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| Organization | Description |
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| Association House Of Chicago | Provides social, educational, and health programs promoting health and wellness, educational advancement, and economic empowerment. Community Services include career-oriented education and training, employment programs, child guardianship and adoption of children, and prevention, treatment and education for mental health issues. Association House also provides an alternative High School (The Association House High School; formerly El Cuarto Año High School). Phone Number: 773-772-7170 Location: 1116 N. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, IL 60651 Website |
| Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BNPC) | Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BPNC) is a community-based, nonprofit organization serving the needs of residents on Chicago's Southwest side. Programs and organizing focus on five core issue areas: economic justice, health care affordability and access, Immigrant justice, community safety and violence prevention, and education justice. Phone Number: 773-523-7110 Location: 4477 S. Archer Ave., Chicago, IL 60632 Website |
| Enlace Chicago | Enlace is a community-based organization with focus in four areas: education, health, immigration and violence prevention. Enlace engages four key strategies that include organizing and advocacy, program implementation and service delivery, convening and community planning and individual and community capacity building. Enlace organizes community-based workshops, provides free legal services and engages in policy advocacy through a partnership with the Community Activism Law Alliance (CALA). Website Main Office Phone Number: 773-542-9233 Location: 756 S. Harding Ave., Chicago, IL 60623 Troy Office Phone Number: 773-823-1062 Location: 2329 S. Troy St., Chicago, IL 60623 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | Erie Neighborhood House is a non-profit community organization committed to the well-being of families. Provides programs for children and youth, adults, and families. Website Erie Neighborhood House Phone Number: 312-666-3430 Location: 1347 W. Erie St., Chicago, IL 60642 Erie Community Center Phone Number: 312-563-5800 Location: 1701 W. Superior St., Chicago, IL 60622 Little Village Phone Number: 773-542-7617 Location: 4225 W. 25th St., Chicago, IL 60623 Erie Elementary Charter School Phone Number: 773-486-7161 Location: 1405 N. Washtenaw St., Chicago, IL 60622 |
| Family Focus | Family Focus promotes well-being of children and families through programs in early childhood development, youth development, and family support services. Phone Number: 773-722-5057 Location: 3517 W. Arthington St., Chicago, IL 66024 Website |
| Garfield Community Service Center, Chicago Department Of Community Service | DFSS Community Service Centers help individuals and families in need access a wide range of resources from shelter, food and clothing to domestic violence assistance, job training/placement and prisoner re-entry. Residents can get information about rental, utility and other financial assistance programs. The facilities serve as Warming and Cooling Centers during periods of extreme weather. DFSS’ six Community Service Centers are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Phone Number: 312-746-5400 Location: 10 S. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, IL 60612 Website |
| Healthy Families Chicago- Westside Family Advocacy Center | Healthy Families Chicago is a nonprofit community based organization providing services to families through programs and services that include: home visitor program for parents, resources and support for families who have assumed guardianship of children, adoption respite, birth parent mentoring, family advocacy, and mentoring for women and mothers coming out of the correctional system. Phone Number: 773-257-0111 Location: 2100 S. Marshall Blvd., Chicago, IL 60623 Website |
| Metropolitan Family Services | Metropolitan Family Services provides a variety of programs and services to strengthen families including education to economically challenged families, academic achievement and social and emotional development among children, youth and families, supportive, caring counseling for individuals and families, and legal services for cases of domestic violence, family and elder law, and housing and consumer issues. Phone Number: 312-986-4000 Location: 1 N. Dearborn St., Suite 1000, Chicago, IL 60602 Website |
| North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council (NLCCC) | NLCCC is a group of community-based organizations, business owners, elected officials, and individuals committed to improving the physical, economic, and social conditions in North Lawndale through strategic and comprehensive planning, civic engagement, and implementation of stakeholder-driven initiatives. Phone Number: 773-826-1356 Location: 1111 S. Homan Ave., Suite 201, Chicago, IL 60624 Website |
