RAPID RESPONSE INITIATIVE
Illinois Joining Forces Foundation is a registered 501c3 and serves as a statewide public-private partnership that promotes the efficient delivery of Growth and Wellness initiatives for Service Members, Veterans, and their Families at the community level.
Learn more about IJFResponding with Care: Providing the personal hygiene products, clothing, food and other essentials for the basic dignity and wellness of veterans, and their families.
Responding with Comfort: Helping veterans, and their families, feel safe and find them safe shelter or improve their living conditions.
Responding with Compassion: Aiding veterans, and their families, in a moment of need or to prevent a crisis in manner that will help them stay or becoming self-sufficient.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE BY BEING THE DIFFERENCE!
Making literally Life-Saving differences, as with an Army Veteran who was living in a van with his wife and their two children have attested too after the Foundation helped provide safe housing, food and medicine as well as employment prospects for him and his wife, and the gas money to get to appointments, interviews, and their new jobs.
UNITED IN SERVICE
With IJF’s involvement, United Relief Foundation’s reach and response to veterans, and their families, in need extends outside Illinois like Veteran Christopher, his wife, and 2 young children residing in Arkansas or Michigan Veteran, Timothy, his wife, and 3 young children.
SELF SUFFICIENCY
Coming to the aid of a veteran in need or crisis are with the long term results and rewards of them staying or becoming self-sufficient.
Illinois Joining Forces
Services are best delivered as close to the individual as possible. Effective support referrals rely upon not just knowing what resources are available, but by having a working relationship with service providers.
Identifying key stakeholders and developing relationships with those individuals/organizations, IJF will be able to leverage their knowledge and connections to better serve the SMVF community.
IJF Care Coordinators
500 Lake Cook Road
Suite 350 Deerfield, Illinois 60015
