Creating Change Through Holistic Digital Media Programs
While Promoting Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
Supporting education and innovation.
IMPACT Family Center is dedicated to creating change among under-served youth and families living in violence through holistic digital media-based programs with social emotional support that promote racial equity, inclusion, and social justice.
Media & Mentoring helps to change the trajectory of teen lives from communities Englewood to Roseland on Chicago's Southside. The IMPACT Teen Newsroom is buzzing with stories and digital media marketing for and about the communities and issues that matter to them. Students represent programs with One Summer Chicago, the Chicago Youth Corps, the Chicago Department of Public Health, and the Chicago Housing Authority.
IMPACT Family Center incorporates our efforts to help create and advocate for an antiracist society. We support efforts, form alliances, and work in tandem with those who agree that an antiracist society is a must...not frivolous rhetoric.
We welcome all races as staff, participants, consultants, and volunteers.
We teach and train our young participants to be instruments of change through their actions and the media they produce.
It is our main focus to use media arts to combat racial inequities and social justice.
We strive to be an example of what is right and good for all.
News & Updates
Our Voice: A Teen’s Perspective
Continuing Education for Students Through Journalism And Digital Training
We reinforce the necessary reading, public speaking, and literacy skills to ensure students are more than aped to use the Associated Press style. Thus, students reading, speech, and writing levels are directly influenced and improved prior to pursuing higher learning. Through the use of the Microsoft and G-Suites, students develop the necessary tech literacy skills needed to succeed.
S.E.L. for Students Of Chicago’s Top At-Risk Communities
Education happens within the context of a community. It is imperative that students learn to balance their emotions and learn to socialize with others to decrease violence in their neighborhoods, while discovering new ways to problem solve, relieve stress, and communicate effectively. Our approach extends beyond the school to help ensure students have the necessary support to do their best self-discovery .
Doing Healthy Together
Health is a top-tier initiative for us as we aim to support those without the knowledge to maintain or improve their everyday standard of living. Whether it is our Saturday virtual #IMPACTChiFit sessions with our diverse array of exercises, analyzing eating habits, or using our partner, ID Life, to provide stellar nutritional supplements, our efforts reach well beyond the limits of the Chicagoland area.
Materials for Learning
Many educational materials in local areas are often out of date. We work with private donors, corporate sponsors, municipal funding, and in-kind donations to ensure that students have access to functional technology and its software and academic supplies.
The IMPACT Effect®
The IMPACT Effect® IMPACT involves nearly 2,000 youth in programs, in-school workshops, and community events annually. Including adults, we reach and connect to over 2,500 annually. Past apprentices and interns have done the following after participating in our programs:
●98% Graduate High School
●62% Attended 2/4-yearcolleges
●23% Complete Trade/Certificate Programs
●Less than 1% are arrested
●20% Become Entrepreneurs
●93% Secured Employment/Career
All participants report changes in opinions regarding the involvement of violence and crime in their lives.
Our Commitment
IMPACT is resolved to blend ingenuity with journalism/digital media production to create a fresh approach to holistic youth development that creates change in the racial inequity and social justice landscape. The Far Southside has a rich history among Black & Latinx families living in one of the poorest and inequitable areas. Our trained youth rewrite negative stories as they become the next generation of leaders using their voice to change the narrative and mobilize to fight with strategy and media skills. They strive for advanced education and careers as they create new norms while bridging history with a future of potential and achievement.
Contact
Reach out to learn how you can get involved and start changing the lives of youth in the city of Chicago. Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
impactfamilycenter@gmail.com
Call Or Text
(773) 998-1432