| Angel Parents “Padres Ángeles" | Violence prevention with actions based on faith and love. Their work is focused on family restoration and strengthening for creating safe communities. Phone Number: 773-510-8900 or 773-698-9974 Location: 2651 S. Central Park Ave., Chicago, IL 60623 Email: padresangeles@gmail.com |
| St. Pius – Hope Program | St. Pius V is a Catholic parish in the Pilsen neighborhood on Chicago’s near southwest side. The church assists with needed services including emergency services (soup kitchen, food pantry, referrals to other services), counseling and family services at St. Pius (counseling, domestic violence services, marriage enrichment, parenting skills), and legal services (The Chicago Legal Clinic operates at St. Pius and provides low-cost legal assistance for immigration and other matters). Phone Number: 312- 226-6161 Location: 1919 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60608 Website |
| Salvation Army La Villita Corps. | The Salvation Army is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church and provides social services such as rent assistance, utility assistance, and food pantries. Phone Number: 773-257-0700 Location: 3621 W. 24th St., Chicago, IL 60623 Website |
| Sinai Community Institute | Sinai Community Institute (SCI) provides a wide variety of community-based services and programs including workforce development, WIC, social services for the elderly and people with disabilities, early childhood development, afterschool programs, summer camps, and connecting people to health resources. Phone Number: 773-257-6508 Location: 2653 W. Ogden, Chicago IL 60608 Website |
| Southwest Organizing Project | The Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) is a broad-based organization of 34 Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith institutions, public and private schools, and other institutions in Southwest Chicago. Activities address efforts to end predatory lending and foreclosures, reduce violence, win rights and protect the civil liberties of immigrants, and improve achievement in public schools through parent, student and school staff engagement. Phone Number: 773-471-8208 Location: 2558 W 63rd St., Chicago, IL 60629 Website |
| Taller De José | Taller de José is a resource center that accompanies and connects people in need to services and services to people. Services include: referrals to other services, offsite accompaniment via public transportation, assistance completing forms or reading and translating documents, emotional support, advocacy, and basic case management. Phone Number: 773-523-1402 Location: 2831 W. 24th Blvd., Chicago, IL 60623 Email: info@tallerdejose.org Website |
| Telpochcalli Community Education Project (TCEP) | Telpochcalli Community Education Project (TCEP) is a nonprofit organization located in the Little Village/South Lawndale community of Chicago’s west side. TCEP offers a variety of cultural and educational programs for community members by community members. Phone Number: 773-534-1402 ext. 60768 Location: 2832 W. 24th Blvd., Chicago, IL 60623 Email: Info@TcepChicago.org Website |
| Universidad Popular | Universidad Popular is a nonprofit organization focused on promoting community empowerment through participatory learning. Programs include: Learning to Succeed (adult education and ESL), Digital Literacy Program (technology class where participants learn how to use Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Publisher, Power Point and Internet basic skills. Students also create resumes, letters, banners, flyers, business cards, Power Point presentations, Excel budgets). UP to Youth (youth program to foster civic engagement, cultivate a positive self-image and healthy living, improve academic performance and achievement, foster creative problem-solving skills, and expand parent involvement), Health Literacy Initiative (a program to improve residents’ quality of life through nutrition, exercise, and stress reduction) and Overcoming Barriers to Success (a program for young adults, adults, seniors with physical, emotional, or intellectual disabilities in Little Village and the surrounding communities of Chicago). Phone Number: 773-733-5055 Location: 2801 S. Hamlin Ave., Chicago, IL 60623 Website |
| Youth Guidance | Youth Guidance creates and implements school-based programs that enable youth, in underresourced communities, to overcome obstacles, focus on their education and, ultimately, succeed in school and in life. Programs and Services include: counseling and prevention, workforce development, and community and afterschool programs. Phone Number: 312-253-4900 Location: 1 N. LaSalle St., Suite 900, Chicago, IL 60602 Website |