Support PADS Every Time You Search

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GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting your favorite cause.

Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter PADS of Elgin as the charity you want to support. And, be sure to spread the word!

Thomas the Train Rolls Into Union

For the fifth year PADS will partner with Habitat for Humanity groups in supplying volunteers for the Thomas the Tank Engine Event at the Union Train Museum. We are supplying volunteer labor for the event in return for a generous donation from the Train Museum to the PADS operations account. The museum requires approximately 300 volunteers to run this event.  It is our goal to furnish the museum with approximately 20–30 volunteers per day, along with the 20-30 per day from each Habitat group.

Our past volunteers tell us they have a great time. If you are one of those volunteers, we look forward to you joining us again this year. First timers, we guarantee a fun filled work day.  Come join us.

Click here for job descriptions and driving directions. Complete details are available by calling Doris at the PADS office at 847-608-9744.

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Kane County Guide to Community Services is Up!

The Kane County Guide to Community Services is an Internet based "one-stop shopping" site for almost any social, health or human service need in Kane County. Anyone in need of help can visit www.kanecountyguide.org to find everything from basic needs like food and shelter to legal services, drug treatment, employment support, childcare, physical/mental health care and more.

The website is a free, confidential, bi-lingual information and referral program available to everyone and is easily searchable by keyword, agency or geography.

Since the site is live on the Web, agencies can submit updates to their programs making the Kane County Guide to Community Services the most current, accurate and easily accessible way for people to get help.

Visit the Kane County Guide today!