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Grace Hou is the secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services.
She explained that she and Deputy Governor Sol Flores came up with the idea for the grant during a conversation. Both have done community-based work and have experienced racial healing activities.
Then came the events of the past year.
“And so, you know, we re in the middle of the pandemic, and we continue to be in the summer. And then the images and the reports of the police brutality,” she recalled. “There was so much anguish, and hurt in Illinois, you know, protests, civil unrest.”
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Thanks to funding from a statewide racial healing grant, COD is launching COD Equity Connection, a project to promote dialogue on timely civic topics in order to advance equity within the COD community.
An initiative of the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), in partnership with Chicago Community Trust, the Healing Illinois program distributed $4.5 million grants to community-based organizations across the state to help create community-centric, inclusive spaces to talk, learn and grow. The College received $42,000 and is one of 86 recipients in the state-awarded funding. COD is committed to building cultural awareness to create a deeper understanding of ourselves as faculty and staff and our interactions with others, said College of DuPage President Dr. Caputo. Through supportive, meaningful dialogue, we can continue to build a more inclusive community to ensure every student succeeds.