Progress Center Calendar: Classes and Events
Upcoming Events
Join Progress Center for Independent Living and the Regional Transportation Authority on March 22, 2023 at the YWCA in Evanston. Progress Center is a non-profit disability service and advocacy organization. Progress Center will share information about their programs and about how people in Evanston can utilize their services. The RTA will join Progress Center and will be available to answer questions about transportation programs and to help community members register for transportation benefits. Guests who would like to enroll in transportation benefits programs are encouraged to fill out an application prior to the meeting on March 22. To register for the event follow this link: Register. Or, contact garnold@progresscil.org.
What: Community Meeting: Disability and Transportation Services
Where: The YWCA, 1215 Church Street, Evanston, Illinois 60201
When: Wednesday, March 22, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
ASL INTERPRETATION SERVICES WILL BE AVAILABLE. FOR MORE ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS, AND TO REGISTER, CONTACT garnold@PROGRESSCIL.ORG
Progress Center for Independent Living is recruiting personal assistants and Certified Nursing Assistants to assist people with disabilities in their homes. Full and part time work is available. No previous experience is necessary. Personal assistants are offered $17.25/hour. People with disabilities are encouraged to apply. This is an opportunity to work with people with disabilities and to learn about independent living. Personal assistants play a significant role in helping a person with disabilities to live in their own home, instead of a nursing home.
Duties you may perform:
- Housekeeping & Laundry
- Cooking & Meal Preparations/Clean up
- Assist with hygiene needs, including bathing and toiletry
- Running Errands
- Assisting with mobility needs
- Many individualized needs, including getting in and out of bed, and dressing
What: Personal Assistant Orientation
Where: The event and orientation will be online.
When: Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 10 a.m.
For more information, contact rbarnes@progresscil.org
View Progress Center’s Personal Assistant Public Service Announcement: Click Here
Progress Center for Independent Living is recruiting personal assistants and Certified Nursing Assistants to assist people with disabilities in their homes. Full and part time work is available. No previous experience is necessary. Personal assistants are offered $17.25/hour. People with disabilities are encouraged to apply. This is an opportunity to work with people with disabilities and to learn about independent living. Personal assistants play a significant role in helping a person with disabilities to live in their own home, instead of a nursing home.
Duties you may perform:
- Housekeeping & Laundry
- Cooking & Meal Preparations/Clean up
- Assist with hygiene needs, including bathing and toiletry
- Running Errands
- Assisting with mobility needs
- Many individualized needs, including getting in and out of bed, and dressing
What: Personal Assistant Orientation– Spanish Language
Where: The event and orientation will be online.
When: Friday, March 24, 2023 at 10 a.m.
For more information and to register for this meeting, contact Art Johnson at ajohnson@progresscil.org.
View Progress Center’s Personal Assistant Public Service Announcement: Click Here
What:
A weekly opportunity for Progress Center Consumers, Members, Supporters, Allies, and Advocates to meet in person or over zoom. The meeting will give participants time to share how they are feeling, ask questions of others, hear what others are doing and sharing, and perhaps learn some new ways to navigate current challenges.
Why:
This meeting started as a way to give people an opportunity to connect during the pandemic today. The goal remains the same today. The pandemic ebbs and flows. The need to connect remains. This is a hybrid event. This event will give participants a chance to talk over the phone, connect over zoom, or meet in person and share what is on our minds. The floor will be open for people to talk about frustrations they have experienced, accomplishments, new things they’ve learned, and everything in between.
Who:
The event is geared toward consumers, members, and advocates from the Progress Center and broader disability community. All interested people are encouraged and welcome to join though.
When:
The event will be every Monday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Where:
The event will be over Zoom and in person at 7521 Madison Street, Forest Park, Illinois 60130. For the registration link, email garnold@progresscil.org
For questions and accommodation requests, send an email to garnold@progresscil.org
Progress Center for Independent Living is recruiting personal assistants and Certified Nursing Assistants to assist people with disabilities in their homes. Full and part time work is available. No previous experience is necessary. Personal assistants are offered $17.25/hour. People with disabilities are encouraged to apply. This is an opportunity to work with people with disabilities and to learn about independent living. Personal assistants play a significant role in helping a person with disabilities to live in their own home, instead of a nursing home.
Duties you may perform:
- Housekeeping & Laundry
- Cooking & Meal Preparations/Clean up
- Assist with hygiene needs, including bathing and toiletry
- Running Errands
- Assisting with mobility needs
- Many individualized needs, including getting in and out of bed, and dressing
What: Personal Assistant Orientation
Where: The event and orientation will be online.
