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Consulate General of Mexico - Chicago provides the Financial Advisory Window where they offer timely guidance on the need and advantages of managing money. They educate individuals on how to increase their wealth through accounts savings, paying taxes, small business credit, etc.
Through its Financial Capability program, Ladder Up helps clients build a lasting foundation for self-sufficiency by working with them to secure financial aid for higher education and to gain the skills needed to make sound financial choices. Ladder Up provides free financial literacy education workshops to help individuals gain the knowledge and tools to make sound financial decisions.

Services

Financial Literacy Training
Personal Financial Counseling
Center for Changing Lives (CCL) partners with the Department of Housing to offer financial and housing coaches who partner with clients to uncover possibilities, overcome barriers, and achieve their financial goals. CCL provides first-time homebuyer workshops and credit-buying and personal finance tools.
Breakthrough's Community Economic Development program provides education, work experience, and supportive services so that individuals increase skills, gain and retain employment, and access to resources and opportunities. Located on the 2nd floor of the Breakthrough Women's Center.

Services

General Benefits and Services Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
A Certified Financial Counselor teaches clients healthy financial skills, including debt management, budgeting, and responsible spending. The financial counselor may make recommendations to the Clinical Director for financial assistance to clients, often in the form of rent and utility assistance.
Chicago Housing Authority's LevelUp Program (formerly Family Self-Sufficiency or FSS) enables participating families to grow financial assets while working towards educational, professional, and personal goals. Building on HUD's Family Self-Sufficiency (FFS) program model, LevelUp is a goal-focused program that moves participants toward an individualized path toward economic independence.
The SEE Project helps survivors to understand the dynamics of financial abuse and develop a better insight into finances and economic health, including developing a budget and understanding credit, banking, and investment.

Services

Financially Abused Adults
Personal Financial Counseling
Chicago Housing Authority's LevelUp Program (formerly Family Self-Sufficiency or FSS) enables participating families to grow financial assets while working towards educational, professional, and personal goals. Building on HUD's Family Self-Sufficiency (FFS) program model, LevelUp is a goal-focused program that moves participants toward an individualized path toward economic independence.
CEDA's staff of HUD-certified Housing Counselors are available to assist with foreclosure prevention, pre-purchase, post-purchase, rental counseling, and financial counseling. We can also help identify those who qualify for new COVID-19 rent/mortgage relief programs.

Services

Personal Financial Counseling
Homeless Diversion Programs
Tenant Readiness Education Programs
Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Chicago Housing Authority's LevelUp Program (formerly Family Self-Sufficiency or FSS) enables participating families to grow financial assets while working towards educational, professional, and personal goals. Building on HUD's Family Self-Sufficiency (FFS) program model, LevelUp is a goal-focused program that moves participants toward an individualized path toward economic independence.

Services

Financial Literacy Training
Personal Financial Counseling
The center works to empower individuals and families with its needed resources to achieve healthy relationships, finances, homes, and neighborhoods through financial goals and secure homeownership. Next Step provides participants with a wealth of services, including: - Financial education & coaching. - Employment coaching/career services. - Access to income support services. - Homeownership/homebuyer education. - Debt reduction coaching. - Credit building/repair.
The Financial Opportunity Center serves as a hub for financial planning and economic empowerment services at North Lawndale Employment Network. The staff provides outreach, coaching, and assistance with benefits applications to help you reach your economic goals. They provide free credit-building programs including soft pull credit reports, credit report and score analyses, assistance in removing errors from credit reports, and help in establishing a credit history.
Center for Changing Lives (CCL) partners with the Department of Housing to offer financial and housing coaches who partner with clients to uncover possibilities, overcome barriers, and achieve their financial goals. CCL provides first-time homebuyer workshops and credit-buying and personal finance tools.
Chicago Area Project offers educational programming regarding practical money management skills.
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council offers educational programming regarding practical money management skills.
Credit counselors, housing counselors, and bankruptcy educators meet with clients to offer personalized advice on steps to improve financial situation. Services include: - Debt and credit counseling. - Debt management programs. - Reverse mortgage counseling. - Pre- and post-bankruptcy counseling and education. - Pre- and post-home buying and rental counseling. - Mortgage default and foreclosure counseling. - Rental counseling. - Educational workshops. - Military Reconnect. - Disaster Recovery Counseling. - Student Loan Counseling.

