TEAMWORK: is the ability to work together toward a common vision and to direct individual accomplishments towards organizational objectives. Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon goals.
Our Vision is unchanged. It is to provide 100 percent free and confidential care to Veterans, service and family members through a network of Veteran volunteers, Veteran Peer Support Specialists and critical community providers. The few examples below can tell our ... Read More
TEAMWORK: is the ability to work together toward a common vision and to direct individual accomplishments towards organizational objectives. Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon goals.
Our Vision is unchanged. It is to provide 100 percent free and confidential care to Veterans, service and family members through a network of Veteran volunteers, Veteran Peer Support Specialists and critical community providers. The few examples below can tell our story.
• Lovell FHCC: The James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, commonly referred to as “the VA”, is one of our largest partners with whom we collaborate every day in which we are full participants. We fill the gaps when it comes to homelessness, Veterans outreach, temporary living, housing, food insecurity, mental health, and addiction recovery programs.
• Catholic Charities: Is our primary employment partner. Moreover, we make our crisis intervention programs for food insecurity and Vets-In-Need available to their clients. When necessary, we also provide equipment (computers) for the unemployed to execute their job search.
• Veterans Treatment and Assessment Court (VTAC) of the 19th Judicial Court: We attend all meetings of VTAC, have one staff member on the board, and one staff member who has been a mentor for over seven years. We are teammates with the court in giving the deserving Veteran a second chance.
• Veterans Path to Hope, Northern Illinois Recovery Community Organization and the Waukegan JIC Center are each an intimate partner of LCVFSF. They provide clients, geographies and needs that LCVFSF couldn’t possibly do without them. All are integral to caring for our service member population.
• The Ruck March: Is our largest annual event to raise public awareness of the military suicide tragedy. Virtually all LCVFSF staff and team members participate or contribute. Abbvie, Rust-Oleum, Cup-A-Joe locations, Culvers, JIC Center, Grainger, Lake Forest Day Foundation; NIRCO, LFHCC, VFW, American Legion, County Councils etc. all participate, volunteer or donate.
• Team funding from big and individual donors: Woodruff, Craig Newmark Philanthropy, Abbvie, Rust-Oleum, McCormick, Lake Forest Day Foundation, Grainger, Pritzker Military Museum and Library, and over 400 individual donors.
• The team works in concert with a deeply dedicated staff of Veterans
OUR PROGRAMS AND EVENTS help connect Veterans, service and family members with each other and with the resources and benefits they earned and deserve, free and confidentially, regardless of their discharge status.
To become a credible resource with the highest national ratings awarded by GuideStar and Charity Navigator, we must consistently deliver on the “Promise”. And for us, our mission is our promise, to be delivered daily, client by client. By consistently executing Programs and Events with specific goals and target audiences, we advance toward fulfilling our mission. Following are examples of how we connect Veterans and service members:
Events: live, in person, fun, educational, experimental, civic responsibility
o Fishing, Equestrian Connection, Patriotic Painting, Family Sporting Events
o School and Education Activities: Veterans Day honors, military history lectures
o Public Speaking Engagements: schools, universities, VFW, Legion, civic events
o Earth Day Clean up annually
o Ft. Sheridan Headstone Cleaning annually
o Annual Care Package production annually
o Ruck March Month for Suicide Awareness annually
o Adopt-A-Highway Project clean-up
Meetings: Social, business, civic, educational, networking
o Veterans Community Partners Network (VCPN) bimonthly meetings (all partners on daily call basis)
o Weekly Cup-A-Joe Meetings in four locations
o Veteran Treatment Court board and mentor membership
o Recovery Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC) Council Meetings
o Northern Illinois Recovery Community Organization (NIRCO) meetings
o Grayslake Chamber Meetings
o DryHootch Open Door for Walk-Ins
Crisis Intervention Programs: (financial, housing, food, employment) Partnering with Veterans Path to Hope, LFHCC, Catholic Charities, Public Health Departments, Abbvie, Rust-Oleum ERGs, Illinois Joining Forces
o Crisis Intervention Training Program
o Vets-In-Need program
o Food Insecurity Program
o Food, Necessities Gift Cards
o Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) Lovell Federal Health Care Center (LFHCC) Housing Program
o Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) through Veterans Path to Hope
o Homeless Walk-In Center
o Lovell Federal Health Care Center (LFHCC) Transitional Housing
o County and Village Fire, EMT and Law Enforcement Agencies
o Legal Assistance
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