Find Food IL

Find Food IL is a community food map that shows places in your community that offer free food or meals. Use the map to find local food pantries, stores and markets that accept SNAP/LINK or WIC coupons, school and summer meal sites, older adult resources, farmers markets, and more.

This easy-to-use map lets you search by your town or zip code, use the filter to narrow your search, or print the list of resources.

The Find Food IL Community Food Map is part of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Division of Specialized Care for Children: https://dscc.uic.edu/dscc_resource/find-food-il-community-food-map/.

Pathways

Pathways offers educational resources for parents, caregivers, and healthcare professionals to support the growth and development of children. Their mission is to provide free tools to maximize all children’s motor, sensory, and communication development. They empower parents to understand and encourage their baby’s development to keep them on track or catch potential delays early.

Pathways provides free parenting videos on its website and app to show parents exactly what to expect. They also offer on-demand courses, webinars, and more to help keep children on track and catch potential delays early. Brochures and milestone checklists are available for free in many languages, and their free baby milestones app helps parents monitor baby’s progress.

Peter Leidy

Peter Leidy conducts workshops, develops training materials, writes songs, speaks and sings at conferences, and works with organizations, government agencies, families, and paid supporters to promote positive support, inclusion, building healthy relationships, and thinking differently about people who are called “challenging.” He focuses on personalizing support and community membership for people with disabilities. He’s been learning from people with disabilities since 1983.

Peter offers consulting for individuals, teams, families, and DSPs. He trains as both a conference speaker and workshop facilitator on a variety of topics:

– Designing person-centered supports
– Supported Living Workshop description
– Recruiting and supporting staff
– Staff retention
– Staff appreciation events
– Motivating direct support staff
– Organizational development
– Values training
– Developing/building community relationships
– Crisis prevention training
– Power and control
– Songs from Human Serviceland

Tarrytown

Tarrytown Expocare Pharmacy is a long-term care pharmacy specializing in serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They aim to provide high-quality pharmacy services for IDD and behavioral health communities through innovative and compassionate pharmacy services. Tarrytown is dedicated to partnering with caregivers, direct support professionals, nurses, and the broader community to reduce stress, save time, and promote consistent, high-quality care for individuals in group home settings and beyond.

In addition to Tarrytown’s streamlined medication management, prescription delivery system, and customer service, they work with your team to stay current on community news and industry updates.

Explore Tarrytown’s upcoming education and event opportunities list at the Events tab. Webinars and in-person events are available at no cost, with CEUs included. See each event for details, including regarding QIDP and nursing CEUs.

EasyLlama

From inception, EasyLlama’s mission has been to help equip companies with engaging training that promotes a safe, inclusive, and equitable work environment for all. They are on a mission to empower people-centered organizations to create a safe and positive workplace. The EasyLlama Resource Center offers articles, eBooks, guides, and more on various workplace topics, such as crafting a workplace violence policy, data privacy and healthcare cybersecurity, DEIB, minimizing unconscious bias in hiring, and hundreds more options.

OpenSesame

OpenSesame offers thousands of online classes to support a wide variety of professional development, from DEI to leadership to wellness. At the Resources tab, browse the Resource Library tab for the categories, titles, and costs.

When you prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion, every facet of your organization benefits. Organizations with strong diversity climates are more likely to have employees with increased job satisfaction and higher levels of trust and engagement.

Use the Guided Tour to learn what OpenSesame has to offer, how to sync with your LMS, preview courses, sort by category, filter by language, and more!

Blue Tower Solutions

Blue Tower Solutions is dedicated to elevating the voices of people with disabilities and striving for equity in services and solutions. Blue Tower Solutions engages individuals, organizations, and systems to create cultures of respect, inclusion, dignity, and equality for people with disabilities.

Blue Tower Solutions offers many training topics, including “It Starts with Saying Hi!” This interactive class was created in response to the challenges faced with talking with people receiving services about the importance of understanding people of different races, religions, sexualities, and abilities. The class was created with input from people receiving services, self-advocates, and DSPs. This class is designed to be co-taught with a self-advocate and a staff person, virtually or in person. Learn more about this class and other training topics at https://www.bluetowersolutions.org/training-topics.

UIC Institute on Disability and Human Development

The Institute on Disability and Human Development (IDHD) at the University of Illinois Chicago offers archived webinars on a variety of topics for paid continuing education units (CEUs). These webinars are previous TAP/IDHD/LEND live webinars.

IDHD webinars offer timely information and may be viewed at your convenience without the expense of travel. IDHD professionals are experts in a wide range of disability topics. This webinar series is designed to promote and enhance IDHD’s relationships with the Illinois disability community. CEUs will be offered for select webinars.

CEUs will be offered for select archived webinars. The cost of CEUs is $10 per certificate. To receive CEUs, you will need to pre-register for your live or archived webinars. Registration and more information for live and archived webinars can be found at the link above.

Training & eTracking Solutions

Training & eTracking Solutions thrives on providing highly effective online training programs to nonprofit and social service communities across the United States. Realizing that employee training is vital to the success of individuals, agencies, and associations within the human services field, Training & eTracking Solutions prides itself on creating content-rich online training. They’ve built training programs to focus on employees retaining more knowledge through interactive exercises, real-world situations, and engaging simulations.

See the Training tab for their learning categories, including training for DSPs, CEs for LMSW/LCSW, professional development, as well as on safety, senior care, mental health, and more. Schedule a free consultation to learn more about their programs and custom eLearning services.

Illinois Community Colleges Online

Illinois Community Colleges Online (ILCCO) is a consortium of Illinois community college leaders collaborating to provide leadership, facilitate collaboration, and share resources in technology-enhanced and online education. As a gathering of leaders in online education in Illinois, ILCCO contributes to the leadership development of their members by strengthening skills and abilities while striving to guide and advocate for online learning in the state.

ILCCO is a membership organization available to all Illinois community college districts for the purpose of promoting quality online learning and providing additional online learning opportunities for students through course sharing.