Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition »

MISSION
The Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition’s mission is to promote healthy behavior and prevent chronic disease and health disparities in the Hispanic communities of metropolitan Chicago. CHHC improves health in Hispanic communities by sponsoring culturally appropriate, evidence-based health education classes, and by providing a forum for policy development.

SERVICES & PROGRAMS
• Keep Your Heart Healthy (cardiovascular disease)
• Prevention-oriented training on heart disease and stroke
• Let’s Talk About Lupus
• Juntos Podemos
• Forums/workshops for health care providers • Juntos Contra La Diabetes (diabetes)
• Childhood Obesity Prevention (partnership with CLOCC)
• Nuestras Voces (tobacco control)
• Por Su Salud: Estrellas de Salud (obesity prevention in 8 to 12-year-old Latino children in Pilsen and Southwest areas of Chicago) • Vive tu Vida (physical activity and healthy lifestyle)
• Childhood Obesity Prevention (partnership with CLOCC)
• Media campaigns

AREAS
SERVED Serves Chicago: Yes Serves Suburbs: No
Serves Specific ZIP Codes: N/A Serves Specific Area: Chicago
Additional Chicagoland Locations: N/A
LANGUAGES Programming in Spanish: Yes Programming in English: Yes
Programming in Chinese: No Programming in Polish: No
Services in Other Languages: N/A

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Chinese American Service League »

With our support, CASL clients, especially Chinese immigrants, become thriving residents of the greater Chicago community, making valuable contributions as independent, productive members of society. In the words of one of those clients, “We had nothing but our dreams. The Chinese American Service League helped us realize them.”

SERVICES & PROGRAMS
• Family and Learning Resource Center
• Child Development Center
• School Age Center
• Youth Development Program
• Cup of Tea (meet-ups to pratice conversational English)
• Translation and interpretation services
• Suppport primary care coordination
• Women health services (cancer screenings and support services) • Adult Employment ProgramChild Development Center
• Job placement
• Housing counseling
• Financial literacy and coaching
• Chef Training Program
• Citizenship and immigration services
• Energy assistance
• Public benefits assistance
(Medicaid, SSI, etc.)
• Case management (information/referrals)
• Chinatown Pro Bono Legal Clinic • Adult Day Service (seniors)
• In-Home Service (seniors)
• Pine Tree Senior Council (seniors)
• Title V Senior Community Service Employment Program (part-time employment for seniors)
• Civic engagement, voter registration and education
• Wellness maintenance workshops
o diabetes
o aging
o caregiver training
o health screening

AREAS SERVED Serves Chicago: Yes Serves Suburbs: Yes
Serves Specific ZIP Codes: N/A Serves Specific Area: Chicago
Additional Chicagoland Locations: N/A
LANGUAGES Programming in Spanish: No Programming in English: Yes
Programming in Chinese: Yes Programming in Polish: No
Services in Other Languages: N/A

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Project Brotherhood »

MISSION
Project Brotherhood’s mission is to increase the health awareness in Black men by training Black men & providing preventive health messages & literature in a cultural & gender specific way (age specific when necessary).

SERVICES & PROGRAMS
• Community-based outreach and prevention program for African American men
• Manhood development class
• Fatherhood classes • Job readiness
• Resume development
• Doctor visits
• Free condoms

AREAS
SERVED Serves Chicago: Yes Serves Suburbs: Yes
Serves Specific ZIP Codes:
N/A Serves Specific Area:
Woodlawn and other surrounding southside communities
Additional Chicagoland Locations: N/A

LANGUAGES Programming in Spanish: Yes Programming in English: Yes
Programming in Chinese: No Programming in Polish: No
Services in Other Languages: N/A

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Puerto Rican Cultural Center »

The Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC) is a community-based, grassroots, educational, health and cultural services organization founded on the principles of self-determination, self-actualization and self-sufficiency that is activist-oriented. Community annual events celebrated are the Three Kings winterfest (toy giveaway), Peoples Parade, Fiesta Boricua and Haunted Paseo (safe focused trick-or-treating).

SERVICES & PROGRAMS
• Urban agriculture initiative
• Housing assistance
• Temporary shelter for LGBT
• CEDA-LIHEAP: Assistance to pay gas and light bills
• Bilingual-bicultural daycare
• Community library and information center • Award-winning alternative high school
• Community as a Campus (CAAC)
o Teachers/ administrators Institutes
o Parent Popular Education Institute
o Youth Leadership
o Safe Passage Communty Watchers
• Young women’s literacy program • Obesity prevention program
• HIV and STD education and prevention program
• Referral for health care
• Free STI testing
• Linkage to Mental Health Care Services, Substance Abuse Treatment and Case Management
• Community-based, grassroots, educational, health and cultural services

AREAS
SERVED Serves Chicago: Yes Serves Suburbs: No
Serves Specific ZIP Codes:
N/A Serves Specific Area:
Humboldt Park

Additional Chicagoland Locations:
El Rescate LGBT Transitional Living: 2703 W Division,
VIDA/SIDA: 2640 W Division
Safe Passage: 2546 W Division

LANGUAGES Programming in Spanish: Yes Programming in English: Yes
Programming in Chinese: No Programming in Polish: No
Services in Other Languages: N/A

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