Growing Poverty in DuPage
Carol Simler, Executive Director of DuPage Pads, spoke at the board’s regular meeting recently and warned of the growth of poverty in DuPage over the course of the last decade.
Carol Simler, Executive Director of DuPage Pads, spoke at the board’s regular meeting recently and warned of the growth of poverty in DuPage over the course of the last decade.
Enroll in benefits for Affordable Care Act. You may be eligible for benefits under the new health care law. Licensed DuPage Pads Navigators and Illinois Assisters can help you with health care enrollments. Every insurance plan on the Marketplace will cover services called “Essential Health Benefits”.
This winter, ABC 7 Chicago came out to our Interim (Overnight) Housing site, reporting on the effects of the Arctic Blast on families and individuals who are homeless and seeking emergency shelter. Watch the video by clicking here.
Tickets are now available for the 8th Annual DuPagePads Taste of Hope that will be held on Thursday, March 6, 2014 from 5:30pm – 9:30pm at Abbington Banquets in Glen Ellyn, IL.
For the first time in DuPagePads’ 28 year history, volunteers will be able to complete a web-based program training program at their own convenience. This volunteer training program was made possible as a result of a grant from the Spirit of Volunteerism Fund of The DuPage Community Foundation. Beginning January 6, 2014, volunteers will be able to log into the DuPagePads website and learn about the agency mission to end homelessness, programs and services provided, best practices in risk management, volunteer roles and responsibilities and more.
When people think of homelessness, a lot of their thoughts may be misconstrued or uninformed. Some people tend to think that homelessness is a choice, that people would rather be homeless than work for a living or that they aren’t trying hard enough. Carol Simler and DuPage Pads is working to end the stereotypes of homelessness and get people back into a place they can truly call home.
Six-year-old Mariah Mattox lives in a camper and is one of about 1,000 students in Will County who meet the state’s definition of having no permanent address.
Maria Maior’s son is a football-playing, skateboard-riding, Xbox-loving kid whose home reveals all the trappings of domesticity: a cushy sofa, big-screen TV, a framed poster of Brian Urlacher — one of the 12-year-old’s favorite football players. On most evenings, two big dogs curl up on the carpeting.
With the economy pushing more households into financial uncertainty, people who help the homeless are starting to see a rising trend among their clients: two parent families.
It was job loss that triggered Donna’s downhill spiral. Laid off at the end of April after many years in the Naperville business community, she was evicted from her apartment a month later.
Dressed in his full gear, Assistant Fire Chief Richard Mikel bent down to touch his toes a few times so he could stretch before the sprint he was about to take.
Before heading off to Mass Sept. 9 at St. Petronille Parish in Glen Ellyn, three members of the Repking family took a 5 kilometer run and helped the homeless in DuPage County. Standing alongside her 6-year-old and 9-year-old sons, Liz Repking said, “It’s all about the family.”