Dear Onward House Supporters, Welcome to the first edition of our quarterly newsletter – I’m excited to share with you the incredible progress we’ve made and give you a glimpse of the great things on the horizon for Onward Neighborhood House. Our year-round Early Childhood and School Age programs had a busy summer, with some … Continue reading Onward House Fall 2024 Newsletter
A Hub For Helping: Onward Update Spring 2022
Onward House in Belmont Cragin supports immigrants by providing food, resources, English classes, childcare.
Onward House Invests in Special Education with New Leadership Position
Onward Neighborhood House is pleased to announce that it has hired Dr. Kimberly Thier for a newly created position as Director of Special Education and Quality Assurance, focusing on special education and related services to preschoolers and school age children with disabilities. This position will work with the rest of Onward House’s early childhood education staff to continually improve the overall quality of the early childhood education and youth services.
Damaris Shares Her Story
We had worked with Univision and Pequenos y Valiosos to be a featured location in Damaris’s story describing how the Covid-19 changed their lives in a matter of days. Damaris, who is a parent from Onward Neighborhood House, shares how difficult things were for her and her four daughters after losing Samuel her husband on … Continue reading Damaris Shares Her Story
Teachers Corner
My name is Rita B. I have been at Onward House since August. I teach in the Blue Birds Classroom. Blue Birds 2 to be more specific.This is my second go-around here at Onward House. I also worked at Onward House from 2007 to 2016. I was the School Age group worker from 2007 to … Continue reading Teachers Corner
Invest in our children at birth to build racial equity
Now is the time for radical change to ensure our children have a better world than the one they are witnessing today.
As we rebuild from this pandemic and global recession amid a reignited civil rights movement, we recognize that physical safety is only part of what’s needed to open early childhood programs safely. It will take a significant public and private investment to erase the zip code disadvantage baked into our early childhood education system, when the burden of COVID-19 continues to weigh most heavily on communities already suffering from educational inequity.