Movement-Building and Organizing

CFS works with local communities, organizations and schools to create intergenerational spaces through which youth and adults explore issues of injustice, develop organizing campaigns, and work towards building a sustaining social change movement.  This work is done through trainings, national convenings, and research and evaluation.

TRAININGS
The Chicago Freedom School offers trainings that:

1) build the capacity of adults to work with youth as partners
2) teach young people and adult allies effective tools and strategies for activism/organizing, and
3) support youth development approaches that are anti-oppressive and rooted in history

For full details about the trainings we offer, download the CFS Training Menu.

MIDWEST YOUTH ORGANIZER TRAINING

CFS offers a four-day training institute for youth organizers and youth workers who are interested in exploring how to incorporate social change approaches into their work.   Organizers who are working with youth on campaigns or issues are invited to this institute which will feature workshops led by social change organizations across the city and opportunities to network with others in the same field.

The next Midwest Youth Organizer Training will be held in October 2010 at the Chicago Freedom School Center for Social Change, 719 S. State St., Ste. 3N, Chicago, IL.

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CHICAGO ALLIANCE for RACIAL EQUITY (CARE)
CARE, a multiracial and intergenerational collaborative of CFS and the Women & Girls Collective Action Network, provides workshops through which white allies explore the concepts of white privilege and white supremacy, obtain skills that help them interrupt racism and white supremacy within their own organizations and communities, and collectively work with people of color to dismantle systemic racism and white supremacy.

CARE just published an editorial letter entitled, “Is Racial Profiling Racist?” in response to recent cases of racism and white supremacy in the news and to promote public dialogue.

EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION
As a member of the Education for Liberation Network, CFS collaborates with organizations throughout the United States to organize national conferences, develop new education models that foster leadership development among students and utilize education as a means to promote social change and help build movement-building capacity.

RESEARCH AND EVALUATION
CFS also supports ongoing research and evaluation of youth-led social change campaigns and maintains a lending library that provides youth and adults with resources to strengthen and enhance their work.