Community Outreach
Building access to vital resources for
people with disabilities and their families
At Esperanza Community Services, our mission is to empower people with developmental disabilities to reach their full potential and lead fulfilling, independent lives. This includes helping people with disabilities and their families navigate the developmental disability system.
Connection to Services
We will help you navigate the Prioritization for Urgency of Need for Services (PUNS) to help connect you to services.
Services Available
- Home-Based Services (HBS)
- Community Integrated Living Arrangements (CILA)
- 24 hour CILA
- Intermittent CILA- (ICILA)
- Family CILA
- Host CILA
- Intermittent Care Facility- Developmental Disability (ICF-DD)
- Community Day Services (CDS)
How we help
We provide information and outreach to people and families that do not currently have any services.
This includes:
– Informational sessions
– Linkage to additional services
-Facilitation of peer groups
-Facilitation of parent peer groups.
We provide support in both English and Spanish
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In the state of Illinois, approximately 2% of the population has a developmental disability.
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As of June 2019, less than half of adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities were known to state agencies.
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