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The mission of PADS Lake County is to stand as a community based organization that provides trauma-informed support, resources, and shelter to individuals and families experiencing a housing crisis. We envision a community in which homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring; one in which anyone who may experience a housing crisis has timely access to the proper resources and services based on their individual need.PADS works in partnership

Mercy Home offers abused or neglected youth who seek a new beginning hope and promise of a healthy and successful future, safety, respect and opportunities for growth. Mercy Home seeks benefactors who believe in the miracle of God's mercy and in the integrity of those who care for the health and safety of our children. Mercy Home is committed to raising public awareness of the plight of all of society's at-risk youth in order to encourage support of programs that would enable them to begin their own process of healing.

OMID’s mission is to support and provide tools to marginalized young women in their journey toward self-empowerment—social, economic and emotional. And to support and grow a community of clinicians, educators, who collaborate to disseminate, and implement optimal trauma treatments for these young women.

Family Service League helps individuals, children, and families to mobilize their strengths and improve the quality of their lives at home, in the workplace, and in the community.

IPTAR has over 100 candidates in training and provides low cost therapy to needy clients and has over 200 dues paying members.

JQY (Jewish Queer Youth) is a nonprofit organization supporting and empowering LGBTQ youth in the Jewish community. JQY fights to ensure the emotional and physical health and safety of these individuals, with a special focus on teens and young adults from Orthodox, Chasidic, and Sephardic communities. Our goal is for all these individuals to know: You are a valued member of the Jewish community and you are not alone.

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#HalftheStory's mission to empower the next generation’s relationship with social media, through advocacy, education, and providing access to resources for youth. We believe in digital wellbeing. In the digital age we have the freedom to filter out our lives however we choose. Hiding behind our social media identities, we mask the truth behind partial realities we post everyday. #HalftheStory is a global community that encourages individuals to share parts of their lives that exist outside of the standard social media story— Life unfiltered. #HalftheStory celebrates hidden human talents, passions, beliefs and struggles that connect us on a deeper level. By sharing a part of our identity that is not regularly revealed through social media, we restore human connection.

AHA! believes in a world where every teen can feel safe, seen, and emotionally connected. We equip teenagers and educators with social and emotional intelligence to dismantle apathy, prevent despair, and interrupt hate-based behavior. By inspiring teens and adults to joyfully lead with courage and kindness, AHA! transforms schools and communities into welcoming, nourishing, expressive, and inclusive spaces where youth and adults work together for the highest good.

To increase positive awareness of Down syndrome through national campaigns, educational programs, and by empowering individuals with Down syndrome, their families and the community.

Our mission is to provide high-quality, accessible mental health services to empower children, young adults, and families in the Chicago area. This will be accomplished through collaboration with local communities to identify the services they need, the building of a therapeutic milieu, and a focus on connection. We firmly believe in the idea of inclusivity and aim to maintain diversity of staff and clients as a priority.

HealthRIGHT 360 is a California-based nonprofit that delivers integrated, low-barrier health services—primary care, mental health, dental care, and substance use disorder treatment—plus re-entry and social supports. Its work focuses on serving low-income, uninsured, and otherwise vulnerable people across multiple California counties to help clients toward recovery, health, and self-sufficiency.