Below are reports/presentations from 2026, 2025, 2024, and earlier.
To access the materials and/or presentation, please press the name of the report. This contains a hyperlink which will allow you to access the materials.
2026 Reports
- Homeless Initiatives Champaign Conference 2026 Presentation
- This presentation was given at the Champaign Neighborhood Network Conference.
- Cunningham Township Supervisors Office Annual Town Board Meeting 2026 Presentation
- This presentation covers Cunningham Townships Impact & Reports for the 2025 calendar year.
- Caregiving: How to obtain a caregiver and how to become one, April 2026
- This presentation covers the effects of a lack of access to a caregiver, how to become a caregiver through Care Horizon agencies and PACE, and how to access a caregiver (Produced by Rebecca Schleuning in fulfillment of BSW Field Internship)
2025 Reports
- Alternative Crisis Response Models, May 2025
This presentation covers: What is Alternative Crisis response? When could Alternative Crisis Response help? What are some examples? (Produced by Victoria Benavides in fulfillment of MSW Field Internship)
2024 Reports
- Alternative, Community and Crisis Response – Lists of Models and Resources
Compiled by Ethan Garcia, Masters in Urban Planning 2024 - Champaign County Townships Comprehensive Report for the Decennial Committee June 5, 2024
This project surveyed all Champaign County Townships, comparing data and identify trends, and makes recommendations for efficiency and collaboration. (Produced by Ethan Garcia: Cunningham Township Intern, Graduate Student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning ’24 and Danielle Chynoweth Decennial Committee Chair) - Campaign For Fair Housing: Source of Income Protections in Urbana – 2024
As of 2023, Source of income discrimination is protected class to the Illinois Human Rights Act to decrease housing discrimination which often targets low-income minority groups who use legal forms of alternative income such as housing vouchers (Section 8), rental assistance, and other forms of income. The purpose of this report is to examine what groups are facing this discrimination and what local community organizations do to support and combat housing discrimination and enforce the law.
(Trinity Lewis, Urban and Regional Planning Capstone, University of Illinois)
2023 Reports
- Homelessness and Housing in Champaign Urbana – Presentation for Housing Urban Policy Class, University of Illinois – 2023
This is a presentation by Supervisor Danielle Chynoweth to Dr. Greenlee’s Housing and Urban Policy Class that provides a review of poverty and assistance statistics. - Housing Insecurity & Homelessness in Champaign County: Local Problems and Local Solutions September, 2023
This overview combines any data points collected by CTSO over the past two years to articulate to local policymakers the housing precarity local residents face.
Reports from 2020 or earlier
- Housing Discrimination Report – 2018
Presented to the Urbana Human Relations Commission in February of 2020, this report details local landlord violations of the Urbana Human Rights Ordinance and makes recommendations for how to address this issue. (Report authored by Emmett Sanders) - Poverty Workshop Slideshow – 2019
This Poverty Workshop was developed by Supervisor Danielle Chynoweth for the Champaign County Mental Health Board, presented on September, 2019. Note: data is current as of that date
Other Reports:
- What is Township and How Can it Work for Me?
Learn the history of townships, their legally mandated role to support very low-income households, and how you can find out more information. (Created by Darcy Sandefur) - Anti-Poverty Referendum
In Fall 2020, over 63% of Urbana voters said “yes” to support a tax levy increase for the poor. The increase represents about $3 more per month per household and will sustain Township’s core programs such as General Assistance, Rental Assistance, and services for homeless families in Urbana, while leveraging local funds with state and federal funds to continue to work towards our goal of ending homelessness in Urbana.
Employer Cost and Participation Reports in compliance with the The Illinois Pension Code.