- Home
- About Us
- Housing
- Resources
- Contact Us
-
-
-
Address: 223 S. Winnebago Street Rockford, IL 61102
Phone: 815-489-8500
-
-
- Updates
-
Address: 223 S. Winnebago Street Rockford, IL 61102
Phone: 815-489-8500
Address: 223 S. Winnebago Street Rockford, IL 61102
Phone: 815-489-8500
Angelic Organics Learning Center helps urban and rural people build local food systems. We offer opportunities to learn agricultural and leadership skills, grow healthy food and a better quality of life, and connect with farmers and the land. We reach more than 5,000 people each year through our educational programs and urban growing sites in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
In addition to these great partnerships, RHA offers unique resident engagements to assist in building the job skills necessary to find employment in STEM-related fields.
Blackhawk Courts are home to an Urban Farm located at 338 15th Ave, Rockford, IL 60608. Youth are the leaders of Roots & Wings, with older youth teaching younger kids about farming and food. Youth Leaders market their produce through the summer. They learn job skills, attain public speaking experience, and earn money. Youth also work together on community-wide projects. Experienced youth leaders attend national and regional youth leadership and urban agriculture events, such as the Rooted in Community conference.
The Blackhawk Courts Farm and Garden is a project built from the dreams, ideas and hard work of Blackhawk Courts residents.
The produce in Blackhawk Courts Garden is available for community members to harvest for their own use.
Adults participate in cooking and nutrition classes, complete their community service hours, and bring their children to community events and field trips.
Blackhawk children become Youth Farmers. They learn and eat from the farm, and help plant, tend and harvest. Older youth can apply to our Youth Leaders program.
The Blackhawk Courts Farm and Garden is a project built from the dreams, ideas and hard work of Blackhawk Courts residents.
The produce in Blackhawk Courts Garden is available for community members to harvest for their own use.
Adults participate in cooking and nutrition classes, complete their community service hours, and bring their children to community events and field trips.
Blackhawk children become Youth Farmers. They learn and eat from the farm, and help plant, tend and harvest. Older youth can apply to our Youth Leaders program.
Blackhawk Courts Farm and Garden is a collaboration between residents of Blackhawk Courts, Angelic Organics Learning Center, Blackhawk Buddy House (a program of Zion Outreach), and the Rockford Housing Authority.
RHA is working to expand additional STEM-based learning opportunities and will gladly consider partnerships that bring additional opportunities to our children and families.
Please contact ahead@rockfordha.org for partnership opportunities.
Blackhawk Courts Farm and Garden is a collaboration between residents of Blackhawk Courts, Angelic Organics Learning Center, Blackhawk Buddy House (a program of Zion Outreach), and the Rockford Housing Authority.
RHA is working to expand additional STEM-based learning opportunities and will gladly consider partnerships that bring additional opportunities to our children and families.
Please contact ahead@rockfordha.org for partnership opportunities.
To continue to create strategic partnerships with community stakeholders, design a diverse housing portfolio, leverage social service programming to unite and ensure residents are provided with safe and nurturing environments that lead to self-sufficiency, responsibility, and individual empowerment.
This Earth Day, let's unite for a brighter future!
Today, we're reminded of the importance of our planet and the role each of us plays in protecting it.
View the RHA Earth Day 2024 Blog here:
https://rockfordha.org/earth-day-2024/
Effective today, Monday, April 22, 2024, the current RHA Low-Income Public Housing (LIPH) Family Waiting List will open until further notice. Pre-applications can be completed online at https://www.rockfordhousingauthority.com/ and are available at 223 S. Winnebago Street Rockford, IL 61102.
#RHA
Let's come together to celebrate Diversity Month by acknowledging the beauty found in our distinct backgrounds, viewpoints, and identities. #RHA #MovingForwardTogether
Within 5 years the RHA will re-establish itself as high performing agency that is a leader in housing and sustainable communities by developing additional, non-HUD revenue streams, increasing our asset base and offering state of the art resident initiatives.