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For more than 100 years, The Chicago Community Trust has convened, supported, funded, and accelerated the work of community members and changemakers committed to strengthening the Chicago region. From building up our civic infrastructure to spearheading our response to the Great Recession, the Trust has brought our community together to face pressing challenges and seize our greatest opportunities.
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TUESDAYS CHILD
We are submitting an application on the behalf of Tuesday's Child, a Chicago-based nonprofit that works with children with disruptive and maladaptive behaviors as well as their families through positive parenting. We are seeking $25,000 to help fund the program and continue our evidence-based and life-changing services for families who need it most.
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Brightpoint
El Hogar del Niño proudly serves a significantly under-resourced and at-risk population in Pilsen. In addition to early learning, our team has always been responsive to the needs of the community, providing mental health support, helping families access public benefits, and providing food assistance. Mental health needs have risen sharply with the COVID-19 pandemic, and continues to be a priority for the El Hogar del Niño community. We proudly ensure access to all basic services available, and we take seriously our role in reducing obstacles and expanding access to quality early learning for Latinx students, ultimately helping close the achievement & wealth gap between Latinx students and their peers. In partnership with Nuestro Future, we hope to bring to life our new Music & Movement Initiative. Our goal is to address defiant behavior among our 0-5 students with music and exercise programs that will allow our students to expend energy, sharpen their focus, develop their gross motor skills, and hone their self-regulation skills. We aim to offer dynamic and fun programming that will engage 180 of our students and supplement the critical mental health support provided by our Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
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PODER
PODER's Four-Phase Pathway provides Integrated English instruction and Workforce Development to Spanish-Speaking adult immigrants on Chicago's Southwest Side and, via online classes, throughout Chicagoland. Our newly opened PODER HQ building has heightened interest in our programs throughout the Gage Park neighborhood and surrounding communities, and in this time of growth we are adding additional classes each trimester, along with ever more workshops, conversation events, resource fairs, and other in-person opportunities. We are also expanding our partnerships with diverse, BIPOC-led non-profit organizations and community-based programs to help our student members with job placement, mental health, and other wraparound services. PODER welcomes and appreciates Nuestro Futuro support for our PODER Pathway.
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TELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT INC
Telpochcalli Community Education Project provides support, resources, and assistance to marginalized and vulnerable populations in Chicago’s little Village neighborhood. More than 5000 adults, youth, and young children are helped annually. Through both virtual and in-person programs and resource connections, house/phone calls, texts, newsletters, workshops/presentations, mental/physical health support and other resources, Tcep works to serve and improve the community for its residents. Opportunities also include securing needed supplies – baby formula, food boxes, PPE, and economic assistance. Tcep is proud of the work it does to help residents develop skills and ensure their active participation in decisions directly affecting their well-being and that of their community. Tcep has a strong and committed base of community leaders who operate the agency on a daily basis. Staff maintain a communications network that reaches out to over 400 families. Each staff member is in direct contact with more that 50 families on a monthly basis.
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Spanish Community Center
Spanish Community Center is applying for $25,000 in funding to partially cover salaries, malpractice, and errors and omissions insurance costs within our Access to Justice and New Americans Initiative programs. The services these programs provide include Adjustment of Status, DACA renewals, N-400 and N-600 applications and FOIA requests for Immigration cases.
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Youth and Family Center of McHenry County
YFC requested $25,000 to help maintain its program enhancements that were made to address the unprecedented challenges brought after COVID-19. YFC is anticipating that children will have significant academic, social, and emotional needs due to COVID-19 and will continue to adapt to meet these increased needs. The request will allow YFC to partner with more than 600 youth and adults to achieve its mission. The goal of YFC’s Family Services Youth Program is to equip, empower, and encourage youth to grow emotionally, socially and academically. The objectives are that at least 80% of youth will report the following: They learned new things at YFC; they are doing better in school because of their attendance at YFC; YFC has helped when they had a problem; and they have a sense of belonging while at YFC. YFC operates after-school and summer programs for youth that incorporate evidence-based methodologies, including trauma informed practices, to coordinate and facilitate educational, social, emotional, and recreational activities. The goal of YFC's Family Services Adult Program is to increase the youth's parents' and other adults' skills and knowledge. Activities include English as a Second Language classes, parenting classes and more. YFC's Bilingual Service Navigation (BSN) program goal is to improve participants’ knowledge of and ability to access and navigate community resources. The objectives are that at least 80% of BSN clients will report the following: The assistance of navigators they were able to learn of new services offered; they have the skills and knowledge to independently access resources in the future; and the services rendered at YFC have helped them with their needs. The Service Navigators provide one-on-one navigation services to individuals and families to provide linkage and support to access medical and mental health services, child care, employment, education, basic needs, interpretation, and more. YFC plans to keep utilizing those funds in closing service gaps within our community, particularly to serve Hispanic/Latinos and the low-income population. Likewise, YFC is actively soliciting additional funding from a variety of sources to sustain the increase in its service navigation capacity made possible by a one-time grant from the Illinois Public Health Association and to explore possible expansions to Harvard, IL and other areas to provide youth after-school and summer programs. YFC expects an increase in need, unfortunately, due to the hardships caused by COVID-19 that exacerbated already marginalized communities. Additionally, there is a critical need in McHenry County and at YFC for a bilingual (English/ Spanish) and culturally competent licensed clinical social worker to address the disparate impact the pandemic and the recession has had on the Latinx population. Funding from Nuestro Futuro would provide $25,000 of general operating support to enhance and increase YFC’s existing programming for youth and adults and assist YFC in providing critical services to the marginalized Latinx, largely immigrant, community in McHenry County.
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HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER
Howard Brown Health respectfully requests $35,000 from the Chicago Community Trust’s [CCT] Unity Fund to support the agency’s Broadway Youth Center [BYC]. BYC, which exclusively serves ages 12 through 24, will use these funds to support clients and patients experiencing homelessness and housing instability. Support from CCT will allow BYC’s Resource Advocacy team to continue offering financial assistance to clients as well as expand its reach into the South and West Sides of Chicago through outreach events and enhanced partnerships; as well as allow youth to continue receiving short-term behavioral healthcare through BYC’s drop-in center.
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Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago
Lurie Children’s requests $100,000 from the Chicago Community Trust to deliver social work services for the patients in our Siragusa Transplantation Center. The experience of transplant is highly stressful for both the child and their family. Transplant, compounded with financial or insurance barriers to paying for medications or bringing a child to medical appointments, can impact the level of adherence to a treatment plan and negatively affect the child’s health. Low-income patients in the process of receiving or having already received kidney, liver, heart, intestinal or stem cell transplants will be connected to community resources, public assistance and emergency financial aid. Such assistance is key to addressing the social determinants of health and ensuring that all patients have the best chance of a successful organ transplant.