Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
Since the mid-20th century, homeownership has been one of the most important vehicles for building wealth in the United States. According to research from the…
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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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P.A.S.O.- West Suburban Action Project
PASO seeks funding to: 1. Continue rebuilding our legal immigration services clinic in order to provide services to the immigrant community in the west suburbs. 2. Support asylum seekers and recent arrival individuals and families. 3. Develop 30 community leaders to address issues of health and housing within their communities.
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Friends of the Highwood Public Library
The Highwood Library & Community Center’s Early Childhood Literacy programming provides children aged 0-6 with the social, emotional, cognitive and linguistic support they need to enter school ready to succeed. The program provides the foundation needed to foster a level of comfort with structured learning and prepares children to succeed in the school learning environment. This interactive programming with parents and children familiarizes children with elements of their early education, getting them excited about learning. The program also helps parents and caregivers to obtain valuable tools and strategies to help nurture their child's early development. Parents of children ages 0-6 are provided with parent engagement support and education on the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to support their children’s academic success. Educational parent workshops provide guidance on the important role a parent plays in the academic success of their child, how to prepare children for kindergarten, and increase awareness of the resources available to address barriers. Our multi-pronged approach is designed to help Spanish-speaking immigrant parents to increase confidence in their role as their child’s first teacher, and support Latinx children to be more prepared for a structured learning environment, and gain confidence in the developmental skills necessary for Kindergarten preparedness.
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Latino Policy Forum
The Latino Policy Forum is the only organization in the Chicago area that facilitates the involvement of Latinos at all levels of public decision-making. Acting through our collaborative model which engages more than 150 community-based organizations, groups, and coalitions, we address the broad spectrum of Latinos’ needs and opportunities through engaging, advocating, informing, collaborating, and leading. We propose to use that collaborative approach to address a broad range of immigration issues through community engagement, advocacy, and education.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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Partners for Our Communities (POC)
Immigration relief and wrap-around services for immigrant families are vital to the growth and success of our local economy. With your general operating support, POC will improve program effectiveness and help more immigrants become self-sufficient by improving agency infrastructure. POC has provided these services for over 30 years and prides itself on giving a voice to this unique population through immigration relief assistance, leadership, skill building, mental health support, and assisting with basic needs. POC has built relationships with networks across Illinois that focus on immigrant rights and success for clients and staff to learn and gain better employment.
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CommunityHealth NFP
As a key member of the safety net in Chicago, CommunityHealth is proactively working to address the ongoing migrant crisis by providing not only immediate medical relief at polic precincts, but also registering asylum seekers as CommunityHealth patients so that they can receive consistent and comprehensive care, including mental health services. On May 9th, the mayor of Chicago issued a declaration of emergency in response to the influx of migrants. City representatives reached out to request assistace from local community-led organizations. CommunityHealth jumped into action immediately, and on May 24th we deployed our first mobile clinic, made up of a small group of CommunityHealth staff and volunteers. Our mobile clinic unit has continued to visit police precincts twice a week, performing health screenings and registering individuals as new patients for follow-up care at CommunityHealth. Throughout the ongoing crisis, CommunityHealth has collaborated with many other community-based organizations and individual volunteers to ensure that migrants have access not only to medical care, but also medications and personal hygiene products. Though the circumstances that necessitated this cooperation are dire, they have also presented an opportunity to strengthen partnerships between local charity organizations. Moving forward, CommunityHealth aims to maintain the interdisciplinary unity demonstrated in this emergency situation in order to better address the wraparound needs of our patients. With your support, CommunityHealth can continue to enact our essential role in Chicago’s response to migrant arrival, as well as provide ongoing comprehensive care to the asylum seekers who become our patients long-term.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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Expanded Mental Health Services of Chicago NFP
The Kedzie Center/EMHS seeks to address the needs of our community through parent-child programs for children of ages 0-6 and clinical services for uninsured immigrants who present with trauma, depression, anxiety and chronic stress. These funds will support a bilingual evidence-based early childhood development program, Abriendo Puertas, as well as bilingual clinical services for uninsured immigrants who might otherwise not receive care, including recent arrivals.