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How about iris?  Ornamental grasses?  If you need to thin out a patch of your favorite perennials, we are looking for plants to help us landscape around our facilities.   Please email volunteer@cwt-cu.org and let us know what plants you have!

The Community Foundation of East Central Illinois

The Community Foundation of East Central Illinois was established in 1972 to encourage and receive gifts and bequests from individuals, corporations, organizations and foundations to respond to the charitable needs of the residents of east central Illinois.

We promote philanthropy in an impartial, unbiased, ethical way, with a commitment to inclusiveness. We bring together people and resources to identify and address present and emerging community needs.

One of the ways we do this is by making grants to tax-exempt, not-for profit organizations serving the residents of east central Illinois. Since 1972, we have provided about $10 million to support a broad range of agencies and organizations in the areas of human services, arts and culture, education and civic and environmental affairs. Funds are also used to support special programs designed to enhance the quality of life in our target communities.

Joan Dixon Jan 18 2012 Presentation

Joan Dixon presents an award at the January 18, 2012 Board Meeting.

Champaign County Early Head Start Collaboration

In the summer of 2010 Champaign County Head Start/Early Head Start began a collaboration with The Center for Women in Transition to provide comprehensive services for homeless children and families

For this collaboration CCHS provides a model of combination programming to Early Head Start children and their families who live at the homeless shelter. This combination model includes 96 classroom experiences and 24 home visits annually and also allowed CCHS to have its own space set up just for Early Head Start infants/toddlers that is used for the classroom experience CCHS , as well as, a combination mentor on staff whose office is located at the shelter. 

This collaboration has brought many benefits to both parties.  One of the benefits includes offering a developmentally appropriate center based experience for homeless infants/toddlers twice a week.   In this setting, children feel safe, nurtured, loved, and cared for in an environment that offers consistency with the same primary caregiver each week.  The Center for Woman in Transition has put a real emphasis on the mothers in the program volunteering in the room, participating in trainings, and participating in the CCHS policy council.   

The mothers at the shelter, who are enrolled in Early Head Start, not only benefit from their child receiving center based services, they also benefit from the biweekly home visits in which the parent along with the combination mentor work on strengths and needs, but most importantly, the goals for their family.

CCHS helps families obtain goals such as receiving a GED, finding employment, and providing them with appropriate child development modeling and training, but the efforts of our two organizations working together has made for a healthier and safer place for children and families of this community.  


The Center for Women in Transition provides a continuum of services so that individuals and families can achieve safety, stability and
self-sufficiency.

 

STATISTICS FOR
7/1/2010 - 6/30/2011

 Homeless Services:
 Women housed: 51
 Children housed:  52
 Wait List:  91 women
                   59 children

Domestic Violence  Services:
 Women housed:  88

 Children housed: 93
 Counseling:  275
 Orders of Protection: 186
 Hotline Calls: 1,031

Transitions Resale Store:
 Program Participants: 38
 Found Employment:  8

11/09/11 - Mayor’s Birthday Bash nets donations for two charities.
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11/15/11 - Ford County Skype Program Helps Victims of Domestic Violence.
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1/18/12 - Community Foundation of East Central Illinois presents awared.
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2/29/12 - Champaign County Head Start/Early Head Start Collaboration.
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