Kankakee County Community Services Inc

Senior programs: senior community services employment program: the senior community service employment program provides training opportunities to older adults of age 55+ who are at or below 125% poverty. These individuals, also known as program participants, are given access to training via non-profit or governmental agencies located in the counties of will and kankakee. Each program participant can train for 20-29 hours a week while earning an hourly wage equivalent to the il minimum wage rate. Each person is required to seek employment while training and engage in workshops, job fairs and other job development or skill enhancing opportunities. While enrolled in the program, participants learn skills associated with positions that include, but are not limited to, clerical and administrative support, childcare, maintenance and janitorial, case management, inventory, and customer service. These opportunities are provided by agencies that include, but are not limited to, the city of kankakee, center of hope food pantry, the salvation army, and will county center for community concerns. The program has 9 partnering agencies in will county and 5 in kankakee county.during the 2023 calendar year, 43 older adults received 32,107.25 hours of training. Two participants transitioned into unsubsidized employment.

Human services: 142 households were provided rental assistance in the form of a one-time payment to the landlord to help with family stability. Payments provided covered up to 3 months in arrears.1,421 nights of shelter were given to 118 families who were homeless. 25 households received help with a mortgage. 187 families received a payment on their electric, sewer and/or water bill. The food pantry provided food to help 10,537 duplicated individuals to meet their nutritional needs to 878 households.information was provided to 321 individuals in the form of internal or external referrals to help them find the services that are needed.3 csbg scholarships were provided to low-income students.school supplies were distributed to 300 low-income students in grades kindergarten to twelfth grade.