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To create more spaces within current programs to help youth name and unpack race-based trauma, build healthier racial and cultural identities for themselves, and engage in activities that nurture resilience. This program intentionally builds content and activities into the curriculum of existing programs to bring recognition to RBTS as well as implement the strategies that promote healing and build coping skills and resilience.

To support the Youth Leadership Council (YLC), which encourages young people, ages 16-24, to find their voice and develop confidence in themselves as leaders, while giving them a platform to address issues that are important to them, their peers, and their communities.

To empower young people to end violence against girls and women, the Girl/friends Leadership program selects Black girls and gender non-conforming youth ages 12-18 throughout Chicagoland to participate in a two-year art intensive and social justice leadership program. Grant will be used to rebuild the summer institute curriculum, integrating the impact of racial trauma.

To hire a Wellness Consultant to help children with their mental wellness through teaching them healthy coping and behavior management skills.

To support MEET, Men Engaged Empowered Teachers, a roadmap to increased male participation in early childhood.

To support anti-bias education for all early care and education programs.

To provide authentic opportunities for girls, femmes and non-binary/gender expansive youth of color to develop their leadership skills and demonstrate their abilities as leaders and change-makers.

To support healing from trauma brought about by violence and racism through restorative justice practices and arts expression.

To support a comprehensive system for early detection for children birth to three years old with special needs in the Riverdale community.

COVID-19 emergency relief grant to provide support services and shelter to abused women and their children.

To support healing from racial trauma by supporting 12 to 18 year-olds to take actionable steps to resolve issues in their community and introduce youth to skills and strategies to approach people in positions of powers such as elected representatives at the local, city and state levels.

To support youth-led advocacy projects that help girls to enhance their leadership skills and and activate their voices for change in their schools and communities

To develop, nurture, and support social justice leadership; to prepare youth for social justice jobs/internships; and to learn and practice healing and wellness skills and incorporate them into daily life

To combat the racism and racial profiling that many Arab youth and their families experience at the hands of law enforcement

To support young people's academic and civic leadership development through an intensive ethnic studies immersion program, rooted in programming and advocacy that combines healing practices with policy change and direct action.

To expand the EPIC program (Empowering Parents,Inspiring Child) program tailored for pregnant and parenting teens, which serves as a support for parents while also teaching SEL skills and the importance of reading with children.

To to formally incorporate SEL into its existing mental health programs, including developing and implementing the new Family‐Centered Coaching model to provide a holistic and collaborative approach to working with families to identify needs and set goals for children who have been victims of sexual abuse (2019-2022). COVID-19 emergency relief grant to provide support services to abused children.

To create a classroom lending library to ensure that each client household has age-appropriate print materials for children to access, and to assist parents (many who are non-native English speakers) on how to engage their children in reading at home.

To support becoming a trauma-informed agency by training teachers how to identify children who are suffering from current or past trauma, how to communicate with their parents, and how to address secondary trauma that they, themselves, may experience working with their clients

To expand its partnership with Chicago Public Schools to provide free SEL-based support, training and ongoing feedback to parents and caregivers of children who have severe behavioral and emotional problems at an additional 25 schools, reaching more than 3,000 children and parents

To expand its evidence-based SEL program model provided to the families living in its shelters for women and their children in Auburn Gresham, Englewood and North Lawndale. This program will reach approximately 200 children and parents (2018-2022). COVID-19 emergency relief grant to provide shelter and food for homeless families with children (2020).

To create a Parent SEL curriculum, training model, and professional development materials. This program will take place at four sites and will serve more than 350 children and 400 parents (2018-2022). COVID-19 emergency relief grant to provide access to child care for essential workers and first responders (2020).

To develop a framework that builds the capacity of staff at 7+ sites in the Chicago Metropolitan Area to increase parent engagement around Social Emoitonal Learning.

To expand programs infused with Social Emotional Learning to parent engagement programs at all 11 sites serving 750 middle and high school students and 250 parents and caregivers.

To overhaul youth and family support programs by infusing Social Emotional Learning in to all aspects of youth services. Serving 180 refugee children and 140 refugee parents and caregivers.

To expand the SEL parent program called the Child Parent Academy (CPA) to 22 sites.

For parent engagement programs serving low-income children in Evanston.

To establish a foundation of trauma-responsive care that will integrate positive social/emotional skills and resilience within the program curriculum for years to come.

To expand the reach and impart of the school's garden to ensure fresh produce is available for each of the 100 early childhood students, 98% of whom live below the poverty line.

To maximize the understanding and efficacy of Teaching Strategies Gold (TSG) for teachers and parents alike as a means of enhancing teacher-child interactions, activities, and intntional learning. Serving 117 children, 100% of whom are low-income.

To support kindergarten readiness through assessment tools and strategies. Serving 50 children, 96% of whom are low-income.

