Agape Missions

Founded in 1967, the Spanish Center is a bilingual community center that provides education and social services to the city's Hispanic population. The center offers the English as a Second Language program. It conducts preschool classes and operates a day care center. The Spanish Center s citizenship services assist legal permanent residents to gain citizenship status with the U.S. immigration and naturalization services, including petitions, adjustments and visas. Its employment services include assistance with applications and resumes. The organization s immigration services include assistance with adjustments of status, affidavits of support, extensions of visa, citizenship applications, replacement of alien cards and translation of certificates. In addition, the Spanish Center provides assistance in translating marriage licenses and birth and death certificates from Spanish to English and English to Spanish. It is located in Joliet, Ill.

The Girl Scouts of Trailways Council is a nonprofit organization that serves girls between the ages of 5 and 17. It offers various programs that promote girls personal growth and leadership skills development. The organization also operates shops that provide uniforms, handbooks, songbooks, gifts, recognition items and accessories. It also conducts training sessions on self-evaluation and the development and practice of teaching skills. The Girl Scouts of Trailways Council organizes workshops on a variety of topics, such as science, environmental education, and health and fitness. Its resource center provides books, videos and cassettes tapes that contain materials on science, leadership development, international understanding, outdoor survival and cooking topics. The organization also conducts group events that provide information on diverse cultures, sports, careers and outdoors education. It maintains a presence in Joliet, Ill.