relieve
a
lot
of
stress
for
mum,
knowing
that
her
son
will
have
continuity
of
quality
care
until
he
enters
school.
This
is
a
typical
example
of
how
critical
these
funds
are
for
our
families.
M
With
your
help,
we
were
able
to
re-establish
the
temporary
90
days,
scholarships
the
jaw
surgeons
that
were
no
longer
available
to
our
parents.
We
had
a
family
where
the
father
lost
his
job
and
he
was
worried
that
he
would
have
to
take
his
his
son
out
of
cab
and
then
have
him
at
home,
and
then
how
would
he
be
able
to
go
to
job
interviews
with
the
scholarship
beside
his
son,
stayed
in
care
until
kindergarten
and
dad
was
able
to
find
another
position
receiving
mental
health?
M
Both
funding
has
encouraged
us
to
increase
our
other
sources
of
scholarship
funding
for
children
who
participate
in
our
program,
but
do
not
live
in
Evanston.
We
have
been
able
to
help
other
families
keep
their
children
that
you
had
during
stressful
times.
The
Learning
bridge
has
received
scholarships
from
mental
health
border
funds
since
its
inception
of
the
program,
and
we
do
not
see
the
need
going
away.
Even
with
the
recent
return
to
the
eligible
eligibility
guidelines
of
two
years
ago.
M
There
will
still
be
a
need
to
help
families
who
are
able
to
receive
not
able
to
receive
financial
help
from
the
state
or
federal
sources.
We
are
asking
for
12,500
to
support
learning,
bridge
families
falling
off
the
seat,
a
clip
or
do
not
qualify
proceed
with
Java
assistance
program
due
to
income
guidelines.
F
M
O
X
Hello
good
morning,
my
name
is
Vikram
means
society.
This
is
Mary
development
director
with
infant
welfare
society
doukasen
just
over
two
years,
we're
located
at
2100,
West,
Main
main
site,
isn't
there
and
the
teen
baby
nursery,
which
we'll
be
discussing
today,
is
located
at
twenty
ten
doing.
Our
main
over
is
eight
four
seven,
four,
nine
one,
nine
six
five
zero
I
want
to
take
a.
N
X
Quick
moment
to
recognize
one
thing
that
saw
my
closest
colleague
charger
in
terms
of
the
early
childhood
world.
Some
of
them
are
learning
bridge
and
see
any
I
can't
tell
you
how
incredibly
profound
it's
been
working
together
and
there
was
new
initiatives
with
CME
being
resurrected
by
Carol
she's,
a
wonderful
partner
and
has
been
for
a
long
time
and
I
think
there's
a
lot
of
exciting
things
that
are
coming
in
mental
health
in
trauma
in
early
childhood
because
of
the
unity
that
is
now
back.
X
If
you
will
in
the
early
childhood
community,
so
I
wanted
to
just
recognize
my
colleagues
and
share
that
I
think
it's
really
profound,
but
in
terms
of
our
organization,
infant
welfare,
society
events
and
you
know,
generously
supported
teen
baby
nurseries
for
many
many
years.
It's
a
fundamental
part
of
our
funding
stream
for
us
I'll
share
with
you
a
couple
things
about
teen
baby
nursery.
We
are
leave
the
only
provider
that
specifically
focuses
on
this
age.
X
There
are
certainly
other
young
young
parents,
they
go
to
the
other
apartment
organizations,
but
the
teen
baby
nursery
specifically
focuses
on
ages
14
to
23.
We
have
a
partnership
with
Evanston
Township,
High
School
and
we
actually
have
slots
reserved
for
high
school
students.
We
currently
have
high
school
students
in
our
program,
and
so
I
want
to
share
with
you
just
about
the
challenges
that
these
young
parents
face.
These
are
some
of
the
most
volatile,
challenging
and
struggling
families.
We
haven't
understand
very
young
age.
Some
of
them
are
going
through
their
own
traumatic
experiences
as
teenagers.
X
Certainly
giving
birth
at
a
young
age
is
difficult
enough,
but
some
of
them
are
involved
in
domestic
violence
situations
both
at
home
and
with
their
partner.
