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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Planned Parenthood of Illinois
The Practical Support Pilot Program for gender-affirming care patients will provide travel, lodging, and food stipends to gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) patients at PPIL who need practical support in order to access care.
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Medical Organization for Latino Advancement
Latina/x/o LGBTQ+ communities in Chicago experience disparities in chronic and infectious diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, and HIV, and these disparities are exacerbated by disparate access to quality LGBTQ+ affirming care provided in Spanish. Health systems that provide care to Latina/x/o LGBTQ+ communities are currently seeking staff training that is culturally affirming and linguistically concordant for monolingual Spanish speaking LGBTQ+ individuals in Chicago. Culturally and linguistically concordant care can lead to better access, accurate diagnosis, adherence to care and treatment outcomes. The Medical Organization for Latino Advancement (MOLA), together with the Association for Latinos/as/xs Motivating Action (ALMA), seeks to establish a collaborative partnership with faculty in the Feinberg School of Medicine to plan and develop a health education curriculum on Latina/x/o LGBTQ+ health and provision of care to Spanish-speaking LGBTQ+ communities.
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Housing Opportunities & Maintenance for the Elderly, Inc.
H.O.M.E. respectfully requests renewal funding to support its affordable intergenerational housing, which provides a safe and welcoming environment for older LGBTQIA+ adults.
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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.