Community Resources
- City of Aurora Financial Empowerment Center: Offering free one-on-one professional financial counseling to Aurora residents
- Illinois Small Business Development Center at Waubonsee: They offer no cost one-on-one coaching and a wide variety of low-cost events and workshops aimed for small business owners and entrepreneurs at all levels of growth- beginning with ideation. They also help in creating a business plan.
- National Foundation for Credit Counseling
- Quad County Urban League (QCUL): The Quad County Urban League (QCUL) supports racial justice, civil rights and economic empowerment for African Americans and others within the Quad Counties (DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will) of Illinois.
- SCORE: They provide business information such as buying/selling a business, choosing a bank, understanding credit scores and financial management. They also provide free face to face mentoring with experienced business owners or managers. They also provide with resources and workshops for entrepreneurs or small business.
- Women's Business Development Center: Whether in the ideation stage, with an interest in exploring business ownership; early stage, with a need to better understand business and financial fundamentals; or growth and sustainability stage, with a focus on innovating and executing capacity-building strategies; WBDC delivers programs and services designed to meet client needs, at no cost to the client.
- Aurora Rapid Response: Local team of volunteers that support immigrant families and communities. Response times will vary between 24 to 72 hours. Services in English and Spanish. Contact: aurorailrrt@gmail.com.
- Citizenship Works: A free online service that helps eligible immigrants apply for U.S. citizenship in partnership with immigration organizations. Available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.
- Dominican Literacy Center: Offers in-person citizenship classes, and English classes, specifically for women.
- Family Focus: Offers legal services, including citizenship, DACA renewal, green card renewal, as well as citizenship classes, English classes, and more. Services available in English and Spanish.
- Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR): Connects immigrant communities with resources and support: social, legal, policy updates, financial assistance, Know Your Rights, and more. Resources available in English, Spanish, Korean, and Polish.
- Informed Immigrant: Online resource website that focuses on rights and resources for undocumented immigrants, including guides on how to find an immigration lawyer, how to renew DACA, guides for undocumented students and parents, and more. Available in English and Spanish.
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC): Offers legal resources for the community, including a Know Your Rights and What Immigrant Families Should Do Now fact sheets available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. A Step-by-Step Family Preparedness Plan guide in case of an emergency is available for download in English and Spanish.
- National Immigration Legal Services Directory: A national directory to find an immigration legal services provider near you, powered by Immigration Advocates Network. Searchable by zip code, state of detention facility.
- A Resource Guide for Immigrants in Illinois: An online, easy-to-use guide prepared by the Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants (ICDI) to help familiarize immigrants, regardless of status, with their legal rights and the services and resources available throughout Illinois. Available in English and Spanish.
- Protecting Immigrant Families: Online resource for immigrant rights, including a Family Benefits Checklist with links to food, financial assistance, health, and housing resources. Public Charge fact sheets are available in ten languages: English, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Haitian Creole, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
- World Relief: Provides legal immigration services and holistic services that support refugees and immigrants, including English and citizenship classes. Legal assistance available in English, Spanish, and French. Other services available in several languages, including English, Arabic, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) information on immigration enforcement, DACA, refugee resettlement can be found on the Immigrant Resource Hub. FAQs available in English, Arabic, French, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Ukrainian. World Relief offers an Immigration Hotline for people with brief, general questions about immigration. The hotline is only available Tuesdays, 1-5pm | (630) 580-0022.
- The Federal Trade Commission: The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil U.S. antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.
- Illinois Consumer Protection: Learn about consumer protections in Illinois and find resources for consumers.
- 360 Youth Services: Substance Abuse Counseling, Housing for Homeless Teens, Food, LGBTQIA+ Counseling
- Family Counseling Service
- Fox Valley Hands of Hope: Fox Valley Hands of Hope is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing expert support for children, families, and adults who are experiencing grief, loss, or life-threatening illness.
- National Alliance on Mental Illness: For Family Members, Teens/Young Adults, Veterans, LGBTQIA+.
- Suicide Prevention Services of America: They provide counseling and treatment for a variety of things associated with suicidal ideation. They also have support groups for survivors of suicide, and they provide workshops and training for schools and organizations on suicide prevention and identifying the signs of when someone may have thoughts of suicide.
- Mutual Ground: They provide comprehensive victim services free of charge. They offer counseling, preventative services, and emergency shelter. Mutual Ground is the safe place where people come together to break the cycle of domestic violence and sexual abuse. They answer almost 2,000 calls for help each and every month with 24-hour hotlines staffed by trained Mutual Ground Crisis Intervention Advocates.
- The National Domestic Violence Hotline: 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse.
