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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La Casa Norte
LCN's mission is to serve youth and families confronting homelessness. We provide access to stable housing and deliver comprehensive services that act as a catalyst to transform lives and communities. Our Continuum of Care includes drop-in centers for youth, emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing. We recognize numerous barriers and needs affect that confronting homelessness, so are services include a Nutrition Center, with a food pantry and community café, in our new Community Center. This facility includes Howard Brown Health Center, to which we refer clients, making health care more accessible. Typically, clients and residents also utilize our Clothing Closet, where we distribute clothing and supplies.
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YOUNG INVINCIBLES
Beginning summer 2021, Young Invincibles will build a multi-pronged effort designed to educate young adults, with a focus on young adults of color, about the COVID vaccine in Chicagoland, developing key messaging that resonates with a broader young adult audience, and provide information about resources where they can make vaccination appointments, leveraging the existing young adult engagement programs and digital outreach and communications platforms that we’ve built over the last decade. Our goal is to ensure access to critical and trusted information about the vaccine for young people with a focus on communities of color and underserved, harder to reach populations so that every young person can make the best decision for themselves.
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CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY
This proposal supports the involvement of three organizations – the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), the Active Transportation Alliance, and Equiticity – to participate in coalitions regarding transportation equity and mobility justice. Our three groups are the co-chairs of the Transportation Equity Network (TEN), a recently-formed coalition that includes 30 community groups, civic organizations, equitable transportation advocates, academics, and other stakeholders. This grant will be used in large part to support the continued involvement and leadership of our three organizations in this coalition, and will also support our involvement in other related coalitions.
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THE HARBOUR INC
The Harbour provides emergency housing and services to youth experiencing homelessness to promote safety, stability, and personal growth. We empower young people to self-sufficiency through safe housing and support services to prevent homelessness. Three programs define our care: Safe Harbour Emergency Shelter provides emergency shelter and crisis intervention for homeless female and transgender youth ages 12-20; Youth in Transition provides supervised group housing and scattered-site housing for female and transgender youth ages 16-23; Successful Teens/Effective Parents (“STEPs”) provides transitional living and specialized services for homeless pregnant and parenting youth ages 16-22 to foster positive family stability.
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Gary Comer Youth Center Inc.
GCYC's wide scope of services addresses the needs of youth and their families through youth employment programs, enrichment programming, family counseling, meal service, and academic supports. We also host a range of community programs and partner with other CBOs to offer events and workshops to support advancement of our community. Funding for our work would allow us to leverage our youth membership to reach their caregivers and other adults in the community. All of our work is designed and delivered through the lens of trauma-informed care and curriculum. Working with youth and their families in a holistic fashion, we promote family resiliency and stability to address our community's needs.
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Chicago Youth Programs Inc
CYP’s Path to Wellness provides mental health services for families who need more to overcome trauma which is now compounded by COVID-19, police brutality, and racial tensions. Path to Wellness will help heal generational and historical traumas that have long been neglected by providing education, support, and services tailored for the whole family: 1. Establish a Mental Health Pipeline by partnering with Phoenix Rising, a Black led, full-service mental health provider located within the service area. 2. Lead psycho-educational workshops to help destigmatize mental health. 3. Increase Social Emotional Learning using Overcoming Obstacles, an evidence-based restorative justice program covering critical SEL skills for Grades K-12.
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SAVING LIVES INC
In an effort to holistically, creatively, and effectively address social determinants that have left the precious lives of youth and families struggling to survive in the marginalized forgotten neighborhood of Roseland in Chicago, Saving Lives, Inc working with IMPACT Family Center will continue to create avenues to address a lack in equity of resources and supports vital to transforming lives and communities. Utilizing the synergy of two productive organizations Saving Lives Mental and IMPACT Family Center we intend to create a multi-faceted program that creates concrete solutions.
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Latin United Community Housing Association (LUCHA)
LUCHA advances housing as a human right by empowering communities - particularly immigrant, Latinx, and Black populations - through advocacy, affordable housing development, and community building to close the racial and ethnic wealth gap. Operating support from the Trust will 1) further access to comprehensive education, financial assistance, and legal representation during closing for first-time LMI homebuyers of color; 2) sustain homeownership for said homebuyers via post-purchase counseling, affordable repair/renovation financing, and estate planning; 3) advance policies to preserve and create affordable housing; and 4) address housing affordability and the threat of displacement by preserving 1-4 unit buildings via shared equity.