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Chicago Cultural Performing Arts & Media Alliance has developed a comprehensive violence prevention strategy where neighborhood institutions and community leaders come together to coordinate resources and services to make a safer community. Street outreach workers will be employed to mediate conflicts and prevent retaliatory violence between those who are at risk to commit or to become the victims of firearm violence. Victim services workers/advocates helps families and victims of violence recover from physical and emotional trauma caused by the violence by empowering them with skills, services, and opportunities. Case management services also offered.
Chicago Cultural Performing Arts & Media Alliance has developed a comprehensive violence prevention strategy where neighborhood institutions and community leaders come together to coordinate resources and services to make a safer community. Street outreach workers will be employed to mediate conflicts and prevent retaliatory violence between those who are at risk to commit or to become the victims of firearm violence. Victim services workers/advocates helps families and victims of violence recover from physical and emotional trauma caused by the violence by empowering them with skills, services, and opportunities. Case management services also offered.
Services
General Crime Victim Assistance
Youth Violence Prevention
Westside Health Authority (WHA) offers youth development programs for participants ages 14 through 24 focused on working with young residents to help them realize their potential in becoming agents of change within their community. Current programs include:Career Pipeline Programs/ApprenticeshipsWorkforce Development/Job Placement ProgramsViolence Prevention/Intervention Programs including Mentoring/Court AdvocacySubstance Use CounselingYouth Focus Groups (Roundtable Discussions)
Westside Health Authority (WHA) offers youth development programs for participants ages 14 through 24 focused on working with young residents to help them realize their potential in becoming agents of change within their community. Current programs include:Career Pipeline Programs/ApprenticeshipsWorkforce Development/Job Placement ProgramsViolence Prevention/Intervention Programs including Mentoring/Court AdvocacySubstance Use CounselingYouth Focus Groups (Roundtable Discussions)
Services
General Youth Employment Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Drug Use Disorder Counseling
Alcohol Use Disorder Counseling
Job Search/Placement
Adult/Child Mentoring Programs
The Youth Leadership Council is a group of youth leaders from neighborhood schools in Brighton Park and surrounding neighborhoods who are in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Youth leaders are trained on violence prevention, educational justice, immigrant rights and organizing. They meet weekly to help organize the Annual BPNC Youth Summit and to make a change in their community through awareness and Intervention.
The Youth Leadership Council is a group of youth leaders from neighborhood schools in Brighton Park and surrounding neighborhoods who are in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Youth leaders are trained on violence prevention, educational justice, immigrant rights and organizing. They meet weekly to help organize the Annual BPNC Youth Summit and to make a change in their community through awareness and Intervention.
Services
Youth Violence Prevention
At Risk Youth
Youth Community Service Programs
Kids Off The Block's (KOB) Mentoring Initiative champions a community-driven strategy to combat violence, crime, educational setbacks, and poor health outcomes. By offering targeted mentoring, violence prevention, skill enhancement workshops, health and wellness programs, parental guidance, and leisure activities, they aim to foster a safer, healthier, and more prosperous community.
Kids Off The Block's (KOB) Mentoring Initiative champions a community-driven strategy to combat violence, crime, educational setbacks, and poor health outcomes. By offering targeted mentoring, violence prevention, skill enhancement workshops, health and wellness programs, parental guidance, and leisure activities, they aim to foster a safer, healthier, and more prosperous community.
Services
Adult/Child Mentoring Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Reimagine Youth Development takes a comprehensive approach to reducing firearm violence through targeted community investments. The program builds protective factors around youth of color to decrease risk-taking behaviors related to gun and community violence and works to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship among families who have been traumatized by community violence. Services provided include mentoring, support groups, counseling, youth leadership development, after-school services, and life skills education.
Reimagine Youth Development takes a comprehensive approach to reducing firearm violence through targeted community investments. The program builds protective factors around youth of color to decrease risk-taking behaviors related to gun and community violence and works to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship among families who have been traumatized by community violence. Services provided include mentoring, support groups, counseling, youth leadership development, after-school services, and life skills education.
Services
Youth Violence Prevention
Offers a community based participatory justice process. Provides repair for victims and holds youth offenders accountable, while increasing their competencies and anchoring them to the community. It offers an alternative and supplement to the court based justice system.
Offers a community based participatory justice process. Provides repair for victims and holds youth offenders accountable, while increasing their competencies and anchoring them to the community. It offers an alternative and supplement to the court based justice system.
Services
Youth Violence Prevention
Offers prevention programs to increase community education
- Substance abuse prevention.
- Violence prevention.
- Teen pregnancy prevention
Offers educational curriculum style courses (for youth between the ages of 11 and 17 years old within the community or in DCFS residential facilities).
The curriculum is provided in school settings with approval from school administrators.
Teen Pregnancy Prevention is also provided in DCFS residential centers.
Offers prevention programs to increase community education
- Substance abuse prevention.
- Violence prevention.
- Teen pregnancy prevention
Offers educational curriculum style courses (for youth between the ages of 11 and 17 years old within the community or in DCFS residential facilities).
The curriculum is provided in school settings with approval from school administrators.
Teen Pregnancy Prevention is also provided in DCFS residential centers.
Services
Dating Violence Prevention
Birth Control
Youth Violence Prevention
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Offers short and long term support for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. Youth violence prevention education coming soon.
Offers short and long term support for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. Youth violence prevention education coming soon.
Services
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Dating Violence Prevention
Offers to prepare youth to make healthy choices through prevention and education programs relating to substance use, adolescent pregnancy, and suicide prevention. These services provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to give youth the tools they need to stay on the right path.
Programs include:
Substance Use Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Suicide Prevention
Offers to prepare youth to make healthy choices through prevention and education programs relating to substance use, adolescent pregnancy, and suicide prevention. These services provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to give youth the tools they need to stay on the right path.
Programs include:
Substance Use Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Suicide Prevention
Services
Mental Health Information/Education
Youth Enrichment Programs
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Smoking/Vaping Cessation Support
Child Abuse Prevention
Human Trafficking Prevention
Smoking/Vaping Cessation
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
The Bridging the Gap program was developed to help facilitate an understanding between youth, law enforcement officials, and other community members. Through this program, the YMCA and community partners offer opportunities for dialogue through cafés, peace circles, and the exchange of photos and stories. The importance of healthy youth-police relationships is what continues to encourage the Y and local police departments to build and sustain effective partnerships through Bridging The Divide.
The Bridging the Gap program was developed to help facilitate an understanding between youth, law enforcement officials, and other community members. Through this program, the YMCA and community partners offer opportunities for dialogue through cafés, peace circles, and the exchange of photos and stories. The importance of healthy youth-police relationships is what continues to encourage the Y and local police departments to build and sustain effective partnerships through Bridging The Divide.
The Restorative Justice Program focuses on reducing recidivism among offenders, diverting at-risk youth from the court system, and reducing incidences of violence by increasing competency and building community relationships. The Restorative Justice Program provides services that include life skills, mentoring, homework assistance, tutoring, leadership skills, community service projects, and conflict resolution through peace circles.
The Restorative Justice Program focuses on reducing recidivism among offenders, diverting at-risk youth from the court system, and reducing incidences of violence by increasing competency and building community relationships. The Restorative Justice Program provides services that include life skills, mentoring, homework assistance, tutoring, leadership skills, community service projects, and conflict resolution through peace circles.
Services
Youth Violence Prevention
School-based domestic violence prevention program that provides education to help students understand healthy family and dating relationships and how to practice nonviolent behaviors.
School-based domestic violence prevention program that provides education to help students understand healthy family and dating relationships and how to practice nonviolent behaviors.
Services
Dating Violence Prevention
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
UCAN's Violence Intervention and Prevention Services empowers young people to create life-changing opportunities that ensure safer futures. It offers coaching/mentoring, clinical case management, outreach opportunities and safe passage.
UCAN's Violence Intervention and Prevention Services empowers young people to create life-changing opportunities that ensure safer futures. It offers coaching/mentoring, clinical case management, outreach opportunities and safe passage.
Services
Youth Violence Prevention
Corazón Community Services provides restorative justice workshops, gang intervention/mediations, street violence response, court-mandated community service opportunities, and monthly gang tattoo removal.
