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Outreach Programs

Community Organizer Drea Hall (front row) with families at a South Side outreach site.

No one understands homelessness like someone who has lived through it. To help those experiencing homelessness, CCH runs outreach at family and adult shelters, street programs, and single-room occupancy (SRO) facilities. Each month, three field organizers visit 29 facilities across Chicago. A youth attorney also runs a mobile legal aid clinic that makes three weekly stops at neighborhood programs that serve unaccompanied youth.

During these visits, CCH offers practical information. This includes telling parents about a homeless child’s right to free transportation to school, or informing low-income adults of their eligibility to apply for charity care from non-profit hospitals. Through outreach, CCH involves homeless youth, parents and single adults in developing advocacy campaigns that work to create more access and economic opportunities for people living in extreme poverty.

For more information, contact Director of Organizing Jim Field at jfield@chicagohomeless.org.

The following is a list of outreach locations in Chicago:

North Side

Bonaventure House
825 W. Wellington Avenue

Broadway Youth 
Center
3179 N. Broadway Street

Center on Halsted Youth Program
3656 N. Halsted

Madonna House
Confidential Address

Salvation Army Evangeline Booth Family Lodge
800 W. Lawrence Avenue

West Side

Ashunti House
4944 W. Huron Street

Joshua House I. Women’s Facility
3330 W. Carroll Avenue

Joshua House II. Men’s Facility
402 N. St. Louis Avenue

Deborah’s Place/Rebecca Johnson Apartments
2822 W. Jackson Boulevard

Grace House
1801 W. Adams Street

Facing Forward/Sanctuary Place: Family & Women’s Housing
642 N. Kedzie
 Avenue

Leslie’s Place
1014 N. Hamlin Avenue

Primo Center
 for Women & Children
4241 W. Washington Boulevard

St. Leonard’s House
2100 W.
 Warren Boulevard

T.A.B. House West
2678 W. Washington Boulevard

South Side

Christian Community
 Center
8025 S. Honore Street

Excellent Way Family Shelter
2510 E. 79th Street

Family Restoration House
9519 S. Commercial Avenue

It Takes a Village Family Shelter
544 W. 123rd Street

Little Bit of Heaven
11321 S. Wentworth

Matthew House
3722 S. Indiana Avenue

St. Francis DePaula Interim Family Housing
7811 S. Ellis Avenue

T.A.B. South I Interim Family Housing
8714 S. Paulina Street

T.A.B. South II Interim Family Housing
313 E. 137th Street

Teen Living Programs
3739 S. Indiana Avenue

Thelma’s Place
8013 S. Western Avenue

Ubuntu Family Community
 Center
2905 W. 43rd
 Street

You Can Make It 1 – Women & Children’s Interim Housing
5200 S. Morgan Street

You Can Make It 2 – Women & Children’s Interim Housing
5050-5052 S. Laflin Avenue