CFHC Assists Center’s Clients PUNS Awareness Week to provide information

Apr. 30, 2009

Chicago, IL — April 30, 2009 — Chicago Family Health Center’s Developmental Disabilities Program has planned a “Prioritization of Urgency of Needs for Services (PUNS) Awareness Week” May 11th–15th 2009. PUNS is a database of Illinois infants, children, and adults with developmental disabilities who may be in need of developmental disabilities services or support.

Registering for the PUNS helps the individual with a developmental disability receive services and support from the state of Illinois. Individuals who register for the PUNS helps the state receive the needed funding from the federal government to help individuals with developmental disabilities.

The consumer and guardian must meet with a pre-admission screener to complete a PUNS registration form. A pre-admission screener is a Department of Human Services contracted representative from the Chicago, and suburban areas. Communities are often under represented in the PUNS system, because of lack of knowledge of the services that are offered by the state for persons with developmental disabilities.

Event information:
May 11, 2009
5pm–7pm
CFHC/South Chicago
9119 S. Exchange Ave

May 12, 2009
10am–3pm
CFHC/Roseland
120 W. 111th St.

May 13, 2009
10am–3pm
CFHC/Pullman
556 E. 115th St.

May 14, 2009
5pm–7pm
CFHC/Pullman
556 E. 115th St.

May 15, 2009
10am–3pm.
CFHC/South Chicago
9119 S. Exchange

Chicago Family Health Center is a community-based, non-profit health center that provides comprehensive, accessible, affordable primary healthcare to the residents of South Chicago, South Deering, East Side, Roseland, Pullman, West Pullman and surrounding communities in the South and Southeast side of Chicago. Chicago Family provides healthcare to all people regardless of race, religion, language, gender, age, income or their ability to pay. In 2008, Chicago Family Health Center served more than 19,400 men, women and children.

For more information regarding this program, call Deborah Satterfield at (773) 768-5000, extension 1084.