Overview:

Since its opening in 1991, The Children's Place Association has supported 1000 children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses- from newborns to teens- nursing the sick, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, comforting the frightened, counseling the confused and consoling the grieving.

Children served:

Infants, toddlers and children with HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses who cannot be cared for at home.

Children whose sick parents cannot care for them during short-term medical crisis.

Babies and pre-schoolers needing medically or psychologically appropriate child care.

Children of all ages needing foster care or adoption.

School age children needing counseling or other help to cope with their own and/or their parents' HIV.

Programs:

Founded in 1991 as the region's only residential care for children with HIV; family support programs added in 1993; foster care services launched in 1994; Family center opened in 1998; day care licensed in 1999; 360 children and parents served in fiscal year 2005.

Funding and Staffing:

800 donors, 300 volunteers and 80 staff operate programs with an annual budget of over $4.5 million, with funding from both governmental and private sources.

For More Information:

For information on volunteerism, financial and non-financial donations, and other information, please contact us:

The Children's Place Association
3059 W. Augusta Blvd., Chicago, IL 60622
773.826.1230

Simone Wheeler, Director of Development

For more information about The Children's Place Association, please contact Ann Simonson: Volunteers/ Development 773-826-1230 X234 or ASimonson@childrens-place.org