The City of Chicago and the Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) announced the awarded delegate organizations for the My CHI. My Future (MCMF) Year-Round Safe Spaces for Youth and Community Anchor Organizations programs.  The MCMF initiative started in 2019 with the goal of connecting youth to a variety of rich, engaging, safe, and youth centered out-of-school time opportunities across the city. Since then, MCMF has launched several city-wide and community-based strategies. Each My CHI. My Future. Safe Spaces for Youth awarded program will host 11 events during key out-of-school periods and provide 15 youth with 360 hours of employment annually. Each of the awarded programs will receive equal funding of $173,391 per year to carry out this work. Four of the awarded agencies will serve two regions each.  The community-based organizations that were funded for the Year-Round Safe Spaces for Youth program, and the Community Strategy Regions they will serve, are the following:  

• Metropolitan Family Services — Auburn Gresham  

• Project Exploration — Austin  

• After School Matters, Inc. — Back of the Yards  

• Rincon Family Services — Belmont Cragin  

• SGA Youth & Family Services, NFP — Brighton Park  

• Think Outside Da Block — Chicago Lawn  

• SGA Youth & Family Services, NFP — Gage Park  

• After School Matters, Inc. — Garfield Park (East Garfield & West Garfield Park)  

• Think Outside Da Block — Greater Englewood Area (Englewood & West Englewood)  

• Urban Male Network — Greater Grand Crossing  

• Metropolitan Family Service — Greater Roseland Area (Roseland, Pullman & West Pullman)  

• Young Men’s Christian Association of Chicago — Humboldt Park  

• The Alliance 98 — Little Village 
 
• UCAN — North Lawndale  

• Urban Male Network — South Shore  

To learn more about the My CHI. My Future. initiative and opportunities around for young people, visit MyCHIMyFuture.org