Many
of
them
are
homeless
or
transient
or
couchsurfing,
as
we
say,
moving
from
family
to
grandmother
to
friend's
house
the
level
of
impact
that
that
has
on
our
young
children
that
we
serve
zero
to
three
is
really
incredible
and
very
challenging.
X
We
serve
16
parents,
specifically
the
predominately,
the
female
mothers
we
have
infants,
infants,
8
toddlers
are
supported
through
Early
Head,
Start
CCAP
when
available,
but
the
funding
that
the
Mental
Health
Board
gives
us
before
filing
the
impact
with
to
our
service
of
mental
health.
To
these
children
we
have
a
mental
health
provider.
Infant
mental
health
provider,
Erica
Anderson
from
the
University
Chicago
she
has
interns
that
works
with
us
and
works
very
closely
with
our
parents.
The
target
is
infant
mental
health.
X
To
support
them
to
refer
out
when
needed
is
really
a
core
of
our
mental
health
program
in
terms
of
social-emotional
development,
as
you've
heard,
as
well
as
our
developmental
screenings
that
we
do
monitoring
progress
of
children
looking
at
how
they
move
to
our
program
and
how,
when
we
are
helping
those
skills
develop
that
are
really
impacted
by
this
volatility
of
the
family.
The.
V
X
Level
of
mental
health
that
we
really
look
at
is
the
actual
parents
and
the
young
families,
and
certainly
many
of
our
mothers
are
going
through
mental
health
issues,
both
of
their
own
issues
and
familial
issues.
As
I
mentioned,
we
have
multiple
mentoring
groups.
Our
teachers
are
actually
training
specifically
by
our
staff
and
our
director
to
focus
on
a
different
type
of
mentoring
relationship
because
of
their
age.
We
do
have
a
groups
that
we
run
out
of
the
team
baby
nursery
specific
for
our
parents.
X
We
previously
had
a
pulse
partum
group
that
we
were
working
with
that
parents.
We
didn't
have
as
many
postpartum
issues,
so
we
are
pausing
that
program
and
certainly
will
refer
if
we
do
have
a
postpartum,
but
one
of
our
decisions
was
to
tell
parents
through
an
infant,
massage
class
that
is
certainly
involved
in
mental
health.
Mindfulness
working
with
your
child,
and
so
that
is
a
is
a
program
that
we're
doing
now.
They
meet
regularly
in
mentoring
groups
which
supports
mental
health
and
stability.
X
We
started
a
young
fathers
we
working
with
our
young
fathers
targeting
not
just
a
teen
baby
nurse.
We
put
all
of
our
programs
in
the
community,
but
specifically
designed
to
work
with
our
fathers
as
well.
So
I
can't
tell
you
the
level
of
need
for
young
parents
they're,
often
a
group
that
is
neglected
in
our
community.
That
is
isolated.
X
Sometimes
they
feel
the
need
to
to
disassociate,
and
so
part
of
our
job
is
to
connect
with
them
help
their
children
to
develop
socially
emotionally,
provide
clinical
services.
We
recently
applied
for
funds
to
support
more
family
mental
health
in
partnership
with
our
comlinks,
which
I
think
is
very
important,
and
so
this
foundational
dollars-
that's
given
and
so
generously
given
in
the
past
by
the
minimum
or
is
a
key
to
our
success
and
a
team
baby
nursery
and
really
working
with
some
of
the
most
vulnerable
mothers
and
fathers
that
we
have
in
our
Evanston
community.
X
So
I
would
certainly
hope
that
you
would
continue
and
I
would
implore
that
we
could
continue
the
funding
and
continue
the
diligent
work
we
do
trying
to
help
these
children
develop,
prepare
them
for
pet
star
or
their
pre-k
experience
and
move
on
to
kindergarten,
as
well
as
helping
the
parents
adjust
develop,
understand
the
needs
that
early
childhood
programs
have
on
compare
us
and
try
to
get
done
prepared
for
their
future
work
in
early
childhood
in
kindergarten,
elementary
school.
So
very
good.
Anything
else
about
to
add
so
I
want
to.
Thank
you
very
much.
X
Quite
honest,
if
he
does
say
to
us
again
this
these
dollars,
that
we
request
our
foundational
core
of
our
programming,
it's
built
into
the
complex
financial
structure
that
we
have
with
early
headstart
CCAP.
