Interfaith Community Partners

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) in Chicago fosters health, wellness, and healing in marginalized communities through social change initiatives, arts programs, and a holistic health center. IMAN employs a multi-faceted approach that addresses systemic injustices hindering a dignified quality of life. Their federally-qualified Health Center offers medical care, behavioral health services, and nutrition education. IMAN's Arts & Culture programming reflects a rich spiritual tradition and social consciousness, providing a platform for community expression and transformation. Through the Green ReEntry program, IMAN offers life skills development, workforce training, and transitional housing for formerly incarcerated individuals, promoting neighborhood stabilization. IMAN's Organizing & Advocacy efforts focus on community mobilization around critical issues such as criminal justice reform, access to healthy food, and housing policy. The organization's Strategic Initiatives department drives impactful innovations and mission advancement, guiding ideas from conception to execution for lasting change in underserved neighborhoods. Generated from the website content

Breakthrough Urban Ministries, founded in 1992, provides neighborhood-based holistic services that empower individuals, families, and urban communities to overcome poverty, addiction and isolation. The organization offers homeless centers and services for men and women, a street outreach to women in prostitution, and a youth and family outreach program. It empowers men to break free from homelessness, addictions, and other barriers to employment. It also helps women in crisis, and offers them a variety of services, including case management, referrals, daily meals, overnight shelter, street outreach, medical screening, health education, and Bible study. Breakthrough Urban Ministries offer services for community children and youth, including after school tutoring, summer education programs, Bible studies, and basketball, baseball, softball and soccer sports leagues. The organization is headquartered in Chicago.

Established in 1953, Cathedral Shelter of Chicago offers various addiction treatment programs and support services. It operates the Higgins House, a residential treatment facility for men in recovery, and Cressey House, a supportive housing program for individuals and single parents in recovery. The more than 25 apartment facility allows homeless women and men to live with their children while continuing addiction treatment. Not only do these men and women remain in recovery, they are supported by literacy, life skills and employment programs that enable them to take the next step toward independence. Located under one roof, the agency's counseling, educational, job preparation and emergency services departments provide emotional and spiritual support to help people move beyond poverty and addiction. The agency is located in Chicago.