Healing Through Justice, a partnership between Communities United and Lurie Children’s Hospital, uses activism to heal trauma and will now be able to help 3,000 more young people.
Communities United, in partnership with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, the sole Chicago-based finalist of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity 2030 Challenge, won a $10M grant from the foundation, which was an open call for bold solutions to help build and scale actionable ideas for transformative change in systems and institutions that uphold racial inequities.
The group said a change in curfew wasn’t the answer. More resources, like after-school programming and community centers that stay open late, would help prevent gun violence, they said.
They continue to push for civilian oversight of the police department and non-police alternatives to respond to mental health crises and provide public safety in schools.