<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Press Release </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><i>For Immediate Release</i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">November 2, 2015</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">For media inquiries, contact: </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">CU Immigration Forum</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[</span><a href="mailto:info@cuimmigrationforum.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">info@cuimmigrationforum.org</span></a><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">; <a href="tel:217-337-1500" target="_blank" value="+12173371500" style="text-decoration:none">217-337-1500</a>]</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">
</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:x-large"><span style="line-height:16.7272px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>ENSURING HEALTHCARE
</b></span></span><b style="font-family:Arial;font-size:xx-large;line-height:16.7272px;white-space:pre-wrap">FOR ALL ILLINOISANS</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial"><span style="line-height:16.7272px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>CU Immigration Forum <span class="">Celebrates</span> Immigrant-Friendly </b></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial"><span style="line-height:16.7272px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Healthcare Providers, Continues the Conversation </b></span></span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[November 10, 2015; Champaign County, IL] </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The CU Immigration Forum announces that ensuring access to quality healthcare for all Illinoisans has officially become another key component of their Immigrant Friendly Communities Campaign. As of October 14, the CU Immigration Forum Steering Committee has officially endorsed the Healthy Illinois Campaign, which aims to insure all Illinoisans, despite a person’s documentation status.</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:1.38;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> The CU Immigration Forum has endorsed the Healthy Illinois Campaign with the understanding that expanding health insurance coverage to all Illinoisans will benefit the entire state by </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:1.38;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">promoting positive health outcomes, family financial stability, and a more secure Illinois economy. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">To <span class="">celebrate</span> the</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> immigrant-friendly work of our local healthcare providers and agencies and to kick off the Healthy Illinois Campaign locally, t</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">he CU Immigration Forum will host the Immigrant Friendly Health Fair & Forum on Tuesday, November 10, 2015. </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:16.7272px;white-space:pre-wrap">The event will take place from 5pm to 8pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Champaign-Urbana, 309 W. Green Street, Urbana, Illinois. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:16.7272px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.85px;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We <span class="">Celebrate</span> & Recognize We Can Do More: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Local governments, institutions and agencies work hard to provide and ensure quality primary and preventative healthcare to residents of Champaign County, despite a person’s income level, documentation status or English language proficiency. In <span class="">celebration</span>, the CU Immigration Forum would like to lift up the immigrant-friendly work that takes place in our local, healthcare service and advocacy settings; such as the tireless commitment of agencies like Avicenna, Promise Healthcare and the Champaign County Healthcare Consumers. However, it is our local non-profit agencies who are the most burdened with providing healthcare to their remaining uninsured residents, of whom are largely undocumented immigrants. Uninsured residents will eventually, by age or accident, find themselves in emergency rooms and the uncompensated care health system. The State of Illinois has an interest in providing primary and preventative care early, rather than more expensive and intrusive care when it is too late. </span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.85px;line-height:20.79px"><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.85px;line-height:20.79px"></span><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.85px;line-height:20.79px"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Fair & Forum:</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> At the event, all residents of Champaign County are welcome to receive free medical screenings, information about healthcare resources such as free medical clinics and attend presentations on navigating the healthcare marketplace, dealing with culture shock and transitioning as a newcomer, and getting connected with low-cost immigration legal assistance. Childcare will be provided at the event. Assistance in Spanish, French and English will be provided. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">During the Fair,</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Healthy Illinois will host a community forum on ensuring Illinois’s future by insuring all Illinoisans from 7pm to 8pm, which will take place in the Children’s Fellowship Hall of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Champaign-Urbana. The mission of the Healthy Illinois Campaign is to make quality, affordable health care coverage accessible to all people in Illinois. For more information about Healthy Illinois, please click </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzNZGcWYUaaCRDVzNHlGa08xUWtyLVFMQkk2YWk1Zk9PMTdF/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">here </span></a><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">for a one page overview. For further questions, please contact Campaign Director Jesse Hoyt of the Healthy Illinois Campaign [<a href="tel:%28773%29507-4809" target="_blank" value="+17735074809" style="text-decoration:none">(773)507-4809</a>; </span><a href="mailto:jessehoyt@healthyillinoiscampaign.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">jessehoyt@healthyillinoiscampaign.org</span></a><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">].</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.85px;line-height:20.79px"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Immigrant-Friendly Fair & Forum events:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Fellowship Hall: 5pm to 8pm</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">-Free Healthcare Screenings</span></div><div dir="ltr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