Metropolitan Family Services

Voting is a family affair! Theresa Nihill, Chief Operating Officer at Metropolitan Family Services shares how her family shaped her civic engagement. From one generation to the next, Metropolitan Family Services encourages you to shape your family and community through civic engagement and voting. It’s time to vote! Check your registration, make a plan, and vote!

Last week, a Cook County program that helps redevelop abandoned homes in disinvested parts of the city and suburbs celebrated the 2,000th property developed through the Cook County Land Bank Authority! Three MFS participants were among the builders! Two participants of our Youth Build program and one from our Bridge to Construction Program. The Bridge to Construction student, Tierra Montgomery also took part in the ribbon cutting ceremony. Since completing the Bridge to Construction program a year ago, Ms. Montgomery started her own company, T&C Infinite Remodeling. You can read the full story from WBEZ by clicking below.

A’Keisha Lee, Policy Analyst at Metropolitan Peace Initiatives, encourages us all to move toward co-governance with our elected officials. Metropolitan Family Services joins A’Keisha in encouraging voting and staying civically engaged during and after the election. It’s time to vote! Check your registration, make a plan, and vote!

This past year, MFS Domestic Violence (DV) counseling services has helped Mpower 97.5% of our DV clients to decrease their trauma symptoms. We will be highlighting many more of our accomplishments from this last year at our 43rd Annual Mpower the Night, on Friday, November 1st. We hope to see you there! For ticketing information, visit the event page here: https://lnkd.in/gMSaYtw

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. From Cook to DuPage County, our centers are hiring for several different positions that support victims of domestic violence. If you’re passionate about this life-changing work, explore our job opportunities here: https://bit.ly/GENDV

Tonika Davenport, Director of Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Justice at Metropolitan Family Services, reminds us that civic engagement is the first step toward justice and transformation. Say it loudly and proudly! It’s time to vote! Metropolitan Family Services encourages you to check your registration, make a plan, and vote!

Please join our Family Shelter Service this Sunday for a 1 mile walk to honor those effected by Domestic Violence. All are welcome! Domestic Violence awareness items will be available for purchase to help support our FSS programs and survivors. We hope to see you at Herrick Lake at 10 am this Sunday!

Thank you to all who joined us yesterday at the Legal Aid Luncheon to celebrate the accomplishments of our Legal Aid Society! With your help, we were able to raise over $355,350 and counting! If you weren’t able to make it but would still like to donate, please visit our donation page here: https://bit.ly/3NiqHhj Photography by Mila Samokhina

Metropolitan Family Services has signed up to be a Civic Organization with the Illinois State Board of Elections. This summer, 40 MFS staff members were trained as Deputy Voter Registrars by the Illinois State of Board Election to encourage civic engagement and register our colleagues, families, and communities to vote in the 2024 General Election. In honor of National Voter Registration Day, each week we continue to share videos from MFS Deputy Voter Registrars to talk about civic engagement & voting, what it means to them, and why it matters. This week we have a video from Anthony Miller at our DuPage Center! Watch the videos and catch us at one of our community events! #VOTEREADY

DuPage County Board members representing District 2 are hosting their second annual shelter needs donation drive to benefit Family Shelter Service of Metropolitan Family Services DuPage. As October is domestic violence awareness month, all donations will help victims of domestic violence. Donations can be dropped off at drop boxes placed throughout the county at each of the county’s health centers. Drop boxes can be found at 1111 W. Lake St., Addison; 422 N. Cass St., Westmont; 1111 E. Jackson St., Lombard; and 115 N. County Farm Road, Wheaton. To learn more about how you can help, please read the full article from the Daily Herald.