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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Unity Parenting and Counseling Inc
Unity is requesting funds to implement and enhance its homeless youth housing programs . All youth programs serve homeless 18-24 years olds . Ujima Village is an overnight shelter for youth , serving dinner and breakfast. Harmony Village and Project Ignite serve individuals and youth headed families including intact young families in transitional housing . Ignite serves homeless youth living with HIV/AIDS, Ujima STARS provides shorter term project based transitional housing for young singles and families and then moves them into Rapid Rehousing with intensive services and tenant based housing subsidies . Umoja Village provides permanent housing for disabled youth. Funds will support program enhancement through targeted fund development.
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EQUAL HOPE
Equal Hope (EH) aims to disrupt structural racism in Chicago's healthcare system by engaging in critical health system's quality assessment & improvement to identify barriers to the highest quality healthcare. EH developed evidence based interventions to overcome barriers, including direct services assisting women of color & women with less resources access free women's healthcare services. Building upon its award winning, breast cancer racial mortality disparities reduction project and its newest initiative to make Chicago the first US city to eradicate cervical cancer, EH is expanding to create a medical homes project to tackle health equity more holistic. Lessons learned from launch will facilitate more future placements.
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CORAZON COMMUNITY SERVICES
Corazón Community Services is requesting $60,000 to increase COVID-19 vaccinations among youth in Cicero and the surrounding communities through the purchase of a mobile testing van, promotional materials, and stipends for health ambassadors. Cicero's residents are largely Latinx and low-income and have a high incidence of health conditions, as well as lower COVID-19 vaccination rates than the state average. This funding will allow us to offer COVID-19 vaccinations throughout the area to address the current public health crisis, as well as equip us to offer mobile testing in the future for other health outreach activities that will benefit the public, including HIV/STIs testing and counseling, cholesterol screening, and flu vaccinations.
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Center for Independence Through Conductive Education Inc
Center for Independence is requesting a grant to support Motor Training and Workforce Development Programs for people with disabilities. Funding will support therapy and job placement programs for children and young adults with disabilities delivered throughout the Chicagoland area with a focus on underserved Latinx families. The objective is to reduce the significant disparities children and young adults with disabilities face in accessing inclusive education and employment by linking them to the services they need to grow up healthy, happy and able to reach their full potential.
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Growing Home, Inc.
Growing Home respectfully requests a grant of $40,000 in renewed support of our Food Access Program. This award would allow us to donate more boxes of food to the community through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) system. These CSA boxes are delivered door-to-door at no costs to residents. In addition, we have extended our growing season by adjusting our methods to be able to grow during the winter. With this change, we intend to grow and donate more food than ever before to the Englewood community.
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CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC
In a one-year pilot phase of the CASL client advocacy unit (CAU) a qualified mental health professional or licensed clinical social worker (QMHP/LCSW), will lead the CAU in delivering holistic, evidence-based, culturally competent interventions to households with high needs and challenges to help them achieve healthy living. A cross-functional team consisting of a case manager and existing CASL staff members will specifically address the unique barriers Chinese immigrants and Americans face while assimilating into life in the US—especially those living in poverty, experiencing the negative effects of rising health care and social service costs, and needing increased access to mental/behavioral health services.
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OPTIONS FOR YOUTH
For 20 years, OFY has worked to expand life opportunities for Chicago’s most vulnerable teens on the South and West Sides. Since 2017, our What’s Up with Manhood program has worked with LatinX and African American boys in Little Village to overcome the trauma of violence and toxic gender norms they encounter on the streets, at home, and in school. Through a long-term commitment, our Mentors work with over 100 high school boys each year to help them develop social emotional and life skills leading to healthy masculinity, responsible behavior and academic success. Ultimately, over 95% of our teens finish high school (the majority accepted to college) and demonstrate a greater appreciation for peaceful conflict resolution and gender equality.
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CHICAGO PERIOD PROJECT
Chicago Period Project is a 501c3 organization established in 2016 by Ashley Novoa and a group of moms she met online. Harnessed by frustration towards the election and defunding talks of Planned Parenthood, Ashley and team launched Chicago Period Project to help and support Chicago's marganized menstruators. Chicago Period Project is a community based organization whose mission is to help every menstruating person in Chicago experience their periods with dignity. Menstrual hygiene products for a period lifetime cost about $1700, our mission is to aid those living below the poverty line to experience healthy periods. In our almost 5 years of existence, we have donated over 600,000 period products throughout our most needed communities.