The Back 2 School Kicks event is right around the corner! This fun-filled family event will feature various athletic activities, back 2 school supplies, and kids will be fitted for new shoes provided by the Athletes Foot. 👟 ⏰ August 21st, 10:00AM 📍Gately Stadium The event is in partnership with The Community Retail Association, The Athletes Foot, Youth Guidance, and the Refugee Life Foundation! See you all then!
Youth Guidance
Non-profit Organization Management
Chicago, Illinois 7,436 followers
Guiding kids to bright futures!
About us
Youth Guidance creates and implements school-based programs that enable at-risk children to overcome obstacles, focus on their education and, ultimately, to succeed in school and in life. We believe that success is realized as students stay on track to graduate elementary and high school, develop the skills and abilities needed to make positive choices in their lives, and develop resilience assets such as self-efficacy, anger management, and positive values so that they may live successful, self-sufficient lives as adults. Our specific and strategically developed delivery areas are: Counseling & Prevention (BAM, WOW, STRIVE) Community & After-School (Parent/Family Engagement, Full-Service Community Schools Community Learning Centers and Extended Day & Enrichment Programs), and Career Readiness & Success. Youth Guidance directly serves more than 14,000 youth while touching the lives of many parents, teachers and community members. More than 95% of youth served are African American and Hispanic/Latino. Youth Guidance is accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA). To learn more, please visit our website at www.youth-guidance.org.
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http://www.youth-guidance.org
External link for Youth Guidance
- Industry
- Non-profit Organization Management
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1924
- Specialties
- Community and After School Programs, Counseling and Prevention, Workforce Development, Youth Advocacy, and Nonprofit
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Check out this incredible Mental Health Day event organized by WOW's Youth Council! 20 WOW (Working on Womanhood) students had a blast with activities like yoga, journaling, and making vision boards. Youth Gudiance's Aba Sherre lead a yoga session and taught scent and bracelet making. The girls also learned more about managing stress and anxiety. We would like to thank The Agrosy Foundation for their support in making this event a success! 🌟 #WOW #100YearsofYG #WOWcouncil #Empowerment #Healingcommunities #MentalHealthDay
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🌟 Summer programs are in full swing at Youth Guidance! 🎉 Our WOW students from Funston Elementary had an amazing field trip to Pinot’s Palette, where they dove into their artistic side! 🎨🖌️ It was a fantastic day of painting and bonding with friends! 🥳✨ #YouthGuidance #SummerFun #ArtisticExpression
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Youth Guidance’s Becoming a Man program joined Mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago Police Department, and other community organizations at the Take The Block Back community rally at The ABLA homes. This rally aimed to unite community organizers help reduce gun violence, and we were proud to support our community as an organization on the front lines of violence prevention. BAM’s Albert Stinson stated, “If anybody can have those (BAM) core value systems, we can make better decisions and we can become the person we want to become.” We couldn’t agree more! Check out the rest of the article here: https://lnkd.in/eEB5gGhc
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A big shout out to our wonderful supporters at the Christopher Family Foundation. Your continued support is a driving force behind our success. Thank you for helping us bring our programs to over 14,000 students across Chicago schools annually.
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Huge thanks to the @Whitesox for recognizing Youth Guidance at their annual Grant Day Celebration! Here at Youth Guidance, we are so grateful to @soxcharities for hosting another amazing Grants Day! Your ongoing support helps us support youth all across Chicago. #WhiteSox #Soxcharities #100YearsofYG #support #communities #charity
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We’re thrilled to join Ulta Beauty and their #JoyForward movement! We are so proud of our WOW (Working on Womanhood) girls, and it’s an honor to work with them on their journey. They are healing, learning, and growing in self-love every day! Thank you, Ulta Beauty for supporting Youth Guidance's WOW program and spreading joy! #JoyForward #WOW #100yearsofYG
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We're still celebrating our students' success at Youth Guidance! This school year, we began a new partnership with Baker College Prep for our BAM and WOW programs. This is the first graduating class of WOW & BAM participants. We're proud to share that the class Valedictorian was a BAM participant, and the Salutatorian was a WOW participant! Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉 #WOW #BAM #Graduation #100yearsofYG
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Congratulations to our very own Shawn Brown at Youth Guidance Boston! Northwestern Mutual honored nine individuals for their significant contributions to Boston and Massachusetts, and Shawn was among them! He was recognized alongside Senator Liz Miranda and Frank Farrow of Boston's Black Male Advancement and My Brother’s Keeper. Due to other commitments, Shawn couldn’t attend the event, so his son, Shawn Jr., received the award on his behalf. Congratulations again, Shawn! We are incredibly proud of you and the impactful work you do!
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