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At R CITY, we bring together the best of our city to build a path for families to walk from cradle to career to the glory of God.

Serving one of Chicago’s most violent police beats, our leaders invest hours, days, and years building trusted relationships to link our youth to a broader network of support. With the help of all, we provide educational and apprenticeship programming to bring our youth successfully into their calling.

Address: 3328 W North Ave

Chicago, IL 60647

Phone: 7732272880

www.buildchicago.org

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For over 45 years, BUILD has worked in some of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods to stem the violence that takes away the positive potential – and, far too often, the very lives – of our youth. In 1969, BUILD started working with fewer than 200 gang-affiliated teens in one neighborhood and today BUILD serves nearly 3,000 youth annually, offering targeted services to enhance our impact in four priority communities – Austin, East Garfield Park, Humboldt Park and Logan Square – while continuing to provide support in other Chicago neighborhoods and throughout Cook County.

BUILD’s programs are designed to meet both the immediate problem of preventing at-risk youth from joining gangs as well as working with gang-involved youth to develop alternatives to this destructive lifestyle. Our service population also includes youth who have come in contact with the justice system to prevent and/or provide alternatives to detention and assist with successful re-entry into their communities.

Address: 813 S Western Ave

Chicago, IL 60612

Phone: 3122650206

advancingdomesticpeace.org

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Center for Advancing Domestic Peace, Inc (CADP) is a 501(c)(3) corporation continuing the work begun in 1996 by the West Side Domestic Abuse Project to provide partner abuse intervention services withinthe City of Chicago. Under the leadership of its co-founders, Dr. Christine Call and Dr. Charlie Stoops, the Project incorporated in 2003 with the mission to end domestic abuse through comprehensive, culturally responsive direct service, community education and outreach, and research. The Center currently serves up to 150 participants in ten intervention groups at any one time in three Chicago neighborhoods: Tri-Taylor,

Englewood, and Back-of-the-Yards, Center for Advancing Domestic Peace provided services to 326 men and  women in Fiscal Year 2014 (July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014). Notable statistics from FY 2014 include the percentage of participants who are unemployed (61%) and the percentage who have children (82%).

CADP seeks to provide effective interventions that promote changes in beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors and teach healthy relationship skills that can help program participants end their violence and foster safety for women, children, and men in their homes and communities. CADP continues its work to develop strategies that encourage program participants who are nearing completion to initiate prevention activities
in their communities. CADP understands domestic violence and community violence economically depletes communities decreasing resources for life-enhancing activities. The Center’s goal is to provide services and community outreach that support both individual and societal change.

Address: 2401 W North Avenue

Chicago, IL 60647

www.also-chicago.org

also@also-chicago.org

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Incorporated in 1998, ALSO was created to coordinate services for youth and families in the Logan Square community on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Becoming aware of the devastating impact of community violence on those families ALSO began to take action by implementing prevention programs to end street violence.

However, violence is pervasive and spans beyond the streets. In 2007, ALSO expanded its violence prevention and intervention efforts to include intimate partner violence. By working to end violence more broadly, ALSO began to see connections between violence on the streets and violence in the home.

Today, ALSO works both locally and nationally to end violence. By expanding its reach, ALSO informs its national work from a local perspective and brings knowledge and best practices from around the country to our neighborhoods in Chicago.

Address: 1603 W Taylor

Chicago, IL 60612

Phone: 3129968775

cureviolence.org

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Cure Violence is guided by clear understandings that violence is a health issue, that individuals and communities can change for the better, that community partners and strategic partnerships are keys to success, and that rigorous, scientific, professional ways of working are essential for effectiveness.

Address: PO Box 477916

Chicago, IL 60647

Phone: 7734899081

www.cawc.org

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Committed to ending domestic violence using a self-help, empowerment approach. Provides a shelter for women and children, and counseling, advocacy, and a 24-hour hotline for people affected by domestic violence. Works for social change through education, service collaboration and institutional advocacy.