Our Programs
The Community Schools initiative brings together the academic and social support structure needed to ensure that all students can succeed by offering programs to students and their families before, during and after the traditional school day. In this way, the Community Schools initiative makes Chic...
Project STRIVE is a partnership between Youth Guidance, Chicago Public Schools, and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services that successfully helps at-risk youth, who are wards of the state, lead safe and productive lives as they transition to adulthood. The program design is simple...
The Comer School Development Program (SDP) is a "system change" program, presently being utilized by school districts at 800 sites across the country to improve the educational environment for at-risk children. It is the implementation of a concept from James Comer, M.D., the Maurice Falk Professor...
Today, inner-city youth face bleak job prospects due to a lack of basic business know-how. Project Prepare offers a solution to this problem by engaging inner-city high school youth with essential work skills and job experiences. This enables them to ultimately lead productive and self-sufficient l...
Counseling and creative arts programs emphasize positive self-expression, introspection and interpersonal interaction. These programs help children in their efforts to overcome obstacles such as gangs, abuse, violence, drugs, pregnancy and poverty. Counseling services include individual, group and ...
Exelon, United Way and Youth Guidance have developed and are delivering a program to encourage at-risk children to stay in school. The stay-in-school program includes mentoring, assistance with college admissions work and other support activities. Youth Guidance frequently provides the expertise ne...
A PowerPoint Presentation. There are, unfortunately, many problems that make it difficult for children in Chicagoland to receive a good education. Youth Guidance's programs address these obstacles. Therefore, our programs are diverse. This link to a PowerPoint presentation offers an overview of our...