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The Money Mentor program is a network of trained volunteers who work one-on-one with individuals who request help with personal money management. Money Mentors is a free and confidential service available to assist individuals with personal finance strategies, including: - Budgeting. - Establishing financial goals. - Building savings. - Managing credit. - Organizing finances.
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.
Financial counseling to individuals either at their homes or at any other location of their choosing. Services are provided by trained certified Credit Counselor, and include credit counseling, budgeting, bankruptcy counseling, student loan counseling.
County department overseeing several community programs, including Aging and Disability Services, Community Development, Family Center, Housing Supports and Self-Sufficiency, and Intake and Referral. The department also provides assistance through the Low Income Housing Energy Assistance (LIHEAP) program and manages the 211 DuPage resource database.
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

Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
GreenPath Financial Wellness offers over-the-phone financial counseling services which may include debt management, student loan counseling, bankruptcy support and home-buyer counseling in order to promote financial health.
Assists limited-income seniors with managing their finances. AARP insured and trained volunteers are appointed to provide a variety of services such as: assisting with opening/organizing mail, budgeting, checkbook balancing, bill paying, and/or managing monthly social security benefits. Representative payee services available.
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
Provides financial counseling services to the U.S. Navy community.
Offers counseling for credit, budgeting, and debt management for people to be able to pay off their debt in five years or less. Debts can include: - Credit cards - Collections - Medical debts - Payday loans - Old utility accounts - Past cell phone accounts
Offers Credit and Budget Counseling, Education and Counseling for First Time Homebuyers, Foreclosure Prevention Counseling and Emergency Home Improvement Loans.
Financial counseling to individuals either at their homes or at any other location of their choosing. Services are provided by trained certified Credit Counselor, and include credit counseling, budgeting, bankruptcy counseling, student loan counseling.
Financial counseling to individuals either at their homes or at any other location of their choosing. Services are provided by trained certified Credit Counselor, and include credit counseling, budgeting, bankruptcy counseling, student loan counseling.
A protective service for limited-income seniors who need help managing their finances. Bill payer volunteers assist individuals who are able to make decisions about their financial affairs but who need help organizing bills and paying them on time. Representative payee volunteers are appointed by Social Security to receive and manage benefits of a person who is determined incapable of managing his or her own finances. In contrast to the bill payer program, the representative payee signs the checks and has full control of the benefits. They pay bills and make sure the client's needs are being met.

Services

Representative Payee Services
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
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.
Utilizes volunteers to work with seniors on budgeting, sorting through mail, checkbook balancing, and bill paying. This program assists seniors 60 years of age and older who need assistance due to physical or mental disabilities, unpaid bills, inability to read or write, loss of home due to foreclosure, or threats of utility shut-off.
Chicago Area Project offers educational programming regarding practical money management skills.
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.
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.
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.
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

Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
Homeless Diversion Programs
Tenant Readiness Education Programs
Personal Financial Counseling
Latin United Community Housing Association (LUCHA) - Freddie Mac Borrower provides first-time homebuyers with educational workshops, credit counseling, mortgage support, access to down-payment assistance, and a number of other services. Through these services, families are responsibly prepared for the rigors of homeownership and finance.
New Covenant Community Development Center (CDC) offers an 8-week learning series that teaches entrepreneurs and small business owners critical elements of fiscal record keeping and management.