community at the core - Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc.

Community
at the
Core
2011
Ada S. McKinley
Community Services, Inc.
Annual Report
2011Annual Report
Table of Contents
Community is at the core of Ada S. McKinley
Community Services, Inc., in name and in
spirit, in the present, as in the decades past
STANDING DEPARTMENTS
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Letter from Executive Director and Board President
Board Member Profiles
Financials
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Memberships and Certifications
Community Partners
Together, as a family with interconnected hopes, needs, roles and
responsibilities—clients, staff, advocates, volunteers, donors and friends—
we’ve grown stronger every year. Our web of relationships revolves around
the individuals of all ages who reside in Chicago’s most disadvantaged
neighborhoods and underserved communities.
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Ada S. McKinley Community Services Leadership
But despite neighborhood challenges and numerous economic and
budgetary setbacks, we have sustained and improved our programs in
our core service competencies and mapped a course for continuing impact
for the years ahead. In this annual report, you will read about some of the
people in vital roles that build and sustain our services, including:
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Our Locations
George Jones, Jr.
and Anthony J. Ziak
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• Clients, like William Anderson, William Davis, LaTonya
Cummings, Semaj Collins and Darryl Warr, who are finding
new purpose and avenues for positive growth
FEATURES
CLIENTS: Growing, changing
• Staff, like Aberra (Abu) Zewdie, whose commitment to operating
responsive, client-centered programs make a tangible difference
in lives of those we serve
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STAFF: Client-centered, making a difference
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ALUMNI: Aspirational, successful across the decades
DONORS: Purpose-driven, driving our mission
PARTNERS: Community-minded, coordinating support
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! Youth participate in a Teen Reach basketball game
@ McKinley tutor Trent Lawrence, Jr. helps a student
# Clients William Anderson, William Davis and LaTonya Cummings display their
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holiday card artwork
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• Partners, like Indiana University South Bend Raclin School of Arts, who are providing coordinated,
community-minded support to strengthen our clients’ lives
Our mission to support the most vulnerable individuals in the Chicago area is grounded in empowering all those individuals who
play a role in Ada S. McKinley’s enduring success. As we look ahead toward even greater impact, our approach entails increasing
coordination of services and an intensive, client-centered focus in all we do.
Our community-based programs connect people to the tools they need for greater well being, self-sufficiency and economic vitality.
In turn, empowered, connected people make their own change! They are equipped to renew themselves, their families, their
neighborhoods, their schools and civic infrastructure and this city we call home.
% IUSB students stage play production of It’s A Wonderful Life at Walter C. McCrone Industries
As we reflect on this transformative impact, we extend our profound gratitude for the special role you play in supporting our
community. From our earliest days, we have always believed that together—as many people working in pursuit of the same mission—
we could engender extraordinary change. And for more than 90 years, we have been proven right, thanks to the remarkable support
of friends and advocates like you.
^ Youth counselor Ricky Robinson enjoys a billiards game at the Teen Reach program
Today we look forward to continuing our partnership to build strong, vibrant communities throughout Chicagoland.
$ Vocational clients cheer during the performance of It’s A Wonderful Life
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• Alumni, like Trent Lawrence, Jr. and Kimberly E. McCullough-Starks, who have gone on from our College Preparation
and Placement Program to lead aspirational lives, creating a legacy of success that spans the generations
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• Donors, like Scott Welch, who drive our mission forward through impactful partnerships and purpose-driven
philanthropy
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by Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) students
Sincerely,
George Jones, Jr.
Anthony J. Ziak
Executive Director
Board President
CLIENTS
Growing,
changing
McKinley Clients’ Artistry
Displayed on Holiday Cards
T
his holiday season three clients in McKinley’s
Vocational Services area had something extra
special to celebrate—their art work was selected
to grace the covers of Little City Foundation holiday
greeting cards.
William Anderson, LaTonya Cummings and William
Davis submitted their art work in the spring and
quickly learned through Nelly Gamboa, director of
the Vocation Services Center, that their designs were
among six chosen to grace the covers of the foundation’s assorted greeting cards this year.
Anderson’s artwork features a Nativity scene, while
Cummings designed a Peace Dove and Davis created
a “Winter Penguin.” Each of the artists received
a check for $100 as compensation for his/her work.
Their creations were guided by Bobbie Malloy, case
manager for Vocational Services, who encourages
her clients to express themselves through art.
“Some of our clients are non-verbal,” explained Malloy.
“Drawing gives them a way to express themselves. You
put a pen in their hands and they will put something
on paper that you didn’t expect.”
William Anderson, William Davis
and LaTonya Cummings proudly
display their holiday cards.
The Little City Foundation, based in Palatine, IL has for
more than 20 years provided children and adults with
developmental delays the opportunity to explore their
creative talents through the arts. McKinley’s Vocational
Services Center, which provides job training services
to developmentally disabled adults, has participated
in the Foundation’s holiday greeting card contest for
the last several years.
The Vocational Services
Center is one of three main
job training sites within
McKinley’s Employment
and Support Services Division
(ECSS). ECSS works to
empower developmentally
disabled adults through
services that promote greater
economic self-sufficiency,
personal development and
integration in broader
community.
Teens Find Fun—
and Purpose—
at Teen Reach
Program
A
da S. McKinley’s
Teen Reach program
offers young people
a chance to come in from the
cold. And that’s just one of the
reasons that Samej Collins and
Darryl Warr find their way to the
program every day after school.
Collins, 18, a senior at South
Shore High School, and Warr,
16, a sophomore at Bowen High
School, are two of about 48
youth, between the ages of 13
and 18, enrolled in Teen Reach, one of two after school
programs operated by McKinley. The agency also runs
an after school program aimed at children ages 6–12.
Operated out of the same space that houses Highland
School for developmentally disabled students, the
program helps to keep some 50 youth off the streets
for at least two hours after school every day.
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Collins said he values the program because it allows
the older teens to serve as role models for the younger
children, but it provides community safety as well.
