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2025 UVC Raising Our Voices

Location: Naperville: Community United Methodist Church, 20 Center Street, Naperville

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2025 United Voices for Children  Raising Our Voices Event

Thur., Sept. 18,
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Naperville: Community UMC, 20 Center Street, Naperville

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The 2025 Raising Our Voices event will focus on Youth Mental Health.
Highlights
  • Special performance of Life Out Loud from Chicago’s award-winning About Face Theatre.
  • Annual Child Advocate Awards, presented by Rev. Wendy Hardin Hermann
  • Federal and State Legislation Updates from Children’s Advocate for Change.

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Annual Child Advocate Awards

Each year the United Voices for Children Board of Directors selects individuals or groups to receive the Bishop Jesse R. DeWitt Child Advocacy Award, the Katherine B. Greene Child Worker Award and the Rev. Margaret Ann Williams Service Award. These awards honor extraordinary service or advocacy efforts on behalf of children, youth and/or families throughout the Northern Illinois Conference.

We invite you to nominate an individual or a group who deserves this recognition.

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