Social Services
  • Outreach Warrenville
    • Location: 8W542 Batavia Rd, Warrenville, IL 60555
    • Contact: Angela Mains
    • 630-393-7057
  • Bethany Christian Services (Safe Families for Children),
    • Services: Christian foster care, adoption services, etc.
    • Location: Palos Heights, IL
    • 708-385-4889
  • Avenue Women’s Center
    • Services: crisis pregnancy center
    • Location: 440 E Roosevelt Rd. Ste 106, West Chicago
    • 630-455-0300; talk@avenuewc.com
  • Caris Pregnancy Counseling and Resources
    • 111 N Wabash Ave #1501, Chicago, IL 60602
    • (312) 229-5700
Housing
  • DuPage PADS
    • Services: emergency and longer-term housing help
    • Location: 601 West Liberty, Wheaton, IL 60187
    • 630-682-3846
  • Wayside Cross
    • Services: homeless shelter
    • Location: 215 E New York St, Aurora, IL 60505
    • 630-892-4239
  • Dupage Housing Authority
    • Services: subsidized housing, but usually a long wait list
    • 630-690-3555
  • Community Housing Advocacy & Development (CHAD),
    • Location: 531 E Roosevelt Rd #200, Wheaton, IL 60187
    • 630-456-4452
  • H.O.M.E. DuPage
    • Services: helps families get home loans, money education
    • Location: 1600 Roosevelt Rd, Wheaton, IL 60187
    • 630-260-2500
Lawyers
  • World Relief DuPage
    • Services: immigration law
    • Carol Steam: 630-462-7566 or Aurora: 630-906-9546
  • Prairie State Legal Services
    • Services: free legal services for civil law (not criminal law)
    • 630-690-2130; www.pslegal.org
  • Metropolitan Family Services Legal Aid Society
    • 312-986-4200
  • DuPage Bar Legal Aid
    • Services: free legal services
    • Location: 126 S County Farm Rd, Wheaton, IL 60187
    • 630-653-6212; www.illinoislegaladvocate.org
  • Administer Justice
    • Services: free legal services, a ministry of Wheaton Bible Church
    • Location: 1750 Grandstand Place, Suite 15, Elgin, IL 60123
    • 877-778-6006; www.administerjustice.org
  • Alliance for Immigrant Neighbors at Faith Alliance Bible Church
    • Services: free legal help for immigrants (by appointment only)
    • Location: 382 S. Mount Prospect Rd. Des Plaines, IL 60016
    • 224-443-0113, www.allianceforimmigrants.org
Job-Searching
  • Outreach Warrenville
    • Services: Caseworkers will help clients create resumes, brainstorm job possibilities, gain employable skills.
    • 630-393-7057
  • WorkNet DuPage
    • Location: 2525 Cabot Dr #302, Lisle, IL 60532
    • 630-955-2030, www.worknetdupage.org
  • People’s Resource Center
    • Location: 201 S Naperville Rd, Wheaton, IL 60187
    • 630-682-5402, x 333; www.peoplesrc.org
English Language Classes
  • People’s Resource Center
    • Location: 201 S Naperville Rd, Wheaton, IL 60187
    • 630-682-5402, x 333; www.peoplesrc.org
  • Literacy DuPage, Naperville
    • Location: 2100 Manchester Rd Suite 904, Wheaton, IL 60187
    • 630-416-6699; info@literacydupage.org
  • World Relief DuPage
    • Location: 191 S Gary Ave Ste 130, Carol Stream, IL 60188
    • Services: ESL classes
      • Classes offered here at Faith (weekly Fall and Spring)
    • 630-462-7566
Christian Counseling
Crisis Counseling
in-patient options; crisis care; substance abuse; offers financial assistance
  • Outreach Warrenville
    • Services: provides counseling with a sliding fee scale.
