Education

18 Organizations offer educational services to Westside residents:

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Academy for Scholastic Achievement
Allison United Foundation for Better Living
Austin People's Action Committee
Austin Town Hall Youth/Young Adult Programs
Bethel New Life
Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation
Habilitative Systems
Lutheran Family Mission
MAD DADS Chicago Chapter
Mid-Austin Steering Committee
New Age Services
Northwest Austin Council
Prevention Partnership
Rape Victim Advocates
Shorebank Residence Services
Sister House
Westside Health Authority
Westside Youth Tech Entrepreneur Center & Business Incubator

Academy for Scholastic Achievement

Address:
4651 W. Madison St.
Chicago, IL 60624
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Phone: (312) 921-1315

Fax: 312-921-1121

Mission: The Academy's mission is to establish and operate a non-profit school where students, dropouts and at risk youths may obtain the basic education necessary to function in society.

Services:The core of the Academy's efforts is the Diploma program. This program gives students a core curriculum plus the ability to set personal and career objectives and determine how to achieve them. Our students are allowed to progress at their own pace, using computer based instruction, argmented by certified teachers whose dedication and attention assure the student a qualified high School education and set the foundation for life-long achievement and success.

Specific services include:

• Management and supervision of the students academic program.
• Multi- faceted testing for aptitude, achievement, and vocational ability.
• Liaison for problems between home and school.
• Individual, peer, and family counseling

Allison United Foundation for Better Living

Address:
4540 W Washington Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60624
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Telephone: (773) 261-3309

Fax: (773) 261-5950

Email: AUF1@JUNO.COM

Mission: Committed to the concept that people are our most precious resource, the Allison United Foundation for Better Living was organized to address the physical, social, financial and spiritual needs of individuals with in the community at large. Our main mission is to make sure that no child or family go hungry, or go without a place to sleep.

Although we are small organization, we do coordinate our activities with a variety of other governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Services: The Allison United Foundation offers a variety of programs, dealing with

• Housing--We provide listings of affordable housing
• Job opportuinties
• Job training
• Job placement
• Transportation to and from work
• Bank teller training
• Adult reading programs
• G.E.D (high school equivalency diploma)
• Food pantry

• First Impression clothes closet (clothes for job interviews)
• Entrepreneurship training
• Day care
• Health and fitness
• Fine arts

Austin People's Action Center

Address:
5125 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60651
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Telephone: (773) 921-2121

Mission:  To provide the resources necessary to make Austin residents self-sufficient in housing, health, and employment.

Services:

• WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) food aid. WIC food store on the premises.
• Nutrition program
• Housing program to help residents find affordable housing
• "Second Seed" housing program, designed to help people coming from a shelter find permanent housing
• Substance abuse referral service (referring clients to other substance abuse services)
• Job training
• GED (high school equivalency exam) course

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

Bethel New Life

Address:
4950 West Thomas
Chicago, IL 60651
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Phone: (773) 473-7870

Fax: (773) 473-7871

Web Site: www.bethelnewlife.org

Email: bethelnewlife@hotmail.com

Mission: Bethel New Life seeks to work in God's name for justice with compassion, creating a healthier, sustainable community.

Services:

• Affordable housing
• Senior housing
• Transitional housing
• Senior day services
• Day care
• Employment services
• Community organizing
• WIC
• Cultural and performing arts center

Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation

Address:
4345 West Division St.
Chicago IL, 60651
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Phone: (773) 252-3663

Mission: The Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation is dedicated to alleviating hunger in the Metropolitan Chicago area through distribution of quality food, education, job training, and advocacy.

Services:

Food distribution

• CAHF’S provides fresh fruits, vegetables, and high quality staple foods to 200 soup kitchens, shelters, and emergency food  pantries
• We collect and distribute thousands of food items throughout the year
• We serve an average of 150,000 hungry people each month, including 61,000 children and seniors, for a total of 3.6 million meals each year

• CAHF’S Training Institute presents educational opportunities for those on the front line. We offer classes in food handling and a sanitation certificate. In addition, CAHF sponsors a workshop and a special course on nutrition
• Oliver’s Kitchen is an innovative culinary training program that reaches out to homeless, welfare-to-work, and unemployed individuals. The program, which is accredited by the Illinoise State Board of education, teaches students the skills necessary to obtain a lifetime career in the food services industry
• We provide technical assistance to emergency food facilities, helping them to operate efficiently, fairly and compassionately.
• We publish a quarterly newsletter to keep the public informed of our work and hunger-related issues. We also publish a monthly newsletter with special information for our member agencies.

Advocacy

• CAHF tracks developments regarding nutrition and poverty issues and provides information on opportunities for action to our member agencies, supporters and the general public
• Among our advocacy programs, we monitor the effects of welfare reform and encourage member agencies to become voters registration sites
• We participate in alliances with the Illinois Hunger Coalition, Midwest Anti-Hunger Network, Work Welfare and Families, and others organizations focusing on hunger and public welfare issues.
  
  

Habilitative Systems, Inc.

