Grant Recipients

Grant supports Safe Start program, which provides family-based therapy to low-income children who have experienced trauma, with a primary focus on children exposed to violence. Funding is utilized for family-centered services, including therapy sessions, case management, crisis support and intervention and follow-up support services.

ChicagoCAC's ultimate goal is to help vulnerable children and families overcome the challenges and trauma they have experienced and lead healthy, productive lives in their schools, homes and communities.

The Trauma Treatment Program (TTP) reduces disparities in mental health treatment for children from highly stressed, under-resourced communities. TTP provides intensive mental health services to children who experience violence in their homes and communities.

Grant supports Children’s Program, which provides therapeutic assistance to children residing in the agency’s emergency shelter and transitional housing as well as those receiving services through its Community Outreach Program. The program’s main goal is to increase the resiliency of children who have been dually traumatized by domestic violence and/or homelessness.

Heartland Human Care Service’s (HHCS) Violence Recovery Services (VRS) provides comprehensive crisis intervention services to more than 200 children and adults each year who are impacted by domestic violence, sexual violence, and trauma throughout the Chicagoland area.

Hephzibah cares for children who have experienced serious trauma due to severe abuse and neglect. An essential part of its mission is to ensure that children are placed in stable and supportive foster care homes. Grant supports its Family-Based Services, which are committed to supporting and strengthening the relationships between foster children, foster parents, and their biological families.

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) is one of the largest child welfare providers in the state. Families Together uses evidence-based interventions focused on the child, birth parent, and foster parent who will receive individualized assessments, training, and support.

Midway Domestic Violence Services provides domestic violence counseling. Individual and family counseling helps families experiencing domestic violence find strength, resources, and opportunities to maximize safety for themselves and their families. Services are client-centered, culturally sensitive, bilingual, and respect the survivor self-determination rights.

Latin Women in Action serves as the longest standing Latina-led, Latina-serving organization in the US. Grant supports its Children’s Therapy program, which provides support to children who are survivors of sexual violence, have witnessed domestic violence or have parents enrolled in its healing services.

One Hope United offers a diverse array of early childhood education, prevention, intervention, and community-based programs for families in Cook County. Grant supports the Extensive Community Home Outreach program, which empowers families to effectively demonstrate positive family functioning through enhancing communication and conflict resolution skills.

The Primo Center works in high ­need communities in Chicago to address the impact of extreme poverty and homelessness on parents and children. Their mission is to empower women and children to become productive, responsible, and independent members of their community.

Thresholds provides innovative behavioral and primary healthcare that promotes empowerment, well-being, and full participation in community life. Through unwavering community-based engagement, support, and advocacy, Thresholds helps people living with mental health and substance use conditions find home, health, and hope.

Grant supports Triple Play, a dynamic health and wellness program that demonstrates how eating right, staying fit and forming positive relationships lead to a healthy lifestyle. Triple Play occurs every day throughout the year at all 20 Clubs.

Girls in the Game engages girls from childhood through adolescence through a variety of physical activities. Grant supports its Sports and Leadership National Summer Camp, which provides 120+ girls with the opportunity to experience new sports, learn about healthy lifestyles and attend field trips.

Rooted in LGBTQ+ liberation, Howard Brown Health provides affirming healthcare and mobilizes for social justice. With an emphasis on LGBTQ+ people and their allies, uninsured and under-insured individuals, and people living with HIV/AIDS, the agency serves more than 40,000 adults and youth each year.

NWSCDC works with residents to develop, design, and execute sustainable strategies for the comprehensive development of the community. Over the past 10 years, Near West has carried out strategies in rebuilding the neighborhood’s social infrastructure, improving the physical and aesthetic identity, improving access to education for everyone and attracting more jobs to the area.

Spectrios empowers children and adults with vision loss, regardless of income, to optimize their visual capabilities and independence through the use of prescriptive tools, technology, rehabilitative training, and inspiration. Grant supports its Seeing is Believing program, which provides free services to 7,800+ visually impaired low-income children attending CPS schools.

After School Matters provides Chicago public high school teens opportunities to explore and develop their talents, while gaining critical skills for work, college and beyond. Grant supports its Out-of-School Time programming in Arts, Communications & Leadership, Sports, and STEM.

Bottom Line helps first-generation, degree aspiring students from low-income backgrounds get into college, graduate, and go far in life. Its Access and Success programs provide one-on-one guidance from college applications until college graduation for each of its students.

Center for Companies That Care’s signature program, AIM High, advances educational equity by increasing access to educational opportunity and high-quality education. AIM High begins working with CPS students in 9th grade and continuing until college graduation, an average of ten years.

CJA offers a High School Bridge program that helps students attending schools in communities impacted by systemic disinvestment find and succeed in their best-fit high schools. They advocate for seventh- to tenth-grade students and families as they build the foundation for their success in high school, after high school and the start of their careers.

College Possible makes college admission and success possible for low-income students through a curriculum of coaching and support beginning junior year of high school through college graduation. Grant supports its Chicago program at six local high schools. AmeriCorps service members serve as coaches and are trained to assist with the challenges students face navigating higher education.

Genesys Works’ mission is to provide pathways to career success for high school students in underserved communities through skills training, meaningful work experiences, and impactful relationships. The organization creates career pathways and opportunities for youth from underserved communities while simultaneously helping employers fill critical talent gaps within their companies.

The Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching, founded in 1985, is committed to making a material difference in resolving the teacher shortage by expanding the pipeline of highly effective, diverse educators, especially in schools-of-need. Golden Apple provides teacher preparation and college tuition assistance for students with a goal of becoming teachers.

iMentor builds mentoring relationships that empower first-generation students from low-income communities to graduate high school, succeed in college, and achieve their ambitions. Grant supports its Post-Secondary Program, which is designed to provide mentors and students with the knowledge, resources, and tools to successfully complete a two- or four-year degree.

Mercy Home saves young lives by providing a residential treatment home for children and young adults that have experienced abuse, homelessness and neglect or are struggling with family issues. Grant supports its Academy Program, which helps youth gain the academic and personal skills to harness their education for future success.

Noble’s mission is to ensure that all students have equitable and positive school experiences that equip them to complete college and lead choice-filled lives. Through rigorous academics and comprehensive wrap-around support, Noble equips students for post-secondary success after graduation.

The Posse model works for both students and college campuses and is rooted in the belief that a small, diverse group of talented students—a Posse—carefully selected and trained, can serve as a catalyst for individual and community development.

Grant supporters RUMC Scholars Program, which aims to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the next generation of healthcare workers by creating pipeline programming for junior and senior high school students from local public schools with interest in pursuing medical career pathways. Program provides personalized mentorship, clinical immersion, and community service opportunities.

Grant supports Becoming a Man (BAM) and Working on Womanhood (WOW) Programs, school-based group counseling and clinical mentoring programs that serve students in grades 7-12. Both programs provide effective, evidence-based services that have the ability to move the needle on academic readiness and crime reduction in our city.