2020 Annual Report July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020 FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear friend, This past year has been complicated and challenging for all of us. What started as a bright and optimistic year quickly changed as COVID-19 hit communities across the globe. Still, Legal Council, our clients, and our supporters never lost hope. With the support of our funders, donors, and partners, thousands of Illinoisans and their families received the help they needed to stay healthy, fed, and housed during this pandemic and beyond. When Legal Council moved to remote work in March 2020, our advocates quickly adapted to the new challenges and continued to work around the MISSION clock to make sure Illinoisans received the care they needed. And although this pandemic Legal Council for Health Justice uses the has tested and exposed the fragility of our social and health systems, we’re even more power of the law to secure dignity, committed to leading the fight for health justice. opportunity, and well-being for people Here are some of the victories in the fight for health justice this fiscal year: facing barriers due to illness or disability. •Expanded services to neighborhoods in the far south side of through our existing partnership with and through new partnerships with Christian Community Health Center and Friend Health. •Held our government accountable through policy changes and lawsuits, so that our health and education systems work well for everyone. Notably, this year Legal Council continued our lawsuit to overturn the Trump administration’s cruel and inhumane public charge rule that threatens the health and well-being of immigrant families. • Helped almost 2,000 Illinoisans and their families access affordable health coverage, VISION prescriptions, public benefits, housing assistance, and other life-saving resources. Everyone deserves a fair chance to lead a Even though we’re still in this pandemic, I feel gratitude for the people in our communities who give our clients hope. I’m thankful to the funders and donors who stepped up to life of dignity and opportunity. support Legal Council when clients needed our help the most. I’m thankful to our community partners—the medical and care providers who continue to fight for health justice, even when on the front lines of a pandemic. And I’m thankful for advocates, including Legal Council’s staff, for continuing to fight for the rights and well-being of Illinois families. Health justice is needed now more than ever, and I’m glad to have you by our side in these efforts. Thank you for helping Legal Council be the strong and ever-expanding agency it is today. Sincerely, Tom Yates Executive Director LEGAL AID IN A PANDEMIC DATA HIGHLIGHT: CLIENTS & CASES

At the outset of the COVID-19 Along with our policy response, we pandemic, Legal Council advocates continued to provide life-changing GENDER responded quickly to the emerging direct representation to Illinoisans Male: 63% health crisis. Alongside our partners and their families, helping them Female: 32% in other advocacy organizations, access new and continued necessary Non-binary, transgender, and gender fluid: 4% including the Protect Our Care Illinois care: Unknown: 1% coalition, Legal Council pushed •Families hurting from cut hours at state officials for urgent changes work can still put food on their tables in accessing and maintaining life- with SNAP. RACE saving coverage through Medicaid •Individuals can afford the Black/African American: 46% during this crisis. prescriptions they need to stay White: 25% healthy. Latino/Hispanic: 21% The Illinois Department of Healthcare •Students can receive the and Family Services (HFS) responded educational services they need to Asian: 2% to this advocacy by agreeing to reach their full potential, even when Native American or Alaskan native: <1% request the following changes learning remote. Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander: <1% (among others) from the federal More than one race: 3% government: DATA HIGHLIGHT Not reported: 3% 1) Apply simplified approval criteria to approve applications faster; AGE 1,848 INDIVIDUAL CLIENTS 2) Suspend all terminations stemming Under 18: 15% from annual redeterminations during 18-24: 6% 25-34: 16% the pandemic. 2,579 LEGAL CASES 35-44: 16% We educated our community 45-64: 41% 65+: 6% partners about these changes, and 2,065 people trained in provided feedback loops with the health policy, social security, HFS employees who are positioned education rights, & more GEOGRAPHY to correct areas where expectation does not meet reality. Our team helps North Side: 27% recognize patterns in the problems POPULATIONS SERVED West Side: 28% that arise, and the advocate for universal solutions rather than Disabled: 85% Homeless: 31 % South Side: 25% piecemeal fixes. HIV: 43% Children: 15% Outside of Chicago: 20% POLICY UPDATE: PUBLIC CHARGE

