Welcome

Co-empowering with Youth.
Honoring The Past.
Building Movements For Change.

Rooted in the long legacy of liberatory education, Chicago Freedom School (CFS) provides education and leadership development for young people and adult allies to create a just world.

 
 

Join us in our mission to catalyze
youth-led social change.

 
 

Youth Programs

Chicago Freedom School believes in the power of young people. We support Black and Brown youth to become informed, strategic, and holistic leaders for social justice. We support young people to lead action on pressing issues of inequity in their communities.

Youth Organizing

Chicago Freedom School supports young people to take action for justice in their personal lives and communities. Our Youth Organizers partner with youth leaders across the city to address some of the most pressing issues facing Black and Brown communities.

Workshops & Trainings

Chicago Freedom School equips individuals & organizations to build networks and strategies to dismantle oppression in all forms. CFS trainings and workshops are rooted within our frameworks of Healing and Transformative Justice, Anti-Oppression practices, and Popular Education.

 
 

About

Celebrating 17 Years Of Radical Youth Work

In 2004 a group of youth and allied adults came together to ask “what is needed in Chicago to support youth activism?” Three years later, the Chicago Freedom School opened its doors as the first freedom school of its kind in the midwest. CFS is now a hub for community-building, learning, and action for thousands of youth and allied adults working to create a world free from oppression.

Youth Organizing

Supporting new generations of young people to create a just world.

CFS takes an innovative approach to civic engagement, leadership development, and movement building. Our programs, resources and trainings invite young people and adult allies to study of the work of past movements, deepen their understanding of current social problems, build new coalitions and develop strategies for change.

 

Education + Facilitation

Grow with Trainings

We support individuals and organizations with tools and strategies to dismantle oppression in all forms.

 

 

 

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