Teens Semaj Collins (far left) and Darryl Warr (second from right) join up
with counselor Ricky Robinson (second from left) and Teen Reach program
director Miguel Alvarado (far right) for a game of basketball.
Program activities begin at 2:30 p.m. with homework
assistance for both groups. Afterwards, on any given
day, the younger children might play board games, plan
a fashion show, or those in the dance troupe rehearse
latest dance routines. The athletic older girls will
invariably be engaged in a game of volleyball, while
the diehard hoopsters like Collins and Warr will
spend their time moving up and down the court
in a fast-paced game of basketball.
“The basic rule here is don’t get too wild, and that’s on
and off the court,” explained Collins, a focused young
man who has been coming to Teen Reach for two years
thanks to a girlfriend who worked in the program and
told him about it.
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Warr followed friends over from the basketball court
at Bowen who told him it was the ideal place to take
your game indoors. “When it’s cold outside, we can
come here,” he explained, adding, “I like everything
about this program.”
“All teens need is a place to hang out and feel safe,” he
said. “There is too much happening out here, especially
on the South Side of Chicago.”
Helping young people like Collins and Warr steer
a positive course is the goal of the program, according
to director Miguel Alvarado and youth counselor
Ricky Robinson. Robinson described Collins as
a consummate role model and “mild-mannered,
respectful” young man, while Alvarado is impressed
by Warr’s growing optimism.
“When he started he had a chip on his shoulder.
Something was always bothering him. Now, he’s
a different person,” he shared.
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I
n his office in the South Loop, there hangs a
painting of an Ethiopian proverb that for Aberra
“Abu” Zedwie, Ph.D. affirms his belief in the power
of community service: “When the spider webs unite,
they can tie up a lion.” The Ethiopian-born Zewdie has
lived in the United States for more than 40 years, but
thoughts of his homeland are still never far away. In
fact it is his memories of his native country that have
helped to drive his lifelong commitment to assist adults
with developmental disabilities and other barriers
to employment.
“Coming from a country like Ethiopia that has been
ravaged by war and natural disaster for decades, I have
an extreme passion and desire to help people who are
less fortunate than I am,” explained Zewdie, who first
Knowing that his work makes a critical difference
continues to motivate Zewdie. “This field gives me the
opportunity to play a constructive and principled role
in my life, as well as to touch the lives of other persons
directly and indirectly.” he described. “I personally
feel that it is a blessing to work for this agency. There
is just something about Ada S. McKinley, its mission,
the people, and its positive dynamics that have made
me so committed to its social undertaking over the
years. It’s a very humane and caring place.”
Although he’s been a key member of the McKinley
family for more than three decades, Zewdie’s efforts
to better his community also extend far beyond the
doors of McKinley. Together with several friends,
he founded the Ethiopian Community Association
Aberra (Abu) Zewdie holds the painting of an Ethiopian proverb that
hangs in his office. “It’s very symbolic of McKinley’s mission,” he said.
immigrated to the United States in November 1969
to attend college and later graduate school, before
embarking on the work that would define his career.
For the last 32 years he has put his passion and desire
to help others into action as a central member of Ada
S. McKinley’s adult vocational services staff, rising
through the ranks from his first job as a program
coordinator in 1979 to assuming management for
the agency’s full range of vocational training, job
placement and residential services for persons with
developmental disabilities in 2010.
Zewdie, who holds his doctorate in educational
psychology, serves the agency’s first-ever vice president
of the Employment and Community Support Services
(ECSS) division. This newly reorganized division is one
of the three divisions that make up McKinley’s comprehensive suite of social services. Here he supervises all
of McKinley’s adult vocational services and residential
housing programs for adults with developmental
disabilities. Each year ECSS supports over 1,000
individuals and families who, without McKinley’s
help, might otherwise be left homeless, unemployed
or in a state-operated developmental facility.
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of Chicago in 1984, a nonprofit organization that
provides community outreach and support services
to new immigrants and refugees from Ethiopia, along
with a growing number of immigrants from Africa and
Eastern Europe.
Having served as the organization’s president for
a number of years, today he continues to be involved
as an active member of the organization that annually
serves close to 10,000 Ethiopians and other immigrants from all over the world. He has also served
on numerous boards, counsels and advisory groups
at both the local, state and national levels through
the years.
And back at McKinley, he’s still hard at work looking
for new and innovative ways to help his clients achieve
gainful employment and greater self-sufficiency.
“It is so important to continue to think about how
we can best provide high-quality, accessible and efficient programs that help clients,” he explained. “Ada
S. McKinley has long been a leader in rehabilitative
services—and I am committed to helping the agency
succeed in that arena for many more years to come.”
Staff
Client-centered,
making a difference
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ALUMNI
Alumnus Comes on Board as McKinley Tutor
Aspirational, successful
across the decades
From College Prep Student to Leading AT&T Executive
W
hen Kimberly E. McCullough-Starks
reflects on her life these days, she can’t
help but marvel how her high-powered
career as an AT&T executive has led her right back
to her start as a high school student. In the early
1980s, McCullough-Starks was helped along her path
to college by McKinley’s College Preparation and
Investing in Illinois Award to support the College Prep
Program. Naturally, it’s a cause that McCullough-Starks
considers near and dear to her own heart.
“It’s so meaningful for me to be able to support
McKinley. I know firsthand the important work they
do—not only am I the first person in my immediate
Kimberly E. McCullough-Starks is the director
of external affairs for AT&T in Chicago.
Placement Program, where she
worked closely with a counselor
to narrow down her top school
selections, complete her college
applications, and navigate the
tricky financial aid system.
Nowadays, she is responsible
for helping others find pathways
to success through her role as
the director of external affairs
at AT&T in Chicago. “There’s
such intrinsic value in helping
people. It makes me feel like I’ve
come full circle,” said McCullough-Starks, who oversees
AT&T’s philanthropic partnerships and community
outreach in the Chicago metropolitan area.
