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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the
3 State of Illinois are pleased to congratulate Joel M. Carp of
4 Highland Park, Senior Vice President for Community Services and
5 Government Relations of the Jewish Federation/Jewish United
6 Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, on the occasion of his retirement
7 after almost 30 years in the social services field; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Mr. Carp has spent his professional career in
9 social work, social planning, and advocacy in the Jewish
10 community; his responsibilities at the Federation included
11 management of its Government Affairs Program with Offices in
12 Chicago, Springfield, and Washington, D.C., planning and
13 budgeting for the Federation's social welfare agencies, grant
14 program development, and foundation relationships, Project
15 EZRA (Services for the Homeless, Chronically Mentally Ill and
16 Economically Disadvantaged), planning for services for people
17 with disabilities, and Chicago's Jewish Refugee Resettlement
18 Program; and
 
19     WHEREAS, Prior to working for the Jewish Federation, he
20 spent 20 years as a professional in the Jewish Community Center
21 field; and
 
22     WHEREAS, His many awards include the Melvin A. Block Award
23 for Professional Distinction from the Associated YM-YWHAs of
24 Greater New York, the City of Chicago's Commission on Human
25 Relations Award, and a special award from the YMCA of the USA
26 for helping to restore Agency for International Development
27 funding for human services in Lebanon; and
 
28     WHEREAS, Mr. Carp is a member of numerous local, State, and
29 national professional and community service organizations; he
30 was awarded a full scholarship for graduate study in social
31 work by the UJA-Federation of New York, the 92nd Street

 

 

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1 YM-YWHA, and the Metropolitan New York Region of the Jewish
2 Community Centers Association; and
 
3     WHEREAS, He has published over 30 articles on various
4 subjects in the field of social work, social planning, and
5 refugee resettlement; he has served a number of universities as
6 a field faculty member in their graduate social work education
7 programs; and
 
8     WHEREAS, An aggressive advocate for sound public social
9 policy, he has served as chairman of or represented the Chicago
10 Jewish community on a number of governmental task forces
11 charged with determining public policy; and
 
12     WHEREAS, Mr. Carp is married to Leasha; he is the father of
13 Ilana, Rachel, and William and the proud grandfather of Charlie
14 and Samantha; therefore, be it
 
15     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
16 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
17 we congratulate Joel M. Carp on the occasion of his retirement,
18 and we wish him well in his future endeavors; and be it further
 
19     RESOLVED, That suitable copy of this resolution be
20 presented to him as an expression of our esteem.