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The mission of Crossroads for Women is to provide comprehensive, integrated services to empower women emerging from incarceration to achieve safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives in the community, for themselves and their children.

Providing a Place of Escape for Sexually Exploited Women Refuge for Women is a 3-phase faith-based program that lasts 12 months. A safe place has been created for guests to experience healing with few distractions. The key aspects of the Refuge for Women program are sobriety, healing from trauma, rebuilding trust, and developing a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Founded by Rachel and Tom Duke in 2016, Meseret for Women is a charity providing care and assistance for vulnerable women in Ethiopia to provide new mothers with support, self-worth and skills so they are able to support their children.

Aid for Women serves thousands of women annually in the Chicagoland area who are facing unexpected pregnancies. Our life-affirming services are offered to clients free-of-charge and include: compassionate counseling, pregnancy tests, ultrasound exams, Earn While You Learn Program, pregnancy and parent support groups, residential programs as well as medical and community referrals. Aid for Women operates five pregnancy care centers and two residential programs. www.helpaidforwomen.org.

Crossroads services are free and provided in both official languages. Transition house: A safe shelter provided on a short-term basis to women and children living with family violence. It is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Crisis line: Support and resources related to family violence. Child support worker: Support services, play based therapy. Second Stage: Eight safe and affordable apartments along with support services for women and their children wishing to break the cycle of violence.

The mission of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation is to support families affected by Prion Disease, raise awareness, and support medical education and research.

The American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) is the largest grassroots network dedicated to fighting Parkinson’s disease (PD) and works tirelessly to help the approximately one million with PD in the United States live life to the fullest in the face of this chronic, neurological disorder.

It is the mission of Shriners Hospitals for Children to: -Provide the highest quality care to children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries and certain other special health care needs within a compassionate, family centered and collaborative care environment -Provide for the education of physicians and other health care professionals -Conduct research to discover new knowledge that improves the quality of care and quality of life of children and families. This mission is carried out without cost to the patient or family, and without regard to race, color, creed, sex or sect.

UMDF's mission is to promote research and education for the diagnosis, treatment and cure of mitochondrial disorders and provide support to affected individuals and families.

Interfaith Prison Ministry builds bridges of hope for women in prison before and after release through chaplaincy services, transition education and reentry support.