Springfield Education News (Illinois, United States)

The Hope Institute for Children and Families today broke ground for a new group home on the organization’s 26-acre Springfield campus. The new home represents the first phase of a multi-year campus re-design program planned by Hope.

CARF International announced that The Hope Institute for Children and Families has been accredited for a period of three years for its Behavioral Consultation, Community Housing and Shelters and Congregate Care programs.

Cheryl J. Savage shattered her bones in her wrist & arm when decided to get rid of a small tree in her yard after she climbed up into the tree, slipped & dived to the ground. She healed her bones with hypnosis and was out of her cast in 12 days.

Blessed Sacrament School is competing for a $25,000 grant through the Pepsi Refresh Project to fund the school's first set of bleachers in 85 years.

LincolnLandJobs.net has announced free job postings for non-profit organizations located and operating within central Illinois.

The Autism Program of Illinois has announced that certain Illinois participants at the Chicago location of the AFAA National Town Hall Meeting will be eligible for continuing education credits.

The Autism Program of Illinois and The Hope Institute for Children and Families are pleased to announce the limited availability of scholarships for the Chicago location of the AFAA National Town Hall Meeting.

Prairie Education and Research Cooperative (PERC) is holding an appreciation tea for all participants of their cardiovascular research trials on September 16, 2008 at 2 p.m.

H.D. Armstrong is back with his 2nd novel. This time, he takes a humorous slant on teenage promiscuity. Who's My Baby Daddy (paperback, 284 pages, 6" x 9", $17.95, LuLu.com/hdarmstrong).

After his debut novel, Alliance & Defiance was published in 2004, H.D. Armstrong returns with a non-fiction piece entitled: Born Black: The Pride and the Pain. (paperback, 67 pp. 6" x 9". $15.00, LULU.com Publishing).