All of the services and programs listed below are FREE to our clients
True Guidance is a non-profit non-governmental human services agency. Our primary purpose is to provide guidance to financial assistance that will insure the basic human needs of our clients.
True Guidance is a non-profit non-governmental human services agency. Our primary purpose is to provide guidance to financial assistance that will insure the basic human needs of our clients.
- Rental/Mortgage - Stay in your home or apartment
- Gas and Electric - Depending on the season
- Food - Guidance through the Snap program
- A desire to offer unique and special services not available through other agencies.
- A desire to help ease the burden of difficult economic situations of others by sharing the skills learned during our own challenging times.
- A commitment to our community.
- A mission to treat those in need with dignity and respect and to encourage this value in others.
"Learn to Work" program is all about getting you the education you deserve. As you know, one of the challenges of our time is crushing student debt. Total student debt now stands at $1.31 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and rose in 2016 for the 18th straight year. At True Guidance, we believe no one should have to go into debt to get an education.
This program guides people of all ages, in a one-on-one appointment, toward scholarships, grants, internships, and apprenticeships and assists in completion of applications so that they can gain a debt-free education. Education makes people more productive members of their communities, but high debt payments detract from their ability to contribute.
We believe that helping people obtain an education without debt is a key component of building healthy communities and strengthening families. All of True Guidance services are FREE. Our clients never pay a dime.
This program guides people of all ages, in a one-on-one appointment, toward scholarships, grants, internships, and apprenticeships and assists in completion of applications so that they can gain a debt-free education. Education makes people more productive members of their communities, but high debt payments detract from their ability to contribute.
We believe that helping people obtain an education without debt is a key component of building healthy communities and strengthening families. All of True Guidance services are FREE. Our clients never pay a dime.
"Hunger Relief"
This program offers community events that consist of a FREE community dinner, clean eating segment and guidance with SNAP Shopping that helps maximize your Link benefits & make healthy choices.
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This program offers community events that consist of a FREE community dinner, clean eating segment and guidance with SNAP Shopping that helps maximize your Link benefits & make healthy choices.
Locations:
Date:
Time:
Diversity Statement
The mission of True Guidance is to improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable people in Illinois. We believe that the diversity of our community is a fundamental strength of this state. Our mission is best fulfilled when we embrace diversity as a value and a practice.
We maintain that achieving diversity requires an enduring commitment to inclusion that must find full expression in our organizational culture, values, norms and behaviors.
Throughout our work, we will support diversity in all of its forms, encompassing but not limited to, age, disability status *, economic circumstance, ethnicity, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation. Leading by example, we aspire to make diversity a core and abiding strength of the not-for-profit sector.
True Guidance's board of directors put this Diversity Statement in place and we require our staff to adopt this statement as well.
We believe that the board and staff composition of our agency should reflect the diversity and demographics of the community being served. In addition, True Guidance includes diversity among our leadership at the board and senior staff levels to ensure the diverse perspectives needed at the decision-making levels. *The term "disability" means, with respect to an individual, a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual; major life activities include, but are not limited to, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating and working.
(*The American Disabilities Act)
With Respect and Regards,
Angela Lemke
Executive Director
The mission of True Guidance is to improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable people in Illinois. We believe that the diversity of our community is a fundamental strength of this state. Our mission is best fulfilled when we embrace diversity as a value and a practice.
We maintain that achieving diversity requires an enduring commitment to inclusion that must find full expression in our organizational culture, values, norms and behaviors.
Throughout our work, we will support diversity in all of its forms, encompassing but not limited to, age, disability status *, economic circumstance, ethnicity, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation. Leading by example, we aspire to make diversity a core and abiding strength of the not-for-profit sector.
True Guidance's board of directors put this Diversity Statement in place and we require our staff to adopt this statement as well.
We believe that the board and staff composition of our agency should reflect the diversity and demographics of the community being served. In addition, True Guidance includes diversity among our leadership at the board and senior staff levels to ensure the diverse perspectives needed at the decision-making levels. *The term "disability" means, with respect to an individual, a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual; major life activities include, but are not limited to, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating and working.
(*The American Disabilities Act)
With Respect and Regards,
Angela Lemke
Executive Director