We
certainly
do
a
large
amount
of
fundraising
and
supports
all
of
our
programming
without
that
we
couldn't
operate
either.
So
any
part
of
those
funding
streams
that
are
pulled
from
our
current
budget.
We
have
to
find
a
way
to
make
up
and
again
with
increasing
philanthropy
other
organizations,
as
you
just
heard,
all
trying
to
raise
dollars.
A
X
X
We've
worked
with
other
mental
health
providers
that
we
refer
to
in
the
community,
so
we
actually,
you
know
again
one
of
the
challenges
funding
is:
how
do
we
provide
the
resources
to
private,
provide
all
the
mental
health
services
so
like
most
of
us,
we
have
to
refer
to
partner
organizations
and
find
services
the
challenges
that
some
of
those
services
are
at
cost.
So
many
services
have
long
waiting
in
us.
X
So
in
terms
of
the
hard
work
mental
health
is
internally
focused
with
Erica
Anderson,
our
mental
health
commission,
Tiffany
Culpepper,
our
director,
that
leads
the
mentoring
groups
with
the
mothers
and
also
other
providers
like
I
shared
the
infant
massage
in
mental
health,
is
also
another
aspect
of
a
internal
program.
We
do,
and,
of
course
we
have
other
areas
of
developmental
screenings
and
therapists
that
we
work
with
from
across
the
community,
whether
it's
Murray's,
Children's,
Hospital
or
others,
and
the
broader
Chicago
that
can
be
that
help.
Our
families.
K
My
name
is
Virginia
Lee
I'm
here
with
my
colleague,
dr.
Reginald
lund,
we're
the
co-executive
directors
of
the
Garrett
Evanston
Children's
Defense
Fund
in
Schools
program
and
we're
both
on
the
faculty
of
Guerin,
evangelical,
theological
seminary.
The
address
for
Guerin
evangelical
is
2121
Sheridan
Road
Evanston.
Our
website
is
Garrett
g,
AR,
r,
ett
dot
edu
and
our
office
support
phone
number
is
eight
four,
seven,
eight
six,
six
three
eight
six
one
Guerin
evangelical
has
been
a
part
of
the
Evanston
community
for
more
than
160
years.
K
One
of
our
core
values
is
prophetic
participation
in
society,
and
while
this
has
been
lived
out
in
various
ways
throughout
our
history,
one
way
we
seek
to
do
so
neon
is
through
a
commitment
to
children
in
Evanston,
especially
children,
in
the
fifth
Ward.
For
the
past
two
summers:
Garrett
evangelical
has
sponsored
a
Children's
Defense
Fund
Freedom
Schools
program.
It's
a
six-week
summer
literacy
program
that
helps
children
fall
in
love.
With
reading
the
Freedom
Schools
I
can
made
a
difference.
K
Theme
incorporates
the
mission
to
support
children
and
young
adults
to
succeed,
to
excel
and
to
believe
in
their
ability
to
make
a
difference
in
themselves.
Their
families,
schools,
community
and
world
with
hope,
education
and
action.
This
program
helps
to
prevent
the
summer
reading
slide,
as
well
as
developing
educational
characters
and
social
skills.
A
typical
day
that
Freedom
Schools
program
includes
breakfast
Harambee,
which
is
a
high-energy
opening
of
cheers
and
chants
and
includes
a
time
for
relay
when
a
community
guest
reads
to
the
scholars,
which
is
what
the
children
are
called.
K
The
rest
of
the
morning
is
used
for
integrated
reading,
curriculum
that
uses
culturally
relevant
books
to
engage
children
and
reading
and
critical
thinking
skills
after
lunch.
The
afternoon
is
spent
in
creative
activities
or
field
trips.
An
exile
assessment
of
our
summer
2016
program
found
that
80
percent
of
our
scholars
maintained
or
gained
in
instructional
reading
levels
and
did
not
experience
summer
reading.
Loss
surveys
that
were
completed
by
the
scholars
showed
positive
changes
in
their
attitudes
and
character,
skills,
children,
valued
school
and
education,
developed
positive
ethnic
identity
and
obtained
social
problem.
Solving
skills.
