Asian Human Services (AHS) was founded in 1978 by a group of Asian community leaders. The mission of the agency was to serve the critical health care and social service needs of the Asian immigrant and refugee populations living on the North side of Chicago. Vital to that mission is that the agency offers services that are compassionate and culturally appropriate.

AHS, like the population it serves, has grown dramatically since its inception. AHS is now the Midwest’s largest pan-Asian comprehensive health and human service agency and the only pan-Asian nationally accredited, Medicaid-certified agency in the state of Illinois.

AHS offers community health services, employment programs, ESL classes, computer skills training, as well as pro-bono legal services in family law, immigration law, child support, and other issues of importance to its constituents.

AHS received a charter from the Chicago Public School system in 2001 to operate the first school focusing on the needs of immigrant and refugee children. In spring 2004, the agency opened the AHS Family Health Center in Chicago’s West Ridge neighborhood. The AHS Family Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center that offers primary and preventive healthcare to low-income and uninsured patients on a sliding scale basis.

Additional Resources: http://www.asianhumanservices.org/