Full Circle of Lake County

Family & immigrant resource center - our resource center aims to strengthen family resilience through providing resource connection, application support, family goal planning, and programs within its 3 specialization areas: family support, immigrant support, and basic needs support. In 2022-2023 the frc served 68 clients with application support and/or family goal planning. Family support reached 106 parents/caregivers with active parenting classes, a free diaper program, and supplemental activities. Immigrant support reached 27 persons from the latinex community through a spanish-language chicas empoderadas program and other immigration support workshops. Basic needs supports and cash assistance programs distributed 178,914 participants reaching 1,179 community members.

Youth sel program - social emotional learning in out-of-school time (sel- oost)is a grade-based program that focuses on positive youth development and is built on the foundation of social emotional learning. The aim is for youth participants to achieve social emotional growth through the combination of curriculum, prosocial activities, and peer/leadership community service. Activities take place when school is not in session (after school, summer, teacher training days, ect). This program served 195 youth through 389 activities.

Youth mentoring - the mentoring program matches one on one volunteer mentors with youth, while providing out-of-school activities for 4th-6th graders. These components work to build relationships that are fundamental in facilitating healthy behaviors and attitudes of youth within the community. Activities include hiking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, swimming, sledding, ice-skating, and fishing which teach valuable life skills. This program served 68 mentees and mentors through 159 out-of school time activities and with over 587 hours of reported donated mentor time.

For the fiscal year ending june of 2023, many efforts of this organization continued to focus on the community and access to covid relief funds. Full Circle was a critical player in the Lake County covid relief effort working in tandem with other local groups to make sure that all members of the community in any need could access assistance. They opened their doors to all of the community and ensured a safe community working on food stability, rent and utility access, and eviction prevention, impacting 781 community members.