Violence Prevention Programs

6 organizations offer violence prevention programs to Westside residents:

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Austin Violence Prevention Consortium
MAD DADS Chicago Chapter
Mother to Mother
Prevention Partnership
Rape Victim Advocates
Westside Health Authority

Austin Violence Prevention Consortium

Address:
Violence Prevention Director
Westside Health Authority
5437 W. Division
Chicago, IL 60651-1312
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Phone: (773) 378-0233

Fax: (773) 378-5035

Email: VPDirector@webtv.net

Web site: http://www.ebvonline.org/domestic.htm

Mission: In 1995, Jackie Reed, the Executive Director of the Westside Health Authority began convening meetings with other community based organizations, residents, law enforcement, & businesses around the crime and crisis in the Austin community. Participating in these meetings were such organizations and community leaders as: Leola Spann of Northwest Austin Council, Bob Vondrasek of South Austin Community Coalition Council, Mary Volpe of Northeast Austin Organization, The 15th District Police Department, Loretta Hospital, and Mary Nelson of Bethel New Life.

Strategically the violence prevention consortium realized they could not work on all the problems in the community and decided the approach for Austin should include: creating a safe environment, seeking opportunities and jobs, promoting positive norms and values, and care, support, intervention, and prevention. The consortium has three primary objectives: Domestic Violence, Ex-Prisoners, & Youth.

Services:

• Safety: community policing, block organizing, crisis intervention network, safe havens, gang intervention.
• Opportunities: (educational, job, and creative opportunities, options and pathways) increase GED, literacy, and remedial programs, after school programs, job skills, job creation, and linkages to job and educational opportunities.
• Norms: (promoting positive norms and values) engaging credible leaders and peers, individual and group communication)
• Care: (intervention, care, and support) support services for victims and their families, individual and family counseling, substance abuse treatment, education, and prevention.
  

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.
  

Mother to Mother

Address:
2200 Roosevelt Rd., Suite 15
Broadview, IL 60155-3833
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Phone: (773) 542-1199

Fax: (773) 542- 1188

Mission: At Mother to Mother, we have networked with diverse organizations, school, hospitals, treatment facilities, Daycare centers, and the Tenth & Eleventh district police departments in order to provide visionary and comprehensive resources as well as a transitional living program for our clients. Our program is designed and tailored to fit all women regardless of creed, race, or circumstance. We understand the needs of all women, and will not discriminate.

Mother-to-Mother also assist with women's mental health issues with trained and licensed personnel. We also do home and hospital visits to our clients, while providing transportation to and from appointments. Mother-to-Mother specializes in women who have DCFS cases, and will provide a court advocate to assist our clients during court proceedings.

We provide services for women with or without children as well as providing childcare in our living facilities.

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

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.