The telecommunications giant, which counts education
as one of its core philanthropic priorities, recently
awarded Ada S. McKinley Community Services a $5,000
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family to graduate from college, I am also the very first
person on my mother’s side of the family to graduate
from college.”
McCullough-Starks, who graduated from DePaul
University, has served as AT&T’s director of external
affairs since 2007, following a successful 11-year
career at Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
(MPEA), the municipal corporation that owns Chicago’s
McCormick Place and Navy Pier, where she was
the director of business and workforce diversity.
Prior to that, she spent seven years working in state
government.
Beyond her impressive business pedigree, there’s much
for McCullough-Starks to celebrate on the home front
as well. This past Valentine’s Day she marked her one
year wedding anniversary with husband Alvin Starks.
They are proud parents of a blended family including
their son Alexander, who is nearly three, Justin, 16,
and Eric, 19, a sophomore at Eastern Illinois University.
W
ith his soft-spoken and easygoing
demeanor, you might think that Trent
Lawrence, Jr. is just another face in the
crowd of the more than 16,000 undergraduate students
at DePaul University in Chicago. Yet look a little deeper
and you’ll find a passionate, dedicated young man
who has not only overcome tough odds to forge his
own future, but is also working to help other students,
including his own younger brother, obtain the same
opportunities he has created for himself.
Lawrence is an alumnus of Ada S. McKinley’s College
Preparation and Placement Program and the first
member of his immediate family to attend college.
Today the college junior serves as a tutor for the
same program that helped him, throughout his high
school years, stay on track academically and manage
the college admissions process, so he could make his
own college ambitions a reality. As a tutor, he provides
language arts assistance to middle-school students at
Mayo Elementary School, the same elementary school
he and his brother, Taqee, 16, both attended and where
his youngest brother, Tyree, 11, now is a seventh-grade
student.
Lawrence, who
maintained a
3.7 GPA in high
school, credits
McKinley’s
College Prep
program with
helping him to
beat these staggering odds and
stay focused
on attending
college. “I
applied to over
20 schools and
got into 80%
of them,” he
recalled. “I felt
that it was a
really good program, and I made sure to take advantage
of it. It helped me really go through the process of
actually registering and applying to colleges.”
College junior Trent Lawrence, Jr. is a tutor for
the College Preparation and Placement Program.
For Lawrence, that’s one of the most rewarding parts
of his involvement with McKinley College Prep. “I get
to tutor at my old school, to be hands on and to help kids,
including my own brother,” he described. “I think it’s
important to be a role model and to try to motivate kids.”
Lawrence enrolled in McKinley’s College Prep program
as a freshman at Wendell Phillips Academy High
School in the Bronzeville community, a near South
Side neighborhood that still struggles with high rates
of poverty and violence. In 2009, the same year that he
graduated from high school and enrolled in college, an
average of only 34% of Phillips freshmen graduated in
five years.
After spending his freshman year at Southern Illinois
University in Carbondale, Lawrence transferred to
DePaul University prior to the start of his sophomore
year. The self-proclaimed film buff is enthusiastic
about his major in communications and media studies,
which allows him to explore his love of digital cinema.
Although graduation is more than a year away,
Lawrence is already contemplating his next steps.
He plans to attend graduate school in communications.
In the long run, he envisions himself working in either
the cultural communications or media fields, ideally
overseas. “I want to travel all over,” he explained,
his voice bubbling with excitement. “I want to see
the world.”
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W
hoever coined the maxim “It’s not
personal, it’s business” hasn’t met Scott
Welch, a longtime business partner
and loyal supporter of Ada S. McKinley Community
Services. Welch’s involvement with McKinley began
through his career at USI Midwest, the insurance
brokerage firm that coordinates the agency’s health
and life insurance benefits packages. But strictly
business is the last way that Welch would describe his
nearly decade-long partnership with Ada S. McKinley.
“My relationship with the agency has grown in many
ways over the years,” he said. “It initially started as
a business relationship, but Ada has become like a
family to me. Everything Ada does I take so personally.
I believe in their work, and I want to be a part of it.”
Welch says McKinley’s work not only helps to remind
him of the opportunities he received growing up, but
also spurs his commitment to help others.
“I grew up in Farmington, a small town in Central
Illinois, where there wasn’t a huge emphasis on
education and going on to attend college,” he recalled.
Under his leadership, the golf outing has grown from
a small gathering into one that attracts a sizeable
audience and raises tens of thousands of dollars each
year to support the agency’s human services programs.
Yet never one to rest on his laurels, Welch hasn’t limited
his involvement just to chairing the golf outing. For the
last six years, he has also spearheaded USI Midwest’s
participation in McKinley’s annual holiday drive, which
distributes toys to needy children in the agency’s Head
Start, child care and foster care programs. Thanks to
his help, this past year USI Midwest alone was responsible for donating more than a quarter of the total 200
toys collected from the toy drive.
And if that wasn’t enough, he recently signed on
to serve as a committee member for the 2nd Annual
Making College Real Luncheon. The agency’s flagship
fundraising event, the luncheon celebrates the work
of the agency’s educational programs, attracting
a diverse group of more than 200 civic and corporate
leaders, educators, nonprofit executives and
community supporters.
Scott Welch, an executive at USI Midwest, is a longtime supporter
of Ada S. McKinley and one of the founders of its annual golf outing.
DONORS
Purpose-driven,
driving our mission
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“However in my household growing up, it wasn’t if
you were going to college, it was ‘where are you going
to college?’ This wasn’t necessarily the case with many
of my classmates and friends. I attended Knox College
in Galesburg, Illinois, where I was fortunate enough
to continue my basketball career. So Ada’s work,
especially in educational services, is very near and
dear to me—I want to help young people get some
of the same opportunities I had.”
An avid golfer and sports fan, Welch is the driving force
behind McKinley’s Swing into Action for Families Golf
Outing, the annual golf tournament fundraiser that he
helped to establish in 2003 along with several McKinley
staffers. He has served as the outing’s committee
chair since its earliest days, playing a hands-on role
in everything from soliciting corporate sponsorships
to arranging golf foursomes and securing raffle prizes.
