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
