Community Outreach to Individuals with Disabilities

Kewanee, IL
Abilities Plus is a not-for-profit organization located in Kewanee, Illinois focused on serving individuals with developmental disabilities. The organization began in 1959 with a class of seven children. Since that time, Abilities Plus has grown and now serves approximately 250 children and adults from Henry, Stark, and western Bureau Counties.

Belleville, IL
Allsup offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to help companies take advantage of the savings that result from properly coordinating employee benefits and workers’ compensation programs with Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Medicare.

Chicago, IL
The Department of Employment Security is one of Illinois’ best-kept secrets. We’re mostly known for administering unemployment insurance. But we offer a lot more than that. IDES helps job seekers find jobs and employers find workers. We also analyze and publish a gold mine of information on the Illinois economy and careers.

Park Ridge, IL
Avenues to Independence is a non-profit, charitable organization, providing residential, vocational and daily living support in a wide variety of programs for persons with developmental disabilities. Today, Avenues has established programs in Park Ridge, Niles, Wheeling, Des Plaines and Northwest Chicago. A wide variety of supports are provided to over 250 persons throughout the Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area.

Chicago, IL
The mission of Best Buddies is to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Chicago, IL
The mission of Best Buddies is to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Chicago, IL
The mission of Best Buddies is to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Chicago, IL
The mission of Best Buddies is to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Evanston, IL
Between Friends is a nonprofit agency dedicated to breaking the cycle of domestic violence and building a community free of abuse. In 1986, Between Friends was founded by volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women and the North Shore Junior League of Evanston as a small grantmaking body dedicated to raising funds. Today, Between Friends' comprehensive programs and services include a toll-free Crisis Line (800-603-HELP), counseling for v...

Blue Island, IL
Blue Cap is an organization that is dedicated to serving infants, children and adults with developmental disabilities through community-based educational, therapeutic, vocational and residential opportunities. Located in Blue Island, Illinois, Blue Cap offers a wide array of services dedicated to achieving personal growth and dignity for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in Chicago and over 30 suburban communities.

Chicago, IL
The Career Transitions Center of Chicago's mission is to provide professional, emotional and spiritual support to those seeking a job, looking for meaningful work, or otherwise undergoing a career transition. CTC is a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization providing professional assistance to individuals in employment transition.

Evanston, IL
Center for Independent Futures is a not-for-profit organization that helps individuals with disabilities and their families access the skills and opportunities to realize full lives. We create products and services to establish sustainable solutions through community living options, personal networks, lifelong planning and education.

Lincoln, IL
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.

Chicago, IL
ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom.

Arlington Heights, IL
Clearbrook is committed to being a leader in creating innovative opportunities, services and supports to people with disabilities.

Peoria, IL
Community Workshop & Training Center Inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides programs and services to adults with disabilities. Our organization offers services in three areas: community services, employment services, and community integration.

Crestwood, IL
The 1.2 million-member Disabled American Veterans (DAV) is a non-profit 501(c)(4) charity dedicated to building better lives for America’s disabled veterans and their families.

Calumet City, IL
Made up exclusively of men and women disabled in our nation’s defense, the Disabled American Veterans is dedicated to one, single purpose — building better lives for all of our nation’s disabled veterans and their families.

Peoria, IL
The 1.2 million-member Disabled American Veterans (DAV) is a non-profit 501(c)(4) charity dedicated to building better lives for America’s disabled veterans and their families.

Chicago, IL
Since its founding more than 80 years ago, the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) has been dedicated to a single purpose: building better lives for America's disabled veterans and their families. Fidelity to that mission has required DAV to respond creatively and flexibly to changing and sometimes unpredictable challenges faced by its constituency. Whether disabled veterans have needed a voice on Capitol Hill, a nationwide service program, a transp...