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  • VVSD Emergency Meals for Kids Program Adds Site at Brooks Middle School

    Updated Mar 24, 2020

    The Valley View School District 365U Nutrition Services Emergency Meals for Kids program is expanding to include a fifth distribution site. The Emergency Meals for Kids program supplying free “Grab ‘n Go” meals will be available at Brooks Middle School, located at 350 Blair Ln. in Bolingbrook, beginning on Monday, March 30. Emergency Meals for Kids is a drive-thru service available on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9-11 am until school resumes in VVSD. Brooks Middle School joins Bolingbrook High School, Humphrey Middle Schoo...

  • Will County, City of Joliet and the Continuum of Care (CoC) join the United Way of Will County to assist the homeless during the COVID-19 crisis

    Updated Mar 23, 2020

    On Monday, the Continuum of Care, a network of agencies and service providers working to end homelessness, released the Emergency Housing Assistance Plan to provide safe shelter for the homeless and those at risk of losing shelter. Local shelters are at capacity and some have had to rehouse their clients due to limited staffing and the inability to maintain proper sanitization standards. For the health and safety of their clients and staff, shelters such as Daybreak Center shelter, are transitioning clients to hotels....

  • Community health centers ask state for emergency funding

    REBECCA ANZEL, Capitol News Illinois|Updated Mar 23, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD - The novel coronavirus could "create long-lasting, devastating damage" to Illinois health care facilities that serve vulnerable communities. Community health centers are treating fewer patients than normal after all 390 locations around the state canceled routine and preventative medical visits to slow the spread of COVID-19 per guidance from federal and state officials. That means fewer government reimbursements for facilities that use them to pay staff salaries...