    • 630-393-7057
    • Similar services are available to folks living in Wheaton and Carol Stream through Community Ministries; 630-682-1910
  • Meier Clinics
    • Services: Christian counseling agency
    • Location: Wheaton
    • 630-653-1717
  • Linden Oaks (Edward Hospital)
  • Northwestern Medicine Behavioral Health at Central DuPage Hospital
    • Services: in-patient and out-patient crisis mental health care
    • https://www.nm.org/conditions-and-care-areas/behavioral-health/behavioral-health-services-western-suburbs
  • 360 Youth Services
    • Services: mental health counseling focused on youth
    • Locations: 1323 Bond St, Ste 119 Naperville, IL 60563
    • 630-717-9408
  • Breaking Free
    • Services: counseling for substance abuse
    • Location: 120 Gale St, Aurora, IL 60506
    • 630-897-1003
  • Hope for Tomorrow
    • Services: counseling for substance abuse; substance-free group homes
    • Location: 479 N Lake St, Aurora, IL 60506
    • 630-966-9000
  • Wayside Cross
    • Services: Christian group programs
    • Location: 215 E New York St, Aurora, IL 60505
    • 630-892-4239
Suicide Prevention
  • National hotline
    • 800-273-8255
    • dial 9-8-8 (like 9-1-1, but for mental health emergencies)
  • DuPage Health Department hotline
    • 630-627-1799
    • text REACH to 741741
  • Screening Assessment and Support Services (SASS)
    • Services: mental health crisis services for those who need public funding
    • 800-345-904
Immigrant/Refugee Support
  • World Relief DuPage, Carol Stream
    • Services: Immigration lawyers, refugee resettlement, path to citizenship, ESL classes, and more
    • 630-462-7566
  • Citizenship Coaching at Immanuel Presbyterian Church
    • Services: Immanuel members coach immigrants anticipating their U.S. citizenship interview/test
    • Contact: Bambi Penney, leader
    • 630-464-7552
Financial Hardship
  • Outreach
    • Outreach Warrenville (630-393-7057)
      • has a LEAF (local emergency assistance fund) to use at their discretion, along with state and federal grant money. They also have case workers and therapists to help individuals address the issues that have led to the financial crisis. They help people find housing, create resumes, and look for jobs, etc.
    • Carol Stream/ Wheaton, Outreach Community (630-682-1910)
    • West Chicago, Puente del Pueblo (630-260-1600)
  • People’s Resource Center
    • Services: offer emergency rent and mortgage assistance
    • Location: 201 S. Naperville Road, Wheaton
    • 630-682-5402
  • Glen Ellyn Walk-In Ministry
    • Services: assist Glen Ellyn residents or DuPage PADS clients with a referral who are in financial crisis
    • 630-469-3510
Care for Elderly & Disabled
  • ESSE Adult Day Services
    • Location: Community Baptist Church, Warrenville
    • 630-791-9319
  • DuPage County Senior Services:
    • https://www.dupageco.org/Community_Services/Senior_Services/1699/
  • Ride DuPage
    • Services: very inexpensive schedule transportation for those over 60 or disabled. Requires pre-registration to affirm eligibility, but then trip appointments can be made a day in advance, 6:00-6:00 (M-F) and 8:00-5:00 (Sat-Sun), paid in cash $2 per trip one way plus $1 for each mile traveled. A companion can ride free.
    • 1-800-713-7445 
Food Insecurity
  • Neighborhood Food Pantries
    • Services: There are about a dozen of these in DuPage County. Guests can visit an NFP weekly. Current open hours for Immanuel’s pantry: Sundays 1-3 p.m., Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. The pantry in nearby West Chicago is open most of the days that Immanuel Presbyterian’s is not.
  • Loaves & Fishes
    • Location: 1871 High Grove Lane, Naperville; Open: Tuesdays 8:30-noon, Thursdays, 8:30-noon, 4:30-6:30
    • 630-355-3663
  • People’s Resource Center
    • Services: Tuesdays and Thursdays and Saturdays, 9-11 a.m., Wednesdays 6-9 p.m.
    • Location: 201 S. Naperville Road, Wheaton. 630-682-5402;
  • Illinois Hunger Coalition Hunger Hotline: 800-359-2163
  • Glen Ellyn Food Pantry
    • Location: 55 Park Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
    • (630) 469-8668, https://www.glenellynfoodpantry.org/
Services at Faith
  • GPS: Grow, Prepare, Serve.
    • Services: A high school after-school program run by Outreach. GPS helps students with homework, test preparation, and college and career preparation. They provide a safe space for students to have fun and build community. GPS meets in our building four days a week after school!
    • Contact: Miriam Guzman, mguzman@weareoutreach.org
    • https://weareoutreach.org/locations/outreach-warrenville/
  • ESL Tutoring
    • Services: partnership with World Relief Chicagoland as we run an English Language Learning tutoring class on Wednesday nights from 6:00-7:00 pm.
    • Email office@faithecc.org for more info.
  • Tiger Breakfast
    • Services: free pancake breakfasts at the church throughout the school year for our local high school students. Join us between 7:00-8:00 am on late-start Wednesdays. This is open to all Wheaton Warrenville South students.