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The Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, also known simply as the Orthogenic School or informally as the O-School, is a therapeutic day school for children and adolescents typically classified as emotionally challenged. The O-School specializes in the treatment of youth and help them with their behavioral and emotional problems. [1]
Heartland Alliance is an anti-poverty organization based in Chicago, with a historical focus on serving American immigrant communities.Heartland Alliance devotes the bulk of its funding to initiatives that address poverty through health and housing, with further programs centered on jobs, justice, and international work. [1]
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago was founded in 1860 as the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum. In addition to housing orphans and other dependent children, the Asylum provided day care services for working mothers. In 1931, the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum moved into a building at 2800 West Foster Avenue.
When SPIN asks Hannibal Buress to spotlight a cause close to his heart, the comedian-rapper-actor immediately brings up the Chicago Torture Justice Center, founded in his home town in 2017.
The center and its staff sponsored weekly silent peace vigils beginning after 2001's September 11 attacks. [3] [4] It also hosted a radio show called The 8th Day on WLUW, Chicago. 8th Day Center was also involved in issues of homelessness, [5] [6] human trafficking, [7] nuclear disarmament, [8] labor rights, [9] inclusive language, [10] and ...
Chicago lawmaker hopes for ‘justice and mercy’ amid ICE raids. January 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM. Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.) said he hopes President Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, will ...
The Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation is a community mental health service model that helps people with a history of serious mental illness rejoin society and maintain their place in it; it builds on people's strengths and provides mutual support, along with professional staff support, for people to receive prevocational work training, educational opportunities, and social support.
From late 2007 through 2008, a broad coalition of grass roots efforts, prominent medical and psychological organizations that including members of Alliance for the Safe, Therapeutic and Appropriate use of Residential Treatment (ASTART) and the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth (CAFETY), provided testimony and support that ...