In addition to his service to Ada S. McKinley, Welch
also finds great fulfillment in his career at USI
Midwest, where he has worked as an employee benefits
consultant for more than 13 years. “I really like what
I do,” he said. “I enjoy meeting new people and tackling
new challenges every day.”
This past year also marked an important personal
milestone for the insurance executive. In November
2011 he wed sweetheart Katie Carroll in a small
ceremony in San Diego, surrounded by family and
friends. The newlyweds currently reside in the Lincoln
Park neighborhood of Chicago.
For more than 90 years, Ada S. McKinley has been an
organization built around people, like Welch, who are
devoted to helping others reach personal success and
greater prosperity. From all of us at McKinley, we would
like to heartily salute Scott Welch for his many years of
dedicated service to changing lives and strengthening
communities.
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But the collaboration’s value goes beyond just
providing a new experience, explained Maxwell,
who also sees it as a way to foster his clients’ imagination and appreciation for the arts. “It’s not just a new
experience for our clients, it’s a chance for McKinley
to broaden its aim and provide a different kind of
service from our day-to-day work in vocational training.
We think it holds a great deal of value because of that.”
For Dean Curtis, the partnership was a logical
extension of his mission to expand IUSB’s arts
outreach beyond its university walls. “I believe that the
Students from Indiana University South Bend’s Raclin School of the Arts
perform It’s A Wonderful Life at McKinley’s Walter C. McCrone Industries.
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hom Maxwell, the director of McKinley’s Walter
C. McCrone Industries vocational services
facility, and Marvin V. Curtis, the dean of the
Raclin School of Arts at Indiana University South Bend
(IUSB), count each other as lifelong friends—so perhaps
it was only natural that they would decide to work
together to forge a unique and enduring partnership
between their two organizations.
Each winter for the past two years, performing
arts students from the Raclin School of Arts have
travelled from South Bend, Ind. to the McCrone facility
in Chicago’s South Loop to stage a holiday production
for clients in McKinley’s adult rehabilitative program,
which provides vocational training services to more
than 120 adults with developmental disabilities. In
2010, IUSB performed the short opera Amahl and the
Night Visitors, while this past December they showcased a play rendition of the holiday classic It’s a
Wonderful Life.
Both performances were met with resounding enthusiasm, not to mention plenty of applause, from their
audiences. “Our clients really love it. This is something
that they would normally never to get to experience,
coming from a lot of their family backgrounds,” said
Maxwell, who has served as director of McCrone
Industries since 1997.
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arts can happen everywhere,” he remarked. “A few years
ago, we started to explore ways to get our performances
out into the community, first locally [in South Bend].
Then I talked to Thom, and we decided it would be a
great idea to bring our performances on the road
to Chicago and to perform at McKinley.”
Curtis said his students value the experience just
as much as their counterparts in the audience. “The
reaction of our students was just overwhelming the
first time they performed. They just fell in love with
everyone down there.”
Fueled by this extraordinary support from both
McKinley clients and IUSB students alike, Maxwell
and Curtis both believe the partnership is one that’s
in it for the long haul.
“We’re committed to doing this every year now,” said
Curtis. “When we sit down to decide our performance
schedule for the year, we plan our performance at
Ada S. McKinley into our annual calendar. We feel that
we can give a service here that is unique. It’s not just
something we want to do, it’s something we have to do.”
PARTNERS
Community-minded,
coordinating support
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Community Services Leadership
2011 Board
Member Profiles
When Michael Perlow joined Ada S. McKinley’s
Board of Directors in 1996, he didn’t just gain
new leadership role—he also gained entirely
new perspective on community services. “My
relationship with Ada enriches and broadens my
life,” Perlow explained. “I get to see things going
on in the many areas in which they work—all the
various facets of the work they do, from working
with foster children to college prep services to
serving disadvantaged youth. It’s not something I encounter in my
day-to-day life.”
Anthony J. Ziak
The Hon. Stanley L. Hill, Esq.
A financial services professional, Perlow was first recommended to Ada S.
McKinley by a friend, who asked him to examine the organization’s pension
plan. From there, his relationship with McKinley blossomed and he joined
the Board. Today, he has served as a dedicated and active Board member
for more than 15 years, lending his business expertise as a member of the
Board’s financial committee and helping the agency plan for its future in
a changing nonprofit climate.
VICE PRESIDENT EMERITUS
June Cole Boulware’s relationship with Ada S.
McKinley began when she was a graduate student
at Illinois Institute of Technology completing her
degree in rehabilitation counseling. “I spent one
day a week for four weeks at a McKinley site as a
practicum student,” Cole Boulware recalled. At the
time, she had no idea that she would come back
to McKinley to serve on its Board of Directors,
which she has done for seven years, now.
A native of the Chicago area, who grew up in Robbins, Ill., Cole Boulware
is a firm believer in devoting time and talent to giving back to community.
“I believe that volunteerism is at the core of strong, sound communities,”
she explained. “Positive change will always occur when people get involved.”
In addition to her involvement in civic leadership and managing a demanding
career—27 years of which have been spent in the same position—
Cole Boulware and her husband, Jet, raised two sons and a daughter.
Residents of Mattson, the couple enjoy traveling and spending time with
their four grandchildren.
Roseanne Rosenthal
When Roseanne Rosenthal, Ed.D., first started
her distinguished career at VanderCook College of
Music in 1980, it wasn’t long before she learned
about Ada S. McKinley Community Services’
work in the surrounding Bronzeville community.
“I had started working as the executive assistant
to the President of VanderCook, when Walter
McCrone was on the college’s Board of Trustees.
He was also McKinley’s Board President at the
time,” Rosenthal recalled. “So I initially learned about it from him. And then
I kept hearing stories about it—and I got wrapped up in the story. It was
striking how much poverty there was in that community and what a huge
impact McKinley made.”
