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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ERIKSON INSTITUTE
Erikson Institute’s work in the early childhood field improves the lives of young children, lifting up families and the communities where they live. We approach all of our work with a racial equity lens so we may best serve the children and families in our care. With this in mind, Erikson understands that the work of restructuring inequitable systems begins with ourselves. Therefore, this fall, Erikson’s full-time faculty and staff have begun to participate in race equity trainings with Chicago ROAR. A grant from Healing Illinois will allow us to continue this work, expand training more widely across Erikson, and equip our community with the skills to create antiracist and anti-oppressive structures both outside and within our own walls.
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Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
This initiative will seek to promote racial healing by organizing a series of community meetings with parents and youth. We will examine the systemic racism that is perpetrated through an over reliance on policing in communities and in schools. We will host 4 community dialogue events, two youth-focused and two adult-focused. Participants will be invited to take part in recorded interviews that to explore their personal experiences. All footage would be used to create a montage video to be shared publicly to help foster public dialogue on racial healing and systemic change. Community leaders will apply the skills learned to BPNC’s policy change campaign addressing policies that have caused systemic harm to Black and Brown communities.
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ILLINOIS ART EDUCATION ASSN
Extending the IAEA's equity-focused initiatives this project addresses underlying systematic disparities in arts education and serves educators throughout Illinois. Experts will develop resources and educator training that promotes high-quality, racially just lessons in arts classrooms. Targeted regions will participate in developed trainings and improve existing lessons through the lens of anti-racism. New resources and lessons will be digitally disseminated across Illinois and a webinar featuring participant educators will highlight changes in their practice. Additionally, the IAEA Board will engage in a consultant-led discussion to reflect on how its operation can further promote equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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Public Narrative
Public Narrative and Thrive Chicago request funding to provide racial healing practitioner and communications training to male educators of color to build their capacity to influence policies across Chicago Public Schools (CPS) that foster greater equity for BYMOC and increased retention rates for male educators of color. Research shows that male educators of color have a profound impact on student achievement, particularly for BYMOC. This project will better enable male educators of color to serve students, model the role boys and young men can and must play as healers in their communities, and how to leverage communications skills to facilitate narrative change and advance racial equity for BYMOC across all sectors.
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CTF ILLINOIS
ACCESS Behavioral Health utilizes virtual supports for providing mental health services to those in need. Through virtual supports, ACCESS has continued providing person-centered, one-on-one care for those seeking evidence based care for mental health. Originally crafted to combat the negative effects on mental health associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, ACCESS seeks to expand supports, and open a dialogue for the racial disparities COVID-19’s impact has revealed. With the help of professional counselors and facilitators, those in need may begin these discussions with ACCESS Behavioral Health of CTF ILLINOIS.
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FULL SPECTRUM FEATURES NFP
This application proposes a project consisting of three activities that center racial healing and the implementation of equity initiatives. Full Spectrum’s Executive Director and Director of Operations have participated in racial healing circles and believe in the importance of healing through honest conversation and self reflection. First and foremost, we want to invite our staff, board and artist network into a healing space because we believe that every human should be given the opportunity to engage and experience healing.
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YogaCare
This project builds off of the growing work of YogaCare and one of its key initiatives, the Socially Engaged Yoga Network (SEYN), to expand racial justice and healing justice work throughout Chicagoland organizers and yoga communities. The project will engage organizers and healers citywide, providing racial healing circles, resource sharing, decolonized yoga, and self-care tools. The overall goal is to build a foundation among both the yoga community and Chicagoland communities of activists and organizers for long-term racial healing and the creation of anti-racist systems. The project aims to reach at least 50 yoga teachers, organizers, and activists as well as the over 40 staff, volunteers, and board members of YogaCare and SEYN itself.
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Pillars Community Health
PCH serves individuals and families, focusing on those who are low-income, uninsured, experiencing homelessness, and survivors of domestic and sexual violence. We provide a continuum of physical and behavioral health services and work to reduce barriers to care that affect our target population. The toll of COVID-19 highlights the need for providers, including PCH, to address systemic inequities and provide care in the communities we serve. In the coming year, we are investing resources to support diversity, equity, and inclusion as we become a trauma-informed organization. This initiative will not only enhance quality of care at PCH but will also create a model for other organizations comprehensively addressing racial justice and trauma.