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The Member Guide includes helpful information about your CHPV member benefits, our services and programs, and ways you can be involved in your caring community of neighbors helping neighbors.
To access the Member Guide, visit chpv.org and select Your Member Guide under Member Resources. | Join us for our free monthly Zoom Drop-In! | |
Exploring the Obama Presidential Center with Trish Morse
Wednesday, September 9, 12–1pm Central via Zoom
Join Trish Morse for a virtual walk around the Obama Presidential Center's 20 acre campus and its 28 art installations as well as a glance inside the museum itself.
Patricia (Trish) Morse is a Hyde Park blogger, historian and storyteller who is fascinated by the transformations in her neighborhood—Hyde Park, Chicago. She is known to many as Hyde Park Trish. Trish Morse has a PhD from the University of Chicago. After teaching American Studies and Literature at Union College, St Lawrence University, and Michigan State University, she returned to Hyde Park, where she has served on the executive council of Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference, the Hyde Park Garden Fair, and the Hyde Park Used Book Sale. Trish authors a monthly history column in the Hyde Park Herald.
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| | What to Know about MAID
Wednesday, September 2
3pm via Zoom
Presented by the Chicago Area Village Collaborative | | | On September 12, Deb’s Law, or the medical aid in dying (MAID) bill, will go into effect in Illinois. Join us to learn more about Deb’s Law – what it means, who qualifies, and why it matters. Speakers for this session will include Majority Leader Robyn Gabel, State Representative for the 18th District; and Khadine Bennett, Director of Advocacy and Intergovernmental Affairs or ACLU of Illinois.
Speakers:
Majority Leader Robyn Gabel, State Representative, 18th District
Evanstonian Robyn Gabel has represented the 18th Illinois district of the Illinois House of Representatives since 2010 and, from 2023 to the present, has served as the House Majority Leader. She stands out as an independent legislative leader who gets results, which has earned her numerous awards. Gabel served as chief negotiator for the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), a landmark legislation designed to protect our environment. As the House’s Chief Budget Negotiator, she has focused on developing fiscally and socially responsible budgets, expanding affordability and access to quality healthcare, shaping comprehensive clean-energy policy, and protecting Illinois’s most vulnerable residents. Gabel served as lead negotiator for the medical-aid in-dying bill (Deb’s Law), which will go into effect on September 12, 2026.
Khadine Bennett, Director of Advocacy and Intergovernmental Affairs, ACLU of Illinois
Khadine Bennett is the Director of Advocacy and Intergovernmental Affairs with the ACLU of Illinois. Regularly testifying before the Illinois House and Senate, Bennett seeks support for the ACLU’s initiatives and priorities. She has advanced a wide range of issues, including privacy and technology concerns; policing, criminal; and first-amendment, LGBT, juvenile, and reproductive justice matters. Bennett worked closely with State Representative Robyn Gabel in shaping the medical-aid-in-dying bill (Deb’s law), which Governor JB Pritzker signed in December 2025.
| | Tech Help Pop-Up with UChicago Student Service Day
Friday, September 25
2:00–3:30pm
Augustana Lutheran Church
5500 S Woodlawn Ave
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Experiencing technical difficulties with your devices? Wish to learn new features? Bring your technology devices (and woes) for an in-person technical support session with University of Chicago students!
CHPV is pleased to host UofC students (a.k.a digital natives) for the annual University of Chicago Student Service Day. Learn from them and share your perspectives as a digital adopter.
And who knows ... if they enjoy the experience, some of these students might choose to become CHPV volunteers for their remaining years at UofC! | CHPV invites you to share with us about your advanced preparedness for late in life and end of life.
- Do you have end of life documents including a will, POLST, power of financial attorney, and power of medical attorney?
- Are you interested in more information about preparing those documents?
- Are there other end of life topics you want more information about?
| CHPV MONTH AT A GLANCE
Schedule subject to change. Please visit chpv.org/calendar to confirm prior to attending.
| MONDAYS
- Yoga for Balance with Janèe Powell
- StrongerMemory (through February 2)
- Declutterer's Support (2nd & 4th Monday)
TUESDAYS
- Mindfulness-Awareness Meditation with Alice Dan, PhD
- Memoir Writing Class (scheduled periodically)
- Dinner Salon (1st Tuesday)
- Hearing Loss Support Group (3rd Tuesday)
WEDNESDAYS
- Zoom Drop-In (2nd Wednesday)
- Lunch Gathering (4th Wednesday)
THURSDAYS
- Yoga for Balance with Janèe Powell
- AKARAMA & CHPV Memory Café (3rd Thursday)
- Men's Group (in person 1st & 3rd Thursdays; Zoom 2nd & 4th Thursdays)
FRIDAYS
- Exercise for Strength, Flexibility, & Balance with Wesley Pulphus
- Women's Group
- Movies at Hyde Park Art Center (on summer hiatus; 1st Friday)
- Tech Café with Uof Tech Savvy Friends (on summer hiatus; periodically during the academic year)
|  What the Midterms Mean for Older AdultsTuesday, September 15, 11am Central on Zoom
The Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging hosts nationally recognized aging policy leader Bob Blancato for a nonpartisan conversation about how the 2026 midterm elections may shape policies affecting older adults and caregivers. From healthcare and long-term care to federal funding and aging services, this session will help you understand the issues, opportunities, and challenges ahead. | Destigmatizing Dementia
Wednesday, September 9, 9am–1:15pm
In-person & Online
Fourth Presbyterian Church Center for Life and Learning, 126 E Chestnut St, Chicago
Join us to break down barriers by learning about practical tools and resources for coming together as a community to destigmatize dementia in support of our neighbors. Featuring a keynote address by TimeSlips, an internationally recognized nonprofit using creativity and storytelling tools to open new communication pathways for people with dementia and their families, and a panel conversation with local experts about the Dementia Friends movement and GUIDE program Presented by Skyline Village Chicago and the Center for Life and Learning. Lunch will be provided. | HELP SUPPORT OUR MISSION! |
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