- Alcoholics Anonymous: Southern Fox Valley: Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
- Hope for Tomorrow: Hope For Tomorrow is licensed through the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Substance Use Prevention & Recovery (SUPR) and is a member of the Illinois Association of Extended Care (IAEC).
- Adult Literacy Project of Waubonsee Community College: To strengthen literacy in our community, Waubonsee trains and places volunteers to provide English language tutoring to adults who want to improve their reading, writing, math skills, or to learn English. Volunteer tutors work with students on an individual basis or assist classroom instructors in High School Equivalency (HSE) and English Language Acquisition (ELA) classes.
- Colorin Colorado: State by State Links to ESL and School Support Services.
- The Dream U. S.: Scholarships and other college related resources for Dreamers.
- Dominican Literacy Center: Offers in-person citizenship classes, and English classes, specifically for women.
- Family Focus: Free Tutorials to learn English for Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, and Korean speakers.
- Illinois Adult Learning Hotline: The ALRC utilizes content expertise and current research to develop and deliver high quality professional development and technical assistance to individuals, programs, and state networks. These services are available to educators through online courses, in-person training, and other activities.
- Leaders in Transformational Education: Education Advocacy, Case Management, Assessment, Life Planning, Coaching, Skill Training.
- Literacy Volunteers Fox Valley: We provide free, one-to-one literacy tutoring to adults in St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, Elburn, Campton Township, LaFox, Lily Lake, Wasco and Wayne, Illinois. Lessons help people learn to read, write, understand and speak English better.
- The Merry Tutor: One-on-One Educational Assistance.
- SPARK Aurora: An education initiative of Fox Valley United Way, SPARK (Strong, Prepared and Ready for Kindergarten) connects underserved Aurora, Illinois, families with early education and childcare opportunities that prepare their young children for success in school and life.
- Two Rivers Head Start: To alleviate the effects of poverty by providing education, support services, and opportunities for children, families, and communities.
- Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry: The Aurora Food Pantry is committed to providing nutritious food relief to the community in a humanitarian and compassionate manner.
- Feeding Illinois: Feeding Illinois is the association of Feeding America food banks that serve Illinois. Together, they provide food and other services to every county in Illinois through a vast network of member agencies and specialized feeding programs.
- Food Pantries: A directory of Food Banks, Soup Kitchens, and non-profit organizations committed to fighting hunger.
- Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry: The Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry is dedicated to meeting the hunger needs of individuals and families in Aurora and surrounding communities by educating, empowering and enlightening people to be self-sustainable through collaborations and partnerships.
- Northern Illinois Food Bank: Provides nutritious food and resources for our neighbors, with dignity, equity and convenience, through partnerships and innovation.
- Two Rivers Head Start: Two Rivers Head Start Agency operates two Food Pantries which serve residents of Kane County.
- Women Infants and Children: WIC is a food assistance program for Women, Infants, and Children. It helps pregnant women, new mothers, and young children eat well and stay healthy.
- Aunt Martha’s Community Health Center
- FreeClinics: List local clinics offering free Dental, Medical, Adult, Women’s, Pediatric, and Behavioral Health providers
- Immune Deficiency Foundation
- INC Board (A Community Mental Health Funding Alliance)
- Kane County Health Department: Promote, protect, and advocate for health and wellness in the community.
- NAMI-South (National Alliance on Mental Illness): NAMI provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
- Octapharma Blood Center: Blood Donation
- Open Door Health Center: Affordable healthcare provider that offers a sliding scale for low income. They also offer pregnancy care, general care, vaccinations, and physicals. They take most or no insurance and can work as a primary care.
- Planned Parenthood: Planned Parenthood is one of the nation’s leading providers of high-quality, affordable health care, and the nation’s largest provider of sex education. With or without insurance, you can always come to us for your health care.
- Visiting Nurses Association (VNA): Affordable Healthcare provider that offers a sliding scale for low income. They also offer pregnancy care, general care, vaccinations and physicals. They take most insurance or no insurance and can work as a primary care.
- The Aurora Housing Authority: The Aurora Housing Authority (AHA) was founded in the 1940s and charged with the mission of providing safe, decent, and affordable housing for the people of the City of Aurora.
- DuPagePads: DuPagePads' mission is to end homelessness in DuPage County. Their Interim Housing Center is the first hotel-to-interim housing conversion in Illinois.
- Hesed House: Its mission is to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, and give people the change to hope again.
- Housing and Urban Development
- Housing Action Illinois: Bring together 160+ member organizations, united in their vision of expanding affordable housing and ending homelessness, including housing counseling agencies, homeless service providers, developers of affordable housing, and policymakers.
- Illinois Housing Development Authority: IHDA was created by the state legislature in 1967 pursuant to the Illinois Housing Development Act as a self-supporting agency to finance affordable housing across Illinois. IHDA does not use taxpayer dollars to sustain its operations, although it does administer publicly funded programs on behalf of the state. Since its creation, IHDA has provided more than $20 billion to finance more than a quarter million affordable homes.
- LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance): Illinois LIHEAP is a low-income assistance program that is designed to aid eligible households in paying for winter energy services.
- The Neighbor Project: Assistance in locating finances to purchase homes.
- Rebuilding Together Aurora: For over 26 years, Rebuilding Together Aurora has provided free critical home repairs for low-income homeowners in Aurora including senior citizens, military veterans, people living with disabilities and families with young children living in unsafe conditions. We want to connect homeowners with volunteers to bring the community together and ensure that everyone has a safe and healthy home.
- Wayside Cross Ministries: Wayside Cross Ministries provides restoration and recovery for the impoverished, addicted, and abused. Their mission is to honor God by loving and serving the afflicted and powerless through sharing the Gospel of forgiveness and hope in Jesus Christ by empowering them to be disciples of Christ.
- Lazarus House: Lazarus House helps people in need find the shelter, food, and other support services they need to get back on their feet. They serve people who are connected to Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, and western rural Kane County by address, employment, school district, or immediate family.
- DuPage County Careers
- Empower Work: Empower Work is a nonprofit dedicated to providing free and confidential support for workers. Get help with career development, job searches, and work issues from trained peer counselors. Confidential and free. Available through online chat or text.
- IDES JobLink Job Board: The Illinois Department of Employment Security is the code department of the Illinois state government that administers state unemployment benefits, runs the employment service and Illinois Job Bank, and publishes labor market information. Explore the jobs, or resumes in your area.
- Illinois Department of Labor: The mission of the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) is to promote and protect the rights, wages, welfare, working conditions, safety and health of Illinois workers, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, color or sexual orientation.
- Illinois Worknet Center: Employment resources and workshops for job seekers. workNet Batavia serves Kane, Kendall, and DeKalb counties. workNet DuPage serving DuPage county.
- Kane County Employment
- Occupation Outlook Handbook: Through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the OOH provides information for more than 300 occupations, covering about 4 out of 5 jobs in the economy. Find what workers do, the work environment, education, training, and other qualifications, pay, the job outlook, information on state and area data, and similar occupations.
- State of Illinois Job Board
- Waubonsee Community Center—Job assistance: College Central Network is a robust career platform designed to provide job seekers with employment opportunities and career development resources, while providing a pipeline of new talent to business and industry.
- American Immigration Lawyer Search
- Boundless: Immigrant legal services, online citizenship applications, work, and other forms.
- Bridging Kane County Courts to the Community: Educational videos from the 16th Circuit to help Kane County residents understand court processes and available services.
- DuPage County Law Library: Legal research materials and information services.
- Fwd.us: Immigration and Criminal Justice Legal Services.
- Kane County Law Library: Legal research materials and information services.
- National Immigration Law Center: Advocates for immigrant rights, DACA policy, immigrant health care, worker’s rights, education and tax assistance.
- Prairie State Legal Services: Prairie State Legal Services offers free legal services for low-income persons and those age 60 and over who have serious civil legal problems and need legal help to solve them. There are 11 office locations serving 36 counties in northern Illinois.
- Belong: Fox Valley: Provides a safe, inclusive, and affirming space for LGBTQIA+ and questioning people and allies to gather. "Our goals are to enhance and contribute to the acceptance and belonging of LGBTQIA+ and questioning people and their loved ones in our community, to promote inclusion and affirmation in all aspects of community life, and to provide safe and welcoming spaces for LGBTQIA+ and questioning people and allies to gather."
- LGBTQ+ Resources @ Aurora University: A webpage of LGBTQ+ resources and services of interest to LGBTQ+ or questioning Aurora University students.
- PFLAG: Founded in 1973, PFLAG is the first and largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and their families.
- Out of the Closet Thrift Store: OTC was founded in 1990 to help raise funds and awareness for AIDS Healthcare Foundation. To this day, when you shop or donate at Out of the Closet, 96 cents of every dollar made goes to AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s HIV prevention and treatment services.
- Open Door Clinic: Open Door is a regional, patient-centered health care organization that provides services including education, prevention, diagnosis and treatment services to those who have or are at risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections, including HIV/AIDS, in addition to the greater LGBTQ community.
- The Trevor Project: The Trevor Project’s mission is to end suicide among LGBTQ+ young people. They provide 24/7 free crisis counseling, educational resources, and a safe online social community.
- Air Classics Museum of Air and Space: The Air Classics Museum of Aviation is a volunteer-run aviation museum located at the Aurora Municipal Airport (ARR) in Sugar Grove, Illinois.
- Aurora Historical Society: The Aurora Historical Society gives the past a future by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and presenting the rich, diverse history of Aurora and the surrounding area.
