Enlace Chicago

VIOLENCE PREVENTION: Enlace takes a comprehensive and trauma-informed approach to building safety and promoting peace in Little Village. Street outreach workers focus on reducing and preventing gun violence by working closely with program participants, parnters and other community members who are most impacted. master's level social workers provide clinical mentail health services, including conseling and workshops, for students, families and staff in local schools. Social workers provide mental health services in other accessible community locations for community members who are high need. A safe passage team works to improve safety along the routes that students and families travel to and from school. The violence prevention collaborative and the little village youth safety network convene stakeholders to plan and implement coordinated strategies that promote peace.

Community health:resources include housing assistance, cash assistance, sharing of resources from other agencies, and partnerships with other agencies to provide community testing, vaccinations, and access to healthcare.