The Agency on Aging Northeastern Illinois is hosting four Advocacy Breakfast Collaboratives across our eight county region! Join us to connect with your elected officials on matters concerning older adults and learn how we can work together to best support each other.

February is Senior Independence Month! As we grow older, even some of the simplest tasks can become challenging. It is our mission to provide resources and services for older adults to help them live independently in their communities and optimize their quality of life. We do this by creating innovative programming to foster creative thinking, providing services such as a hot meal every day to home bound older adults and assisting older adults and their caregivers in finding the services they need to remain in their home and improve their quality of life.

Our Senior Nutrition Program is one way we are helping older adults remain in their homes! As we age, even the most independent adults experience limitations physically and financially. Many are living at or below the poverty line. Our senior nutrition program works to provide one nutritious meal a day, every day, to older adults in need.

Our Home Delivered Meal providers deliver a hot meal, perform a well-being check and offer a few moments of friendly conversation.

Our Community Dining sites allow older adults to enjoy a meal in a welcoming environment with fellow friends and neighbors. Community Dining sites are easily accessible, at safe facilities and located in our eight county service area.

The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) is an employment training program for individual’s ages 55 years and better. The program provides participants 20 hours per week of on-the-job training opportunities, at local nonprofits or government agencies, that assist in the development of new and marketable job skills to help you re-enter the workforce. All program participants receive a subsidized hourly wage for training to help offset costs associated with travel to and from their training sites. If you are interested in more information or enrolling in SCSEP, please contact Glenda Love at the Agency on Aging Northeastern Illinois at 630-293-5990.

The Friendship Line is a toll-free line that is available to share a conversation with someone who cares. If you are feeling lonely, call the Friendship Line and the person on the other line will love to share a conversation, listen to your story or concern and just lend an ear to those in need. The Friendship Line is also a crisis intervention hotline providing around the clock crisis support services including: