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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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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Star Farm Chicago
Star Farm Chicago, a 501(c)3 urban farm located in Back of the Yards, will host a series of four events that will engage local kids and youth through the activation of our urban farm and brick-and-mortar Fresh Market. Our programs will include: a movie night (tentatively slated for August 14th) - snacks and food included - which will activate the Fresh Market space that we share with Free Street Theater, as well as increased programming at our Fresh Market pop-ups on August 11th and 18th. Additional programming at these pop-ups will include cooking demonstrations, seedlings workshops, produce giveaways, and additional activities for kids. We will also host an Art in the Garden event, led by Star Farm's Artist in Residence, Mario Meno, on August 19th. We will use funds to cover the cost of a projector and screen, as well as costs associated with staffing, produce giveaways, materials for bucket garden/seedling giveaways, cooking demos, art supplies, event food, and marketing materials. As an organization with more than six years of programming experience, a deep understanding of the needs of our community’s children and youth, and a staff comprised of community members, many who are parents of children and youth that live in this neighborhood, we have the capacity to provide support to children and youth during the gap between Park District summer programming ends and CPS resumes.
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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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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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Chicago Chess Foundation
We plan to engage youth in the West Humboldt Park community over Labor Day Weekend, on September 2nd or 3rd. We will use this funding to host a community chess, 3x3 basketball, and 5x5 soccer tournament for youth in the community at Kedvale Park. Partnering with local schools West Park Academy, Nobel Elementary, and Cameron Elementary as well as community organizations the Bloc and RCity we will host this day-long community competition. Breakfast snacks and lunch will be provided for all participants. Our organization works closely with each of the schools and community organizations during the school year, so this will be a great collaboration to get the year kicked off and bring the community together.