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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. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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ADLER UNIVERSITY
Adler University requests a $25,000 grant to support Adler Community Health Services (ACHS)’s partnership with Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts). Adler Community Health Services is Adler’s clinical training program and mobile behavioral health clinic. Through ACHS’s clinical training programs, Adler’s graduate student-clinicians provide free, trauma-informed individual and group counseling to ChiArts students–many of whom identify as LGBTQ+–as well as additional training for teachers and staff to help increase awareness and recognition of trauma and mental health symptoms in teens. The goal of this partnership is to increase the number of teens who access mental and behavioral healthcare. By increasing access to care, the partnership aims to improve long-term social-emotional outcomes for teen participants, which include strengthened personal relationships and reduced rates of anxiety, depression, suicide, violence, and involvement in the justice system.
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MCDERMOTT CENTER
Haymarket Center proposes Comprehensive Services for LGBTQ individuals, a project to provide mental health care, primary health care, and housing assistance to 118 LGBTQ individuals from the Chicagoland area over the course of 1 year.
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Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
Since 1888, Heartland Alliance has provided trauma-informed care, social services, and safety, housing, and economic support to millions of individuals impacted by systemic oppression. Its policy advocacy and research initiatives have reached millions more. We advocate on behalf of those denied justice: communities impacted by disinvestment and violence; the medically underserved; the unhoused; and immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Recent humanitarian crises reinforce the crucial need for our programs; but financial challenges have put our services at risk. We need your help to sustain our life-saving programs. At this time, we are formally requesting $100,000 to help stabilize the Alliance financially.
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Taskforce Prevention and Community Services
TaskForce Prevention & Community Services (TF), founded in 1990, is a community-based nonprofit organization(CBO) committed to improving the well-being and sexual health of LGBTQ+ youth of color. Located on the West side of Chicago, in the heart of the Austin community, TF provides a safe space for fellowship, HIV/STI screening and education, workforce development, food pantry, clothing closet and on-site referrals to culturally responsive medical care providers, housing, legal, and other social services. The agency’s board of directors, staff, and community stakeholders work together to approach preventive healthcare holistically, with particular attention to how they can change the structural conditions that produce health inequity in Chicago and address the historical and ongoing harms of racism and anti-LGBTQ+ stigma through institutional partnerships in the public and private sector. TaskForce seeks a $50,000 general operating grant to support implementing a mental initiative involving training in Teen Mental Health First Aid and holding mental health summits for community members to share their concerns and learn about local resources.
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HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER
Howard Brown Health respectfully requests $25,000 from the Chicago Community Trust’s LGBTQ Fund to address and combat the medical, mental, and social inequities faced by LGBTQ+ youth through the agency’s Broadway Youth Center [BYC]. Support from the Chicago Community Trust LGBTQ Fund will provide support to the agency's integrated Medical Care, Behavioral Healthcare, and Resource Advocacy programs.
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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.