Address:
118 North Central Ave.
Chicago, IL 60644
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Phone: (773) 261-2252

Fax: (773) 854-8300

Email:
General Information: hsi@habilitative.org
Employment: hrd@habilitative.org

Web Site: www.habilitative.org

Mission: HSI's mission is to be the premier behavioral health and human service organization, providing an array of responsive services, which promote consumer self-sufficiency.

The #1 goal of HSI is to support those who want assistance to move with dignity toward a level of functioning and self sufficiency that is consistent with their ability. The HSI Continuum of care solution represents a system of service delivery that is "seamless". It is designed to allow the fluid movement of clients through a comprehensive system of services provided by HSI.

Services:

• Comprehensive centralized level of care assessments, Life reorganization and self sufficiency evaluation
• Centralized intake which directs clients to and tracks them through the appropriate types and levels of service
• "One stop shopping" - Currently 67 programs and 75 service contracts that span the cycle of life and the spectrum of human service needs
• Comprehensive individualized case management and case coordination and supportive counseling throughout the continuum of care
• Regularly scheduled ongoing case review to insure clients needs are being addressed
• Simultaneous service delivery. Client can be involved in multiple services at the same time as determined by identified needs
• Utilization of comprehensive Management Information Systems to track client information and follow client's movement, progress through treatment and post-discharge data
• Comprehensive educational and vocational training services
• Comprehensive discharge planning
• Aftercare services and Follow-up services
• Service outcome evaluation
• Consumer satisfaction surveys

Lutheran Family Mission

Address:
1140 N. Lamon
Chicago, IL 60651
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Telephone: (773) 287-2921

Fax: (773) 287-5181

Web Site: www.lfm.net

Mission: We help families on Chicago's West Side transition through economic challenges into mainstream. Our basic philosophy remains: Investing in Family Futures.

Services:

• Assisting the education and social development of low-income children
• Childcare
• Family support services
• Professional guidance to child care providers
  
  

MAD DADS Chicago Chapter

"Men Against Destruction -- Defending Against Drugs and Social Disorder"

Address:
6110 W. North Ave
Chicago, IL 60639-3928
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Telephone: (773) 287-1960

Fax: (773) 287-1980

Email: Maddads-chi@msn.com

Web Page: www.Maddadschicago.org

Meetings:
Every 1st and 3rd Saturday at 6:00 PM
6110 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL

MAD DADS Inc. was founded in May 1989 in Omaha by a group of concerned African-American men, ordinary parents who were fed up with gang violence and the unmolested flow of illegal drugs in their community. Since then, MAD DADS has grown to more than 25,000 men nationally with over 40 Chapters in 14 states. The MAD DADS Chicago Chapter, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, was chartered in 1997. Our objective is to save our youth from guns, gangs and drugs in a non-traditional manner. We take our message directly to the streets. We are genuinely concerned about our youth and work diligently to eliminate the social disorders in our community.

Mission Statement:

The mission of MAD DADS is to bring about positive change. We seek out, encourage, motivate, and guide committed men in the struggle to save all children, all communities, and ourselves from the social ills that presently plague all neighborhoods.

MAD DADS employs strategies to engage men in the intervention and prevention of community problems, and is designed to attract, challenge, and prepare men to be vocal, visible, and vigilant in restoring safe communities.

Services:

• Being surrogate fathers and big brothers to Community youth
• Counseling and showing a genuine interest in youth
• Teaching youth to become responsible adults by example
• Tutoring and assisting youth in obtaining job training and employment
• Working with law enforcement agencies to make neighborhoods safe from criminal elements.
• Showing parental concern in the community to offer hope, and visible resistance to those elements that are destroying the social order within communities.
• Providing information and referral services to youth and families
  
  We also sponsor a Community Walk, where Mad Dads walk the community to discourage violence and drug dealing. Contact us for more information.
  

Mid-Austin Steering Committee

Address:
816 North Laramie St.
Chicago, IL 60651
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Phone: (773) 287-5717 or (773) 287-7043

Fax: (773) 287-9418

Mission: Our programs are directed toward providing developmental services for Youth and adults living in the mid-Austin area. We work with young people between the ages of of 5 and 21.

Services:
 

• Homework resources: Begins directly after school every Monday Through Thursday at 2:30 P.M. until 4:00 P.M.
• Tutoring
• Educational & Recreational Movie Day
• Arts and Crafts
• 4-H club
• Educational competitions
• Game Room
• Youth Counseling
• Juvenile Delinquent Services
• Youth Leadership Development
• Peer Leadership Sessions
• AIDs awareness sessions
• Job Development Services

Please contact the Center at (773) 287-5717 or (773) 287-7043 for more times and more specific program descriptions.

New Age Services

Address:
1330 South Kostner
Chicago, IL 60623
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Telephone: (773) 542-1150

Fax: (773) 542-1175

Mission: Our mission is to empower at-risk persons in the community by providing a comprehensive range of treatment and preventive services including but not limited to health, education, social and economic endeavors.

Services:

• Individual counseling sessions
• Group Therapy
• Parenting Classes
• HIV Early Interventions
• Pre and post-test Counseling
• Women’s Group

Northwest Austin Council

Address:
5730 W. Division
Chicago, IL 60651
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Telephone: (773) 379-7822

Fax: (773) 379-8843

Mission: To mobilize low and moderate income community residents to take action on the issues that directly effect their lives.

