by eam | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured News
Celebrate Black History Month with us by entering our Black History Month poetry contest and let your voice be heard! Submit a poem in rhyme or free verse about what is important to you about Black History Month. Prizes for the winners - We want to hear from YOU! This...
by eam | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured News
A huge THANK YOU to the Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation for the gift of funding to provide up to thirty laptops for our program participants involved in vocational training or work that requires technology. This generous donation allows us to increase the number of...
by eam | Feb 6, 2023 | Featured News
We are excited that our Pharmacy Technician Training Program has been approved by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board as a recognized educational or training program! This means that graduates from our program will gain a nationally credentialed Pharmacy...
by eam | Nov 13, 2022 | Featured News
We wish to express our sincere gratitude to Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (NMH) for the generous gift of $9,999.00 in support of mental health care for our job seekers. As part of NMH, Northwestern Medicine Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) is dedicated to...
by eam | Oct 1, 2022 | Featured News
AACF is launching a new program designed to train program participants to become career coaches, case managers, and customer service representatives. The new initiative called Career Coach Corp will be run by seasoned case manager Chuckita Smith who will lend her own...
by eam | Aug 21, 2022 | Featured News
We are both excited and proud to be on track towards reaching our goal of placing 50 youth in jobs! So far this summer we have enrolled and placed 30 out of 30 youth in stable jobs. We are going strong towards reaching our goal of 50 youth participant placements by...