- Aurora Regional Fire Museum: Located in Aurora's original Central Station, the Aurora Regional Fire Museum provides a place for public history, learning, and community gathering for all ages and occasions.
- Ecumenical Support Services for the Elderly (ESSE): The Latin word "esse" means "to be", and our purpose is to acknowledge and support the continuing life, growth and fruitfulness throughout one's life span. At ESSE, we encourage our participants "to be" all that they can be by providing opportunities for socialization and meaningful activities in a caring environment.
- Illinois Department on Aging Benefit Access Program: A services for Illinois seniors including care coordination, food programs, home response services, home repair, employment programs, health assistance programs, and transportation.
- Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP): The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) provides grants to qualified agencies and organizations for the dual purpose of engaging persons 55 and older in volunteer service to meet critical community needs and to provide a high quality experience that will enrich the lives of volunteers.
- Senior Ride Free Program (RTA Chicago): Seniors, aged 65 or older: If you are an Illinois resident, and currently enrolled in the Illinois Department on Aging’s Benefit Access Program, you are eligible for free transit on fixed routes operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, and Pace.
- Senior Resources Guide (City of Aurora): The Senior and Disability Services division is committed to making sure our community understands the resources available to them and is pleased to offer the first-ever resource guide specifically for seniors and those who support them.
- Senior Services Associates: They aid and provide referral for local and state services and benefits that are available for adults age 60+. Some of these include homemaker services, adult day services, emergency home response, and service assistance in applying for programs.
- Association for Individual Development: To empower people with physical, developmental, intellectual, and mental health challenges to enjoy lives of dignity and purpose. They provide quality outcomes for individuals served in areas of housing, employment, community integration, health promotion, recovery, and crisis prevention.
- Bookshare: Provides a customized reading experience for those who have print disabilities and low-vision people. Audio books, Braille, and Large Type are available.
- Fox Valley Special Recreation Association: Provides a diverse range of year-round recreational activities to enable residents with disabilities to experience active, healthy, and playful lifestyles. Programs are designed to include opportunities that will enhance skill development and socialization, encourage self-awareness and community exploration, promote independence through personal choice of least restrictive environments, and provide a sense of enjoyment, satisfaction and fulfillment.
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- Aurora Veterans Advisory Council
- DuPage County Veterans Assistance Commission: Provides food, clothing, financial assistance, scholarships, suicide prevention services, healthcare information and counseling, and transportation.
- Kane County Veterans Assistance Commission: The Veterans Assistance Commission exists to help veterans access the benefits they earned for serving our great nation.
- Kendall County Veterans Assistance Commission: Provides transportation, employment, healthcare, pensions, education, and home loans.
- Veterans Guide: Veterans Guide provides you with the necessary information you need to obtain the maximum benefits when you leave military service.
- Court Appointed Special Advocates: CASA/GAL stands for Court Appointed Special Advocate and Guardian Ad Litem. CASAs are specially trained volunteers who become the crucial voice of a child in abuse, neglect, and private guardianship.
- Déjà Vu Thrift Shops
- The Joshua Tree Community: Improving the lives of young adults with intellectual disabilties who have aged out of public schools.
- Lutheran Social Services of Illinois: Provides post adoption services, foster care, family support, therapeutic foster care, crisis intervention, youth on probation.
- Illinois Department of Human Services: Providing equitable access to social/human services, supports, programs, and resources to enhance the lives of all who we serve.
- Illinois Migrant Council: The Illinois Migrant Council or "IMC" is a community-based non-profit organization with the primary mission of promoting employment, education, health, housing, and other opportunities for migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFW) and their families to achieve economic self-sufficiency and stability.
- Kane County Recycles
- EJP: Prison Reentry and Deportation Services: Our 2024 Illinois reentry guide has a wealth of information on preparing for reentry while incarcerated, steps to take following release, and directories of resources. Topics include housing, employment, healthcare, finances, substance use and more.
- Republic Services (Recycling): Providing dependable recycling and waste services across the U.S., and today.
- Ritas Ministry: Transition for those who have been incarcerated.
- Salvation Army: Dedicated to doing the most good. We are made up of thousands of officers, soldiers, staff, volunteers, donors, and partners working together to holistically meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of our most vulnerable neighbors. We do this through programs designed to combat homelessness and hunger, provide safe spaces for kids after school and on the weekends, achieve and maintain sobriety, and give hope to the hopeless.
- Social Security Administration: Apply for benefits such as retirement, disability, and after incarceration transition among others. Also provides information and resources on financial protection and anything related to SSA programming.
- Volunteer Fox Valley: Volunteer Fox Valley, from Fox Valley United Way, helps connect people to volunteer opportunities in Kane and Kendall Counties.