Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
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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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Center on Halsted
Center on Halsted (COH) is responding to the LGBTQ Community Fund RFP, specifically the focus area of mental health for LGBTQ individuals.
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Local Initiatives Support Corp.
This request to CCT is for continued partnership with Local Initiatives Support Corporation on the Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards (CNDA). LISC respectfully requests the Chicago Community Trust’s renewed support of $25,000 to sponsor “The Chicago Community Trust Outstanding Community Plan Award” to be presented at CNDA. The winner of the award in 2023 will be selected through a competitive application process led by cross-sector representatives from the city's community development industry. The CNDA event where the award will be presented along with other sponsored awards will be held in June 27, 2024.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center
The PRCC has the EL Rescate LGBTQ+ homeless youth shelter, and the Transitional Living Program is requesting these funds to provide additional support services to the program. A part-time licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) or licensed clinical professional counselor would be hired with the proposed funds to work on-site and offer mental health services to program participants. Additionally, the program hopes to use these remaining funds to provide meals for program participants who reside on-site at the shelter as well as rental deposits for youth who are moving out of the program.
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Brave Space Alliance
Brave Space Alliance (BSA) respectfully requests $50,000 to provide seed funding for the development and initial implementation of a new mental health program based out of BSA’s Hyde Park location. As Chicago’s first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ organization, BSA provides culturally competent services to address the lack of influence BIPOC trans people have within institutions that make decisions affecting our lives. By expanding into mental health services, BSA will fill a critical need expressed by our community.
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Legal Council for Health Justice
Legal Council’s recently-established Trans Law Project coordinates with our existing Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) with Howard Brown Health (HBH) and other priority health centers to provide holistic services for low-income, trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) clients seeking gender-affirming medical care. This project will offer direct legal assistance with a focus on (1) insurance denials for gender-affirming surgery, (2) name change and gender marker issues, (3) expungement services, and (4) comprehensive public benefits advocacy. In addition to direct legal services, project staff are involved in state and national impact advocacy to improve access to healthcare for Medicare enrollees and advocate for access to care through the state employee insurance network.
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Alivio
The LGBTQ Health Program will focus on outreach, education, and connection to physical and mental health services as well as LGBTQ-centered Therapeutic Affinity Groups. The proposed project plan involves Community Outreach Workers that either currently or previously have direct lived experience that mirror the communities Alivio intend to reach, such as, LGBTQ and Latinx, LGBTQ and homeless, LGBTQ and elderly, TGNC and Latinx, and more.
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Life Is Work
Life Is Work proposes Lois’ House, an emergency housing program specifically centering women of the trans spectrum supported with wrap-around services including the development of a long term housing plan. Wrap around services include long term shelter; intensive case management; individual and group level interventions; culturally responsive gender affirming health care services to include HIV Prevention; mental health and substance use treatment; and enrollment in training and workshop series that prepare these historically marginalized clients for their next steps.
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Chicago Family Health Center, Inc.
A grant from the CCT would support the creation of a new therapy group for patients who are HIV+, a cost-effective way to provide behavioral health services to a patient population often disproportionately affected by mental illness. The grant would support the salary of the primary staff member leading the group sessions.