When: Tuesday, March 28, 10 a.m.
For more information, contact rbarnes@progresscil.org
View Progress Center’s Personal Assistant Public Service Announcement: Click Here
Progress Center for Independent Living is recruiting personal assistants and Certified Nursing Assistants to assist people with disabilities in their homes. Full and part time work is available. No previous experience is necessary. Personal assistants are offered $17.25/hour. People with disabilities are encouraged to apply. This is an opportunity to work with people with disabilities and to learn about independent living. Personal assistants play a significant role in helping a person with disabilities to live in their own home, instead of a nursing home.
Duties you may perform:
- Housekeeping & Laundry
- Cooking & Meal Preparations/Clean up
- Assist with hygiene needs, including bathing and toiletry
- Running Errands
- Assisting with mobility needs
- Many individualized needs, including getting in and out of bed, and dressing
What: Personal Assistant Orientation
Where: The event and orientation will be online.
When: Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 11 a.m.
For more information, contact Kristina Reis at kreis@progresscil.org
View Progress Center’s Personal Assistant Public Service Announcement: Click Here
Progress Center for Independent Living is recruiting personal assistants and Certified Nursing Assistants to assist people with disabilities in their homes. Full and part time work is available. No previous experience is necessary. Personal assistants are offered $17.25/hour. People with disabilities are encouraged to apply. This is an opportunity to work with people with disabilities and to learn about independent living. Personal assistants play a significant role in helping a person with disabilities to live in their own home, instead of a nursing home.
Duties you may perform:
- Housekeeping & Laundry
- Cooking & Meal Preparations/Clean up
- Assist with hygiene needs, including bathing and toiletry
- Running Errands
- Assisting with mobility needs
- Many individualized needs, including getting in and out of bed, and dressing
What: Personal Assistant Orientation
Where: The event and orientation will be online.
When: Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 6 p.m.
For more information, contact Rhychell Barnes at rbarnes@progresscil.org
View Progress Center’s Personal Assistant Public Service Announcement: Click Here
Progress Center invites you to a support group for people with disabilities who manage personal assistants. This group will offer people with disabilities the chance to share the experiences, challenges, frustrations, and triumphs that come with managing a personal assistant and navigating healthcare. This is for participants to build new networks and develop new strategies that may be helpful in the future.
This group meets once a month. The group will be in person and over zoom.
The in-person spots are very limited. Registration is required for the in-person spots. For more information, for a zoom link to joint via remote, and to request an accommodation or a language interpreter, contact Art Johnson at ajohnson@progresscil.org
What:
A weekly opportunity for Progress Center Consumers, Members, Supporters, Allies, and Advocates to meet in person or over zoom. The meeting will give participants time to share how they are feeling, ask questions of others, hear what others are doing and sharing, and perhaps learn some new ways to navigate current challenges.
Why:
This meeting started as a way to give people an opportunity to connect during the pandemic today. The goal remains the same today. The pandemic ebbs and flows. The need to connect remains. This is a hybrid event. This event will give participants a chance to talk over the phone, connect over zoom, or meet in person and share what is on our minds. The floor will be open for people to talk about frustrations they have experienced, accomplishments, new things they’ve learned, and everything in between.
Who:
The event is geared toward consumers, members, and advocates from the Progress Center and broader disability community. All interested people are encouraged and welcome to join though.
When:
The event will be every Monday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Where:
The event will be over Zoom and in person at 7521 Madison Street, Forest Park, Illinois 60130. For the registration link, email garnold@progresscil.org
For questions and accommodation requests, send an email to garnold@progresscil.org
What:
A weekly opportunity for Progress Center Consumers, Members, Supporters, Allies, and Advocates to meet in person or over zoom. The meeting will give participants time to share how they are feeling, ask questions of others, hear what others are doing and sharing, and perhaps learn some new ways to navigate current challenges.
Why:
This meeting started as a way to give people an opportunity to connect during the pandemic today. The goal remains the same today. The pandemic ebbs and flows. The need to connect remains. This is a hybrid event. This event will give participants a chance to talk over the phone, connect over zoom, or meet in person and share what is on our minds. The floor will be open for people to talk about frustrations they have experienced, accomplishments, new things they’ve learned, and everything in between.
Who:
The event is geared toward consumers, members, and advocates from the Progress Center and broader disability community. All interested people are encouraged and welcome to join though.
When:
The event will be every Monday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Where:
The event will be over Zoom and in person at 7521 Madison Street, Forest Park, Illinois 60130. For the registration link, email garnold@progresscil.org
For questions and accommodation requests, send an email to garnold@progresscil.org
