Celebrating National Homeless Awareness Month at Heartland Alliance
November 2021
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Homeless Awareness Month
Housing is fundamental to achieving equity and opportunity for all people – and a home is integral to achieving purpose and belonging. This Homeless Awareness Month, we’re speaking to individuals who have recently found their new homes – and the people who support them.
Longtime Heartland Alliance leader Betsy Leonard is taking the helm at Kartemquin Films as their next executive director. Learn more about her history and future in Chicago Tribune.
The passage of the Illinois Way Forward act builds stronger protections for immigrants and an effective discontinuation of federal detention centers in Illinois by 2022. Hear from our National Immigrant Justice Center for more understanding.
In an effort to ensure all Illinois residents had access to the EIP payments, Heartland Alliance joined a group of non-profit organizations to form the Get My Payment Illinois Coalition in early 2020. See where the coalition is headed today.
Heartland Alliance President Evelyn Diaz and Prof. Jens Ludwig at the University of Chicago shared insights into violence reduction through opportunity and care.
Chantelle Collum, Veteran Housing Program Healthcare Advocate
COVID-19 created a huge need for healthcare navigation for many. This Veteran’s Day, we connected with our veteran housing program’s new healthcare advocate, Chantelle Collum.
Join Heartland Alliance in our annual Holiday Giving Campaign and make an impact by sharing your care, concern, and solidarity with our most vulnerable neighbors across Chicago.
With your generous support, we can continue to make Chicago safer, welcome new refugees and immigrants, and continue the fight against healthcare inequity during covid.
Celebrate decades of Heartland Alliance Health’s efforts to provide life-changing healthcare, housing, and nutritional services to those who are most vulnerable in our community.
