Free Educational Topics in Chicago

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  Understanding Project 2025

  Ed Spire, Co-lead, Restore our Democracy Project, NWSOFA-Indivisible

  Project 2025 is a huge document. It's very difficult to consume and understand. This presentation makes details available, but focuses more on HOW they intend to implement these unpopular policies, showing that their methods themselves are a direct attack on our Democracy.

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  The Medicare Puzzle: Do You Know Your A, B, C, & D’s ?

  Tom Kedzie CFP®, MBA, Financial Planner, RetireWell

  In this presentation you will learn:

  * How Medicare enrollment periods work and how to avoid late penalties.
  * What you can expect to pay after going on Medicare.
  * What Medicare covers and doesn't cover.
  * Why you must plan for higher health care costs in retirement.
  * What about Long Term Care?

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  Making Cents of College Costs

  Joseph Orsolini, President, College Aid Planners, Inc.

  For most families college tuition is the largest expense they will face. Unfortunately, many families go into this stage in life uninformed and unprepared. Learn strategies that enable families of all income levels (not just low or moderate‐income) to make a college education more affordable and less of a financial burden.

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  Get It, Check It, Know Who Has Seen It

  Chris Heuman, Practice Leader, RISC Management and Consulting, LLC

  The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 or HIPAA is a federal law that sets rules about who can view and receive your Protected Health Information or PHI. This law gives you rights over your health information and when it can be shared. MORE >

  In addition, HIPAA requires your physicians, pharmacists and other health care providers, and your health plan to explain your rights and how your health information can be used or shared. Most of us believe that our medical and other health information is private and should be protected, and we want to know who has this information.

  You will learn about historical information, important terminology, sharing health information with family members and friends, and understand your health information privacy as a consumer.

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  Long Term Care: Don’t Go Broke!

  Tom Kedzie CFP®, MBA, Financial Planner, RetireWell

  In this presentation you will learn:

  * How to protect your house and income.
  * What Medicare and Medicaid cover.
  * Types of care: home, assisted living, and nursing home.
  * How to pay for long term care without paying annual premiums.

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  How to Create Resilient Equitable Communities in a COVID-19 World

  Kelwin Harris, Urban Planning, Race, Civic Engagement Speaker

  Our cities face serious threats; growth is uneven; neighborhoods are struggling; and streets are erupting in protest as COVID-19 has made existing inequalities worse. Now more than ever, we must address racial equity and provide strategies for prosperity for the good of everyone. Drawing from his experience as a community leader on the South Side of Chicago and as an urban planner, Kelwin Harris uses an equity lens to discuss multiple facets of systemic racism that persist and offers strategies and interventions for the road ahead. MORE >

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  Targeting Colleges for Affordability

  Joseph Orsolini, President, College Aid Planners, Inc.

  The presentation will focus on strategies to target colleges for merit-based financial aid. Armed with this understanding and knowledge of the college aid process, a college education may become more affordable.

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  Get it SOLD with Home Staging

  GraceAnn Simoni, President & Premier Home Stager, Staging Redesign Group Inc.

  Selling your home now or in the future. When you’re ready to put you house on the market will you know where to start? Do you think the Realtor will do everything for you? Does the thought of getting your home ready for the buyer’s critical eye scare you? Are you willing to take a price reduction rather than investing a little into the house? MORE >

  Staging a home results in fewer days on the market and a higher selling price. Be one step ahead of the competition. Learn how to stage your home today! Get it ready now before even calling the Realtor!

  What can be done to get your house ready for little or no money?
  From the curb to the back door!
  What home Staging is and what it is not.
  What are buyers in this market looking for in their new home?
  How to shorten the time on the market and get the best offers.

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  Understanding Pain Color and Light

  GraceAnn Simoni, President & Premier Home Stager, Staging Redesign Group Inc.

  Ever choose the perfect paint color only to realize it does not look the same on your walls? Why? Understand more about color, the new light bulbs and how they effect color. Discover how light outside and inside you home effects paint color.

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  Raising Innovative Children

  Stephen A. Di Biase, Ph.D., President, Premier Insights, LLC.

  "10 Secrets for Raising Innovative Children" describes what parents can do to help their children build upon their natural tendencies to be innovative while offering a buffer to the potential damage they'll experience when they begin their formal education at age 5. There is significant evidence that from age 5 to age 20 the typical person experiencing the traditional US educational system will lose almost all of their capabilities for being innovative. MORE >

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