Just off the lobby at the gated North Lawndale campus of the social service agency UCAN sits a room where women, mainly mothers, convene for hours sharing stories about their lives and children, their successes and frustrations. This is a safe space, one where the violence that touched these women’s lives isn’t the focal point. Instead, some young moms try to juggle feeding a teething baby .
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