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The 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. Their model not only serves victims of violent crimes and their families but the entire community as well. They know that everyone who resides in the community is impacted by the trauma of violence.

Services

Psychological Assessment
Trauma Informed Organizational/Practitioner Perspective
Youth Violence Prevention
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
In Person Crisis Intervention
Workplace Violence Prevention
Art Therapy
Long Term Case/Care Management

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

Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Child Abuse Prevention
Youth Enrichment Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Smoking/Vaping Cessation Support
Smoking/Vaping Cessation
Human Trafficking Prevention
Mental Health Information/Education

Helps youth achieve positive growth and development, improve expectations and capabilities for future success, and avoid and/or reduce risk-taking behavior.

Offers academic enrichment, life skills education, parental involvement, recreational/cultural opportunities, positive adult mentors, and community service.

Services

Youth Violence Prevention
Life Skills Education
Youth Enrichment Programs

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

Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Child Abuse Prevention
Youth Enrichment Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Smoking/Vaping Cessation Support
Smoking/Vaping Cessation
Human Trafficking Prevention
Mental Health Information/Education
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

Youth Violence Prevention
Drop In Centers
Lawndale Christian Legal Center provides a holistic violence prevention program.
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.
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

Youth Violence Prevention
Workplace Violence Prevention
Long Term Case/Care Management
Family Counseling
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Trauma Informed Organizational/Practitioner Perspective
Individual Counseling
New Life offers activities that include violence prevention programs designed for violence and truancy prevention in youth.
The Trauma Response and Intervention Movement (TR4IM) provides clinical, educational, social, and economic support to underserved families who may experience trauma in any of its forms, including but not limited to violence, unemployment, substance abuse, food insecurity, and other barriers to a stable and safe life. TR4IM is committed to serving trauma-exposed children and their families through a holistic, seamless network of community members and providers who promote increased awareness and take action to improve their quality of life. The first 8-Block Sector is located in North Lawndale on 16th to Ogden, and Central Park to Ridgeway.
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.
The program aims to provide high-risk youth with evidence-based intervention services that reduce involvement in the criminal and juvenile system, increase school attendance, and when necessary, refer high-risk youth into therapeutic programs that address trauma recovery and other mental health improvements.
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.
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.
Books Over Balls provides services to at-risk youth through cohort-based, after-school, education/vocational, and recreational programming. Specific youth performance goals include: engaging youth in meaningful and constructive activities, creating and presenting a coordinated, effective, empirically informed, youth gun violence prevention program, and establishing a positive "Youth Voice" within their community.
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
Corazón Community Services provides restorative justice workshops, gang intervention/mediations, street violence response, court-mandated community service opportunities, and monthly gang tattoo removal.

Services

Court Ordered Community Service Referral Programs
Youth Community Service Programs
Tattoo Removal
Gang Programs
Community Gardening
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.
Books Over Balls works to address teen dating violence, physical fighting, weapon carrying, and other violent juvenile offenses by providing at-risk youth with community-based, after-school, pro-social programming
ENLACE Chicago uses a comprehensive set of targeted mediation strategies to prevent conflict and they organize year-round community activities that promote peace. Outreach Workers work closely with some of the highest-risk individuals in the community, specifically, those between the ages of 13 to 24 who are most at risk of being victims or perpetrators of gun violence, providing case management, mentorship, safe spaces, and connections to needed services and resources.
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
Drug Use Disorder Counseling
Alcohol Use Disorder Counseling
Job Search/Placement
Youth Violence Prevention
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.

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

Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Dating Violence Prevention
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

Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Child Abuse Prevention
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention