Full Text of HR1341 94th General Assembly
HR1341 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois are pleased to congratulate Joel M. Carp of | 4 |
| Highland Park, Senior Vice President for Community Services and | 5 |
| Government Relations of the Jewish Federation/Jewish United | 6 |
| Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, on the occasion of his retirement | 7 |
| after almost 30 years in the social services field; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Carp has spent his professional career in | 9 |
| social work, social planning, and advocacy in the Jewish | 10 |
| community; his responsibilities at the Federation included | 11 |
| management of its Government Affairs Program with Offices in | 12 |
| Chicago, Springfield, and Washington, D.C., planning and | 13 |
| budgeting for the Federation's social welfare agencies, grant | 14 |
| program development, and foundation relationships, Project | 15 |
| EZRA (Services for the Homeless, Chronically Mentally Ill and | 16 |
| Economically Disadvantaged), planning for services for people | 17 |
| with disabilities, and Chicago's Jewish Refugee Resettlement | 18 |
| Program; and
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| WHEREAS, Prior to working for the Jewish Federation, he | 20 |
| spent 20 years as a professional in the Jewish Community Center | 21 |
| field; and
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| WHEREAS, His many awards include the Melvin A. Block Award | 23 |
| for Professional Distinction from the Associated YM-YWHAs of | 24 |
| Greater New York, the City of Chicago's Commission on Human | 25 |
| Relations Award, and a special award from the YMCA of the USA | 26 |
| for helping to restore Agency for International Development | 27 |
| funding for human services in Lebanon; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Carp is a member of numerous local, State, and | 29 |
| national professional and community service organizations; he | 30 |
| was awarded a full scholarship for graduate study in social | 31 |
| work by the UJA-Federation of New York, the 92nd Street |
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| YM-YWHA, and the Metropolitan New York Region of the Jewish | 2 |
| Community Centers Association; and
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| WHEREAS, He has published over 30 articles on various | 4 |
| subjects in the field of social work, social planning, and | 5 |
| refugee resettlement; he has served a number of universities as | 6 |
| a field faculty member in their graduate social work education | 7 |
| programs; and
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| WHEREAS, An aggressive advocate for sound public social | 9 |
| policy, he has served as chairman of or represented the Chicago | 10 |
| Jewish community on a number of governmental task forces | 11 |
| charged with determining public policy; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Carp is married to Leasha; he is the father of | 13 |
| Ilana, Rachel, and William and the proud grandfather of Charlie | 14 |
| and Samantha; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 17 |
| we congratulate Joel M. Carp on the occasion of his retirement, | 18 |
| and we wish him well in his future endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 |
| presented to him as an expression of our esteem.
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