Brief History- Cornerstone began as a small group effort in 1989, with a few people working to meet the needs of their neighbors. At that time, women with children were becoming the new faces of homelessness in America. CCO felt drawn to meet this need to serve and shelter women with children. Over the following 20 years our programs have expanded to serve around 500 men, women, and children daily. As a result, hundreds of singles and families are given an opportunity to reclaim their lives from the devastating effects of poverty and homelessness. Loss of job, lack of resources, health problems, and addictions are some of the causes of homelessness for our residents. But no matter their background or situation, all of our residents have come to Cornerstone seeking help. Our goal is to meet them where they are at and help them begin building a new life, one step at a time. FUNDING IN PART BY: US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, CSBG, Chicago Dept. of Family Support Services, Illinois State Board of Education, and our wonderful donors.
Chicago Community Learning Center (CCLC) will continue its core mission to train highly capable health care workers who serves the community with uncompromising commitment and compassion. The Chicago Community Learning Center (CCLC) students, graduates, faculty and staff are committed to providing access to care in local and regional communities. Chicago Community Learning Center (CCLC) core values and emerging core competencies are our most successful and fulfilling attributes strategies relating to educational market and providing a sustainable advantage for our health care trainers: values inspired culture; agility and innovation; strategic performance improvement; seamless transition for lifelong learning; staff development and engagement; sustainable community engagement; and economic viability. Our emerging core competencies exceeds student’s excellence in student’s engagements, student’s retention and persistence; and student’s success. Chicago Community Learning Center (CCLC) goals and objectives are to empower graduates with superior skills and utmost training to be the best allied healthcare professionals they can be: to provide a diverse faculty qualified by education, experience, continuing education and on-going professional development in the medical or allied healthcare field(s) for which they are assigned to teach; to prepare students fully for entry-level employment in the student’s selected allied healthcare field; to enable student attainment of knowledge through lecture, examinations and evaluations; to ensure student achievement of competency-based clinical skills through laboratory training within the institution and clinical training utilizing internship facilities; to assist students in gaining workplace and life skills, study techniques, test taking techniques, and effective utilization of CCLC’s; to prepare students to take the appropriate certification/licensure examinations for their chosen allied healthcare career; and to guide and prepare students for their job search by providing opportunities to learn interviewing techniques, develop electronic communications, and prepare a professional resume.