From there, Rosenthal’s interest in the social services agency grew and she
joined McKinley’s Board of Directors in 1986. During this time her career at
VanderCook also continued to flourish. She became an associate professor
of music education in 1988 and then the college’s president just one year
later, a position she would hold for the next 15 years before returning to the
classroom in 2004 as a member of the teaching faculty.
Throughout it all, she’s remained a loyal supporter of Ada S. McKinley, and
today she serves as the board’s first vice president. When Rosenthal thinks
about McKinley’s future, it’s not surprising that she unites her vision for the
agency with her first love—the arts and music. “I’d love to see Ada expand
its arts outreach and do more arts therapy,” she remarked. “It can be such
an important therapeutic tool, and I think our clients would benefit from it.”
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Jacqueline Dixon Richardson
PRESIDENT
Michael Perlow
Today, from her post as the Director of Rehabilitation Services at Oak Forest
Hospital, Cole Boulware considers her service on the Board to be mutually
beneficial. “My professional career has provided me with valuable experience
in social, vocational and behavioral health program development and implementation,” she said. “I felt that my skill set and the Board’s are a good fit.
I’ve been afforded the opportunity to contribute to the greater community
and I’ve gained knowledge in diverse areas, such as property management,
as well as honed my skills at consensus building.”
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Retired Former Vice-President,
Northern Trust (1996)
June Cole Boulware
“It’s a challenging environment financially,” Perlow related. “We’ve got
to come up with more for-profit initiatives and continue to innovate in
everything we do, so we can continue to be successful.”
Albin Vasquez
Al Vasquez’s bright eyes and mental acuity belie
his 87 years. The retired systems engineering
manager has logged many years with Ada S.
McKinley, having served on its Board of Directors
since 1969. However, his memory is razor sharp,
even when recounting those early years.
Civic Leader & Former Banker (1975)
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Roseanne Rosenthal, Ed.D.
Professor, Van der Cook College
of Music (2002)
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Brent Hawkins, Esq.
Attorney, McDermott Will &
Emery, LLP (2004)
Gilbert Gavlin, Ph.D.
Civic Leader & Retired Scientist
Former Board President
Civil Rights Attorney, Stanley L. Hill
and Associates (1996)
Rose A. Hoeksema
Civic Leader & Retired School
Teacher (1986)
Attorney, Seyfarth and Shaw (2002)
Adrienne Jones
Dir. of Government and
Community Affairs, Integrys
Energy Group, Inc. (2010)
Fran K. Kravitz
Civic Leader & Retired Chemist,
Ondeo-Nalco (2006)
Patricia Kay
Martha Malone
Owner/Operator, PKA
Consulting (2007)
SECRETARY
Ross H. Carlson
Vice President & CRA Officer,
Associated Bank (1999)
Carol E. Bell
Executive Director of Finance,
Chicago Defender (2011)
June Cole Boulware
Director-Vocational Rehab,
Oak Forest Hospital (2005)
Vasquez served on the Mental Health Program Committee and was
instrumental in establishing what is today the Behavioral Health and
Clinical Services Division, which serves some 4,000 children and adolescents annually. Today, he heads up the Human Resources and Nominating
Committees. He said he would like to see new people come to the Board
who have staying power. “We are always looking for members. People
stay one term and that’s it for them. I think corporate board members
are needed.”
Staying power is a hallmark of Vasquez’s life. He was married 51 years
before his wife’s death in 2005. The couple has four children and six
grandchildren. A resident of Elk Grove Village, Ill., Vasquez has been
a faithful member of First Baptist Church in Park Ridge for 30 years.
He sings in the choir and attends choir rehearsals, Bible classes and
the midweek service in addition to Sunday services.
Hardy W. Sykes
William M. Shelton
President, Sykes & Williams, Inc.
(2010)
Albin Vasquez
Civic Leader & Retired Engineer
(1968)
Chief Development Officer
Director of Human Resources
Donna Ree
Director of Quality Assurance
Brenda J. Fashola
Director of Community Affairs
Civic Leader & Retired Attorney,
Watt & Sawyer LLP (1992)
Peter M. Greetis
Damita P. Wilson
Pamela Bland-Kennedy
Registered Nurse, John H. Stroger
Hospital (1998)
Director of Therapeutic
Educational Services
Debbie K. Wright
Linda Darling
Director of Information Systems
Chief Counsel, Global IP, Kraft
Foods, Inc. (2000)
Director of Residential Services
Mrs. Mayme Knight
Director of Child Welfare Services
Honorary Member (1954)
Faye Edwards
Margo A. Roethlisberger
Client Representative & Retired
IDHS Employee (1992)
George Jones, Jr.
Executive Director
Vice President, Behavioral Health
and Clinical Services
Michael Perlow
( ) states first year elected to the Board
Revie Sorey,
CEO, Westwood Management Corporation (1996)
EXECUTIVE STAFF
James P. Shoffner, Ph.D.
George Jones, Jr
Consultant/Professor, Columbia
College & Retired Chemist (1987)
Executive Director
William “Cory” Spence, Esq.
Chief Operating Officer
Director of Educational Services
Aberra Zewdie, Ed. D.
Vice President, Employment and
Community Support Services
Marion G. Sleet
Attorney, Kirkland and Ellis, LLP
(2008)
Hans J. Schuster
Chief Financial Officer
2011 Memberships
and Certifications
The son of Mexican immigrants, Vasquez was
living in South Chicago and the director of South
Side Community Services when his agency
merged with McKinley. He was invited to join
the McKinley Board shortly after the merger.
“The organization saw tremendous growth and expansion, under Ralph
Burlingham” he recalled. “Back in those days, Ada McKinley was looking
closely at its programs and talking to division directors and selecting
programs that were fruitful for the community. Burlingham was very
aggressive in establishing programs—quality programs with quality staff.”
Kathleen D. Chappell
Director, MARS Advertising (2008)
Garland W. Watt, Esq.
Hal Holliman, Esq.
