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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Fathers Who Care
Too Good for Violence and Summer Anti-Violence Engagement Programs - During this program period we will facilitate pop-up anti-violence and CAN TV activities in our community combined efforts to provide young people with 20 to 24 weeks of anti-violence and community development activities and programming on via our Community Leadership meetings, CAN TV 21 shows and Violence Prevention activities. Our young people and community leaders will work together to discuss and plan activities and topics that are of concerns such as reducing senseless violence, public safety, and substance abuse.
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Project Purity
This summer Project Purity has ran a six-week wellness youth program engaging youth ages 14 to 19 years old. Youth learned about six targeted areas of wellness: mental, emotional, physical and relational/communal health. Project Purity is applying for a three day Labor Day event in which youth will partake in a culminating celebration, a wellness retreat. This wellness retreat will focus on the six elements of wellness that they journeyed through, throughout the summer. Activities will include, connecting with mentors, participating in team-building exercises, exploring nature, creating wellness plans, and displaying their final wellness capstone projects.
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Westside Cultural Alliance
Westside Cultural Alliance Boxing Collaboration is a Boxing and Fitness Training Program which is a Youth Violence Initiative.
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Golden Street, LLC
We will utilize our space Downtown for a series of 2 weekly events, Golden Street Sketch Stage on Monday, August 14th, and Golden Street Health Report on Monday, August 21st. We will host a Golden Street Back to School Concert in collaboration with Far South CDC on Sunday, September 3 at Pop Heights Park in Roseland, Chicago, IL. We will invite the youth and families to join us in enjoying these community events.
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Austin Adams Block Club
The Austin Adams Block Club is a current recipient of the 2023 Safe & Peaceful Fund. With this grant, we look to enhance leadership skills in the youth who are currently in our programs. The youth in our program consists of 10 college and high school students who have met to decide what type of youth-led programming they wanted to see. Besides helping to plan and design the Labyrinth in the Austin Green Team's community garden, the youth will lead with the designing, planning, and execution of several community activations, including a small Labor Day Musical in the Park.
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Kells Park Community Council
We have different events each month to keep our youth involved. For the month of August, we are reaching out to the youths to see what more we can do to keep them interested and their minds occupied with no violence. We have planned an event called Fortnite Express. We have plans to set up four games on a Thursday evening and see if the children will compete. With them trying to reach the prize. We are offering 3 prizes, from 100.00 to 75.00 and 25.00. the next week in August we will have the paint and sip where the children will paint and try to win prizes. The same dollar amounts. We are doing these events to see what the youths want. We are having a Thursday so we can see how the events are received. The youth are busy every day not just weekends, so we are trying to factor on Thursdays to their busy schedules.
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SANKOFA SAFE CHILD INC
Sankofa Safe Child Initiative (Sankofa) would like to offer cultural engagement and health/hygiene awareness programming, during August 6- 21, for 15 African American and Latino youth ages 5-18 years in the North Lawndale, Garfield Park, and Austin Communities. During this time, Sankofa will conduct 4 field trips on Tuesdays and Thursdays to the Underground Railroad Memorial; Brookfield Zoo; Children’s Museum in Oak Lawn; and the Museum of Science and Industry. Each trip will be supervised by 3 parental volunteers and 1 Sankofa staff member. These trips are designed to expose youth to interesting, popular, and relevant cultural institutions to increase community engagement and cohesiveness. In addition, on Mondays and Wednesdays, Sankofa will work with the IL Caucus for Adolescent Health to facilitate participant information sessions on HPV awareness, as well and personal hygiene and wellness. Sankofa has noted that many youth have very poor hygiene, etiquette, and self-care habits. Sankofa wishes to ensure that youth can start the 2023-24 academic year with the best possible information for their personal wellness and overall self-esteem.
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83rd Street Block Club
The 83rd and Elizabeth Block Club will host a Block Club Celebration on 8/19/23. We would like to Rent a Video Game Truck for 2 hours for the youth. Labor Day weekend have a Friends and Family Fishing Derby, Serve food, beverages and have educational materials. Also Birding watching, Nature walks.