In September 2019, Legal Council go into effect nationally on February filed a lawsuit against the Trump 24, 2020, despite ongoing lawsuits. In Administration on behalf of the Illinois June 2020, the Seventh Circuit issued Among the many communities targeted by the public charge Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee a decision upholding the district court’s rule are families with dependent children and immigrants with Rights (ICIRR) to block cruel and life- injunction, although the Supreme disabilities or chronic illnesses. For Illinoisans like our clients in threatening changes to the public Court’s stay remains in place. the Reyes family, parents would be forced to make the impossible charge inadmissibility rule. The district court also allowed Legal choice between getting health coverage for their children with The suit is part of a national effort Council and our co-counsels to chronic illnesses, and staying together as a family. to block the Trump Administration’s pursue expedited discovery on our radical revisions to the public charge Equal Protection Clause claim that regulation, which would deny the implementation of the rule was admission or change in immigration motivated by racial animus, and our status in order to penalize immigrants Administrative Procedure Act claim that who use—or are judged likely to use— the rule’s alleged nondiscriminatory temporary, vital programs including rationale is a pretext. Legal Council Medicaid, SNAP/food stamps, and vows to protect immigrant families housing assistance. In other words, this as we continue this suit and continue rule is a wealth test forcing immigrant to uncover the administration’s families to prove their financial status discriminatory motivation. and denying family reunification to all This lawsuit was filed with our co- but the wealthy. counsels at the Shriver Center and A month after filing the lawsuit, the district Sidley Austin LLP, along with co-plaintiff court issued a preliminary injunction, Cook County represented by Cook temporarily blocking the rule in Illinois County State’s Attorney’s Office Civil while litigation continues. However, the Actions Bureau and Goldberg Kohn. U.S. Supreme Court allowed the rule to

DATA HIGHLIGHT Legal Council represented 102,500 people in 4 class-action lawsuits this year. TRANSPORTATION FOR SPECIAL ED STUDENTS POLICY UPDATE: O.B. V. EAGLESON

Chicago children who are enrolled in Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) In December 2019, Legal Council, Farley Law, and the National Health Law are finally entitled to receive comprehensive transportation service, thanks to the Program settled a class action suit addressing access to in-home nursing for advocacy of Legal Council and our partners Ounce of Prevention Fund and Legal children. Aid Chicago. As a result of a consent decree approved in O.B. v. Eagleson, almost 1,200 Reliable transportation is immeasurably important for children and their parents. It medically fragile and technology dependent children will have better access to not only ensures that students won’t have attendance issues related to transportation, in-home nursing services necessary to prevent institutionalization. The consent but also frees up parents and caregivers for employment opportunities they might decree provides for an across-the-board $10 an hour nursing rate increase and otherwise be unable to pursue. standardizes the rate increase for all regions of Illinois. The increased rates will alleviate nursing shortages for these children, and ensure that they avoid needless Chicago Public Schools reinstated its former policy of providing transportation and costly hospital and intermediate care stays due to lack of nursing. to and from Pre-K students’ homes, their assigned schools, and their Head Start programs. But this victory expands access to transportation beyond Head Start The consent decree led to the first increase in Medicaid in-home nursing rates in programs to all Chicago community-based childcare. All children placed in Early over 15 years. The consent decree also requires the State to create a process for Childhood Special Education classrooms can now access these services. assisting families in-need of nursing services. Legal Council has seen firsthand the positive impact this change has had on the lives of Illinois parents like our client Kevin, who no longer has to choose between community childcare that is essential to his ability to hold down a job, and the specialized services that are essential to his child’s education.

