CORONAVIRUS UPDATE & INFORMATION
CEDA will keep our essential services available to people in crisis and will be helping residents and communities who are unable to meet their basic needs.
Energy Assistance
Assistance for income eligible households with their heating and cooling energy costs through LIHEAP, ComEd Residential Special Hardship, and Peoples Gas Share the Warmth grants.
Home Weatherization
Long-term home repair solutions to reduce energy costs and make homes more energy efficient.
Family Support and Community Engagement
Through case management and a range of services, our program helps stabilize and support Suburban Cook County families and individuals on a path to self-sufficiency.
Women, Infants & Children
Food, education and support for pregnant, breastfeeding and post-partum women, infants, and children under age five.
Housing Services
Comprehensive housing counseling services providing information, education and advice to homebuyers, homeowners, renters and the homeless.
Our Blog
The heartbreaking events over the past weeks have had an intensely personal effect on me. They've brought up the unsettling feelings I've had way too many times before. The unsettling feelings steeped with hurt, anger and frustration ignited by injustice. I am desperately pained for all the Black youth and...
Poverty has a great impact in our communities. At an essential level, every parent wants to provide for their children- food, clothing and shelter. For those recently unemployed or the more than 800K people living below the federal poverty line in Cook County, surviving with less than $1,600 a month,...
"GENIUS IS IN THE IDEA. IMPACT, HOWEVER, COMES FROM ACTION!" - Simon Sinek Our national impact report showcases the needs of over 50 million Americans living in poverty - unable to afford basic needs like medicine, transportation, health care and food....
