April to June 2008

Where Will They Sleep Tonight

Andrew Sperling, Legislative Director, from the National Alliance on Mental Illness will address the acute housing shortage for individuals with mental illness on Saturday, May 10 at 2pm at the College of DuPage Student Resource Center, Room 2800. For more information call Judy Graff at 847-444-1505.

Mr. Sperling will provide:

• an overview of the affordable housing challenge
• outline existing federal housing programs in Illinois and how they are administered
• describe efforts to expand funding for effective housing programs
• how to make current programs responsive to the needs of people.

Editor’s note: We are quite proud of NAMI CCNS board member and Housing Chair Judy Graff for bringing Mr. Sperling to the Chicago area to speak.

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