Member Group Chapters:
We can accomplish a lot when we support each other to reach our goals!
Alliance member groups receive individualized support and resources to develop and strengthen their group as well as access to our educational webinars, newsletter and events. Membership is free! With many member groups in Illinois, there’s one near you. Contact us to learn more about
joining a group or starting one of your own. Member group resources can be found HERE.
The Alliance can help by:
- Connecting you with a group in your area
- Sharing resources on how to start and maintain a group & tips for advisors
- Spreading the word about local event
- Sharing ideas about what other groups have done
- Holding regional meetings to discuss issues, plan activities, and have fun
- Inviting you to get involved in statewide actions to make change
Benefits of Alliance membership:
- Possible membership on The Alliance’s Board of Directors (1 self-advocate) *Gold Level*
- Invitations to attend regional events and participate on planning team
- Receive monthly newsletter
- Contribute an article to the monthly newsletter
- Invitation to participate on committees
- Unlimited webinars
- Dedicated Alliance staff support
The Alliance is made up of self-advocacy groups from around the state of Illinois. Here is a list of our current member group chapters:
Group Name / Location-
- RGA Council – Lisle
- Voices of Aztlan – Chicago
- The Network – Alton
- Advocates In Motion (AIM) – McHenry
- Personal Power Players – Monticello
- Speak Out of Rock Island – Rock Island
- Sertoma United – Alsip
- PossAbility Partners (formerly ROHSA) – Chicago Heights
- Vocational Voices – Englewood/Chicago
- Self-Advocates of Lake County – Lake County
- Change to Independence Altogether (CIA) – Bloomington-Normal
- CTF Tigers – Homewood
- Madison County Self Advocates
- People First Aktion Club – Jacksonville
- Livingston County Advocates in Action (LCAA) – Pontiac
- CTF Advocacy Center Charleston – Charleston
- MRI – Decatur
- Self Advocates of Madison County – Edwardsville
- Envision for Freedom – Chicago
- Dixon Delegates – Dixon
- Peacemakers – Tinley Park
- Client Advocacy Board (CAB) – Galesburg
- Chicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition (CDPOCC) – Chicago
- Friendship League – Tremont
- Clark/Edgar Alliance Advocates – Paris
- Wolf Pack – Mattoon
- NWSRA PURSUIT – Rolling Meadows/Hanover Park/Mt. Prospect
- Mosaic of Pontiac and Dwight Self-Advocates – Dwight
- Team Voice – Brookfield
- Chicago Disability Activism Collective (CDAC) – Chicago
- Freedom Fighters – Elgin
- Super Fighters – Aurora
Don’t see your self-advocacy group’s name? Want to start a self-advocacy group? We can help you! Please contact Krescene Beck, The Alliance’s Organizational Director, at [email protected] We can’t wait to hear from you!
Here are some photos of Alliance member groups speaking UP and speaking OUT!
Advocates from Envision for Freedom share their poster board presentation at UIC
Advocates from Sertoma Centre meeting with legislators
New group Freedom Fighters posing for a picture
The Sertoma United advocacy bulletin board
Advocates from Vocational Voices speaking at a college about ‘Spread the Word to End the Word’
Member Group Chapters