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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
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.
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.
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.

Services

Drug Use Disorder Counseling
Apprenticeship Training
Alcohol Use Disorder Counseling
Adult/Child Mentoring Programs
Job Search/Placement
Youth Violence Prevention
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.

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General Crime Victim Assistance
Youth Violence Prevention
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.
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.
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.
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 our center, they also actively intervene in violence within the community via our peer-to-peer violence prevention intervention program

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Drop In Centers
Youth Violence Prevention
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.
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

Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Art Therapy
Workplace Violence Prevention
Psychological Assessment
Trauma Informed Organizational/Practitioner Perspective
Long Term Case/Care Management
In Person Crisis Intervention
Youth Violence Prevention
Empowers and mobilizes students and adult allies to prevent destructive behavior among young people, particularly underage drinking, impaired and distracted driving, teen violence, teen depression, and suicide.

Services

Youth Violence Prevention
Alcohol/Drug Impaired Driving Prevention
Bullying Prevention
Suicide Prevention Programs
Underage Drinking Prevention
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.
Lawrence Hall's 13-week JAC program offers a variety of supports to youth ages 14-24 who have been involved with the justice system. After a selective enrollment process, youth take part in group and/or individual therapies, mentoring, employment services, and educational support that help prevent the reoccurrence of high-risk behaviors and violence.
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.
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

At Risk Youth
Youth Violence Prevention
Youth Community Service Programs
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
Gang Programs
Community Gardening
Youth Community Service Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Tattoo Removal
Westside Health Authority (WHA)'s Good Neighbor Campaign is a community-based movement that connects neighbors empowering us to share our 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.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Neighborhood Picnics
General Recreational Activities/Sports
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.
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.

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Long Term Case/Care Management
Family Counseling
Youth Violence Prevention
Workplace Violence Prevention
Trauma Informed Organizational/Practitioner Perspective
Individual Counseling
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
New Life offers activities that include violence prevention programs designed for violence and truancy prevention in youth.
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.
Prevention programs to increase community education: - Substance abuse prevention. - Violence prevention. - Teen pregnancy prevention courses are 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.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Teen Pregnancy 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.

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Bullying Prevention
Suicide Threat Reporting
Text Based Counseling Services
Cyberbullying Reporting
School Related Crime Reporting
Crisis Intervention Hotlines/Helplines
Suicide Prevention Programs
Youth Violence Prevention