Corazón Community Services provides restorative justice workshops, gang intervention/mediations, street violence response, court-mandated community service opportunities, and monthly gang tattoo removal.
Services
Youth Violence Prevention
Gang Programs
Community Gardening
Court Ordered Community Service Referral Programs
Youth Community Service Programs
Tattoo Removal
Young Men's Educational Network's (YMEN) comprehensive programs offer a wide range of educational support, mentoring from positive role models, spiritual and emotional guidance, vocational classes in the arts, career-based and entrepreneurial education, sports and recreational activities, family supportive services, and service learning to more than 300 students annually.
Young Men's Educational Network's (YMEN) comprehensive programs offer a wide range of educational support, mentoring from positive role models, spiritual and emotional guidance, vocational classes in the arts, career-based and entrepreneurial education, sports and recreational activities, family supportive services, and service learning to more than 300 students annually.
Services
Community Gardening
Food Pantries
Subject Tutoring
Leadership Development
General Household Goods Provision
General Youth Employment Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Adult/Child Mentoring Programs
Westside Health Authority (WHA)'s Good Neighbor Campaign is a community-based movement that connects neighbors, empowering them to share their abilities and talents, i.e., gifts, with one another in order to realize a shared vision of a healthy, loving, and supportive community. The Good Neighbor Campaign is a coming together of concerned citizens, local churches, neighborhood institutions, and youth with a mission to build a village by connecting with neighbors in the Austin community.
Westside Health Authority (WHA)'s Good Neighbor Campaign is a community-based movement that connects neighbors, empowering them to share their abilities and talents, i.e., gifts, with one another in order to realize a shared vision of a healthy, loving, and supportive community. The Good Neighbor Campaign is a coming together of concerned citizens, local churches, neighborhood institutions, and youth with a mission to build a village by connecting with neighbors in the Austin community.
Services
Neighborhood Picnics
General Recreational Activities/Sports
Youth Violence Prevention
Their community safer space operates on a drop-in basis on weeknights to provide a safe harbor for neighborhood youth and young adults to freely express themselves via dance and bolster community connectedness. In addition to providing a safer space at their center, they also actively intervene in violence within the community via the peer-to-peer violence prevention intervention program
Their community safer space operates on a drop-in basis on weeknights to provide a safe harbor for neighborhood youth and young adults to freely express themselves via dance and bolster community connectedness. In addition to providing a safer space at their center, they also actively intervene in violence within the community via the peer-to-peer violence prevention intervention program
Services
Drop In Centers
Youth Violence Prevention
Breakthrough Urban Ministries' provides a long-term, comprehensive approach to reducing violence in Chicago for adolescents and adults ages 13+. Through prevention, intervention, and restoration, Breakthrough's Violence Prevention team works year-round to increase hope in the community by creating opportunities for residents most at risk of violence to pursue a safe, stable and engaged East Garfield Park.
Breakthrough Urban Ministries' provides a long-term, comprehensive approach to reducing violence in Chicago for adolescents and adults ages 13+. Through prevention, intervention, and restoration, Breakthrough's Violence Prevention team works year-round to increase hope in the community by creating opportunities for residents most at risk of violence to pursue a safe, stable and engaged East Garfield Park.
Services
Outreach Programs
General Crime Prevention Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Offers a youth/adult partnership leadership prevention program, focused on leading drug and violence-free lives.
Offers a youth/adult partnership leadership prevention program, focused on leading drug and violence-free lives.
Services
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Volunteer Opportunities
Offers to prepare youth to make healthy choices through prevention and education programs relating to substance use, adolescent pregnancy, and suicide prevention. These services provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to give youth the tools they need to stay on the right path.
Programs include:
Substance Use Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Suicide Prevention
Offers to prepare youth to make healthy choices through prevention and education programs relating to substance use, adolescent pregnancy, and suicide prevention. These services provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to give youth the tools they need to stay on the right path.
Programs include:
Substance Use Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Suicide Prevention
Services
Mental Health Information/Education
Youth Enrichment Programs
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Smoking/Vaping Cessation Support
Child Abuse Prevention
Human Trafficking Prevention
Smoking/Vaping Cessation
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Offers students a safe, confidential way in which to share information that might help prevent suicides, bullying, school violence or other threats to school safety.
