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SEE Our 2024 GRASSROOTS LOBBY that HALTED HB4876 BELOW SUBMIT THESE FORMS FOR START OF SCHOOL! PROTECT THE KIDS LIVESTREAM SERIES This series invites top national advocates and experts to discuss how they are empowering parents, policy makers, and communities on the urgent need to protect children from the harms known as "gender affirmation", "gender ideology", and transgender trends. Together, we will fight this battle and WIN! These episodes stream live across our X , YouTube , Facebook , and Instagram platforms. Recordings will be posted to this page and the blog. Please join us live and share with your networks. They are also compiled at our Twitter in a "community "pinned to our profile. Awake Illinois 播放影片 播放影片 How Woke Policies Are Destroying Illinois: Retired Police Chief Speaks Out & Shows How to Fight Back NEW YEARS DAY PREMIER OF AWAKE AND ARMED, January 1, 2026 at 2pm CST: Awake Illinois founder Shannon Adcock and retired Riverside PD Chief Tom Weitzel expose the real cost of woke agendas in Illinois — and arm you with real solutions. From the SafeT Act and sanctuary state madness to media targeting cops, we break down the damage...and what WE THE PEOPLE can do to protect ourselves and take our state back. No more victims. Only victors. Visit www.awakeIL.com for all livestreams and resources. SUBSCRIBE! 播放影片 播放影片 01:31:12 LIVE: Can IL Survive SB 1950? Assisted Suicide Showdown Unveiled TONIGHT! Should Governor Pritzker veto this physician-assisted suicide bill? What are the ethics concerns? Tune in to hear Matthew Eppinette, Executive Director of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity, break it down. Share and tag Governor Pritzker on your accounts! 播放影片 播放影片 39:37 AWAKE IL Livestream: Real Care Heals, It Doesn't Kill; JB Must VETO Illinois' Suicide Bill Awake IL founder Shannon Adcock and IL Family Institute/IL Family Action Director Dave Smith highlight this bill, it's weaknesses, and why Governor Pritzker should VETO it. Every disability organization in Illinois opposes this bill as does the American Medical Association. Illinois residents are asked to contact Pritzker to VETO this bill at www.awakeIL.com/veto 播放影片 播放影片 01:08:35 Awake IL Livestream Ep. 26: Guest Danielle Carter-Walters of Chicago Flips Red Danielle is a dedicated health entrepreneur, political activist, and community advocate. With Chicago Flips Red, she has been a vocal critic of the city’s sanctuary policies and the misallocation of public resources amid the migrant crisis. She will share how her advocacy and commitment has made national media and and meaningful impact in Chicago’s grassroots movement to FLIP RED. 播放影片 播放影片 01:24:03 Awake IL Ep. 25: Exposing Transgender Foot Soldiers In K-12 with Guest Alvin Lui Alvin Lui with Courage Is A Habit will break down the FIRST EVER national report exposing how the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) is weaponizing K-12 mental health programs to indoctrinate kids with divisive DEI, Critical Race Theory, and gender ideology...straight from their OWN documents! 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/4796059867021312 播放影片 播放影片 01:25:43 AWAKE ILLINOIS TITLE IX TOWN HALL WITH ATTORNEY AJAY GUPTA Join the virtual town hall with Attorney Ajay Gupta as he discusses the background on the Title IX injunction denial, the pending appeal, and what steps Illinois parents can take to advocate for transparency and student protections. Post your questions during the livestream. 播放影片 播放影片 57:09 Awake IL Livestream Episode 23 The Awake IL Board of Directors Helen Levinson, Steve Lucie, and Shannon Adcock will discuss the outlook of grassroots advocacy in Illinois. From parental rights to the 2026 midterms, join the topics of conversation live, ask questions, and share your comments across our platforms. 播放影片 播放影片 01:20:49 Governor Pritzker Testifies on Sanctuary State Policies, Part 2 Part 2 播放影片 播放影片 05:01:08 Governor Pritzker Testifies on Illinois Sanctuary Policies Sanctuary governors are shielding CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS, then pretending the consequences don’t exist. This morning Governors Hochul, Walz, and Pritzker will be in the hot seat as their policies cause CHAOS in their states. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/4796059867021312 播放影片 播放影片 30:17 Awake Illinois Livestream Episode 22 with Dad Corey Lindquist: Defending Title IX Join us LIVE as we recap the Naperville School District 203 Board Meeting with attendee Corey Lindquist. We will discuss his perspective as an Illinois father and defender of Title IX. 播放影片 播放影片 01:09:23 Livestream Episode 21: Sam Arrington Stood Up to the Woke Mob Sam Arrington's public comments at Valley View School District 365 recently went viral after he stood up to the woke mob. A lifelong resident of Romeoville, IL, Sam is a concerned Father and Grandfather. Hear why he opted to speak up for the students in his community. Join us LIVE! Recording posts afterward. