Bill Text: IL SR0936 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urges support for community-based, non-profit organizations such as the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council as they strive to improve their neighborhoods.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-28 - Referred to Assignments [SR0936 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SR0936-Introduced.html

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SENATE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BPNC) is
a community-based, non-profit organization serving the
Brighton Park community, a predominantly Latinx, low-income
working class neighborhood on Chicago's southwest side; and
WHEREAS, BPNC's mission is to create a safer community,
improve the learning environment at public schools, preserve
affordable housing, provide a voice for youth, protect
immigrants' rights, promote gender equity, and end all forms
of violence; and
WHEREAS, Founded in 1997, BPNC unites individuals and
neighborhood institutions to organize campaigns to obtain
essential resources for a predominantly immigrant community,
improve public policy, and address the root causes of poverty
and inequality; and
WHEREAS, BPNC works to address a range of community issues
through school and community-based services, including
school-based programs, trauma-informed counseling addressing
child abuse and domestic violence, violence prevention, case
management services, health and wellness, foreclosure
prevention and financial literacy, and public benefits
enrollment; and

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WHEREAS, Since its inception in 1997, BPNC has worked to
achieve three goals: (1) to develop and train community
residents as grassroots leaders to lead campaigns for
neighborhood improvement and development, (2) to develop the
social service infrastructure to address the needs of the
community, and (3) to build community by bringing together
leaders and institutions from throughout the neighborhood; its
model engages low-income and immigrant Latinx community
members who are most affected by the lack of access to
healthcare, public education funding inequities, immigration
reform, and economic injustice; and
WHEREAS, BPNC works to unite local institutions, community
leaders, funders, community partners, and vested stakeholders
to improve the service infrastructure of the Brighton Park
community; it has worked diligently to increase community
partnerships and improve collaborations with local
institutions and philanthropic organizations to maximize
funder dollars without duplicating programs; and
WHEREAS, In 2012, BPNC worked with United Way Metropolitan
Chicago (UWMC) to develop the Brighton Park Neighborhood
Network (BPNN), which focuses its efforts on developing an
infrastructure of social services within Brighton Park to
support cradle-to-career opportunities for children, youth,

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and young adults; BPNN has worked collaboratively to develop a
common agenda to develop a more robust and efficient social
service infrastructure and to engage institutions and
community leaders in policy change campaigns in the four key
areas of violence prevention and public safety, education,
health, and income/economic development; through the BPNN
collaborative, BPNC has coordinated resources among community
service providers and other institutions to develop a pipeline
of services to support student's academic and social emotional
growth from 1st grade to 12th grade; and
WHEREAS, Over the course of its inception, BPNC has served
thousands of families across Brighton Park and the southwest
side of Chicago in a variety of capacities; most recently,
since April 2020, BPNC has provided over $2.5 million in
direct cash assistance, food assistance, rental and mortgage
assistance, and utility assistance for over 1,000 families in
the community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; over the
past ten years, BPNC has registered over 8,500 people to
become part of the donor registry in Illinois; BPNC has also
seen hundreds of individuals become U.S. citizens through its
citizenship program; BPNC continues to maintain a strong
commitment to its full-service community schools program,
working closely with local Chicago Public School partners to
provide students and their families academic,
social-emotional, and mental health support; therefore, be it

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RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge support for
community-based, non-profit organizations such as the Brighton
Park Neighborhood Council as they strive to improve their
neighborhoods; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
presented to the BPNC as a symbol of our respect and esteem.