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611 legal cases COMBATING HIV STIGMA DATA HIGHLIGHT Much has changed for people living and the doctor issued a written This fiscal year, our with HIV since the beginning of the apology. HIV advocates helped epidemic, but much also remains the Even though discrimination on the 977 clients in 1,560 same. While we know more about basis of HIV status is illegal, such legal cases. transmission and medical treatment, discrimination continues throughout ignorance and miseducation around our communities. A survey by Lambda HIV continue to fuel stigma against Legal found that 63 percent of the virus and those who live with respondents who had HIV reported it. And as stigma persists, so does experiencing discrimination in discrimination against people living health care—including: with HIV. •Being refused needed care Cynthia, a Legal Council client •Being blamed for their health status living with HIV, needed a medical •A health care professional refusing procedure done. After much research to touch them, and/or using harsh or in an effort to find the best provider to abusive language do her surgery at an affordable cost, she thought she found the perfect As we enter the fifth decade of the HIV doctor for her. But upon disclosing her epidemic, stigma and discrimination HIV status at her initial appointment, remain prevalent. But we do know the doctor informed Cynthia that he two ways to end this stigma and couldn’t do the surgery—claiming discrimination: that the procedure involved a lot of 1) By educating everyone in our blood, and that her HIV status would communities about HIV transmission put him and his staff “at-risk.” and treatment. After reaching out to Legal 2) By enforcing anti-discrimination Council about this blatant medical laws while holding people discrimination based on HIV status, accountable for discriminatory our advocates took on Cynthia’s actions. case, while the U.S. Department of Legal Council vows to continue Justice investigated the doctor’s clinic to fight stigma and discrimination in partnership with our attorneys. against people like Cynthia, just as End stigma, end discrimination. Cynthia went on to receive a we have for the last 32 years. HIV stigma is fueled by misinformation and ignorance settlement of $25,000 in damages, about HIV transmission. This stigma perpetuates discrimination against people living with HIV. HOMELESS ADVOCACY DURING COVID-19 STRENGTHENING EDUCATION RIGHTS

Before COVID-19, Legal Council’s distributing masks, sanitizer, and crucial In a significant win for students, •The Local Educational Agency clients who are homeless faced constant safety information. Governor Pritzker signed into law (LEA) must make available records challenges to managing their health an amendment to the School Code of the delivery of related services Our advocates also kept close watch and reaching their full potential. But the that would enhance the rights and and minutes of each type of related of the numerous changes made to pandemic has since multiplied these involvement of parents in special service that was administered. Related public benefits systems in response challenges. education decisions for their children. services include occupational and to COVID-19 and distributed that This bill was crafted by Legal Council physical therapy (OT/PT), nursing, When it became clear that COVID-19 information to homeless service advocates in coordination with counseling, and social work. was going to become a devastating providers and city outreach teams. our colleagues in other advocacy public health threat, Legal Council’s This work ensured that every provider •For services not implemented within organizations. homeless advocates participated in and advocate was operating with the ten days after the service was supposed meetings with Chicago’s Department of most up-to-date information possible. The changes passed in an education to be initiated per the IEP, the parent Family and Support Services to develop Additionally, when the government omnibus bill (SB 1569) include: is notified of non-implementation an immediate plan to protect the safety stimulus package became law, our within three school days and must be •Beginning July 1, 2020, copies of Chicago’s unsheltered residents. Homeless advocates helped clients told the procedures for requesting of all written materials that will be This plan included measures such as secure their stimulus checks, and compensatory education services. considered by the Individualized decompressing crowded shelters to advised other organizations on how to Education Program (IEP) team will be • reduce the risk of outbreaks, as well as help individuals receive their payments. Multi-tiered system of supports made available to parents. (MTSS) components are delineated, •For an eligibility meeting, and parents must be notified that the written materials include “all school is providing additional support evaluations and collected data through MTSS. that will be considered at the meeting.” •For an IEP meeting, written materials include “all IEP components that will be discussed other than the components related to educational and related service minutes.”

