Azadi Medics: Azadi Medics is a Black, Muslim, and South Asian-led group of community medics providing community with medical education and training. Azadi means freedom in several Middle Eastern and South Asian languages, and that’s what we’re seeking through our work. Medics have been trained in herbalism, gunshot wound care, basic care and support for pregnant people, sexual assault response, mental health first aid, basic first aid, protestor health and safety, and more. [Website] [IG]
Chicago South Side Birth Center: The Chicago South Side Birth Center addresses inequities in birth outcomes by providing culturally centered midwifery care alongside families and within the community to promote wellness and abundance in whole health. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Therapy Collective: Chicago Therapy Collective (CTC) promotes citywide action to alleviate LGBTQIA2S health disparities and advance queer liberation through therapy, education, and the arts. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Volunteer Doulas: Chicago Volunteer Doulas (CVD) connects pregnant and birthing people to free and low-cost compassionate labor, postpartum, and pregnancy loss support and information rooted in Black feminist wisdom and healing. Led by principles of birth justice and anti-racism, CVD works to eliminate stigma, shame, fear, morbidity, and mortality among Black women and all those marginalized within pregnancy and birth care. [Website] [IG]
Communities United: Communities United (CU) is a survivor-led, intergenerational racial justice organization in Chicago. At the heart of CU’s organizing is the development of grassroots leadership to build collective power to achieve racial justice and transformative social change. With this approach, CU focuses on advancing affordable housing, health equity, education justice, youth investment, immigrant rights, and shifting resources from the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems into restorative justice alternatives. [Website] [IG]
Free Root Operation: Free Root Operation addresses the root causes of gun violence through a method of critical care encompassing expansive, wraparound wellness and economic development services. These services are foundational pillars of our programs, cultural activations, and violence prevention initiatives which are substantiated by research centering community wisdom. We take an innovative approach that serves as the nexus between championing Black women and their families and preventative measures of poverty-induced gun violence that demands integration into culture. [Website] [IG]
Gyrls In The H.O.O.D. Foundation: Gyrls In The H.O.O.D. Foundation is the leading Chicagoland nonprofit organization that provides Black gyrls with the reproductive resources, social support services, and sexual health education they need to make informed and responsible choices. [Website] [IG]
Healthy Hood: Healthy Hood is a community based, non-profit health organization based in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, dedicated to decreasing the life expectancy gap between affluent & Black/Brown communities. In addition to arts, community healing and wellness programming and an athletic training seminar, Healthy Hood offers consciousness-raising political education. [Website] [IG]
Illinois Single Payer Coalition: The Illinois Single Payer Coalition promotes the good health and welfare of all residents of Illinois and the nation by advocating for a single-payer health care financing system: comprehensive, equitable, not-for-profit, publicly financed, and publicly administered, working with organizations, leaders and communities to mobilize support and develop strategies for achieving a single payer system. [Website] [IG]
Inner City Muslim Action Network (IMAN): The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness and healing in the inner-city by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. IMAN incorporated as a nonprofit in 1997 through the drive of people directly affected by and deeply invested in social issues affecting communities of color living on Chicago’s South Side. The organization models an integrative approach that employs holistic interventions to address a spectrum of structural and systemic injustices, incorporating primary and behavioral health; artistic expression; leadership development; organizing and advocacy; housing; and job training. [Website] [IG]
La Voz de los de Abajo: La Voz de los de Abajo is an organization working in solidarity with our compañeros in social justice movements in the US, Honduras & around the world. [IG]
Migrant Mobile Health Team: A project of the Pilsen Food Pantry, the Migrant Mobile Health Team provides healthcare to newcomers. [Website]
NDoula Community Alliance: NDoula Community Alliance is a community building organization addressing quality of life gaps within Chicago communities by increasing access to patient-centered, equitable, integrative healthcare. They approach health equity with a specifically inclusive, trauma-informed, and violence prevention lens. NDoula works to build a Chicago where all patients and birthing people benefit from informed decision making among a culturally reflective care team. [Website] [IG]
Papalotzin Healing Collective: Community-rooted healing collective dedicated to collective care offering reiki, sound healing, song circles, meditation and community clinics. [IG]
People for Community Recovery: PCR advocates for and supports Chicago’s South Side residents around environment, public health, housing, and equity issues. [Website] [IG]
People’s Response Network: The People’s Response Network came together to address the COVID-19 emergency by rebuilding and democratizing public health and the public sector. [Website]
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) Illinois: PNHP Illinois (formerly Health Care for All Illinois) works with the national organization and with allies throughout the state to enact Expanded and Improved Medicare for All, guaranteeing equal access to comprehensive quality health care for every person in Illinois. [Website] [Facebook]
Project VIDA: Project VIDA is non-profit organization located in the Little Village neighborhood on Chicago’s southwest side. Initially, the organization started by providing HIV Education through street outreach services to area youth. Now, they have grown to offer free and affordable programs and services for prevention, care, health education, and wellness to ensure that everyone has access to quality programs and services, regardless of their income or insurance status. [Website] [IG]
Sista Afya Community Care: Sista Afya Community Care was founded as a response to the mental health inequity impacting the lives of Black women in Chicago. Sista Afya Community Care disrupts mental health inequity by removing cost, centering culture and community in mental wellness care. SACC is the nonprofit arm of the social enterprise Sista Afya Community Mental Wellness, providing free, culturally-centered community mental wellness services for Black women from all walks of life. [Website]
Ujimaa Medics: Ujimaa Medics (UMedics) is a Black health collective. They spread emergency first response, community care, and survival skills to access health justice and long term wellness for all Black lives. [Website] [IG]
West Side United: A health equity collaborative of health care institutions, residents, educators, non-profits, businesses, government agencies and faith-based institutions that work, live and congregate on Chicago’s West Side have come together as West Side United to make their neighborhoods stronger, healthier and more vibrant places to live. [Website] [IG]
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