Resources
Alliance for Community Peace
www.allianceforcommunitypeace.org
Alliance for Community Peace (ACP) offers structured activities and opportunities for at-risk children and youth with an aim to improve academic performance, build self-esteem and confidence, enhance social, personal interaction, and decision-making skills, and develop meaningful work experiences leading to success in adulthood.
Black Star Community PTA
www.bscpta.org
Black Star is a community-based PTA. The community PTA model is a growing trend designed to address larger issues such as poverty, crime and inequality in the educational system that are too often seen in marginalized communities and that have a negative impact on students' educational outcomes. Black Star advocates for changes that will improve literacy and standardized test scores, decrease dropout rates and increase numbers of minority students attending college.
Broken Winggz Foundation
www.brokenwinggz.com
Broken Winggz supports people who have been paralyzed by gunshots, their families and the millions of people who are just tired of the shooting and want it to stop. By joining with other organizations and involvement in the community, members take a stand against gun violence.
BUILD, Inc.
www.buildchicago.org
BUILD's mission is to engage at risk youth in the schools and on the streets so they can realize their educational and career potential and contribute to the stability, safety and well being of our communities.
Casa Juan Diego Youth House
www.casajuandiego.org
Casa Juan Diego contributes to the development of children and youth between the ages of 6 and 18 in a safe and positive environment through educational, cultural and recreational activities. Its commitment is to cooperate in preparing children and young people to be active and responsible citizens in their community.
Cease Fire
www.ceasefirechicago.org
CeaseFire works to reduce shootings and killings by using highly trained street violence interrupters and outreach staff, public education campaigns and community mobilization.
Chicago Public Schools
www.cps.edu
Chicago Public Schools serves 417,855 students in 675 schools. It is the nation’s third-largest school district. CPS offers education for the 21st Century to equip every child for success in college, work and life.
Chicago Center for Cultural Connections
www.connections-chicago.org
Chicago Center for Cultural Connections is a leading human relations organization dedicated to bringing together people from different social, economic, religious, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds to advance the larger goals of understanding, cooperation, mutual respect, non-violence and social justice. The programs focus on education, advocacy, promoting common ground and training.
Chicago Police Department
www.chicagopolice.org
The Chicago Police Department serves the community by protecting the lives, property, and rights of all people, maintaining order, and enforcing the law impartially. It provides these services in partnership with other members of the community.
The Keepin it Real program is a partnership of the Chicago Police Department and the Safer Foundation that connects at-risk youth and their parents/guardians with currents inmates of Safer Foundation Correctional Facilities for the soul purpose of providing the "real" story on inmate life and the pitfalls that parents and youth can avoid.
City of Chicago
http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/ofinterest/res/teen.html
The Chicago Department of Family and Support Services provides funding for more than 200 organizations that operate out-of-school programs for youth ages 6-18. Programs range from sports and recreation to arts, education and personal development, summer job resources are also available. Other departments across the city provide programs and other online information focused specially for youth.
The Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services (CC-BYS)
CC-BYS reaches out to at-risk youth from 10-17 to provide services with the goal of family preservation, reunification or independence, depending on the individual’s needs. The primary purpose is to provide at-risk youth with a continuum of services according to their needs, with the overarching goal of family preservation, reunification or independence, again depending upon the youth's needs. The statewide information hotline for assistance with placement of at risk youth: 888-816-3264. Every community has a local agency providing these services.
Free Spirit Media
www.freespiritmedia.org
Free Spirit Media provides opportunities to learn media production to urban youth. Through hands-on production of their own media content, participants build life skills in communication, critical and independent thinking, teamwork, and the use of technology. Student-produced media often takes on violence.
The Jane Adams Juvenile Court Foundation
www.janeaddamsfdn.org
The Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation works closely with the Cook County Juvenile Court and all its stakeholders to support innovation, renew transparency, and to further the role of the court as a model of compassionate and effective justice for children, families and communities.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Illinois Models for Change Initiative
www.macfound.org; www.modelsforchange.net
Models for Change helps to reform juvenile justice systems across the country. Focused on select states, the initiative aims to create replicable models for reform that effectively hold young people accountable for their actions, provide for their rehabilitation, protect them from harm, increase their life chances, and manage the risk they pose to themselves and to public safety.
Mothers of Murdered Sons (M.O.M.S.)
www.moms.memorial-of-love.net
MOMS offers support to women from all over the United States who share the pain of losing children to murder. Through its community of mothers, it offers solace and understanding to those who must live with this pain every day.
Proviso-Leyden Council for Community Action, Inc.
www.plcca.org
The Council promotes community development and empowers people with education, training and support services in Proviso and Leyden townships, Norridge and the City of Chicago.
The Sun-Times Judge Marovitz Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Program
www.lawyerslendahand.org
The Sun-Times Judge Marovitz Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Program supports one-on-one tutor/mentor programs serving disadvantaged Chicago area youth. Lend-A-Hand awards approximately $200,000 in grants a year, recruits volunteers from the legal profession, and raises awareness about the power of one-on-one mentoring to transform the lives of disadvantaged youth.
