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When Your House Is Not a Home: Domestic Violence in Chicago Amid a Pandemic
  • Publication: Daily Northwestern
  • Date: July 8, 2020
Column: ‘Boxes of hope’: In Little Village, a Food Pantry Turns the COVID-19 Crisis into Opportunity
  • Publication: Chicago Tribune
  • Date: July 3, 2020
Nicole Cameron Named Executive Director of Metropolitan Family Services DuPage
  • Publication: Daily Herald
  • Date: July 2, 2020
Commentary: Chicago’s Violence Brings Despair, But There Is Hope for Our Young Men
  • Publication: Chicago Tribune
  • Date: July 1, 2020
How Lombard Volunteer Turned a Gift Card into Outpouring of Support for Domestic Violence Survivors
  • Publication: Daily Herald
  • Date: June 30, 2020
Woman Raises $2K For Domestic Violence Shelter After Her Company’s COVID-19 Generous Gesture
  • Publication: WBBM Newsradio 780
  • Date: June 30, 2020
Top Cop David Brown Again Decries Lack of Consequences for Chicago Gun Offenders
  • Publication: WTTW
  • Date: June 29, 2020
Peacekeeping on the Streets of Austin
  • Publication: United Way
  • Date: June 26, 2020
Chicago’s Peace Academy Graduates a New Class of Violence Interrupters
  • Publication: The Trace
  • Date: June 25, 2020
Chicagoans DO Protest Gun Violence And Organize For Safer Neighborhoods All The Time. Here’s How
  • Publication: Block Club Chicago
  • Date: June 24, 2020
Chicago’s Peace Outreach Continues as Gun Violence Takes No Break
  • Publication: McCormick Foundation
  • Date: June 23, 2020
ComEd Announces Comprehensive COVID-19 Package to Assist Customers and Communities in Need
  • Publication: Business Wire
  • Date: June 19, 2020
How Violence Interrupters Brokered An End To Anti-Black Attacks In A Latino Neighborhood
  • Publication: Block Club Chicago
  • Date: June 16, 2020
Food And Masks To Be Given Away In Rosemoor Parking Lot Friday
  • Publication: Block Club Chicago
  • Date: June 12, 2020
Latino And Black Leaders Unite Across Neighborhoods To Denounce Hate: ‘We’re Stronger Together
  • Publication: Block Club Chicago
  • Date: June 3, 2020
‘This Is a Step Back.’ Latino Activists Speak Out About Racial Tension with Black Chicagoans on Southwest Side Amid George Floyd Fallout
  • Publication: Chicago Tribune
  • Date: June 3, 2020
Trouble Follows Some Residents’ Plan to Guard Their Neighborhoods After Unrest
  • Publication: Chicago Sun-Times
  • Date: June 3, 2020
With Dozens Being Shot Every Day, Anti-Violence Groups Continue Working Amid Looting And COVID-19
  • Publication: WBEZ
  • Date: June 2, 2020
West Side Violence Interrupters Shift from Stopping Shootings to Cleaning Up Neighborhoods Hit Hard by Looting
  • Publication: WBEZ
  • Date: June 2, 2020
Little Village Neighbors Stand Guard At Street Corners: ‘They Don’t Want Anyone Looting Or Tearing Their Community Apart’
  • Publication: Block Club Chicago
  • Date: May 31, 2020
Chicago Doubled Its Street Outreach Workers. Memorial Day Weekend Could Be a Big Test.
