Hispanic American Community Education and Services
About Hispanic American Community Education and Services
It has now been 17 years since the conception of HACES began as an idea in the minds of our two founding community leaders who heeded the overwhelming pleas for help from the hundreds of immigrant families they were serving at the beginning of their mission in the early 1990’s.
With a leap of faith, they created HACES to help address the wide-ranging issues of the community regarding legal status, poverty, healthcare, and education. Consequently, the word “HACES” was adopted as the name for this community organization to imply that everyone “can do it” and “can make it”.
This is the essence of why an organization like HACES is vital to our community. The rapid growth of the immigrant population in Lake County makes it imperative to provide support to families in their transition to becoming documented and fully-participating members of their community.
HACES’ mission is "to provide the expertise and navigational support for immigrants and citizens to become knowledgeable, empowered members of society".
We are consciously committed to meeting the vast needs of our diverse and growing immigrant community in Lake County. Our services focus on securing equal rights and opportunities for these individuals by providing a full spectrum of services which cover the individuals and families throughout their successful lives in the United States. HACES provides immigration, citizenship, DREAMer renewals, health education and community resources.
HACES empowers immigrants to actively participate in making our country a better place!
Locations
Primary Office Location
820 W Greenwood Ave Waukegan IL 60087
(847) 244-0300
