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Did you know Metropolitan Family Services and Jane Addams Hull House have been working together for nearly 100 years? Jane Addams even served as a board member of both Metropolitan Family Services (then known as United Charities) and our Legal Aid Society.
Welcome to Good News! In this space we feature positive stories of community impact and development, relevant to the areas Metropolitan serves or the programs we offer.
Chicago Is All In, a new collaborative formed to help bring Amazon’s second headquarters to Chicago, recently launched with a video featuring business and community leaders across the city.
Welcome to Good News! In this space we’ll feature positive stories of community impact and development, relevant to the areas Metropolitan serves or the programs we offer.
Our Winter 2018 Parenting Fundamentals classes are underway! Our Learning and Wellness Center’s Warsheka Griffin shares a few updates across the programs from the most recent session.
Metropolitan Family Services’ Community Integrated Living Arrangement (CILA) is returning to our Southeast Chicago Center!
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. To spotlight this important issue, we shared events, resources, and information about our Legal Aid Society’s work in the fight against human trafficking.
The statistic that adults with intellectual disabilities are sexually abused at a rate 7 times higher than the general adult population, as described in the first of a series on WBEZ/NPR is unacceptable to the Adult Protective Services Program at our Evanston/Skokie Valley Center.
As violence dominates conversations about Chicago, we are proud to partner with eight community organizations on an initiative focused on promoting peace. The collaboration, called Communities Partnering 4 Peace (CP4P), engages nine of the city’s highest-risk neighborhoods.
Thank you to everyone who helped make the holidays special for our communities. Across our organization, we celebrated the season with events, donations, and community recognition.