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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, In 2008, the Pioneer Center for Human Services in
3 McHenry will celebrate its 50th anniversary; and
 
4     WHEREAS, Founded in 1958 to serve the needs of the
5 developmentally disabled, the Pioneer Center for Human
6 Services has grown into an agency that now provides services to
7 over 1,700 individuals annually in McHenry County; and
 
8     WHEREAS, In addition to services for the developmentally
9 disabled, over the years the Pioneer Center has expanded its
10 scope to include persons with mental illness and traumatic
11 brain injury, as well as early intervention therapies for
12 children from birth to age five; and
 
13     WHEREAS, The Pioneer Center also serves victims of sexual
14 assault through the VOICE program and homeless men, women, and
15 children through the PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter)
16 program; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Over the past 50 years, the Pioneer Center for
18 Human Services has made significant contributions to McHenry
19 County and the State of Illinois; and
 
20     WHEREAS, The commemoration of the Pioneer Center's 50th

 

 

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1 anniversary provides an opportunity to recognize the center's
2 great work over the past 50 years; therefore, be it
 
3     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
5 congratulate the staff and administration of the Pioneer Center
6 for Human Services in McHenry on the occasion of the center's
7 50th anniversary and declare September 15, 2008 as "Pioneer
8 Center for Human Services Day" in the State of Illinois; and be
9 it further
 
10     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
11 presented to a representative of the Pioneer Center for Human
12 Services as a symbol of our esteem and respect.