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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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NAMI Chicago
NAMI Chicago provides mental health support, education, and advocacy throughout the City of Chicago and parts of Illinois. Mental health and mental illness affect everyone, no matter who they are or what demographic they are from, so we are committed to answering the call for anyone who reaches out regardless of background. We focus our outreach efforts on communities and populations with high rates of uninsured or underinsured individuals, high rates of trauma and risk factors, and significant barriers to accessing mental health care outside of the crisis system. NAMI Chicago engages with communities all over the city through our training and education initiatives focused on school based social emotional learning, recovery support groups, and community outreach to connect individuals with the resources and tools needed for mental health and wellness. NAMI Chicago is seeking capacity building support from the Nuestro Futuro initiative to strengthen our team with additional bilingual staff. These lived experience staff members will provide school based mental health and wellness training in Spanish and English; answer calls on our free mental health Helpline to connect Latinx individuals with culturally competent and accessible care; and host peer-led Recovery Support groups and classes in Spanish and English for individuals experiencing mental health conditions, as well as groups for their families and loved ones to engage in a community of support while combating the isolation often associated with caregiving.
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TUESDAYS CHILD
The Behavioral Intervention program is our flagship program and is an 8 week bilingual program, for families with children between the ages birth to six years and is the original and core program of the organization. This program is provided on a weekly basis with parents and their children simultaneously receiving counseling and classroom intervention at the onsite Parent Training Room and Behavioral Classroom. These services are offered for an 8 week program on Saturdays for working parents. Parent Training The Tuesday’s Child approach believes intervention should take place in the context of a caregiver/child context (vs. focusing solely on the caregiver or the child) by using a functional family system premise. Parent training involves using a Social Learning Theory model with one-on-one education from peer mentors, group workshops and group counseling from a Clinical Psychologist. Our parenting program helps parents identify ineffective parenting strategies in their home, and provide positive behavior management techniques to change inappropriate behaviors in their children. Parents enrolled develop confidence, knowledge and the skills to develop behavioral goal plans that help their children successfully navigate the world. Behavioral Classroom The Behavioral Classroom is the child-based approach to behavior modification through a classroom structure. It utilizes a curriculum/classroom structure that emphasizes overall social proficiency and school readiness. The philosophy is to use this structure to provide opportunities and support for children’s innate drive for exploration, growth and mastery of their environment while providing them clearly articulated choices and structures providing growth in early childhood milestones. The children spend the 1.5 hours in the classroom in structured free play working on compliance, time on task, socialization, participation, motor skills, language/literacy and cognitive skills. The next hour the children participate in clean-up, snack, story-time, gym and music.
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LATINO UNION INC
Latino Union requests support from Nuestro Futuro in support of our work developing immigrant community leaders in Chicago among the day laborer and household worker populations that live and work in the city and surrounding suburbs.
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Mujeres Latinas En Accion, Inc.
Helping Chicago's Immigrant Community Heal & Thrive In this request, Mujeres Latina en Acción is asking for a total of $40,000. First, $20,000 will continue to support our Community Engagement & Mobilization Program, which continues to empower community-solutions to address health disparities in the Chicago's immigrant communities. Additionally, we are asking for $20K to increase the capacity of Mujeres’ advocacy by supporting the salary of a bilingual Advocacy Manager. This position will be responsible for building more leadership opportunities for Mujeres’ grassroots leaders.
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CHILDRENS CENTER OF CICERO-BERWYN INC
The Children’s Center of Cicero Berwyn is requesting for $20,000 to hire a part-time bilingual support staff as an additional adult in a classroom to support development aspects such as social, emotional, cognitive, physical, cultural and linguistic in a classroom with challenging behavior issues due to COVID impact. Additional person will lend a hand to teachers in a classroom of 20 children from 3 to 5 years of age, especially during the occurrences of challenging issues. Children are returning to classrooms from COVID aftereffects, there have been an increase in challenging behavior issues in classrooms. The Children’s Center of Cicero Berwyn serves about 950 families in the Chicago area communities, largely Latinx communities and service Latinx population. Over 80% birth to five children are Latinx; over 73% staff serving children re Latinx. The Children’s Center has nine locations in Cicero, Berwyn, and Stickney with the capacity to serve 950 birth to five.
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SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER
Spanish Community Center is seeking $26,250 to partially cover the salaries of two key staff members working in our immigration programs, our Immigration Director of the New Americans Initiative (NAI), and our Immigration Attorney who oversees our Access to Justice program, as well as supervises all legal immigration activities across all of our programs. SCC's immigration programming would not be able to continue without these two positions funded, and your support will ensure that quality immigration legal services remain available in our community.
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Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project
The Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) seeks a general operating grant to deliver a yearlong series of Latinx-led culturally-competent outreach and community legal education workshops to low-income Latinx immigrant workers, including undocumented workers, and their families who live in the City of Chicago. FLAP staff will link attendees needing free legal and social services to appropriate pro bono providers. To ensure it has a 24/7 presence in Chicago, FLAP will use a portion of the grant to hire Latinx immigrants living in Chicago neighborhoods to be its representatives. These community navigators will be FLAP’s eyes and ears in the community, providing education to fellow Latinxs in between formal FLAP visits and referring those with potential cases of workplace wrongdoing to FLAP staff for follow-up. In this way, FLAP will reach more immigrants more often and provide more low-income plaintiffs with access to the justice system.
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CHICAGO WORKERS COLLABORATIVE
Chicago Workers’ Collaborative (CWC) respectfully requests $20,000 in general operating support as a nonprofit working in the field of Immigration Services. We also would like to request $10,000 in support to build the leadership capacity of our Latinx staff.