Services

Housing Counseling
Bankruptcy Assistance
Credit Counseling
Personal Financial Counseling
A nonprofit agency approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as an intermediary housing counseling organization that offers: - Personal financial education and assistance in credit counseling. - Debt and money management. - Nonprofit debt consolidation. - Housing counseling including foreclosure prevention. - Rental eviction prevention. - Reverse mortgage. - First time homebuyer and pre-purchase counseling. - Bankruptcy counseling services. - Educational programs and materials. - Financial workshops held virtually and distance education courses. - Provides guidance about any of the federal student debt repayment options. - Certified Credit Counselors will review personal finances, such as income, expenses, and debts.

Services

Credit Counseling
Personal Financial Counseling
Housing Counseling
Bankruptcy Assistance
Matches trained and bonded staff or volunteers with older adults and adults with disabilities who need help managing their finances. Assists with: - Organizing and paying bills. - Establishing and maintaining budgets. - Applying for financial programs. - Setting and achieving financial goals.
The Emergency Services Grant Program provides help with: - Rental assistance. - Deposit assistance. - Financial counseling. - Case management. - Advocacy.

Services

Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Provides a range of services which assists low-income people to attain skills, knowledge, and motivation necessary to achieve self-sufficiency, as well as help with immediate life necessities such as food, shelter, transportation, etc. Among the services offered to eligible individuals and families: - Case management. - Housing assistance. - Emergency assistance. - Literacy services. - Homebuyer assistance. - Volunteer assistance. - Homeless assistance. - Emergency food and shelter. - Budget and housing counseling. - Tax filing, and insurance assistance. Other services may include college scholarships, youth summer camp opportunities, benefit enrollment, employment training and associated required materials. Depending on funding, also offered are foreclosure prevention services, home ownership education services, downpayment savings plan, purchasing education and more.

Services

Personal Financial Counseling
Rent Payment Assistance
Housing Counseling
CEDA's staff of HUD-certified Housing Counselors are available to assist with foreclosure prevention, pre-purchase, post-purchase, rental counseling, and financial counseling. We can also help identify those who qualify for new COVID-19 rent/mortgage relief programs.

Services

Personal Financial Counseling
Homeless Diversion Programs
Tenant Readiness Education Programs
Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
The Emergency Services Grant Program provides help with: - Rental assistance. - Deposit assistance. - Financial counseling. - Case management. - Advocacy.

Services

Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Non-profit social service agency that helps the homeless, mentally ill, disabled, and aging persons to budget, manage, and pay their monthly bills. Client services include: - Representative payee services for Social Security checks. - Money management services (personal financial counseling) offered for a fee.

Services

Personal Financial Counseling
Representative Payee Services
Care coordinators who are trained by the Illinois Department on Aging can meet with individuals and their families in the home. This is a free consultation to provide counseling and education about available senior services and then arrange and link the older adult to programs that are needed. Services include: - Comprehensive care coordination . - Adult day services - In-home services (cleaning, meals, laundry, shopping/running errands, and personal hygiene). - Emergency home response service. - Automated medication dispenser service. - Money Management.

Services

Case/Care Management
Activities of Daily Living Assessment
Adult Day Programs
Homemaker Assistance
Personal Care
Emergency Alert
Prescription Medication Monitoring Systems
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Offers eligible older adults and adults with disabilities basic assistance with money management tasks such as: - Balancing the checkbook. - Organizing and keeping track of bill paying. - Identifying scams and advocacy with creditors.