by Leopoldo Jacobsen | Oct 19, 2020
Winner of 2020 Wintrust Chicago Neighborhood Award, Chicago HOPES for Kids is the only organization in Chicago providing direct, in-shelter academic services to students experiencing homelessness. These students fall on average 1-2 grade levels behind their housed...
by Leopoldo Jacobsen | Oct 19, 2020
211 Metro Chicago (2024) Launched in January 2023, 211 Metro Chicago has made more than 250,000 connections across its helplines to essential community needs and social service support for Chicago and suburban Cook County residents. 211 Metro Chicago is operated by...
by Leopoldo Jacobsen | Oct 19, 2020
On January 21, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved TEPEZZA® (teprotumumab-trbw) for the treatment of Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) – making it the first and only approved medicine to treat this serious, progressive and vision-threatening rare...
by Leopoldo Jacobsen | Oct 19, 2020
NOCD provides online therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), one of the most severe, prevalent, and misunderstood mental illnesses. Inside the NOCD telehealth platform, people with OCD can receive live, face-to-face virtual therapy sessions from a licensed...
by Leopoldo Jacobsen | Oct 19, 2020
Winner of the 2020 COVID-19 Response Award. Office buildings, schools and other places where people gather in the U.S. are grappling with decisions about whether to open and how broadly to do so, as cases of COVID-19 continue rising in parts of the country. To help...
