{"id":277816,"date":"2010-02-04T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=16182"},"modified":"2010-02-04T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:52:13","slug":"chicago-area-nonprofit-human-service-providers-organize-for-unified-voice-in-springfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277816","title":{"rendered":"Chicago-area nonprofit human service providers organize for unified voice in Springfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Chicago-area nonprofit organizations are meeting as part of a new statewide campaign to raise awareness that Illinois<\/span>‘ structure for providing high priority human services have been compromised by the current state budget crisis.<\/p>\n

The meeting is on Feb. 5<\/span> from 8:30am to 12pm<\/span> at Calumet Center, Metropolitan Family Services, 235 E. 103rd St., Chicago, Ill.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The campaign, organized by Illinois Partners for Human Service, comes at time when nonprofit organizations — the primary providers of human services in Illinois<\/span> — \u00a0are being forced to seek loans to keep their doors open because state payments for services run anywhere from six to 18 months late. <\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, providers are under increasing pressure to provide the same level of service with fewer funds. And the state’s budget gap continues to widen.<\/p>\n

As many as 2 million residents, or approximately 16 percent of people in Illinois<\/span> depend on the state funding for basic services such as child care; after-school programs for teens; skills training or help finding jobs; counseling for victims of sexual or domestic abuse; assistance for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled; and in-home care for the elderly.<\/p>\n

“Payments are not keeping pace with inflation; the costs of borrowing due to late payments must be paid by the organization; our contracts are adjusted at will without our input.<\/p>\n

This is seriously impacting the quality of services provided and our entire human service system,” said Nancy Ronquillo<\/span>, chairperson for Illinois Partners for Human Service, and CEO and president for Children + Family Aid, a major social service provider.<\/p>\n

Between 2003 and 2010, The Center on Budget and Tax Accountability estimates that human services were under-funded by $4.4 billion<\/span> after both inflation and growth in demand are taken into account.<\/p>\n

Moreover, approximately 400,000 Illinoisans are employed statewide in the human services sector and approximately $8<\/span> is returned to communities for every $1<\/span> invested in human services. Five billion dollars<\/span> in cuts could result in a loss of 25,000 jobs.<\/p>\n

Illinois Partners for Human Service was established in 2008 and is a growing statewide network of approximately 200 organizations that advocate for high quality, responsible, and sustainable approaches to providing human service in Illinois<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Chicago-area nonprofit organizations are meeting as part of a new statewide campaign to raise awareness that Illinois‘ structure for providing high priority human services have been compromised by the current state budget crisis. The meeting is on Feb. 5 from 8:30am to 12pm at Calumet Center, Metropolitan Family Services, 235 E. 103rd St., Chicago, Ill. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}