Helping People Stay Home
Home! There's no place like it. It's the heart of our worlds. And when we’re forced to move?
Home is not a place people want to leave. In fact, research shows people are happier, healthier and live longer if they can be cared for at home instead of entering assisted living or nursing homes when their health begins to fail.
Southeast Lake County Faith in Action Volunteers helps people remain at home as they age and need extra help, or as they’re struck by debilitating diseases. Our services are unique because we offer door-though-door services for transportation, and we evaluate needs and initiate services available in Lake County across the spectrum of care.
SELCFIA is an interfaith volunteer care-giving program designed to help keep the elderly and frail, and persons with debilitating illnesses, in their homes and communities. Care recipients may need help because of chronic health problems, lack of transportation, absence of social support or disabilities. SELCFIA fosters long term caring relationships between volunteers and residents who need help to enhance their independence and quality of life.
SELCFIA trains and supervises volunteers and assigns them to care recipients. Volunteer activities may include shopping for groceries, providing rides to medical appointments, running errands, providing companionship through visiting or phoning and providing respite care for family caregivers. Volunteers are not available as daily caregivers or for all-day service, but they are trained to recognize when someone needs additional social services and can function as a liaison to appropriate agencies and organizations.
SELCFIA is a joint effort of four religious congregations in the southeastern corner of Lake County, Illinois: Congregation B’nai Torah, Zion Lutheran Church, Holy Cross Catholic Church and Christ United Methodist Church. Volunteers come from the congregations and the community at large, and serve care recipients of all faiths and backgrounds in communities from Highland Park in the southeast to Libertyville in the northwest.
In addition, our coalition includes local social service agencies, governmental representatives and leading members of our communities.
An independent 501c3 charity, SELCFIA is affiliated with a national network of Faith in Action programs, which began as a concept of and with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
If you need help, or know someone in the community who does, call the Southeast Lake County Faith in Action office at 1-847-433-9411. If you leave a message, we will call back within 24 hours.
Our Mission
Southeast Lake County Faith in Action Volunteers will bring together professionally trained volunteers of many faiths for care-giving to community members of all ages who may need help because of chronic health problems, lack of transportation, absence of social support or disabilities. We will draw on an inter-faith coalition of religious congregations, local social service agencies, government representatives and community leaders.