Also offers support and resources for the following:
- Abuse.
- Bullying.
- Depression.
- Self injury.
- Suicidal Thoughts.
Offers students a safe, confidential way in which to share information that might help prevent suicides, bullying, school violence or other threats to school safety.
Also offers support and resources for the following:
- Abuse.
- Bullying.
- Depression.
- Self injury.
- Suicidal Thoughts.
Services
Bullying Prevention
Bullying Helplines
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
Suicide Threat Reporting
Youth Violence Prevention
Suicide Prevention Hotlines
Child Abuse Hotlines
Eight week program for the prevention of substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, school failure, child abuse and neglect, mental health problems, and violence. FAST consists of a team of community members (teachers, community partners, parents, and volunteers) who run the program each week.
Eight week program for the prevention of substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, school failure, child abuse and neglect, mental health problems, and violence. FAST consists of a team of community members (teachers, community partners, parents, and volunteers) who run the program each week.
Services
Child Abuse Prevention
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Offers to prepare youth to make healthy choices through prevention and education programs relating to substance use, adolescent pregnancy, and suicide prevention. These services provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to give youth the tools they need to stay on the right path.
Programs include:
Substance Use Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Suicide Prevention
Offers to prepare youth to make healthy choices through prevention and education programs relating to substance use, adolescent pregnancy, and suicide prevention. These services provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to give youth the tools they need to stay on the right path.
Programs include:
Substance Use Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Suicide Prevention
Services
Mental Health Information/Education
Youth Enrichment Programs
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Smoking/Vaping Cessation Support
Child Abuse Prevention
Human Trafficking Prevention
Smoking/Vaping Cessation
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Apostolic Pentecostal Church of Morgan Park Inc. Community Healing Resource Center provides holistic healing services and trauma-informed care to people impacted by gun violence and other forms of violence, directly or indirectly, free of charge. The model not only serves victims of violent crimes and their families but the entire community as well. They can provide: 1) Trauma-Informed Clinical Case Management: Assistance accessing victim services and violence reimbursement application funds, crisis intervention, service coordination, safety planning, and self-care guidance. 2) Outpatient Clinical Counseling and Medication Management: Individual and family counseling services for adults and children. (Some services require insurance and/or Medicaid/Medicare). 3) Community Outreach and Education: Community education for trauma-informed care, safety and self-care guidance, and resiliency responses to trauma and violence. 4) Community Healing Advocacy: Public speakers bureau, legal advocacy, community memorials, and pop-up peace events.
Apostolic Pentecostal Church of Morgan Park Inc. Community Healing Resource Center provides holistic healing services and trauma-informed care to people impacted by gun violence and other forms of violence, directly or indirectly, free of charge. The model not only serves victims of violent crimes and their families but the entire community as well. They can provide: 1) Trauma-Informed Clinical Case Management: Assistance accessing victim services and violence reimbursement application funds, crisis intervention, service coordination, safety planning, and self-care guidance. 2) Outpatient Clinical Counseling and Medication Management: Individual and family counseling services for adults and children. (Some services require insurance and/or Medicaid/Medicare). 3) Community Outreach and Education: Community education for trauma-informed care, safety and self-care guidance, and resiliency responses to trauma and violence. 4) Community Healing Advocacy: Public speakers bureau, legal advocacy, community memorials, and pop-up peace events.
Services
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Workplace Violence Prevention
Individual Counseling
Family Counseling
Long Term Case/Care Management
Trauma Informed Organizational/Practitioner Perspective
Reimagine Youth Development takes a comprehensive approach to reducing firearm violence through targeted community investments. The program builds protective factors around youth of color to decrease risk-taking behaviors related to gun and community violence and works to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship among families who have been traumatized by community violence. Services provided include mentoring, support groups, counseling, youth leadership development, after-school services, and life skills education.
Reimagine Youth Development takes a comprehensive approach to reducing firearm violence through targeted community investments. The program builds protective factors around youth of color to decrease risk-taking behaviors related to gun and community violence and works to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship among families who have been traumatized by community violence. Services provided include mentoring, support groups, counseling, youth leadership development, after-school services, and life skills education.