Services:

• Community organizing and public safety
• Economic and social justice
• Drug prevention
• Education
• Youth Safe Haven Program

Prevention Partnership

Address:
5936 W. Lake St.
Chicago, IL 60644
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Phone: (773) 378-4195
Fax: (773) 378-8190
 
Mission: The mission of the Prevention Partnership, Inc. is to provide comprehensive, culturally diverse prevention and education services in such areas as tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, HIV/AIDS, anger management, violence prevention and peer leadership.

Services:

• Parenting education
• Drug Free Work Place
• Block club training
• Educational programs in violence, alcohol and other drugs and the impact on families and community

Rape Victim Advocates

Address:
228 S. Wabash St.
Chicago, IL 60604
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Telephone: (312) 663-6303

Fax: (312) 663-6302

Web Site:  www.rapevictimadvocates.org

Email: rva@interaccess.com

Mission: RVA is an Illinois non-profit organization with two primary goals: to assure that survivors of sexual assault are treated with dignity and compassion, and to change the way the legal system, medical institutions and society as a whole respond to survivors.

RVA focuses on both social service and social change. Through our presence in Chicago area emergency rooms, we provide nonjudgmental emotional support to victims of sexual violence, enabling them to become survivors. By providing basic legal and medical information, and referrals to other service organizations, we help the survivor make informed decisions. We also offer survivors continued support through telephone follow-up and our staff of counselors and legal advocates. Through these services, we enable survivors to regain control over their lives as quickly as possible. Through our work with the Chicago Police Department, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office and other area institutions, we strive to improve the treatment of survivors as a group in our society.

Services:

• Counseling (individual and group)
• Advocacy (legal and medical)
• Education & training.
• Legal information
  
  

Shorebank Resident Services Learning Center

Address:
4943 W. Quincy St.
Chicago IL, 60644
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Phone: (773) 379-3224

Email: resourceserv@earthlink.net

Services:

• Computer Technology Center
• Private library
• Resume building/Job referral
• After-School Program
• Support groups on drugs, violence, sex, family, and relationships
• Reading programs
• Summer camp
• Outings to cultural events
• Homework mentors nation tables

Sister House

Address:
851 North Leamington
Chicago, IL 60651
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Phone: (773) 626-0525

Fax: (773) 626-3708

Mission: Sister House is a faith-oriented community of women which offers a temporary home to women after incarceration or recovery from substance abuse. We provide a daily environment of peace, justice, and growth for spiritual maturity. The program empowers woman to participate constructively in society. Sister House requires accountability and encourages responsibility, while enabling residents to achieve creative independent living.

Services:

• Twelve-Step Program
• One-on-One Counseling
• Safe environment, hot meals, clothing, and individual rooms
• G.E.D. clases
• Job training
• Job placement

Westside Health Authority

Address:
5437 W. Division
Chicago, IL 60651-1312
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Phone: (773) 378 0233

Fax: (773) 378 5035

Email:  info@healthauthority.org

Web site: http://www.healthauthority.org

Mission: The Westside Health Authority (WHA) acts as a vehicle for citizens on the Westside of Chicago to use in building their individual and community capacity in order to lead wholesome, healthy, and prosperous community lives.  Our mission is to use the capacity of local people to improve the health and well-being of westside residents, and to preserve existing institutions associated with health services.

Services: Please visit our web site for up-to-date information on our services offered and activities.

Westside Youth Tech Entrepreneur Center (WYTEC) & Business Incubator

Address:
4213 West Madison
Chicago, Illinois 60624-2215
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Phone: (773) 533-3500

Fax: (773) 533-3507

Mission: Westside Youth Tech Entrepreneur Center (WYTEC) mission is to provide youth and young adults with entrepreneurial, technological training and development of social skills and knowledge will lead to self-sufficiency and empower communities as a whole to build better businesses and a capable workforce that can effectively compete in today's global market.

Programs:

Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O)

Leadership development class that focus on fundamentals of developing and operating a business. Participants learn how to apply the principles of entrepreneurship and complete a business plan. This class can be designed for youth as 8 years to mature adults.

Career & Etiquette

This program is designed for youth and adults. This six-week course will culminate with a fashion show that will give participants an opportunity to be (role) models. Each session will offer hands on activities that focus on social graces, poise, walking, skin-care, make-up and photography.

Special features of the program:

• Strong emphasis on use of technology and computers
• Mentoring
• Field experience
• Participation in bazaar/fashion show production
• All Participants complete portfolio---resume, employment application, & photos (Career & Etiquette program)
• Career assessment/inventory

Availability/Schedule

• After school/In-school, churches and organizations
• Workshop/conference presenter
• Summer program
• Weekends

Fees:

C.E.O class: $179.00. Cost includes textbook and materials.

Career & Etiquette: $95.00 plus $25.00 registration. This includes all class materials and photos.

Please note that field trips are not included in fees. Classes are starting soon! CALL (773) 533-3500 To reserve your seat!