WINGS Program, Inc.

WINGS helps homeless and abused women and children by offering integrated services that meet their needs for shelter, education, guidance and support. The organization provides safe, secure living environments -- through transitional housing and emergency shelter -- in residential neighborhoods that allow women to go to school, work, and care for themselves and their children. Residents are women and children who are victims of domestic violence and need temporary safe shelter or who become homeless due to other extreme hardships and circumstances. Most of them come from the north and northwest suburbs of Chicago's Cook and Lake counties, the city of Chicago and surrounding areas. WINGS receives an average of 200 calls per month from women of all ethnic backgrounds and ages and touches the lives of hundreds of families with direct services, information and referrals. WINGS is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.