The first step to engaging in CCL Financial Coaching & HUD-approved housing counseling is to sign up for a New Member Orientation (offered weekly!)

To attend a New Member Orientation, please email frontdesk@cclconnect.org or call 773-342-6210.

Financial and Housing coaching for you!

Financial and housing coaches partner with members to uncover possibilities, overcome barriers, and achieve their financial goals. With a coach, members are able to:

  • Save for emergencies, bills, and goals

  • Build, grow, and protect assets

  • Increase income

  • And many more!

To engage in CCL’s Financial and Housing Coaching services please reach out to us via email at frontdesk@cclconnect.org or call us at 773-342-6210.

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Workshops and supports

Uncover your unique poder and start your journey towards being part of a community where everyone thrives!

Build up your credit, create a budget, apply for mortgage financing, or start your journey toward homeownership. Our CCL coaches are here to support you!

 

Lending Basics

Workshops for first-time Homebuyers

  • One 2-hour workshop

  • Learn about lending basics to determine homebuyer readiness

  • Understand general requirements to secure mortgage financing

  • Pre & post 1-on-1 housing counseling

 

Mi Casa Su casa

Workshops for first-time Homebuyers

  • One 6-hour workshop

  • Receive a Homebuyer Education Certificate

  • Valid for down payment assistance programs

  • Pre & post 1-on-1 housing counseling

  • Meet Industry Experts

Café y Poder

A monthly gathering to uncover your own poder (power) around all things finance & housing. We offer financial education on topics such as credit scores, tax refunds, stimulus checks, tenant rights, budgeting, seasonal home improvement, and foreclosure prevention. Often, we invite a strategic community partner to present to ensure the most relevant and up-to-date information is shared. You are welcome to join us every month or just come when the topic stands out to you!

Credit Building Tools

Lending Circles

CCL uses unique approaches to support credit building for our members. Lending Circles is a unique and enterprising credit and asset-building tool. Lending Circles are no-interest, small-dollar, credit-building loans offered on a social platform and a way for financial participants to save money and build credit, particularly for those who may not have access to mainstream loans. CCL partners with Mission Asset Fund to offer Lending Circles.

In housing and financial coaching, CCL members access credit-building products and services for free!

3C-Connecting Capital and Community

For Black and Brown Chicagoans, there are a lot of reasons why buying a home is hard, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Collaboration between lenders, developers and community navigators can be game- changing. That’s the idea behind Connecting Capital and Community –3C for short. It’s an all-inclusive housing initiative working to give Chicagoans in two West Side communities a smoother path to home ownership.

To get connected, reach out via email frontdesk@cclconnect.org or call 773-342-6210.

Money & Us

Money and Us is a program developed by Center for Changing Lives to support early childhood development in regard to financial education. It is a bilingual curriculum created from multi-generation lens, to explore, create, and share to increase financial opportunity and confidence.

Money & Us has five areas to explore: Money Identification, Earning, Saving, Spending, and Borrowing. This curriculum is offered in cohorts by CCL Financial Coaches.

Bilingual interactive booklets are provided to help guide the experience.