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/4796059867021312 播放影片 播放影片 01:00:09 Awake IL Livestream Ep. 20: Sarah Parshall Perry, Senior Legal Fellow Sarah Parshall Perry is a Senior Legal Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation where she focuses on civil rights, constitutional governance, regulatory policy, and the proper role of the courts. She will discuss Title IX, gender/parental rights case law, and President Trump’s Executive Orders. 播放影片 播放影片 57:22 Awake IL. Livestream Ep. 19 with Kirk Smith, Director of ICHE Kirk Smith is Executive Director of ICHE, a homeschool organization in Illinois that is rooted in the belief that parents have the freedom and legal right to educate their children at home. We will discuss why homeschool advocates across the state oppose the radical anti-homeschool bill HB2827. Join us LIVE! Recording posts afterward. 播放影片 播放影片 01:12:40 Awake IL Livestream Episode 18: Alvin Lui, Courage Is A Habit Alvin Lui is the founder and president of Courage Is A Habit, an organization that focuses on parent empowerment and education policy. His team creates tools and strategies to help parents and legislators protect children from indoctrination and gender ideology. He is a national advocate fighting woke across America. He is ready to empower you to fight HB2827. 播放影片 播放影片 56:27 Awake IL Livestream Ep. 17 with Justin Mahwikizi Justin Mahwikizi is an author, entrepreneur, and legal advocate focused on empowering communities and offering legal education for young families. An immigrant from Africa, he wrote The Manufacturing of Poverty, which emphasizes economic self sufficiency. A warrior Father of four, he fought the unlawful lockdowns and mandates. We will discuss DEI, the culture war in IL, and future outlook. 播放影片 播放影片 39:21 Awake IL Livestream with Guest Josh Seiter Josh Seiter, IL native and former Bachelorette contestant, spent months pretending to be transgender. Learn how his now viral social experiment exposed the left for being “delusional” and why he is now a face for women’s rights and sanity. Recording will be available to view afterward on our platforms and at our website www.awakeIL.com. 播放影片 播放影片 40:11 Awake IL Livestream with Guest Dean McGee, Senior Counsel at Liberty Justice Center Senior Counsel at Liberty Justice Center Dean McGee will join Awake IL President Shannon Adcock to discuss why Chicago Teachers Union members are suing for transparency after four years without an audit. He will also share how they are defending medical freedom and parental rights in IL and across America. Join us LIVE! Recording posts afterward. 播放影片 播放影片 01:25:03 Awake IL Livestream Protect the Kids Ep. 14 Why is Rep. Anne Stava Murray deflecting on her radical anti-parent record? We discuss this and some advocacy updates for parents looking to protect their children from radical "gender ideology". 播放影片 播放影片 54:35 Protect the Kids Livestream Update with the 2024 Sex Ed Analysis Report Awake IL President Shannon Adcock will share the latest updates on sex ed and opt out resources in K-12 schools. Learn how and why you need to pay attention to this agenda and what resources are available to protect your child. Visit www.awakeIL.com for the slideshow links shown in this presentation. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 INTRO 07:05 SEX ED in IL, BACKGROUND 08:18 WHAT IS THE SEX ED ANALYSIS REPORT? 09:20 WHY ARE IL REPUBLICANS SILENT ON THIS REPORT? 13:12 AMAZING NEWS! ADVOCACY IS WORKING 17:15 AWAKE IL 2024 REPORT via FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 18:40 MOM SCORCHES RADICAL SEX ED IN VIDEO 26:40 WHAY ARE PARENTS SO CONCERNED ABOUT "SIECUS"? 39:28 WHAT DOES THE 2024 ANALYSIS REPORT SHOW IN IL SCHOOLS? 43:43 WHAT ARE THE WORRISOME SEX ED RESOURCES USED IN IL SCHOOLS? 48:33 PARENT CONSIDERATIONS, OPT OUT, and CLOSING 播放影片 播放影片 01:10:37 Awake Illinois "Protect the Kids" Livestream Ep. 12 with Natalya Murakhver and Maia Poet Now that school is back in session, Join this URGENT livestream conversation about gender policies and how you can protect your children. Natalya Murakhver is a NYC parent advocate and founder of “Restore Childhood”. She will discuss her organization’s resource “The Gender Toolkit”. Detransitioner Maia Poet will expand on her episode 11 convo about why parents must rise above the culture war noise when making evidence-based decisions in parenting and public policy. 