A VICTORY FOR OUR COMMUNITY

DuPage County Board Members voted to include $500,000 for Human Service Grant funding for the second half of the 2008 budget. This is progress in an effort to restore budget cuts made by the County in 2006 which provided grants to non-profit agencies such as PADS, People's Resource Center, Bridge Communities, Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, Loaves and Fishes, DuPage Homeownership Center, Northern IL Food Bank, and about 40 other agencies.

The Convalescent Center will receive an additional $600,000 in the budget, which means they can now restore about 17 of the 60 positions they have lost over the last two years.

Access DuPage, which links about 8000 uninsured to medical care, will now be under the County Health Department where its budget will be restored to 2006 levels.