A lot has happened this year! Check out our Year in Review

Mark your calendars!

Apply for the 2023 Freedom Fellowship by May 1st!

Northstar applications are open!

Join CFS and The Final Five Campaign on Thursday, December 15th at 5pm (meet at 136 N Western Ave) for a rally and car caravan to show love and support for the youth inside IYC Chicago

Throughout the month of June, our youth programming staff and five alumni youth leaders got everything ready for the Freedom Fellowship. They worked HARD all month--selecting the Freedom Fellows, finishing up the curriculum design and making sure all of the operations details were figured out.

July brought the Summer Leadership Institute! Twenty-four Freedom Fellows gathered Monday through Friday for four weeks, where they studied movement history, community organizing strategies, and systems of power and oppression.

We welcomed two new members to our board of directors over the summer. Welcome Arthur Surratt and David Chavez!

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Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice (YCLJ) unites current and former youth correctional administrators to build a national movement, one that aims to shift systems away from the use of punitive sanctions and incarceration and focus instead on a more youth-, family-, and community-oriented vision of youth justice.

The school, which ordered pizzas and gave out granola bars, was cited for “preparing and serving large quantities of food without the proper retail food establishment license."