載入更多 In Fall 2022, Awake IL advocated against the planned drag queen bingo event to be held at Downers Grove Public Library. It was cancelled! Listen to the public comment remarks spoken by Awake IL President Shannon Adcock on 9.28.22 to the Downers Grove Library Board : Previous Call of Action on #HB4876 and continued resources below. (best viewed on DESKTOP computer) Radical Extremist Legislator Anne Stava-Murray tried spreading lies in a desperate scramble to push anti-parent, anti-child house bill 4876. Thanks to your 2,800+ emails sent via our OPPOSE FORM, we all halted that bill together! Rep. Anne Stava-Murray ought to meet with just one detransitioner , such as Chloe Cole . Chloe is traveling around the country to sound the alarm on the harms she endured from this medical misadventure known as "gender affirming care". Rep. Stava-Murray needs to be educated on the reality of children who are harmed by this for-profit industry that tells children they are born into the wrong body. No child can consent to puberty blockers. Not to mention, parents have the fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. READ: The American College of Pediatricians after reviewing of more than 60 studies, has concluded that "there is no long-term evidence that mental health concerns are decreased or alleviated after 'gender-affirming therapy.' Awake IL In The Media Awake IL Media 所有類別 播放影片 播放影片 11:40 Awake IL's Shannon Adcock reacts to IL-HB1664 and why it's likely to fail More at http://www.morninganswerchicago.com Facebook page at http://facebook.com/morninganswer Follow on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/morninganswer 播放影片 播放影片 09:10 Parents' rights group sounds alarm over Illinois bill concerning children and gender identity Bishop reviews a slew of headlines from across the country in regards to gun control legislation and litigation. Bishop talks with Awake Illinois founder Shannon Adcock about House Bill 4876 that would make parents denying certain medical procedures for their children akin to abuse. Read the bill here: https://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=4876&GAID=17&SessionID=112&LegID=152735 READ WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT HB4876 RADICAL ILLINOIS LEGISLATION IN THE NEWS Click images to read 1/2

DOWNLOAD PARENTAL RIGHTS FORMS HERE WATCH: IL YOUTH SURVEY and MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING INFO LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL PUSHING GENDER IDEOLOGY IN SCHOOLS Awake IL 2023 Sex Ed in Schools Report OPT OUT! PROTECT YOUR CHILD/STUDENT From Comprehensive Sexual Educati on; a gateway towards the "Medic al Misadventure" called "Gender Affirmi ng Care " C omprehensive Sexual Educati on Lessons: NO S.I.R. Series 所有類別 播放影片 播放影片 04:16 Module 1: S is for Sexualized (Grades K-2) 播放影片 播放影片 04:54 Module 2: S is for Sexualized (Grades 3-5) 播放影片 播放影片 06:52 Module 3: S is for Sexualized (Grade 6) HOW TO OPT OUT Use these forms to enforce your parental rights and expectations regarding school lessons/conversations/surveys. NATIONAL SEX ED STANDARDS (NSES) Written by social activists, read the full booklet of this non-accredited effort to push radical sexual concepts in K-12 classrooms. This effort is backed by Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth, and SEICUS (which is on the Awake IL Watchdog list). READ THE STANDARDS Who voted for SB0818? See who voted for and who voted against the passing of Senate Bill 0818 which was signed into law by Pritzker last year. LEARN MORE PRITZKER financial ties to SSI Industry Over the past decade, the Pritzkers of Illinois, appear to have used a family philanthropic apparatus to drive an ideology and practice of disembodiment into our medical, legal, cultural, and educational institutions. READ MORE Read samples of K-12 Lesson Plans Advocates for Youth helped developed the National Sex Ed Standards endorsed by the IL State Board of Education after the passage of SB818. It is a radical curricula and parents need to be informed. READ THE LESSON PLANS "Clitoris" is mentioned 16 times in the K-12 lessons. "Gender" is mentioned 472 times. See page 43 for a radical 2nd grade lesson. See page 192 for "gender non-conforming". HAS MY SCHOOL ADOPTED NSES? See our 2023 Report on responses suibmitted to the IL State Board of Education by Illinois schools on whether they teach radical sex ed and/or the resources they use in the curricula. CLICK TO VIEW REPORT Sex Ed & Public Act 102-0522 (SB 0818) Read about the latest law signed by Governor Pritzker making Illinois the first state to adopt the second edition of the radical National Sex Education Standards. LEARN MORE Robert Crown is using NSES Candor (formerly known as Robert Crown) openly supports the passing of SB0818 which aligns with the National Sex Education Standards. READ MORE The above modules outline the destructive agenda behind "Comprehensive Sexual Education"(CSE for short) that was signed into Illinois state law in August of 2021. Local school boards vote to incorporate this curricula and according to the law, if they adopt comprehensive sexual education, they MUST teach it in ALL GRADES, Kindergarten through 12th grade. This is damaging. A sexualized child is a broken child. Submit these opt-out forms to protect your child from sexual activism, sex discussions, gender grooming, and invasive surveys/questionnaires. Your donations are greatly appreciated to fulfill our goal to inform Illinois parents on the reality of this harmful curricula and to defend their parental rights. Anchor 1 READ THE STANDARDS BY GRADE LEVEL. SCROLL THROUGH THE THUMBNAILS.

