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Gas voucher financial assistance for medical transportation.
Bus passes provided to help individuals actively participate in their community. Income guidelines apply.
Provides gas money to those in need.

Services

Gas Money
Provides gas cards when available for verified work or medical appointments. Clients must apply; no cards are immediately given. Application process can take up to a week. Vehicle must be insured and in the client's name. Based on grant funding.
Provides emergency funds for gasoline for job searches or doctors' visits; funding is limited; call for details.
Provides food, shelter, medication, and transportation in emergency situations. This includes rental/mortgage and utility assistance.

Services

Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Prescription Expense Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers

Provides assistance to eligible families in need. Assistance may include rent, auto repairs, gas cards, help with medical care, homelessness, referrals to other organizations, etc. Clients must agree to allow a two person team to make an in-home visit to review the situation.

Services

Transportation Expense Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Offers crisis funding for those needing transportation assistance, rent, utilities, medicine and other bills to help families out in a crisis situation.

Services

Medical Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
ERBA administers funds from the Villa Grove Ministerial Alliance, which provides up to $150 to families for utilities, diapers, groceries, gas for vehicles, and other needs.

Services

Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Diapers
Transportation Expense Assistance
Subsidized taxi rides for $1 per ride per person each way within the boundaries of Villa Park.
Gas cards, bus and train vouchers.

Services

Transportation Expense Assistance
Limited assistance with gas money.
Saint Anthony operates a community wellness program out of several locations. This includes therapeutic family support groups (available on a weekly basis), mental health services (individual, couples, and family), case management, assistance with accessing healthcare (applying for medical cards, food stamps, etc.), and free pregnancy testing.Please note that free pregnancy testing is only available at the North Lawndale and Little Village locations.

Services

General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Family Counseling
Home Pregnancy Test Kits
At Risk Families
Community Wellness Programs
Transitional Case/Care Management
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Local Bus Fare
Train Fare
Northfield Township Dial-a-Ride is a program that provides discount coupons to Northfield Township residents with permanent disabilities (age 18 and over) and income-eligible senior citizens (age 65 and over) for use with participating taxicab companies. Qualified residents will receive an ID card, a set of 20 taxicab coupons (valued at $5.00 each), and contact information for taxicab companies that participate in the program.
Leyden Township provides for qualifying residents to purchase the cab books coupons that help subsidize the cost of riding a local taxi. Seniors or Disabled residents pay $10.00 per coupon book (a value of $20.00). There are ten $2.00 coupons in each book. Seniors are allowed 1 book per month but may receive 2 with a doctor's note. Coupons are good until their expiration date.
Village of Schiller Park offers the opportunity each month for seniors and disabled residents to purchase up to four books of taxi coupons (for $5.00 each) that each contain $10.00 worth of coupons that can be used with participating taxicab companies. Therefore each senior or disabled resident can buy $40.00 worth of coupons (that's 4 books worth) for a total of $20.00 each month. These books can be purchased at the Village Hall front counter during normal business hours (Monday-Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm and 9:00am to 12:00pm on Saturday).
Through the Family Support and Community Engagement (FsACE) program eligible Suburban Cook County families gain or keep employment by funding supportive services to remote financial roadblocks related to education, training, documents, payments, clothing, personal items, and transportation. This program assists SNAP recipients and people at risk of losing housing.

Services

Local Bus Fare
Child Care Provider Licensing
Identification Card Fee Payment Assistance
Academic Records Fee Payment Assistance
Driver License Fee Payment Assistance
Routine Automobile Maintenance
Work Clothing
Gas Money
Saint Anthony operates a community wellness program out of several locations. This includes therapeutic family support groups (available on a weekly basis), mental health services (individual, couples, and family), case management, assistance with accessing healthcare (applying for medical cards, food stamps, etc.), and free pregnancy testing.Please note that free pregnancy testing is only available at the North Lawndale and Little Village locations.

Services

General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Family Counseling
Home Pregnancy Test Kits
At Risk Families
Community Wellness Programs
Transitional Case/Care Management
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Local Bus Fare
Train Fare
Bus tickets and work clothing are available for new employment through the Work Readiness program.
If calling but phone is not answered, please leave a message and someone will return call.

Assists residents of the Adel-DeSoto-Minburn school district with emergency needs such as rent payment, utility assistance and gasoline (provided there is a verifiable income for person requesting). The Association provides other emergency needs, depending on personal situation and/or urgency, on a one-time basis.

Services

Utility Service Payment Assistance
Travelers Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Assists SNAP participants in finding employment and/or training for employment. Provides gas vouchers and other supportive services for independent job search, to attend job search training, vocational training and for job retention.

Services

Welfare to Work Programs
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Transportation Expense Assistance

Provides assistance to all eligible Veterans discharged from active military service under honorable conditions and/or their family members in applying for federal benefits and other Veteran's aid. Services include support with emergency funding when available, food vouchers for purchasing groceries, transportation expense assistance for fuel expense and utility service payment assistance to prevent or address utility shutoffs. Additional services include access to low-cost or hard-to-obtain prescription medications, general relief for indigent individuals, and guidance on Veteran burial benefits, including burial in national cemeteries, headstones, markers, and burial flags.

Services

General Relief
Veteran Burial Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Prescription Medication Services
Food Vouchers
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Provides limited bus passes for those needing transportation to and from work.

Assists in obtaining birth certificates for those seeking an ID.

Provides limited gas vouchers.

Other needs considered on an individual basis.

Requests for individual assistance may be emailed to the Social Services Desk ([email protected]).

Services

Transportation Expense Assistance
Birth Certificates
Identification Cards
Offers crisis funding for those needing transportation assistance, rent, utilities, medicine and other bills to help families out in a crisis situation.

Services

Medical Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Gasoline voucher assistance for medical needs.