Non-profit organization serving individuals with disabilities.

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El Valor is a non-profit community-based organization founded in 1973 by the late Guadalupe A. Reyes. A visionary leader and mother, Mrs. Reyes dreamed of a community in which all members, including her son with special needs, could live, learn and work. She and several others took out a small bank loan and borrowed a church basement in Pilsen where they started the first bilingual, bicultural rehabilitation center in Illinois, and named it El Valor, meaning "courage. From it's roots in the Latino community, El Valor has grown into a multicultural, multipurpose organization that reaches thousands of families in the Chicagoland area, and millions throughout the nation. El Valor’s strategic goals include:

• To be the best in the nation in early childhood in the Hispanic community;


• To become the premier organization developing leadership for the Hispanic community;


• And to be an international model for inclusion of people with disabilities in the Hispanic community.

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