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Join Progress Center for our monthly M&O Committee meeting at our Forest Park office or over Zoom.

Call or email Demetra for more information at 705-209-1500 ext. 118 or dkaras@progresscil.org.

Join Progress Center for our monthly M&O meeting at our Forest Park office or over Zoom.

Call or email Demetra for more information at 705-209-1500 or dkaras@progresscil.org.

Suicide Prevention Training

Progress Center invites you to a QPR Mental Health Training session. QPR stands for “Question, Persuade, Refer” and is an effective method of recognizing suicide warnings and preventing suicide. Anyone can take the training for free. Presented by the Kenneth Young Center at Progress Center’s Forest Park office, QPR training is highly recommended for care providers, case managers, educators, and whoever else would find it helpful. At the end of the hour of training, there will be an optional role-play opportunity, and participants will receive a certificate of completion.

Ques­tion, Per­suade, and Refer (QPR) – these are the three steps any­one can learn to help save a life from sui­cide. This train­ing will help you learn how to rec­og­nize the warn­ing signs of a sui­cide  cri­sis and how to ques­tion, per­suade, and refer some­one to help.

September 15 at 10:00 to 11:30 am

Progress Center for Independent Living

7521 Madison Street, Forest Park, IL

Email dkaras@progresscil.org or call 708-209-1500 ext.118 to let us know you’ll be attending and any accommodation requests.

In collaboration with the City of Blue Island, Progress Center for Independent Living is creating a Disability Committee in the community. We are pleased to invite you to the Committee’s first meeting. During this meeting, we will discuss the mission of the Committee, as well as plans and logistics of future meetings.

We are seeking representation from all of Blue Island: First and foremost, people with disabilities and their families. We want to be joined by city representatives, businesspeople, local organizations and officials, and others who support the disability community who want to put Blue Island on the map of cities and towns who lead our movement of accessibility, inclusion, and success.

The Disability Committee will meet on Tuesday, September 16 at 2:00pm at Progress Center’s Blue Island office at 12940 S. Western Avenue. It is in the Moraine Valley Community College at Blue Island building, 3^rd  Floor. We look forward to seeing you there.

Please call Manuel at 708-388-5011 if you will be attending or for further information.

This workshop is designed to help people with and without disabilities build skills to independently and safely use PACE fixed-route public transportation. The new skills learned support participants to live and work in the community.

Presented by Search, Inc. at Progress Center’s Forest Park office, Hop on the Bus to Independence is a workshop of essential information about online resources and trip planning, using Ventra to pay for fares, accessibility and safety features, and building confidence to take public transportation.

Email dkaras@progresscil.org or call 708-209-1500 ext.118 to let us know you’ll be attending and any accommodation requests.

PACE ADA Information Session

When:

August 21

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Where:

Progress Center

7521 Madison Street, Forest Park, IL 60130

FEATURING a representative from both PACE and RTA

Join us for an overview of PACE ADA services, including Paratransit, RAP, and TAP. Learn which option is best for you.

Email dkaras@progresscil.org or call 708-209-1500 ext.118 to let us know you’ll be attending and any accommodation requests.

A Zoom option is available.

TIME CHANGE:

There has been a time change for next week’s Membership and Outreach events on the 20th. We will meet for the Shop-In at 11:00am at Good Earth Cafe. The meeting will follow from 1:00 to 3:00pm at Progress Center.

Before our monthly Membership and Outreach meeting, Progress Center is having a Shop-In. Shop-Ins are opportunities to show businesses the buying power and solidarity of the disability community. This month we are meeting at Good Earth Cafe at 7900 Madison Street, River Forest, IL 60305 at 11:00am. The M&O meeting will follow in our Forest Park office and over Zoom starting at 1:00pm this month.

Zoom link for meeting:

Membership & Outreach Committee Meeting (3rd Wed each month)
Time: Aug 20, 2025 1:00pm start

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Join Progress Center for our monthly M&O meeting at our Forest Park office or over Zoom.