K
K
Parents
also
perceived
that
their
parenting
skills
have
improved
aspect
of
the
program
involves
summer
jobs
and
leadership,
development,
training
for
young
adults
in
college
or
graduate
school
who
serve
as
certaintly
or
interns.
During
the
last
two
years,
we
have
hired
seven
to
eight
young
adults
who
have
served
in
this
capacity
each
year,
and
certainly
our
interns,
who
are
the
teachers,
have
been
instrumental
in
helping
children
build
self-esteem.
K
During
these
last
two
years,
we
partnered
with
a
variety
of
organizations,
including
the
city
district,
65,
cradle-to-career,
Fleetwood,
Jordanian,
family
focus
and
a
number
of
faith-based
organizations.
We
focused
on
children
in
grades
three
through
five,
the
first
year
and
three
through
five
and
six
through
eight
the
second
year.
We
added
that
group
of
six
through
eighth
graders
the
second
year,
because
at
the
end
of
our
first
summer,
children
who
were
going
into
sixth
grade
knew
that
the
program
would
know
if
we
kept
it
the
same
way.
K
K
K
The
gear-up,
Freedom
Schools
program
is
one
way
to
help
show
to
maintain
literacy
skills
during
the
summer,
as
well
as
developing
and
strengthening
skills
needed
for
physical
and
mental
health,
and
when
I
was
thinking
before
coming
about
mental
health.
One
of
the
definitions
that
I
found
for
mental
health
says
that
it's
feeling
comfortable
about
oneself.
K
It's
providing
a
positive
feelings
about
others
and
it's
the
ability
to
meet
the
demands
of
daily
life,
which
we
think
are
important
for
everyone,
but
especially
children
and
the
ways
those
are
met
are
through
culturally
appropriate
curriculum
in
books,
opportunities
for
children
to
help
themselves
and
others
through
social
actions,
which
we
do
each
summer
and
through
the
literacy,
critical
thinking,
skills
and
building
self-esteem
and
now
I'm
going
to
turn
it
over.
To
my
colleague.
Dr.
blunt.
J
I'm
Reggie
blonde
also
co-executive,
director
of
the
Garrett
at
the
century
of
school.
If
you
allow
me,
I
like
to
share
just
a
brief
reflection
that
one
of
our
student
leader
interns
wrote
about
their
experience
with
the
freedom
school,
he
says,
I
had
the
privilege
to
impart
into
eight
young
scholars
lives
the
summer
all
had
big
personalities,
tons
of
energy
and
their
share
of
history
from
the
previous
school
year.
J
J
That
I
could
identify
spelling
Senate
structure
reading
over
the
process
of
time.
I
began
to
see
the
improvements
in
all
these
areas
from
the
scholars
the
magic
about
what
was
happening,
those
not
in
my
seeing
their
improvement,
but
in
them
being
able
to
clearly
see
the
result
of
their
own
work.
This
was
the
most
rewarding
experience
ever
out
of
all
eight
scholars.
One
touch
my
heart
in
a
very
special
way.
J
J
J
Mr.
a
I
didn't
sell
any
words
for
all
this
time.
This
moved
me
to
tears.
Rod
had
overcome
so
much
in
six
weeks
to
see
him
excited
about
the
very
thing
he
professed
to
hate
at
the
beginning
of
the
program
made
me
realize
how
special
freedom
school
really
is
I've.
Seen
with
my
own
eyes
the
effect
results
of
the
effective
results
of
this
program.
J
Thank
you.
We
have
had
former
Ottoman
Dolores
Holmes
to
be
a
big
champion
of
this
program
from
the
beginning,
and
we
have
a
letter
of
support
from
her
that
we
will
share
place
as
part
of
the
file
current
Alderman
Robin
Ruth
Simmons
is
also
a
great
support
to
this
program.
Her
daughter
Bailey
served
as
a
certainly
the
intern.
This
past
summer
we
had
a
father
one
of
our
certainly
the
interns
who
was
with
us
this
summer,
who
lives
here
in
Evanston,
dr.
Patricia.
N
J
Been
also
a
major
major
support
and
champion
of
our
work
and
service
our
project
coordinator,
we
hope
that
you
will
give
great
consideration
to
our
application
to
your
question
about
the
what
would
happen
if
there
had
to
be
a
reduction.