  • Publication: The Trace
  • Date: May 22, 2020
Lawyer Spotlight: Miguel Keberlein of Legal Aid Society
  • Publication: 2Civility
  • Date: May 22, 2020
Firsthand Gun Violence Panel Discussion
  • Publication: WTTW
  • Date: May 22, 2020
Metropolitan Family Services Provides Diapers, School Supplies to Parents in Need
  • Publication: Daily Herald
  • Date: May 21, 2020
Violence Interceptors Fan Out In Chicago This Weekend
  • Publication: WBBM AM
  • Date: May 21, 2020
COVID-19 Forces Chicago Crime Into Quarantine
  • Publication: Center for Illinois Politics
  • Date: May 20, 2020
Mr. Jakee Elliot Representing Harlan Community Academy during Town Hall with President Obama and Michelle Obama
  • Publication: Harlan Community Academy
  • Date: May 19, 2020
Census Q&A for N’DIGO Interview with Ric Estrada, President and CEO, Metropolitan Family Services
  • Publication: N'DIGO
  • Date: May 14, 2020
Despite Pandemic, Trauma Centers See No End To ‘The Visible Virus Of Violence’
  • Publication: Kaiser Health News
  • Date: May 14, 2020
Grant Aims to Combat Gun Violence on the South Side
  • Publication: Citizen Newspaper Group
  • Date: May 13, 2020
Domestic Violence Shelters See More Crisis Calls Amid Coronavirus
  • Publication: Patch
  • Date: May 10, 2020
When the Shootings Don’t Stop
  • Publication: The Trace
  • Date: May 6, 2020
Metropolitan Peace Academy and ACES
  • Publication: WVON
  • Date: May 2, 2020
Signs of Hope for Domestic Abuse Victims
  • Publication: NCTV 17
  • Date: May 1, 2020
DuPage Foundation Contributes an Additional $220,000 to 15 Non-Profits
  • Publication: My Suburban Life
  • Date: April 30, 2020
Jeff Tweedy, Katie Kadan, Nnamdi Headline Virtual Benefit Concert ‘Our City of Neighbors’ to Help Neighborhood Organizations
  • Publication: Chicago Tribune
  • Date: April 30, 2020
Koval Distillery Delivers 500 Gallons Of Free Hand Sanitizer To 6 Chicago-Area Nonprofits
  • Publication: Block Club Chicago
  • Date: April 30, 2020
Chicago Beverage Companies Donate 550 Gallons of Hand Sanitizer to Local Hospitals, Organizations
  • Publication: ABC 7
  • Date: April 30, 2020
DuPage EGala Co Chair April Arnold Speaks with 95.9 The River
  • Publication: 95.9 The River
  • Date: April 30, 2020
Uptown Hospital Successfully Treats Coronavirus Patient with Blood Plasma from Someone Who Recovered from the Sickness
  • Publication: Chicago Sun-Times
  • Date: April 29, 2020
Chicago’s Anti-Violence Workers Face Fight on Two Fronts
  • Publication: WTTW
  • Date: April 27, 2020
Fear of Domestic Violence Increase Become Reality
  • Publication: WDCB
  • Date: April 26, 2020
Anti-Violence Groups Band Together to Lobby for a Slice Of $20M in Federal Funds
  • Publication: WBEZ
  • Date: April 24, 2020
Street Outreach Programs Get $6 Million Boost to Curb Violence On South And West Sides
  • Publication: Block Club Chicago
  • Date: April 24, 2020
Domestic-Related Incidents in Naperville Up 17% in First Month of COVID-19 Lockdown, Police Say
  • Publication: Naperville Sun
  • Date: April 24, 2020
Koval Distillery Now Turning Donated Beer Into Free Hand Sanitizer For Nonprofits
  • Publication: Block Club Chicago
  • Date: April 24, 2020
Anti-Violence Groups Hit the Streets Early to Confront Double Threat of Shootings and Coronavirus. ‘We Just Didn’t Feel Like We Could Afford to Wait.’
  • Publication: Chicago Tribune
  • Date: April 23, 2020
On The West Side, Violence Interrupters Have A New Message: Wash Your Hands
  • Publication: Block Club Chicago
  • Date: April 23, 2020
Community Groups Fight Crime Alongside COVID-19
  • Publication: CBS Chicago
  • Date: April 22, 2020
Chicago Awards $7.5M To Anti-Violence Groups
  • Publication: WBEZ
  • Date: April 22, 2020
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