Logan Square Neighborhood Association reflections on A Year Of ACTION.
In the past year we raised our voices:
- Through talking to voters in 8 precincts around Ames Middle School and winning 69% of the vote to preserve Ames as a neighborhood school;
- Through visiting churches, community groups, and others to build allies to preserve Lathrop Homes as affordable housing -- including at least 50% public housing;
- Through spreading the word that Housing and Urban Development (HUD) pays the Chicago Housing Authority the same amount for VACANT units as for OCCUPIED units.
- Through training and involving 132 parent mentors in their children's schools in Logan Square and through building the Parent Engagement Institute to train throughout the state and nation.
- Through playing with families and teaching parents of young children how to prepare their little ones for kindergarten;
- Through marching for immigrant rights and civil disobedience to fight deportations.
- Through providing homework help, tutoring, arts, sports, and English classes to 1,000 families in our Community Learning Centers;
- Through helping 105 young people prepare their Deferred Action for Childhood arrivals applications;
- Through employing 83 teenagers last summer and 30 throughout the school year;
- Through engaging young people to lead a campaign to stop overly punitive discipline practices in Illinois Schools;
- Through guiding families facing foreclosure to utilize the county mediation program and other programs that can help them save their homes,
- Through winning the Keep Chicago Renting Ordinance and informing tenants of their rights;
- Through teaching restorative justice practices to young people and those who work with them;
- Through graduating 23 Grow Your Own Teachers and planning a new cohort for early childhood teachers.