We
understand
the
tremendous
stress
that
you're
also
under,
and
how
to
make
these
awards
and
and
and
and
and
make
sure
it
has
an
impact
in
the
community
with
the
work
that
we're
doing
in
the
fifth
Ward.
J
If
we
had
to
experience
that
reduction,
that
would
have
an
impact,
a
major
impact
on
us
being
able
to
offer
the
quality
of
programming
that
we
would
that
we
want
to
make
sure
that
the
children
in
the
what
experience
that
we
work
with
so
again.
We
hope
that
you're
able
to
give
us
great
consideration
in.
J
J
The
program
is
a
call
to
Garrett
Evanson
program,
so
it
will
allow
us
to
be
able
to
really
demonstrate
that
we
have
humanity,
support
city
support
in
the
work
that
we
do
again.
It
will
allow
us
to
be
able
to
have
the
kind
of
quality
programming
that
we
desire
to.
We
desire
to
have
for
the
young
people
of
the
scholars
of
the
5th
Ward
that
we
are
particularly
working.
J
E
J
E
E
J
Definitely
do
believe
that
the
way
that
the
freedom
school
is
designed
it
it
definitely
meets
the
first
two
and
the
work
that
we
do
with
our
young
people
and
the
way
that
the
program
is
designed
to
help
them
have
a
greater
sense
of
self-esteem,
greatest
sense
of
celebrate,
a
sense
of
who
they
are
the
program,
along
with
focus
around
literacy,
the
kind
of
books
that
we
use.
We
use
authors,
we
use
titles,
we
use
words
that
allow
our
young
people
to
see
themselves
represented
and
in
the
readings
that
they
experience,
it
has
a
way.
J
As
it
relates
to
mental
health,
again,
I
think
self-esteem,
I
think
the
issue
of
how
one
sees
oneself
has
a
lot
to
do
with
how
they
deal
with
life
and
how
they
do
the
daily
stress
and
struggles
that
life
brings,
and
so
when
we
have
a
healthy
sense
of
self,
we
have
a
healthy,
healthy
mental
health.
Okay.
E
K
E
I'm
thinking
of
like
correlations
between,
for
example,
increased
literacy
and
school
readiness
with
a
correlation
to
mental
health,
better
men.
Do
you
see
what
I
mean
by
that?
Also,
even
like
anecdotal
evidence,
I
mean
that's
that
still,
that
would
have
helped.
Also
I
noticed
that
the
funding
is
like
for
this
training
and
Knoxville.
E
It
would
have
been
great
to
hear
that.
Maybe
your
agency's
undertaking
training
for
mental
health,
first
aid
or,
if
you
have
like
a
social
worker
or
a
psychologist
or
someone
on
staff,
it's
like
providing
workshops
just
to
help
the
mentals
and
other
people
kind
of
help.
Young
people
identify
needs
like
that
area
and.
J
E
D
C
Had
one
and
hopefully
quick
question,
it
is
a
great
program.
It
seems
somewhat
duplicate
if
of
other
things,
that
district
65
does
in
the
summer.
There's
there
reading
programs,
the
library
has
reading
programs,
family
focus,
I
think
does
stuff
in
the
summer,
with
kids
as
well,
and
so
I'm
wondering
how
we're
you
exactly
get
your
referrals
that
white
kids
would
come
to
your
program
as
opposed
to
one
of
the
other
constant
summer
photographs.
We.
J
Have
a
great
relationship
with
district
65,
and
so
they
and
and
what's
working,
that
the
principals
and
the
social
workers
and
the
schools
have
been
our
primary
area
for
recruitment
of
our
students.
I
wish
we
were
able
to
share
with
show
you
a
day
in
the
life
of
the
freedom
school
is
not.
The
song
is
not
to
say
that
our
program
is
better
about
our
program,
is
uniquely
different
and
how
we
carry
out
our
curriculum.
J
The
integrated
reading
program
is
has
a
unique
design
and
the
way
that
it
is
run
we're
working
with
our
kids
in
with
Harambee
and
how
they
start
in
the
morning.
Our
total
pedagogical
approach
to
helping
young
people
run
a
fall
in
love
with
reading
is
far
different
than
just
sitting
in
classroom
and
and
going
to
skill
development.