Community Parents we need you!!!

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Here is a new opportunity to help other parents in your neighborhood as part of the
Parent Leadership in Action (PLAN) component of the Governor’s Neighborhood
Recovery Initiative (NRI), a comprehensive effort to reduce youth violence and increase
adult engagement and leadership here in the Chicago area. Nearly 1,000 Chicago-area
parents will soon be doing parent-to-parent education and community outreach as
members of PLAN. They will be holding important dialogues about how we can “take
back the village,” begin to recover from decades of violence and save our youth from
the streets by surrounding them with caring adults.

If you have been “through the fire” in dealing with your own issues and have recently
navigated the tricky waters and challenges of raising an adolescent (ages 12 to 17 within
the last three years), PLAN training and membership may be for you!

We now have several new openings for temporary, part-time PLAN Members (working
evenings and weekends). These paid positions would be a great way for you to help
parents struggling to raise children in challenging environments and times and
contribute to a unique effort dedicated to making our community stronger and better
connected to resources.

PLAN offers a full training program to support you as an effective, “go-to” community
resource for other parents in your neighborhood. We provide you with leadership
training, background on the project’s discussion (messages) areas, and training on
violence prevention strategies and other protective factors. If you are interested in
joining the PLAN team, you are first required to attend an orientation session.

For more information and to RSVP,
contact Robert M. Douglas at Developing Communities Project 773.928.2500
or
Diane Latiker at Kids Off the Block, 773.995.9077