OPT OUT FORMS click images/links below In light of the radical sexual education, invasive surveys, and mental health screenings that Illinois promotes in public school settings, CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the FORMS to OPT OUT. You need to print and submit to your school Principal. Click each form below for full context of the tools. WATCH THIS RECORDING for a dive into the background on this bill and why this agenda has parents, districts, and clinicians concerned. DIRECTIONS : These are the top forms Awake IL recommends for parents to add to their student's file. After signing them, send as certified mail to the attention of the school principal. It's worth sending an email as a heads up to the principal and ask for a meeting to discuss and answer and questions. Maintain an email communication confirming all meeting/conversation recaps, i.e.: "Thank you, Principal Smith, for confirming receipt of the (insert form descriptions) and adding them to (student name) file. We appreciate school staff honoring our parental expectations on these issues. Please contact us anytime with questions or concerns." The majority of parents have shared positive feedback when these forms are submitted. If for any reason, a school is unwilling to honor or confirm receipt of these forms, please contact us . Additional opt outs: Religious opt out as protected by the recent Supreme Court ruling (Mahmood vs. Taylor) can be found at this Defending Ed resource . Six Demands Every Parent Should Make by Courage Is A Habit Illinois Family Institute Opt Out DOWNLOAD THE PDF SET OF PRINTABLE FORMS HERE Awake IL Mental Health Screening Opt Out This form is to opt out of any form of mental health, psychological, social services or counseling screening, surveys, or tests subsequent to Illinois passing house bill 1560. Liberty Counsel Form This form is to put the school on notice regarding what is/is not acceptable for your child with regard to the issues described in the form (sex ed, sexuality clubs, sexuality discussions, Planned Parenthood and other activist initiatives/agendas). Pronouns/Gender/Counselor Discussions at School (by Courage is a Habit) This form requests notification from the school if your child requests different pronouns and/or communicates/exhibits behaviors akin to gender dysphoria. Survey/Questionnaire Opt Out (from Courage is a Habit) This form affirms that you do not consent to school-based surveys or questionnaires on any number of topics without expressed parental permission.

Advocacy Resources and Quicklinks Civic Empowerment Donate Today! NO to Child Exploitation K-12 Lesson Plans Dossier of Abusers; Courage Is A Habit NO! to National Sex Ed Standards Christopher Rufo reports on the Lurie Children's hospital gender activist ties to school district admins. Rep. Mary Miller is the recipient of the 2024 Awake IL Warrior Award IL Family Institute Prager U Moms For Liberty (US) Courage Is A Habit Dr. James Lindsay Leadership Institute Heritage Foundation Parents Defending Education Turning Point USA Parental Rights Org Center For Renewing America

BACK TO ABOUT Helen Levinson Mother of 2 Vice President Awake IL Chair, Moms for Liberty Cook County Sales Executive EMAIL: helen@awakeIL.com Background Helen is a passionate Skokie resident who has been married for 20 years and is a proud mom to two amazing children. Born to a family of Christian Arab immigrants from Jordan, and raised in Chicago, Helen has always embraced her rich heritage, with Arabic preceding English as her first language. An accomplished individual, she holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and works as an enterprise sales executive within the tech industry. A true community leader, Helen never hesitates to lend a hand. From her time as a dedicated Girl Scouts Troop Leader and involvement in fundraisers to assisting law enforcement with gratitude events, she's an enthusiastic advocate for parental rights and civic and economic development initiatives. Motivated by challenges in 2020, Helen co-founded a Niles Township coalition to empower parents, giving them a voice in their school board decisions. As Chapter Chair of Awake IL Niles Township and founder of Moms For Liberty's Cook County chapter, Helen tirelessly fights against harmful political ideologies and is committed to preserving childhood innocence. As determined as she is resilient, Helen finds joy in reading, problem-solving through technology, and advocating for parental rights. Cherishing time with family, she's also an avid cook, biker, and geocacher, always eager to explore the world around her.

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