Lao American Community Services

 

You can find important resources for the Lao community in this page.

Immigration Related:

• Immigration Attorneys
• LANA   
• Lao Embassy  
• Law Office of Bobby C. Chung
• SEARAC  
• Translations of Citizenship Test   Catholic Immigration Network, Inc. You can also download directly use the links below.  
  (Right click on the like and choose "SAVE AS"　or "SAVE LINK AS")       。 Old Test      。 New Test
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services   

 

Health Care Related:

• Asian Health Coalition of Illinois
  
• Asian Human Services
• Children's Memorial Hospital   Also see flyer in PDF format for Child Advocacy
• Drug Alert
• Drug Watch 
• Flu Vaccine's Blog
• Heartland Alliance   Heartland Health Center Also see flyer in PDF format for new health center in Lincoln Square and Rogers Park
• Healthy Roads Media  
• Hmong Health Education Network 
• Lao Resource List  
• LexisNexis Health Care Insight Exchange Blog
• Medical Malpractice Help
• Mesothelioma & Asbestos Awareness Center
• Mesothelioma Cancer Network
• Mesothelioma Prognosis
• Medicine Net  
• Medline Plus  
• National Library of Medicine  
• New Americans Health Information Portal 
• Spiral  

 

Lao New Year 2552 Celebration Related:

• INTERNATIONAL LAO NEW YEAR FESTIVAL 2552 - 2009 ILNYF San Francisco, California, USA 

 

Jai Lao Foundation

Legacies of War

 

Computer Related:

• Easybabel Lao Virtual Keyboard
• Gate2Home Lao Virtual Keyboard
• JuskLao Virtual Keyboard
• Lao Character Picker  
• Lao Character Picker Lite 

 

• Easybabel Thai Virtual Keyboard 
• Easybabel Central Khmer Virtual Keyboard   

 

• Free Asian Dictionaries 
  Lao Dictionary Download  
• Lexitron English - Thai Dictionary  
• Longdo Dict - Thai Dictionary  

 

• Lao Software 
• Law Firm Software
• TechSoup 

 

Citizenship Guide:

• Ben's Guide
• Citizenship Quiz
• Quia
• US Citizenship Podcast

 

Disaster Relief: 

• American Red Cross
• Central Emergency Response Fund
• Global Disaster Relief
• UNICEF
• US Aid
• World Food Programme

 

Educational:

• Adult Education ESL Teacher Guide
• Adult Learning Resource Center
• Big Brother Mouse  
• CAELA
• Constitution Study Guide
• Dave's ESL Cafe
• Dictionary
• Digital Literacy
• Educational Grammar 4U Online  
• Eidetic Memory Puzzles and Games
• EL Civics
• eMedical Assistants
• Excellence In Adult Education
• Free Online Grammar Checker
• Funbrain Reading
• Funschool Kaboose
• Gamesquarium
• Grammar and Writing Guide
• Kinderweb Educational Children's Games

• Learning Today
• Mansfield/Richland County Public Library
• Master of Homeland Security
• Online Advanced Accounting Certificate Programs
• Online Basic Accounting Certificate Programs
• Online Colleges in Illinois
  PBS Kids
• Pen to Paper: Common Grammar and Punctuation Errors
• Primary Games
• Roy Tale of a Singing Zebra
• Sadlier-Oxford
• Soft Schools
• Starfall  
• The Kidz Page
• University of Minnesota Online Grammar Handbook 
  

 

Employment Opportunities:

• Illinois Department of Employment Security
• Illinois Work Net Center
• International Paper
• World Financial Group
• World System Builder

 

Learning to Type:

• BBC Typing
• DMOZ Open Directory Project
• Free Keyboarding Resources
• Free Online Typing Games
• Free Typing Games
• Glencoe's Online Keyboarding
• Online Typing Games
• Only Typing Games
• Power Typing
• Rapid Typing
• Sense-Lang
• Typing Test
• Typing Web

 

Learning Lao:

• Lao American Institute
• Lao Connection
• Lao Language
• Lao Learning
• Learning Lao (Tham, Bāli or Pāli)
• Learning Lao (Lao vocabularies with pāli origin explaination)
• Learning Lao Links
• SEAsite Laos
• The Language (la)

 

News:

• AmeriLao
• KPL Lao News Agency  
• Lao Americans 
  
• Lao Voices  
• LGN1 
• Vientiane Times  
• VOA News  

 

Census:

• 2010 Census   

  

Others:

• 1st Metropolitan Translation Services
• 3 Step Divorce
• APIA - Scholarship Directory 2009-2011
• Auto Accident Lawyer
• Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago
• CAPS CLEARpath
• Chicago Public Library 
• Cook County Clerk's Office
• Cook County Illinois
• Database of Law Firms
• Direct2Food 
• Direct Express
• Distance Learning Schools
• Donors Forum  
• DHS Office Locator  
• Execuitve Services Corps of Chicago  
• Find Great Lawyers
• Fundsnet Services
• Glossary of Legal Terms
• Green Standards Ltd (For Non-Profit Organizations to Request Office Furnitures)
• Illinois Attorney General
  Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
• Illinois Department of Human Services
• Illinois Department of Public Health
• Illinois Department of Revenue
• Illinois Department on Aging
• Illinois Guardianship & Advocacy Commission
• Illinois State Board of Election
• Information on Legal Topics
• Internal Revenue Service Tax Transcript
• Lawyers
• Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc
• LIFE Foundation
• Medical Malpractice Lawyer
• National Cristina Foundation
  
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Our Divorce Agreement
• People to People Ambassadors
• Safelink Wireless
• Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
• Selective Service System  
• Social Security  
• The Chicago Workforce Centers  
• The Institule of Cultural Affairs in the USA 
• The USA Government
• Turbo Tax
• Tutor Hunt  
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services  
• U.S. Department of State 
• Vertical Response
• Women on Call
• World Sport Chicago Scholarship

 

 Useful websites for checking credentials:

Charity Evaluations

CPA's

Doctors  

Federation of State Medical Boards ($10 fee)

Stockbrokers  

 

 Housing Assistance:

http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov

  

Lawyer: 

Law Office of Thomas M. Hartwell

Attorney at Law

929 N. LaFox St. (Rt. 31)

South Elgin, IL 60177

Phone:  847-289-1300

Fax:  847-289-1272

Email:  thomas.hartwell@sbcglobal.net