TREASURER
Djuana Stoakley
Child Welfare League
of America
Commission on Accreditation
of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
Illinois Association of
Rehabilitation Facilities (IARF)
North Central Association
Commission on Accreditation
and School Improvement
(NCA CASI)
The ARC of Illinois
Child Care Association
of Illinois
Council on
Accreditation
Community Behavioral Health
Association (CBHA)
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2011 Community
Partners
Businesses\
Corporations\
Foundations\
Organizations
Abbott Fund
AECA Brown Enterprise
Aetna, Inc.
After School Matters
Alberto Culver
Alcatel Lucent
Alexis Lybrook Taubert,
PhD., LTD
All Points Media
AllianzGI Distributors
Allied Benefits Systems, Inc.
Allstate Insurance Company
American International
Group Inc.
Amalgamated Bank
Amber Inn, Inc.
Apogee Health
AshLaur Construction, Inc.
Associated Bank
AT&T
Aveda Ladies & Gentlemen
Salon and Spa
Bank of America
The Bank of America
Foundation
BDO USA, LLP
Bears Care
Bloomingdale’s
Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Illinois
BMO Harris
Boyd Jarrell & Co.
Brown County United Way
Bush Home Owners &
Tenant Association
C&E Fair
CB Richard Ellis Inc.
Foundation
Canon Business Solutions
Central City
Century Transportation, Inc.
Ceridian TTS
Charles & M.R. Shapiro
Foundation
Chicago Bulls
Chicago Crusader
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Defender
Chicago White Sox
The Chicago
Community Trust
CIGNA Healthcare of Illinois
Circle of Service Foundation
Citigroup Foundation
Claretian Associates
Ada S. McKinley
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Colonel Stanley R. McNeil
Foundation, Bank of
America, N.A.
Community Renewal Society
Cook County Juvenile
Court Clinic
Corsico Construction
Company
Cost Containment Solutions
CySpace City Marketing, Inc.
Delta - T Group
DePaul University
Dennis W. Hetler &
Associates, P.C.
The Deutsch Group
Digby’s Detective &
Security Agency, Inc.
Dumela
East Bank Club
Edison International
Eisenberg Foundation
Elliott P. Williams Inc.
Employees Charity
Organization of Northrop
Grumman (ECHO)
Enterprise Fleet
Management, Inc.
Enterprise Holdings
Foundation
Everybody’s Church
Exelon
FCE Benefit
Administrators, Inc.
Faie’s African Art
Federated
Fidelity Brokerage
First Church of Deliverance
First Nonprofit
Companies, Inc.
Fitch, Even, Tabin &
Flannery
Flowers First by Erskine
Frank’s Auto Rebuilders, Inc.
Friends Remember B.A.F.
Memorial Fund
fullline printing, inc.
Gavlin Family Foundation
George M. Eisenberg
Foundation
Glen Lusby Interiors
Golf Galaxy
GolfTime Magazine
Google Inc.
The Grainger Foundation
Great Lakes Roofing &
Construction Co., Inc.
Guaranty Bank
Harrington College
of Design
Hartgrove Hospital
Health Care Services
Corporation
Hoogendoorn & Talbot LLP
The Horton Group
Hospira
HPL&S, Inc.
Hyatt Regency—
McCormick Place
Illinois Institute
of Technology
Indiana Avenue
Pentecostal Church
ING Investment
Management
The Inghram Company
Johns Plumbing
JP Morgan Chase
Kirkland & Ellis Foundation
Kraft Foods
Lakefront Property
Law Offices of Arnold H.
Landis, P.C.
Lazard Freres & Co. LLC
Life Made Pretty Ambiance
and Floral Design
LINKS Foundation
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Loop Capital Markets
Macy’s Foundation
McCarthy Duffy LLP
McCormick Foundation
McDermott Will & Emery
MasterCraft Construction
MB Financial
MC Management
Medical Specialists
Pharmacy
Messiah St. Bartholomew
Development Center
Midway Airport
Concessionaires
Miller, Cooper & Company
Charitable Foundation
Monarch Award Foundation,
Alpha Kappa
Sorority, Inc.
Naperville Community
School District 203
NFL Alumni, Inc.
The Northern Trust
Company
Neuberger Berman
NEW Printing
Okrent Associates
Odyssey Country Club
Open Kitchens, Inc.
PA Ins. Co
Payroll Comp Checks
Peoples Gas
Pimco
Pioneer Investment
Management USA, Inc.
Policy Exchange Network,
Inc.
Polk Bros. Foundation
Prairie Management &
Development, Inc.
Preferred Meals Systems
Ragland & Associates
Razor’s Dairy
Reliance Trust Company
Ringold Financial
Management Services
Riveredge Hospital
Robert R. McCormick
Tribune Foundation
Rogers Auto Group
Rothschild Investment Corp
Royal Savings Bank
Rush University
Medical Center
Samaritas, Inc.
Sandsmith Construction
Seyfarth Shaw
Attorneys, LLP
Shure Products
Society of Industrial &
Office Realtors
Chicago Chapter
South Side Unity Center
Southeast Lions
Special Kids Foundation
The Standard Companies
Standing Room
Only Chicago
Steven Fine Sports
Memorabilia
Streamwood Management
SUNDA
Target
Taproot Foundation
Three Aces
Top Golf Chicago
Torrey & Gray
Truist
Turner Construction
Company Foundation
United Building
Maintenance, Inc.
United Heartland
United Way of
Metropolitan Chicago
The University of Chicago
UnumProvident Corporation
Urban Partnership Bank
USI Midwest
Variable Annuity
Verizon Wireless
Versatones Fan Club
of Chicago
Villa Productions
Walmart
Walter S. Mander
Foundation
Wachovia
Washington, Pittman &
McKeever, LLC
Watertower Surgicenter
Weekly Citizen
Wellpoint
Westwood Management
Corporation
WGN -TV Children’s
Charities
WMAQ NBC 5 Chicago
WTTW Channel 11
YMCA
Individuals
Dwayne M. Adams
John C. Adams, Jr.
