People with Disabilities & Their Families

Voting Information for People with Intellectual Disabilities

Services for People with Disabilities (SFPD) presents a free Community Education Workshop.

Join guest speaker Carole Rosen REV UP Illinois Director and Advocacy Program Specialist at The Arc of Illinois to learn more about how to register to vote in Illinois, and your voter’s rights (especially accommodations for people with disabilities at the polls).

This event is free and open to the public. Continuing education credits are available for QIDP's. *Session may be recorded.

Registration is required. Register here.

Or call Kathryn Dougherty at 773.765.3158 to register. You will receive a Zoom link to participate via email the day prior to the session. For help with registration, and for any accommodations, please contact Kathryn Dougherty.

Small Steps

Small Steps

Teri, who has been working at a local restaurant, called her Duman Employment Specialist (ES) to ask for help. She wanted to get more hours at her job, so the ES went to observe Teri at work to help her make improvements.

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Jewish Community Programs

Grieving the Death of a Loved One: An Evening of Support

This evening of support will include music and poems for healing, reflections on the grieving process and a personal grief journey illuminating paths to healing. This program is tailored to those grieving a death in the past two years, but everyone is welcome.

Upon completion of our structured program at approximately 8pm, participants will be invited to stay online to share personal reflections and experiences in smaller groups.

This event is free of charge.

Register today 

After registering, a Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the workshop.

This program is generously supported by the Lauri S. Bauer Foundation for Sudden Loss.

Holiday Gift Drive

Our Holiday Gift Drive benefits hundreds of children in the Jewish and broader communities supported by JCFS Chicago. Join us this holiday season in bringing joy to our community while strengthening belonging and well-being among children and families.

Here are the ways you and/or your synagogue, school, or community can make some holiday wishes come true:

1. Sponsor a Child’s Wish

Choose to sponsor one or more children and fulfill their gift wishes.

• You will be matched with a child or teen.

• We will provide the child’s detailed wish list to help with shopping. (Wish slips will be available beginning in October.)

• You don’t have to buy everything on the list, but the goal is to spend $50 per child
Sign up to sponsor a child.

2. Gift Collection

Hold a gift collection at your synagogue for new, unwrapped gifts.

• JCFS will arrange a pickup for collections of 50 or more gifts.

• Gift cards are also welcomed (in amounts of $10, $25, and $50). They are greatly appreciated so children and families can get exactly what they want.

3. Amazon Wishlist Shopping

Purchase gifts on Amazon and make a child’s wish come true with just a few clicks. (Coming soon)

4. Make a Monetary Donation

Your cash donation will be put to good use by our dedicated staff who will ensure each child receives a gift.

To sponsor a child, register for a gift collection/drive, or make a monetary donation, register here.

5. Volunteer Your Time

Help us pack and sort over 500 holiday gifts.

Volunteer opportunities will begin on Friday, December 5. Shifts will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Sign up to volunteer today!

Gift Drop Off

Drop off unwrapped gifts by Wednesday December 3rd at JCFS Seigle Building, located at 5140 Golf Road, Skokie IL 60077.

Drop offs are accepted Mondays - Thursdays from 9am 5pm and Fridays from 9am-4pm.

For more information about donating or volunteering, please email our Winter Projects team.

 

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