To engage staff in how to create and implement a new perpetual tool of Portfolios for each of the 50 pre-kindergarten children enrolled in the childcare center, 80% of whom live below the poverty line.

To infuse Social Emotional Learning into existing parent programming at all Chicago Public Schools in the Little Village neighborhood, serving 200 low-income children and their families.

To support the expansion of our Supporting Staff Through Trauma-Informed Education project, which guides, supports, and educates staff in the subjects of social-emotional learning, trauma-informed care, and culture of calm.

For peer-facilitated, community-based programs that encourage Social Emotional Learning competencies in parents so that they support children's learning, self-regulation and value development. This program will occur at 5 sites serving 300 low-income children living in South Chicago, Englewood, South Shore, Auburn Gresham and Austin.

To provide trauma-informed training at partner agencies Apna Ghar in Uptown, Habilitative Systems Inc. at multiple sites on the west side , and the ARK of St. Sabina in Englewood.

“Promoting Health Through Better Nutritional Choices” project, served 60 children in the south suburb of Chicago Heights and includes nutrition, cooking and physical fitness classes, parent engagement and an assessment of the food offered through its Food Pantry.

“FEEL Fit +” project served 150 children in Rogers Park. This unique program led by teen girls consists of experiential and interactive nutrition and fitness-focused programming including cooking, gardening and other engaging activities.

In support of behavior management consortium for home-based providers.

To support early literacy program in early childhood education centers located in Bronzeville.

To support equity initiatives for the early education team, including providing resource tools to teachers to integrate equity into the early childhood classroom curriculum.

For programs supporting behavioral health and social emotional development of disadvantaged children from birth to five in the city of Chicago.

To create programs with full inclusion of special needs students at multiple agencies serving children in south and west Chicago.

Additional training for early childhood teachers to integrate new technology systems into the classroom setting for students who are continuing remote learning.

To promote a conscious discipline program serving 116 children on Chicago's northside.

To implement the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) Instructional Support Training (2018). For trauma and brain development training at early childhood education agencies in Humboldt Park (2015).

For teacher support systems at 2 agencies serving 403 children in North Lawndale and Little Village (2015) and to support GOLD implementation assessment and improvements for agencies on the West side of Chicago. (2017)

To support trauma-informed care (TIC) and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) practices & spaces within each classroom to support all areas of children's learning and ensure that students regain all the ground lost during the height of the pandemic.

Gads Hill Center will provide psycho-educational group sessions focusing on the sources of racism, impact of racial trauma, and strategies to cope with and heal from racial trauma. The workshops will provide youth with the skills, knowledge, and intellectual capacity to understand and assess the impact of racism and racial trauma on themselves, their families and friends, their communities, and society as a whole. Additionally, Building Leaders’ students and the older Junior Building Leaders’ students will create six podcasts during the 2023-24 school year.

For infant mental health programs serving 30 children in North Center community.

For continuity of care program for children ages birth to 3 at Lincoln Park agency.

For teaching a trauma-informed approach to early childhood education in agencies serving nearly 800 children throughout the city of Chicago.

For art and music appreciation program serving 54 disadvantaged children in Austin.

For Head Start educational tablet learning program serving 80 low-income children in Evanston.

For programs celebrating language and literacy serving 75 toddlers and two-year-olds on the north side of Chicago.

To improve trauma-informed and social emotional learning skills for children at our Mitzi Freidheim Englewood Child & Family Center.

For implementing Attachment, Self-Regulation & Competency (ARC) Framework into classrooms at 3 agencies serving 300 children on the west side of Chicago (2015) and to strengthen peer reflective processes at the Early Learning academy (2017).

To adapt the Healing Hurt People trauma program to the emergency room setting at Comer and Stroger Hospitals.

To support Project Visible Man, a program that provides spaces for youth with a shared identity to feel accepted and supported so that they can learn and demonstrate pro-social behavior in their communities.

To provide strong trauma-informed training and support at 3 agencies in the Roseland community including Impact Family Center and Phalanx Family Services, KLEO, and Intertwine Counseling.

To support the REAL (Rising. Elevating. And. Leading.) initiative, a youth-led, peer-mentor resource hub which addresses the trauma and PTSD of incarceration and post-incarceration community re-entry.

For the state-wide public awareness campaign on childhood trauma "Look Through Their Eyes" in partnership with Voices for Illinois Children.

To build the capacity of Child and Family Connection to provide infants, toddlers, and their caregivers who have experienced trauma with relationship-based, trauma-informed services to support the child’s recovery and promote the child’s growth and development.

To provide trauma-informed support and systems within the juvenile justice community so that vulnerable populations receive trauma-informed representation and advocacy. Partners include the Office of Cook County Public Guardian (OPG) and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) in Cook and Lake County (2014-2016). COVID-19 emergency relief grant to provide low-income families with low to no cost mental health services for children (2020).

To incorporate and strengthen a trauma-informed approach at 3 child-serving agencies in Quincy, Illinois.