3C Community Profile: Humboldt Park
Take a stroll down the Paseo Boricua corridor on Division Street and it’s easy to see why Humboldt Park is one of Chicago’s most vibrant…
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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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Firebird Community Arts
A holistic and sustainable model for long-term racial healing and anti-racism in Chicago and beyond, our three pronged proposal includes training combined with tangible actions to put the training into lasting community use, as well as supports for healthy, sustainable growth. Training staff and youth in SELF trauma-informed curriculum to address the complex trauma of structural racism, initiating a youth-led public art interpretation of the SELF concepts as tools for healing, engaging in racial healing circles, and providing mental health support, Firebird Community Arts (FCA) will model healthy social connections and behaviors to simultaneously dismantle oppressive structures while imagining and building healthy practices to replace them.
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CHICAGO RECOVERING COMMUNITIES COALITION
The conversation of “Race and impact on Mental Wellness,” will be integrated in existing ‘Zoom Peace Session/Peace Circles. Speak Your Peace, ‘will allow participants to share effect of race on their lives.” Discussion on 1) light versus darker, 2) race and employment, 3) discrimination, anger, hurt and depression, will be themes facilitator will introduce and in a space of safety participants share how race impacted them. Finally, Is It Trauma, and thus how do we heal, “will be addressed in the restorative circles. CRCC promotes restorative strategies to aid in strengthening communities “ Speak Your Peace”, Racial Healing Discussions will allow existing participants to share feelings that can lead to strengthening their recovery.
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COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTERS OF CHICAGO
C4 is requesting support to provide mental health clinical staff and peer navigators with training on racial healing that will provide self-reflection and will increase competencies to engage racial healing dialogue with clients.
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APNA GHAR INC OUR HOME
Through this project we will reflect deeply on the legacy of systemic inequities and the generational impact, and recommit ourselves to a just and fair society informed by the experiences of the most marginalized. Our work will: Build understanding of racial healing/equity on the North and South sides & within Cook County. Increase trust/collaboration through the survivors of Apna Ghar, along with community leaders, faith-based organizations & non-profits. Create opportunities for healing. promote dialogue and facilitate learning through podcasts/workshops. Build long-term healing through a tool kit to uncover ongoing power imbalances/dynamics of racial inequities, and encourage a train the trainer approach across organizations.
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THE IMMIGRATION PROJECT INC
TIP will collaborate with trained facilitators on two series of racial and restorative justice workshops for the Latinx and AAPI communities and host a book club for local non-profits. These series and book clubs will focus on racial healing and equity-informed practices so that attendees are given resources on how best to affirm BIPOC identities and serve the BIPOC immigrant community. We will also partner with local counselors to offer free mental health sessions to the local Latinx community in need of a safe space to talk through the hurt and discrimination they have faced. Additionally, children’s books on racial identity and affirmation will be purchased for the YWCA daycare and our office waiting area where children visit.
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Employee Connections Inc.
Our agency was established as a 501 (C) (3) organization in 2008. We have operated 17 workforce development programs & serviced over 2,000 youth/adults with barriers & those incarcerated. The issues of unrest in our community with law enforcement , high dropout rates, unemployment & high incarceration rates with African-Americans & Hispanics in our community is the reason for our proposal. We are proposing a project called “UNI’FORUM” – A Community Outreach Initiative to Rebuild Trust. Our Mission is to bring residents, law enforcement and government officials together to resolve these issues. We are seeking $30,000 to support our development/hosting of a series of forums, workshops, and events to bring healing to our community.
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THE RENAISSANCE COLLABORATIVE INC
Restorative and racial justice is of the utmost importance in an organization that has many black and brown faces. The people we serve go out into the world every day with burdens that can't easily be erased and so programming around how to heal are needed and The Renaissance Collaborative's (TRC) service staff are just the people to help them learn how to do that healing. TRC have a wealth of experience working with this specific population and come to know the residents intimately over time. This program will train the TRC service staff in the areas of racial and restorative justice and provide residents with the incentive to attend racial and restorative justice group sessions to begin this healing process.
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GUILD COMPLEX
The Guild requests $10,000 in support from the Healing Illinois initiative to help us fund our upcoming Press Room initiatives. Press Room is a one-year-old series of live events that asks what literary voices can add to important contemporary conversations in politics and current events. We invite participants to tell a story or read a piece of writing that relates to the given topic from a first-person perspective. These opportunities for dialogue and connection will be held in conjunction with the Guild’s ongoing commitment to offer diverse spaces and opportunities for writers, both established and new, throughout the city of Chicago. We believe that these discussions are integral in fostering new connections and driving action.