Stephen C. Adler
Raquel Alexander
Miguel Alvarado
Anita Alvarez
Paris J. Anderson
Neeti Arndt
Luisa Arreola
James Ascot
Joan H. Bailar
Sherrie Baines
Luciana L. Baker
Travis Baldwin
Brian Ball
Carmen M. Barreto
Tyler Bauer
Eva Lynn Beavers
Carol E. Bell
Melvin Bell
Shenesia Benniefield
Robert A. Berghoff
Carol Bernick
Barbara Best
Heather Bilski
Ella F. Blanden
Pamela Bland-Kennedy
Mustafa Bohkari
Mary Jo Boldingh
Raymond Bondurant
Charlie P. Booker
Nina Boston
June and Jet Boulware
Cherlyn Bradley
Christa Brantsch
Samuel Braun
Barbara J. Bryant
Marcus Bullock
Adam D. Burck
Allan M. Burke
Edwin A. Burke
Verna Burns
Phyllis M. Burrell
Tony Burroughs
Arlene Burton-Fleming
Karen V. Busch and
Lawrence Busch
Linda J. Calhoun
Richard Callaghan
Nadine Campbell
Ross H. Carlson
Margarita D. Carrillo
Arie R. Carter
Cozette Carter
Marilyn Carter
Trisha M. Cassidy-Schnitz
Nicholas G. Chalesle
Sherrie L. Chapman
Kathleen D. Chappell
Shakuntala Chabria
Johnny Clark, Jr.
Flora J. Cobb
Joyce Coleman
Lakeisha Conley
Curtis Cooper
Lubirda M. Cooper
Mayvonne Crawford
Tina Crawford
Darlene Cuker
Robert D. Curtis
John M. Dahle
Michael Davenport
Neil A. Davies
Carrie Davis
Mark Davis
Grace and Carl Dawson
Bennie Delaine-Pearce
Jose Delgadillo
Sara C. Diggs
Mulbe Dillard
Brenda Dixon
Renee Donley
Richard Donozo
Jewell Dooley
Robyn Douglass
William P. Drew
Antionette Dubose-Norwood
Marvin Dunbar
Lionel Edmonds
Martha Edwards
Charles Emmons, Jr.
Gwendolyn Ellis
Earnest E. and
Carmen E. Fair
Ronald L. Farkas
Wanda Farmer
Brenda J. Fashola
Angie Fells
Fay Ferguson
Cary Filsinger and
Scott Yerkey
Robert F. Finder
Luther Fortune
Adrian Foster
Gale Foster-Farley
Kelley Fox
Evan Freund
Leigh Furda
Stephanie Gaines
Nelly Gamboa
Phillip Gant
Michael Garelli
Rosetta A. Garrett
Jeremy and Brianna Gaskill
Gilbert and Carolyn Gavlin
Judith Gay
Jacqueline Gelb
Elizabeth and Steve Gilligan
Quinton Glenn, Jr.
Adrienne B. Golembiewski
Natasha Grayson
Leslie J. Greenberg
Gregory L. Greenwood
J.L. Grace
Shifuana Greer
Peter Greetis and
Barbara Kraus
J. Grodoski
Haj Gueye
Emily Guss
Dawn S. Halbert
Darville Hamb
Chris Hannam
Sue Hampton
Richard L. Harper, Jr.
Brenda J. Harris
Kikanza Harris
Leonard S. Harris
Patricia Harris
Hartgrove Hospital
Janys Harvey
Brent Hawkins
Regina Hawkins
Barbara Hayes
Jason Helfert
Kristine A. Hemlock
Pat Henningsen
Ron Hill
The Hon. Stanley L.
and Edith Hill
Torrence L. Hinton
Charles H. Hodges IV
Julie Hodgeson
Jerome and Rose A.
Hoeksema
Lawrence and Kathleen
Holleran
Hal and Juanita Holliman
Christopher Holly
Dee Holzkopf
Richard Hooper, Jr.
Cheryl Howell
Gladys Howell
Deborah S. Hunnicutt
Candace Hunter
Monica Irvin-Smith
William Irving
Deitra L. Jackson
Michael Jackson
Ronald Jackson
Lisa James
Marianne Jankowski
Boyd Jarrell
Sandra M. Jaszczor
Cynthia Johnson
Davie Johnson
Deloris Johnson
Tywana L. Johnson
Charlie Jones
George Jones, Jr.
James Jones
Patricia Jones
Tracey Jones
Elizabeth B. Joosten
Marcia Jordan
Dinah Judah-Peterson
Kim Kang
Patricia Kay
Helen J. Kelly
Leoanard D. Kenebrew
Carrie Kennedy
Girtha Kidd
Mayme Knight
Dave Kowalski
Daniel and Fran K. Kravitz
Daniel Krupinski
Dave Kuchar
Chris Kulik
Randy Kutchek
Neeti Khurani
Wes Larkin
Gretchen Laska
Avis LaVelle
Ryan Leavitt
William Lederer
Amanda P. Leibovitz
Kady L. Leibovitz
Paul A. Levy
Darryl Lewis
Zach Lindon
Norris Love
Lara Luciano
Ana M. Luna
Glen Lusby
Glenna F. Musby
Carol Machalinski
Michael Mackey
Evonne Major
Martha Malone
Charles V. Maloney
Philip B. Maranon
Gloria Marin
Eileen Maroney
Patrick Martel
Rena G. Martin
Brian Matsen
Sam Mauro
Thom Maxwell III
Ezra McCann
Nancy McDaniel
David A. McElvain
Robert F. McKenna
Linda and Joe Meisel
Charles T. Menghini and
Wanda M. Menghini
Ernestina Meza
Roseanne Michaels
Acordia Miller
Thora A. Miller
Rafael Miramontes
Patricia Mitchell
Vickie Monroe
Rosalind Moore
Rev. Viola Moore
Deana Moorehead
Ethel F. Morris
Phil Mortenson
Gregory A. Murphy
Manual Murphy
Faarouq Muttalib
Roberta Nechin
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Alexis Urda, Editor. Roxanne Brown, Contributing Writer. Photography by Mark PoKempner.
