Service Connector Program

The purpose of the Jane Addams Hull House Association’s Service Connector Program is to assist Public Housing Residents meet their personal and professional goals in cooperation with the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) Plan for Transformation. The CHA Plan for Transformation is a 10-year plan to rebuild and modernize the nation’s third largest public housing system.

Philosophy
Our program is designed to assist low-income families prepare to integrate into mixed income communities.; We do this by providing needed supportive services, including helping residents adjust to new environments and lifestyles. We work with CHA residents living in Housing Developments, Scattered Sites and with Housing Choice Voucher holders (Section 8), to link them to needed resources and services.  The goal is to break through the divide and connect CHA families to programs and services that are needed to help them achieve self sufficiency.

Issues being addressed:

• Housing stability and permanence
• Economic self-sufficiency
• Family wellbeing and household stability
• Community integration

About the CHA Plan for Transformation
Through commitment from Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the city’s public housing is undergoing a comprehensive renewal.  CHA is redeveloping or rehabilitating 25,000 apartments for families and senior citizens.  The Plan is focused on ending the isolation of public housing residents by creating new mixed income communities, where people of all economic backgrounds will live as neighbors.