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Fitness/Recreation
4 organizations
offer fitness and recreation programs for Westside residents:
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Austin
Town Hall Youth/Young Adult Programs
Austin YMCA
Trinity Resources Unlimited, Inc.
Youth Outreach
Services
Austin Town
Hall
Address:
5610 W. Lake St.
Chicago, IL 60644
Telephone: (773)
287-7658
Services: The
Austin Town Hall offers several walking
paths and a variety of programs
for children and adults
Austin
YMCA
Address:
501 N. Central Ave.
Chicago, IL 60644-1509
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location
Telephone: (773)
287-9120
Fax: (773) 287-3661
Mission: To be
a community partner, innovative leader, and a developer of leadership.
To meet the needs of all of our neighbors with high quality programs
and services, and to develop healthy individuals, families, and
communities with balanced efforts in social, educational, economic,
cultural, and spiritual endeavors.
Services:
- Fitness Center with
Life Fitness Equipment
- YMCA FitStart Program
for New Exercisers
- YBA Basketball Swimming
Lessons
- NFL Flag Football
- HeadStart
- School-Age After-School
Program
- Single-Room Housing
for Homeless Individuals
- Day Training Program
for Persons with Mental Illness
- On-site Loretto Family
Care Center
Regular events:
- Open Gym and Swim
- Teen Drop In Center
- Sears Family Nights
Trinity
Resources Unlimited, Inc.
Address:
5900 West Iowa
Chicago, IL 60651-2527
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location
Telephone: (312)
626-0322
Fax: (773) 626-7202
Mission: To promote
the development of Christian values and support the mental, educational,and
spiritual well being of children and families. Trinity Resources
Unlimited Inc. provides quality programs and services through it's
board, staff, and volunteers. Collaborative partnerships with others
churches and community agencies are an integral component of programs
planning and implementation.
Goals:
1. Develop each child's
ability to make choices and decisions about what to do and do it
using his or her own time and energy effectively.
2. Develop in children
and parents the discipline and the ability to identify, pursue,
and complete self chosen goals and tasks with originality and responsibility.
3. Develop the ability
of families in group planning, cooperative efforts, and shared leadership.
4. Develop in each child
and parent the ability to express thought's ideas, and to dramatically
and graphically represent experiences in order to communicate them
to others.
5. Develop Christian values,
responsible citizenship, and create leadership within families.
6. Collaborate with local
agencies to enhance community development activities.
7. Implement a leadership
development programs that would increase the skills of both staff
and volunteers.
8. Develop a financial
campaign plain that would provide for long term growth and financial
stability.
Services:
- Day Care for working parents
- Four Head Start Centers (half
day and full day)
- Youth Net--Youth Recreation organization,
housed at Austin High School
Youth
Outreach Services
Address:
4910 W. Division St.
Chicago, IL 60651-3158
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location
Telephone: (773)
777-7112
Fax: (773) 777-7611
Web site: www.yos.org
Mission: To enhance the strengths
and potential of children and youth. We do this by working with
youth, families, and communities to promote environments where young
people can thrive.
Services:
- Field trips for troubled youths,
led by counselors
- Gym nights
- Work with street children
- Child counseling
- Work with DCFS crisis workers
to assist children in crisis
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