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Carolyn P. Nee-Kavanaugh
Elisha L. Neely
Angelia Nelson
Donald Nelson
Robert L. Nevin
Jocelyn Nichols
Terry Novak
Elwood P. Nyther
Eileen M. O’Keefe
Steve A. Ortega
Esperanza Ortiz
Glenna Ousley
Cynthia Pace
Antonia Pallaras
Virginia Parker
Ruby Parnell-Booth
Stacy Pegues
Lynne C. Peoples
Michael and Sandra Perlow
Ruth Perry
Johnnie M. Phelps
Pamela A. Pickett
Idrian Proby
Stephanie L. Purnell
W. Erskine Quicksey
Karen Quintero
Donna Ree
Ashaki K. Reed
Ariste Reno
Thelma A. Rex
Marcheita Richard
C.T. and Jacqueline
E. Richardson
Corey Riedberger
Meredith D. Ries
Col. William Riring
Marsha Roane
Susan Roberts
Bernice Robinson
Margo Roethlisberger
Darren Rogers
Jessica Rogers
Lisa Rosenblate
Jim and Roseanne Rosenthal
Leonard Rothman
Robert Sabin
Dawan Sadrud-Din
Andrea Savage
James Schraut
Richard M. Schultz
Hans J. Schuster
Anthony Scott
Rachel Seltzer
Sandra M. Shakoor
Mary B. Shaw-Ellis
William M. Shelton
Evelyn Shields
James P. and
Cornelia Shoffner
Vernetta Sims
Bernard Sladen
Marion G. Sleet
Andrea J. Smith
Beth and Daniel Snell
Revie Sorey
William “Cory” Spence
Sabrina C. Spitznagle
Paulette Stallworth
Yolanda N. Stenhouse
Rita L. Stevens
Gordon R. Stewart
Sarah and Colin Stewart
Jules N. Stiffel
Djuana Stoakley
Tracey Stokes
Laurie Streeter
Cynthia Stupay
Sylvia Suggs
Stella Sweeten
Hardy W. and Crystal Sykes
R. Tapper
S. Tapper
Saundra Tate
Marion Taylor
Sandra Taylor
Shirley L. Taylor
Renard Terrell
Bernita L. Thigpen
Paula M. Thomas
Corlene L. Thomas
Sidney A. Thomas
Abraham Thompson
Anthony Thompson
Deshawn Thompson
Anthony Tolbert
Nicole Tucker
Ishmail Turay
James R. Turner
Alexis G. Urda
Zalman P. Usiskin
Chris Vandenberg
Albin Vasquez
Artemas Walker, Jr.
Catherina Walker
Gerald Watson
Garland W. and
Gwendolyn Watt
Anthony Way
Barbara A. Weiner
Scott Welch
Cherita Wellington
Charlotte White
Joseph Whited
Hansel Whiteuest
Maurice Williams
Nathaniel Williams
Ramonde D. Williams
Damita P. Wilson
Dori Wilson
Janet Wilson
Monique Wilson
Carol Winn
William Woodall
Ganett Woods
Arthur Wright
Debbie K. Wright
Helen S. Wright
Sheryl Yarbough
Ed Young
Lana B. Zakon
Brian Zang
Aberra Zewdie and
Maza Mengesha
Anthony J. and Sylvia Ziak
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2011
Financials
Assets
Cash and equivalents
Receivables
Other receivables
Prepaid expenses
Investments
Advances
Land, Building and Equipment
Land
Buildings and improvements
Furniture and equipment
Vehicles
Leasehold improvements
Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization
Other Assets
Total Assets
Liabilities and Net Assets
Accounts payable
Accrued wages and related taxes
Other liabilities
Pension benefit obligation
Mortgages and notes payable
Net Assets
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
Revenue
Public support
Contributions
United Way
Total public support
Direct program revenue
Fees and grants from governmental agencies
Program services fees
Workshop and janitorial contracts
Total direct program support
Other revenue
In-kind
Miscellaneous
Total Revenue
2011
Our Locations
20112010
1,387,731
772,684
7,594,3569,220,729
34,859
117,909
399,179
275,283
502,221381,252
230,095180,235
955,499955,499
7,754,105
7,702,681
1,217,519
4,361,201
177,659228,944
2,094,563
2,082,363
(8,205,550)
(10,994,797)
157,683
166,780
$14,299,919
$15,450,763
2011
2010
1,521,096
2,513,789
1,503,635
5,186,895
2,384,162
1,909,817
2,803,892
1,939,150
6,737,603
2,598,582
1,190,342 (538,281)
$14,299,919
$15,450,763
20112010
314,891274,406
6,118
28,082
$321,009
$302,488
27,905,398
-
11,267,838
$39,173,236
27,839,184
11,639,527
$39,478,711
19,22731,308
62,56167,385
$39,576,033
$39,879,892
14,815,709
967,681
15,195,789
879,022
Expenses
Program services
Adult —a Vocational training /
job development and placement
Educational — College preparation and placement
Educational / Therapeutic - Special education,
child care and family support
Foster care and adoption
Intervention — Counseling / mental health
Residential
Supporting services
Management and general
Fundraising
Miscellaneous
Total Expenses
Revenue in excess of expenses
Ada S. McKinley
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8,111,523
7,588,032
3,513,700
3,875,981
3,301,421
3,208,646
5,355,3505,238,106
36,065,384$35,985,576
3,206,979
3,392,349
125,75589,630
3,332,7343,481,979
$39,398,118
$177,915
$39,467,555
$412,337
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Our Mission
Ada S. McKinley Community Services’
mission is to serve those who, because of
disabilities or other limiting conditions, need
help in finding and pursuing paths leading
to healthy, productive, and fulfilling lives.
Changing Lives. Strengthening Communities.
Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc.
Administrative Office
1359 West Washington Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60607
Phone: 312.554.0600
Fax: 312.554.0292
www.adasmckinley.org