Community Resource Library

We know our hunger-relief programs can't address every need. Explore our Community Resource Library, a curated list of community organizations offering support beyond food assistance, including housing, healthcare, and education.

CRISIS SERVICES

 

Homeless Prevention Center

  • (877) 426-6515 (pre-screening)

Housing Forward

  • Provides rental assistance, short-term stabilization and services to resolve a financial or rental housing crisis situation.
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Emergency Shelter Locations

The following websites provide a list of emergency shelters:

Sarah's Inn

  • Offers intervention services, individual advocacy, counseling, support and education groups, life skills development, legal advocacy, art therapy, and more for domestic violence victims.
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SERVICES

 

New Moms

  • Offers two-week job training for young moms (ages 16-24).
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African American Christian Foundation

  • Offers a Workforce Training Program.
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Housing Forward

  • One-on-one job coaching, job assistance, and resume development for adult job seekers; five-week classroom setting Career Passport program for adults.
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HEALTH & MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

 

Yemba

  • Provides mentoring services to at-risk youth for substance use, mental health needs, homelessness, and school resistive and refusal behaviors.
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Presence Behavioral Health

  • Offers in-home, community-based treatment, individual, group and family mental health and substance abuse services, and a social skills group.
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Thrive Counseling Center

  • Provides adult and youth therapy services.
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TASC - Strive For Success

  • Supports reinforcing systems of care and behavioral health services for minority residents in Oak Park.
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    • www.tasc.org
    • (224) 423-4522
    • 49 Lake St., Oak Park, IL 60302

Oak Park Township Youth Services

  • Youth Intervention Program intervenes in the lives of school-age youth who are involved with violence, drug or alcohol use or abuse, or gang activity.
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Children's Clinic

  • You may qualify for medical and dental services if you have insurance. 
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Oak Park Public Library

  • Referral-based health and mental health advocacy and support.
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FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES

 

Presence Behavioral Health

Smart Love Family Services

  • Provides parent training and support for children at risk of developing behavioral and learning difficulties in school.
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Hephzibah Children's Association

  • Helps strengthen and stabilize families that are experiencing crisis or stress, alleviate short-term financial crisis, assist with enrichment activities for children and tutoring and respite services through a volunteer program.
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New Moms

  • Offers free parent-education workshops with free childcare that cover a wide range of early childhood parenting topics.
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EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

 

Housing Forward

  • Provides one-on-one job coaching, job search assistance and resume development for adult job seekers; five-week classroom setting Career Passport program for adults.
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New Moms

  • Offers two-week job training for young moms (ages 16-24).
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African American Christian Foundation

  • Offers a Workforce Training Program.
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BEFORE & AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMMING & TUTORING

 

West Cook YMCA

  • Y-Kids is a DCFS-licensed before- and after-school recreation program for children grades K-6. Please visit the website below for more information:

Park District of Oak Park

  • Provides indoor and outdoor learning experiences and activities, with an after-school snack provided.

Cluster Tutoring

Hephzibah Children's Association

  • Offers a daycare program for children grades K-5 after school, on school holidays and during summer months.
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CHILDREN'S RESOURCES

 

New Moms

  • Provides home visiting services for children birth to 5 years of age.
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Hephzibah Children's Association

  • Head Start Center for children 3-5 years of age. Early Head Start Home Visiting Program for pregnant moms and children birth to 3 years of age.
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The Collaboration for Early Childhood

  • Educational services for qualifying children under the age of 5.
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Easterseals - Partnering with Parents

  • Support for pregnant moms and families living in Oak Park or River Forest, with children up to age 3.
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