•Parents must be notified of their right to review and create copies of their child’s school student records. ADVOCATING FOR POLICE-FREE SCHOOLS

Students cannot learn while they feel unsafe. Decades of research and data prove police in schools do more harm than good. From our work with our student clients, Legal Council knows first-hand the damage that school policing can cause on student mental, emotional, and physical health. This past June, Legal Council advocates called on Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Janice Jackson to remove police officers from schools, joining the voices of students, teachers, and parents across the city. Over the years, data from the Department of Education has The Cops Out CPS campaign consistently shown students of color calculates that with the $33 million and students with disabilities are CPS spends on its contract with disproportionately targeted by the Chicago Police Department, school police through referrals and the school district could invest in: arrests. Chicago is no exception. While Black students make up only 42% of the CPS student body, they 322nurses account for up to 77% of student arrests in a given year. A report from the Cops Out CPS coalition found that police in schools disproportionately 317social workers target students with diverse learning needs. In the 2017-2018 academic year, students with individualized education plans made up only 15% 314 of the CPS population, yet made up school psychologists 30% of police-student engagement. CPS students and their families have been educating the public about these issues and leading the push for police-free schools for years, and Legal Council is listening. We are proud to stand with all those calling for police- free schools. MENTAL HEALTH & CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM KIRKLAND & ELLIS LEGAL CLINIC PARTNERSHIP

People with mental illness are disproportionately overrepresented in American This fiscal year, Legal Council received originally planned to begin providing jails and prisons. In Legal Council’s Homeless Program, most clients have some a call that most legal aid organizations legal services through this new degree of involvement in the justice system. At the onset of COVID-19, Legal love to receive. The pro bono manager partnership in March 2020, although Council advocates recognized the serious risk for outbreaks in crowded prisons, at Kirkland & Ellis LLP called to say they the plans have been delayed because and joined advocates across the city and state to advocate for measures to heard about one of our projects and of COVID. Despite this set back, reduce prison populations. wanted to help. The project she referred Kirkland remained a dedicated partner to is our medical-legal partnership and we look forward to the day we are Beginning in mid-March, Legal Council became active partners with the Prison with Howard Brown Health Center, able to resume in-person legal services Emergency Early Release Response Program to provide benefits advocacy to where we embed a team of attorneys at Howard Brown. people discharged from state prisons, empowering them to re-enter society and legal advocates in the health with their needs met. This work highlights the inadequate systems in place for center and work with the medical and humanely and effectively meeting the needs of people living with complex social service staff to address barriers “At a time when so many in our behavioral health needs. No person should be incarcerated in correctional to health care using legal solutions. community are facing unprecedented facilities for behavior related to serious mental illness, addiction, seeking safe Howard Brown Health is a federally challenges, the support offered by shelter, or sustenance. qualified health center that is well Legal Council’s Howard Brown known through the Midwest for their clinic is more critical than ever,” said Continuing on this line of work, Legal Council joined early efforts to organize the expertise for providing excellent care Russell Hoffman. “I am extremely Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice in April to support people exiting jails and and support to the LGBTQ community. excited to work together with Legal prisons and collectively work to radically reimagine more just correctional and Council to create an opportunity for criminal justice systems. The nation’s criminal justice system overwhelmingly In the fall of 2019, Russell Hoffman, Kirkland attorneys to give back to a targets people of color, low-income people, and people with serious mental a Kirkland attorney, found an community that I am proud to be a illness. In fact, Chicago’s Cook County Jail is the largest mental health provider advertisement for Legal Council’s part of.” in the state of Illinois. This indicates an unacceptable lack of mental health care Howard Brown legal clinic. Interested available for people before they reach crisis. by this partnership, Russell shared information about the clinic with his Through our work with behavioral and colleagues and gathered a group of mental health conditions, and through attorneys who were eager to support our trauma-informed advocacy, Legal the partnership. Council has seen first-hand both the indifference of our criminal justice Since that day, we have worked hand system to the well-being of the people in hand with Kirkland & Ellis to provide interacting with it, and the healing that is training to their attorneys about the possible when people get the care that workings of the legal clinic and legal they need. It is time to drastically rethink issues specific to Howard Brown these systems, and Legal Council is proud patients and people living in poverty. to lead this change. Kirkland & Ellis and Legal Council PARTNERING FOR HEALTH JUSTICE TACKLING INEQUITIES ON THE SOUTH SIDE

