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A Silver Lining Foundation provides respectful and equal access to cost-free breast health testing through a network of partnerships with community, advocacy, and healthcare organizations.

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Through our Tax Assistance Program, Ladder Up mobilizes trained volunteers to provide low-income taxpayers with free tax return preparation. We ensure our clients access various tax credits, including the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), thereby maximizing their tax benefits. Additionally, we assist those without a social security number by processing Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) applications.

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Advocate Health Care provides immediate medical treatment for acute illnesses and trauma.

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Thorek Memorial Hospital provides echocardiogram, vascular imaging (venous, carotid, and lower peripheral flow studies [arterial Doppler studies]), cardiac stress testing (both treadmill and drug-induced studies), Holter monitoring, electrocardiogram, and pulmonary function studies.

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Physicians Immediate Care / WellNow Urgent Care has urgent care clinics that are open seven days a week and offer services such as routine physicals, X-rays, and treatment for illness, injuries, and various other symptoms.

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Shining Star Youth and Community Services offers Head Start, a Federal program that promotes the school readiness of children from birth to age five from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Head Start programs provide a learning environment that supports children's growth in many areas such as language, literacy, and social and emotional development. Head Start emphasizes the role of parents as their child's first and most important teacher. These programs help build relationships with families that support family well-being and many other important areas.

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Hanover Township's Senior Center operates as a warming or cooling center during periods of extreme weather. Transportation is provided only within the township for a $1 donation per ride and is available from 8:00am to 3:00pm, but hours can be extended if advanced notice is provided. Please call (630) 483-5600 to register.

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BUILD and their partners support youth by deeply engaging with their community. This involvement includes providing access to resources that promote and support mental and physical health. A healthy community serves as an essential safety net for young people.

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Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) helps people with disabilities find and keep jobs. Through their Transition and STEP programs they help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. The Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits. The Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.

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Josselyn's team of medical doctors and advanced-practice psychiatric nurse practitioners partner with clients and therapists to provide care to individuals. They offer a holistic approach to mental health care that combines both therapy and, when necessary, psychiatry or medication management.

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The Salvation Army's sports, recreation, and fitness programs help kids learn the value of health, physical activity, and teamwork. Recreation and sports programs are available at most Salvation Army community centers.

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Catholic Charities offers caring residential communities for seniors across Chicago and Suburban Cook County. Features across buildings include 24-hour front desk security, resident councils, activities, a community room with a kitchen, libraries, on-site laundry facilities, and monthly newsletters. Social service coordination is offered at all properties. All units are smoke-free. All rents are subsidized. Eligible households pay no more than 30% of their adjusted gross income for rent and utilities, excluding telephone.

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PrimeCare Health Community Health Centers are Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) that provide comprehensive primary healthcare services to the community. Patients without insurance will be assisted in enrolling for services.

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PrimeCare Health Community Health Centers are Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) that offer basic preventive, restorative, and emergency dental services to patients of all ages. This includes exams, cleanings, fluoride application, fillings, sealants, and extractions.

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The 28-Residential Program is structured to help patients address their chemical dependency as well as address healthy self-esteem, spirituality, optimal health and nutrition, responsibilities of parenting, and healing from trauma issues. The program includes individual counseling, group counseling, recovery coaching, and recreational & wellness activities.

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Some Chicago Park District locations have at least one air-conditioned room available for public use during periods of extreme heat.

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Visiting Angels provides non-medical personal care services that assist older adults with their day-to-day activities to promote dignity and well-being while helping them maintain their preferred autonomy, lifestyle, and routines.

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Chicago Public Library provides access to the internet for free.

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Kids Above All's Doula Program supports prenatal women and new moms, so they have a safe, healthy birth and a smooth transition into parenthood. DONA-certified doulas specialize in both birth and postpartum services. The doulas ensure pregnant women attend doctor's appointments, and that they have items, like a car seat and diaper bag, they need to care for their child on day one. After birth, Kids Above All's doulas provide breastfeeding support, transportation to doctor's visits for both baby and mom, and counsel new families on nutrition and meal preparation.

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HANA Center manages two subsidized housings buildings in the Albany Park neighborhood (60625) for individuals 62 years of age or older: Moogoong Terrace & Koram Senior Housing.

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Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) Healthy Start is a supportive environment that offers housing, peer support, case management, and on-site outpatient treatment. Residents have the opportunity to practice what they have learned in the treatment groups. Ultimately, the program prepares residents for sober living in the community. House Managers are peers who have traveled the path of recovery and found success. They provide support and mentorship to residents as they navigate their own recovery.

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Midwest Healthy Start Initiative is a federally-funded program that works with Chicago's West Side communities to reduce infant mortality, improve infant health, and increase access to maternal and newborn care. They hold weekly breastfeeding education and support groups as well as "dancing for birth" classes. Some of the free services provided include prenatal care coordination, smoking cessation, health screening tools, and behavioral health. This program educates the community about child development, effective parenting, HIV and STDs, domestic violence, sickle cell disease, and doulas.

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White Crane's Health Outreach Program strives to provide a comprehensive, holistic, community-based approach to chronic disease prevention in order to reduce the incidence of risk factors for preventable disease (stroke, heart disease, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, pneumonia, flu, osteoporosis, mental illness); to motivate and educate seniors to take control of their health; and to make health care services accessible to low-income, disadvantaged, immigrant, refugee, and minority at-risk elderly.

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Kids Off The Block's (KOB) Mentoring Initiative champions a community-driven strategy to combat violence, crime, educational setbacks, and poor health outcomes. By offering targeted mentoring, violence prevention, skill enhancement workshops, health and wellness programs, parental guidance, and leisure activities, they aim to foster a safer, healthier, and more prosperous community.

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Way Back Inn offers residential extended care for substance and gambling use disorders, as well as co-occurring disorders. Residential extended care (ERC) is a highly structured, long-term therapeutic living environment for individuals to grow and nurture their new life in recovery. Individuals struggling with substance use disorders have often lost or lacked structure in their lives. One of the functions of Way Back Inn is to revitalize and instill renewed productive living habits and daily life functions (cleaning one's room, making one's bed, keeping the house tidy, self-care, etc.). The aim of the program is to lay the foundation for a lasting recovery, including maintaining one's overall health, family relationships, and social relationships. For the duration of the ERC program, each participant lives in one of their Extended Residential Care homes or Recovery Homes from 90 days to one year, depending on one's unique story and treatment plan.

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