Opportunities, Inc. is a Community Rehabilitation Program based in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, with additional locations in Watertown, Janesville, Beaver Dam, and Oconomowoc. For over 50 years the agency has continued to expand its comprehensive vocational training and employment services, social integration, academic programs, and supportive home care for individuals with barriers, to include those with disabilities, limited work experience, AODA issues, language challenges, economic disadvantages, employment dislocation, re-entry and veterans. Opportunities, Inc. is also a leader in social enterprise; through co-manufacturing, staffing and custom design and print services it offers a quality driven service for its business partners while promoting positive advances for the community. MISSION: Provide services for individuals for the purpose of maximizing their success and enhancing their abilities to be independent, contributing members of the community.

Comprehensive Family Services is a mental health care company based out of 501 Prospect Ave, Beloit, Wisconsin, United States.

While all hospices in the U.S. are mandated by the federal government to provide certain services to terminally ill individuals, not all hospices are the same. We were one of the first hospices in the United States, and since 1979, thousands of families have turned to us for quality end of life care. We often hear from area physicians and nursing facilities we provide hospice care the way it should be done. What matters most to all families is whether we will take care of their loved ones in the best way possible. The answer is yes. That is our commitment to you.

Michael Reese Health Trust envisions a future where every community has the resources needed to be a healthy and safe place for people to live, learn, work and play. We partner with stakeholders across Chicago to help individuals and communities reach and maintain health by prioritizing some of the most urgent health challenges facing our city while remaining committed to honoring our Jewish legacy. By using our tools of advocacy, incubation and grantmaking, we go deep within an issue to create real, lasting change.

VIP Services offers a dynamic range of programs, services, and supports to help a diverse group of people with differing abilities to live a life characterized by dignity and purpose. Our core programs include Work/Employment Skills Training, Community Employment, and Day Services. We operate a large fleet of accessible vehicles to transport seniors and people with disabilities around Walworth County and beyond, along with Wal-to-Wal, a shared ride public transportation within Walworth County. Through State contract, we clean and maintain all Rest Areas within Walworth and Rock counties as well as some in Dane and Waukesha counties. Since 1970, we have helped thousands of people to live and work as valued members of our communities.

Goldie Floberg has over a 100 year history of providing care, protection, help, and friendship to those who don’t always have a voice to advocate for themselves. We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids, teens, and adults with developmental disabilities in communities surrounding Rockford, Illinois. We want to enhance the lives of the people we serve by giving them the opportunities and ability to make choices that people often overlook on a daily basis. Everyday, the people we serve create dreams and passions and we help to make that become a reality.

Community Action is a not for profit organization offering myriad programs to fight poverty in Rock and Walworth Counties. At Community Action we provide access and opportunity for those we serve and those who support our efforts. Through innovative programs and strong community partnerships we eliminate barriers, establishing clear pathways to economic self-reliance. Community Action develops and implements a broad range of services across our two-county area including: child care, pre-school and school age programs, affordable housing and housing counseling services, youth programs, weatherization, community organizing and development, a homeless shelter, health care, and the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).

Gingerbread House Preschool and Child Care is a company based out of 505 E HOLUM ST, Deforest, Wisconsin, United States.

Substance abuse, mental health, problem gambling, family advocacy, parent education and support, and more.

Description: Designed, coordinated and implemented a variety of state-wide housing services by providing leadership and guidance to regional directors and housing specialists for the operations, management, policies and procedures in support of the program goals and objectives. Achievements: • Implemented and developed internal policies and procedures for a groundbreaking statewide farm worker Rental Subsidy Program. • Conducted regional housing information exchanges/forums with housing and direct human service agencies, including United States Department of Agriculture, Illinois Department of Human Rights, United States Department of Labor, Illinois Department of Human Services and Illinois Department of Employment Security. • Leveraged funds to support and sustain direct housing services for statewide farm worker organization; surpassed financial goals. Obtained over $1 million in public and private funders for the operations and implementation of rent subsidies to eligible migrant and seasonal farm workers. • Cross-trained five statewide regional directors and work force development case managers in the farm worker housing program guidelines and eligibility criteria, first time homebuyer education, landlord/tenant rights and responsibilities as well as fair housing. • Recruited, supervised, managed and trained four housing specialist located in satellite offices throughout the state. • Wrote training manuals for housing programs. • Reported program progress and outcomes to program funders.

For more than 50 years, TriCity Family Services has been a trusted nonprofit agency dedicated to strengthening people and building community through the provision of quality, affordable counseling, youth crisis intervention, prevention and early intervention services that promote sound mental health and effective family functioning.

Opportunity House is a non-profit community sponsored rehabilitation center serving adults with developmental disabilities in DeKalb County. For 60 years, we’ve focused on providing quality of life for our clients, offering programs and services to meet their employment, housing and social needs. We are licensed by the State of Illinois Department of Human Services and the Department of Public Health. We offer a wide variety of programs designed to help individuals live their lives as independently as possible.