Legal Council’s medical-legal Director of HIV Legal Services, worked This year, Legal Council announced that experiences and needs. We share this partnerships provide unique and with Will to complete a reconsideration we are expanding our services to reach vision with our partner in this effort, innovative pathways for people living request for SSI benefits. After months of more residents of Chicago’s far South Christian Community Health Center with chronic illnesses and disabilities gathering medical records, connecting Side impacted by HIV. (CCHC), which provides comprehensive to get the care they need to reach with Will’s medical providers, and services to residents on the far South Underserved Black and brown their full potential. Take the story of our waiting for a hearing, Will finally was Side and South Suburbs. communities face fundamental systemic client, Will, who was first introduced awarded SSI benefits plus a backpay and economic inequities that result in We are also increasing services to to Legal Council through our partner that will help him stay healthy and thrive. devastating health disparities, which the South Side by making additional organization, Howard Brown Health. Our medical-legal partnerships make have been made even more stark by investment in existing projects. This fiscal Early in his life, Will experienced an these stories possible. Will’s psychiatrist the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this year we expanded our partnership with unimaginable tragedy. After witnessing at Howard Brown was there every step well-known fact, there is a relative lack Howard Brown Health by adding a new his mother’s suicide, he was diagnosed of the way: She provided all of the of accessible legal support available HIV legal services clinic at their Hyde with debilitating PTSD in the form of appropriate documentation for Will’s in most South Side neighborhoods, Park location. We also are restarting our clinical depression and hallucinations. case, and she served as a witness meaning that many of the people facing medical-legal partnership with Friend Since his mother’s passing, Will has lived at Will’s hearing. Comprehensive excessive barriers are less able to Health, a federally qualified health through even more traumatic events, partnerships like ours with Howard access the assistance they need. center serving several predominantly including incarceration at a young age Brown allow us to combine resources Black communities. Legal Council is designing a unique and and a gunshot injury in his hand that and strengths with organizations that innovative medical-legal partnership Legal Council is eager to make this required reconstructive surgery. Today, share our goal of helping Illinoisans which will be operated out of an meaningful stride forward in securing his PTSD has affected his behavioral reach their full potential. understanding that the communities we a life of dignity and opportunity for all, and emotional health severely, to the work in are the experts on their own regardless of zip code. point that he rarely leaves home and doesn’t generally like to be around other DATA HIGHLIGHT people. And on top of his mental health challenges, Will lives with chronic pain Clients receive legal assistance with a that makes working a steady job difficult. wide variety of legal issues. Here’s a When Will connected with Legal Council list of problems our advocates helped through our medical-legal partnership clients with this year: with Howard Brown Health, he had been wrongfully denied Supplemental Public Benefits:38% Family: 4% Security Income (SSI). Unable to work, Health: 23% Employment: 3% Will was stuck without a source of Housing: 7% Individual Rights: 3% income to help him manage his health. Education: 7% Immigration: 1% Kenya Garrett-Burnett, Legal Council’s Consumer/Utility: 4% Other: 10% Throughout the crisis, Legal Council’s Homeless Program continued to engage HEALTH JUSTICE IN A CRISIS and assist persons with serious mental illness and addiction to secure federal disability income, access to medical and behavioral health care, transportation assistance, and housing. Through research around the social determinants of health, we know securing a stable income and resources such as housing are an essential component of health wellness. And consistent with Chicago’s long history of highly-segregated and poorly-resourced neighborhood areas resulting in profound health inequities, the Homeless Program’s outreach targets the city’s south and west sides, partnering with a range of health and homeless service providers. With new COVID-19 restrictions, accessing life-saving resources was made even more difficult in 2020 for clients who are homeless. For example, the Social Security Administration (SSA) temporarily ceased all in-person meetings in March 2020 in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. While this change was an important step in ensuring the safety of visitors and employees, the in- office closures presented new difficulties for our clients to meet the requirements necessary to receive payments. One of our clients, Ted, was able to navigate such obstacles with the help of Legal Council. He is a 45-year-old man with severe mental health issues and a shoulder injury that makes keeping a steady job difficult. Ted worked with Senior Legal Advocate Kate Miller for months to get approved for Social Security Disability benefits. Unfortunately, Ted was approved for his benefits at the same time that SSA closed their offices in response to the pandemic. He still needed to set up accounts to receive payments and complete the last required documents, but he could no longer go into the SSA office and he didn’t have the minutes in his phone plan to call instead. Still working with Ted, Kate got creative. She texted him while on the phone with an SSA representative to confirm his information and answer questions about next steps, ultimately securing his Social Security DATA HIGHLIGHT Income so he would have some stability during such uncertain times. Our Homeless Program specializes in representing persons with serious mental This fiscal year, Legal Council illness and co-occurring substance use disorders, often resulting in some of the helped 292 people who most complex and difficult disability claims to win. While we aim to secure are homeless with complex benefits for clients as early in the process as possible, many cases do not resolve issues including social security until an administrative law judge hearing—or beyond. Over the last year, benefits, access to medical Homeless advocates filed two Social Security appeals in federal district court; and behavioral health care, one case resolved with an agreed remand, one is fully briefed and pending a housing, and more. decision. FUNDING & ADMINISTRATION COMMUNITY SUPPORT

