South Chicago Neighborhood network
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South Chicago Neighborhood Network (SCNN) is one of ten Neighborhood Networks of United Way of Metro Chicago. Claretian Associates is the lead organization for SCNN, which uses a collective impact model and is composed of approximately fifteen community stakeholders including residents, non-profit organizations, law enforcement, and faith-based and education institutes. These stakeholders come together to work on the common agenda of a healthy, safe, and trauma-informed neighborhood.
The Network’s vision is to reinvent South Chicago to become a community of choice by creating a safe, healthy, strong community where neighbors know one another and have a shared commitment to the future. SCNN aims to do this by promoting mental health and trauma-informed care through advocacy, education, and self-sufficiency. SCNN has a common agenda to create a trauma-informed community to advance wellness, including physical and mental health, to improve quality of life.
Programs and services offered by SCNN include adult mental health first aid training, a trauma-informed symposium, Chat and Chews, virtual or in person lunchtime learning sessions, Community Cafés, community conversations to develop action plans on specific subjects and connect the community to resources, parent and grief support groups, UNITY Squad fall and summer institute, H.Y.P.E. (Helping Young People Excel) support groups, group counseling sessions to identify behavioral, truancy, and other support needs, a health and wellness fair and trauma-informed care and support.
The Network’s vision is to reinvent South Chicago to become a community of choice by creating a safe, healthy, strong community where neighbors know one another and have a shared commitment to the future. SCNN aims to do this by promoting mental health and trauma-informed care through advocacy, education, and self-sufficiency. SCNN has a common agenda to create a trauma-informed community to advance wellness, including physical and mental health, to improve quality of life.
Programs and services offered by SCNN include adult mental health first aid training, a trauma-informed symposium, Chat and Chews, virtual or in person lunchtime learning sessions, Community Cafés, community conversations to develop action plans on specific subjects and connect the community to resources, parent and grief support groups, UNITY Squad fall and summer institute, H.Y.P.E. (Helping Young People Excel) support groups, group counseling sessions to identify behavioral, truancy, and other support needs, a health and wellness fair and trauma-informed care and support.
Network Vision Statement
The People’s Place: We will reinvent South Chicago to become the community of choice by creating a safe, healthy, a strong community where neighbors know one another and have a shared commitment to the future by promoting mental health and trauma-informed care through advocacy, education, and self-sufficiency.
Common Agenda
The South Chicago Neighborhood Network will create a trauma-informed community to advance wellness (including physical and mental health) to improve our quality of life.
Bold Goal #1
By 2021, South Chicago will engage 2,000 youth between the ages of 13 - 18 as well as the parents and caring adults in their lives.
Bold Goal #2
By 2021, South Chicago will plan and develop strategies for 1-2 advocacy issues for youth under the age of 12 and young adults over the age of 18.
The People’s Place: We will reinvent South Chicago to become the community of choice by creating a safe, healthy, a strong community where neighbors know one another and have a shared commitment to the future by promoting mental health and trauma-informed care through advocacy, education, and self-sufficiency.
Common Agenda
The South Chicago Neighborhood Network will create a trauma-informed community to advance wellness (including physical and mental health) to improve our quality of life.
Bold Goal #1
By 2021, South Chicago will engage 2,000 youth between the ages of 13 - 18 as well as the parents and caring adults in their lives.
Bold Goal #2
By 2021, South Chicago will plan and develop strategies for 1-2 advocacy issues for youth under the age of 12 and young adults over the age of 18.
Health & Wellness Guide
The Community Resource/Social Impact Committee created a Health & Wellness Guide. Below is a PDF version of guide and available to download.