AgeOptions
Urhai Community Service Center has worked with AgeOptions since 2005 to serve the elderly residing in Cook County Suburbs. Through the funding and support of AgeOptions, Urhai Community Service Center has been able to provide services to hundreds of clients throught different programs such as Information & Assistance, Senior Opportunities & Services, Emergency Assistance providing direct financial assistance to seniors to pay their bills or buy grocery or medication, Targetting Culturally & Linguistically Isolated Persons, and Senior Health Assistance Program.
Urhai Community Service Center does not discriminate in admission to program or treatment of employment in compliance with the appropriate State and Federal Statues. If you feel you have been discriminated against, please call: 773-275-2688 or 1-800-699-9043
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Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly
Since its establishment in 2001, Urhai Community Service Center has worked very closely with the Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly (CLESE) in different programs such as Alzheimer’s, Osteoporosis screening for women, Cultural Initiative Program for refugees age 55 and up, Elderly Abuse and Neglect, and Medicare Fraud.
Urhai Community Service Center is a member of CLESE and also been an active member of its board since 2001 to present.
Urhai Community Service Center appreciates the funding opportunities provided by CLESE enabling us to serve many of the Assyrian elderly in all the past years.
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Community & Economic Development Association of Cook County
Urhai Community Service Center has worked with CEDA since 2001 to provide energy assistance to thousands of low income families in Chicago and Suburban Cook County who can not afford to pay their electric and gas bills. In addition to LIHEAP, the Center has also provided Weatherization Program, Hardship, and Outreach to isolated and home bound clients where staff visits clients at their homes to assist them.
Every year Urhai Community Service Center assist between 1200-1300 clients.
Urhai Community Service Center does not discriminate in admission to program or treatment of employment in compliance with the appropriate State and Federal Statues. If you feel you have been discriminated against, please call: 773-275-2688 or 1-800-699-9043
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Illinois Deparment of Health & Family Services
In 2001 Urhai Community Service Center signed a contract with the Illinois Department of Health & Family Service to provide Medicar services to elderly and disabled who are on Medicaid. Service includes two-ways transportation from home to the medical institutions and back home.
Clients seeking this service must provide copy of the medicaid, full name, address, and telephone of the primary physician. At least 2 days notice prior to appointment date is also required.
Urhai Community Service Center does not discriminate in admission to program or treatment of employment in compliance with the appropriate State and Federal Statues. If you feel you have been discriminated against, please call: 773-275-2688 or 1-800-699-9043
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Illinois Department of Public Health
As a part of its devotion to provide a safe enviorenment for the clients we serve, Urhai Community Service Center works very closely with the Illinois Department of Public Health to conduct a criminal background check prior to starting provide services.
All employees providing direct services to the elderly and disabled clients are mandated to conduct a criminal background check to prove clearance.
In order to ease this process, Urhai Community Service Center has contracted with a professional firm to provide this service at our facility.
For more information, please call us at 773-275-2688
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Illinois Department on Aging
In November 2010 Urhai Community Service Center signed two contracts with the Illinois Department on Aging to provide In Home Service Program to eligible elderly sixty years of age and older residing in Chicago and Suburban areas (PSA12 & PSA13). The program will help elderly to stay at their homes among their communities rather than in an intitutionalized facilities.
Assistance provided includes personal and household tasks such as cleaning, shopping, grooming, bathing, dressing, laundry, managing money,escort, and supervision as determined by the Case Managers of Case Coordination Units.
Services are provided by well trained homemakers drawn from the ethnic communities reflecting client's cultural background.
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