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT $10,000 - $19,999 Winston & Strawn LLP Access to Justice Design Industries Foundation Silver Chicago Department of Family Fighting AIDS (DIFFA/ Actuate Law and Support Services Chicago) Total Illinois Health and Hospital Revenues and other support Unrestricted Restricted Illinois Department of Human Medical Home Network Association Services Shriver Center - National Non-government grants and Sidetrack $239,801 $1,322,162 $1,561,963 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Immigrant Law Center contributions (including individuals) Stradley Ronon Stevens & Program, Parts A & B $5,000 - $9,999 Young LLP Government grants $624,661 - $624,661 Anonymous $100,000+ Bronze Illinois Bar Foundation Program service fees $624,196 $80,000 $704,196 Illinois Children’s Healthcare AbbVie Louis & Nellie Sieg Foundation Foundation Legility Special events $22,486 - $22,486 Season of Concern Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois Marc Realty United Way of Metropolitan Donated legal services $86,281 - $86,281 Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP $50,000 - $99,999 Chicago McDermott Will & Emery LLP Earned interest $6,485 - $6,485 Chicago Bar Foundation Less than $5,000 Molson Coors (formerly Healthy Community Frank & Gertrude Dunlap MillerCoors LLC) Net assets released from restrictions Foundations Foundation Sinai Health System due to satisfaction of program $1,309,933 ($1,309,933) - The McCormick Foundation Glick Family Foundation restrictions Michael Reese Health Trust MEDIA SUPPORT Polk Bros. Foundation PRO BONO ChicagoPride.com Total Revenue $2,913,843 $92,229 $3,006,072 Retirement Research Doug Albritton C. Grost Photography Foundation Eric White DJ Nevin The Reva and David Logan Geoffrey Davis GRAB Magazine Foundation Linda Maiman Feinstein Expenses Precision Color Graphics Matt Cohen & Associates $30,000 - $49,999 Scorpio Art Program services $2,578,623 - $2,578,623 Nicholas Carson Anonymous Windy City Media Group Roni J. Cohen Administrative $339,254 - $339,254 The Chicago Community Trust Sam Harmelech Chicago Community Trust - Fundraising $406,150 - $406,150 Sara Ravich LGBT Fund Suzanne Othman Total Expenses $3,324,027 - $3,324,027 Irving Harris Foundation Shriver Center on Poverty Law CORPORATE SUPPORT $20,000 - $29,999 Platinum Anonymous ACCESS Community Health Change in net assets ($410,184) $92,229 ($317,955) Gilead Sciences Inc. Comer Children’s Hospital Net assets, beginning of year $1,397,167 $583,682 $1,980,849 Howard Brown Health Howard Brown Health Illinois Equal Justice Kirkland & Ellis LLP Net assets, end of year $986,983 $ 6 7 5 , 911 $1,662,894 Foundation Lurie Children’s Hospital Immigrant Funders Gold Collaborative Sidley Austin LLP Public Interest Law Initiative Sinai Health System INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT SILENT AUCTION DONORS

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