The document summarizes the opening of the Woodlawn Resource Center in Chicago. It discusses the services that will be offered at the center, including GED classes, job training, counseling, and community programs. Local residents attended the opening house and expressed excitement about the opportunities for jobs, housing assistance, and community support provided by the new center. The goal is to revitalize the Woodlawn neighborhood through these social services.

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The SGA Advisor July 2014: Welcome to Woodlawn!
Changing Lives. Strengthening Neighborhoods. Building Communities.
Welcome to Woodlawn!
July 2014 Newsletter | sga­youth.org
GED Courses Offered at
Woodlawn
Tuesday, August 19th, from 9:00 ­
1:00pm the Woodlawn Resource
Center will offer information and
registration for GED courses at
Kennedy King College to youth 18
and over.
While only
31% of GED
recipients
enroll in
college
nationally,
GED
Recipients
fare better on
several
outcomes ­
including
future earnings, life satisfactions,
levels of depression and substance
abuse ­ than do people who
dropped out from high school.
SGA will utilize GED programs, like
the one in Woodlawn, with social
and emotional support to build out
a robust workplace development
program. Stay Tuned!
For more information, call the
Woodlawn Resource Center at
Engaging and Transforming Community
in Woodlawn
Jeneen Ford (left) and Kelly Cooper (right) at the
Woodlawn Resource Center Open House.
SGA Youth and Family Services has a reputation
as a "provider of choice" for critical services, getting
results where others fail. SGA's Woodlawn
Resource Center is a great example of our growing
reputation for results.
SGA was recently awarded a contract to provide
case management, community engagement and
support services in the Woodlawn community.
SGA's Services, provided in partnership with the
Preservation of Affordable Housing through a
CHOICE Neighborhood grant funded by the
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Kelly Cooper, Site Manager
and Coordinator for the
Woodlawn site.
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Roseland Community
Hospital Celebrates
Children, families and supporters
on the far south side are
celebrating a successful year at
Roseland Community Hospital as it
emerges from the crisis state
burdening it in recent years. The
financially distressed hospital (like
many across the country serving
low­income areas) was given
financial assistance by the State of
Illinois last year and tasked with
creating a long­term plan to support
its work in the community.
Now under new leadership from
Tim Egan, who came to Roseland
from Norwegian American Hospital,
things are looking up. "We went
from crisis to survivability to
sustainability," he said. Just this
month a partnership with the
Mobile Care Foundation was
launched so that the hospital could
provide a full service dental mobile
to serve families in Roseland and
the surrounding South Side
communities.
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South Side Indoor Facility
department of Housing and Urban Development,
will be located at 830 E. 63rd Street. The five­year
contract with POAH and in partnership with the City
of Chicago, Preservation Housing Management,
Network of Woodlawn, and Woodlawn Childrens'
Promise Community has SGA working to provide
services aimed at revitalizing Woodlawn, a
neighborhood with great promise, but plagued for
decades by poverty, housing issues and under
performing schools.
Excitement is in the air as SGA staff members
embrace a new opportunity. "I'm thrilled about this,"
Kelly Cooper, Coordinator and Site Manager, said
of this new opportunity.
"We get to bring in resources. We
get to promote change. We get to
uplift, rebuild and transform,"
Cooper said.
"You have intelligent,
driven people living here,"
Cooper said of the
residents of Woodlawn,
"Where they live, they
aren't always given
opportunities to succeed.
SGA will provide those
opportunities."
The Woodlawn Resource
Center will serve as a "one­
stop shop" for community
use. The Center will offer
GED classes, computer
readiness training, family,
relationship and individual
counseling, health and wellness classes, mentoring
programs, financial education, community stability
and much more.
"We are saving lives by providing these skills,"
Cooper said. "We can help take people to the next
level," she emphasized.
The center will be open Monday through Friday,
with weekend hours as well, to meet resident need.
Sydnie Monegan, a Family Support Specialist who
has been with SGA for nearly 3 years, said she's
encouraged by how positive everyone has been.
"We are building up a neighborhood for the
residents who have stayed through the hard times,"
Monegan said. "I'm excited to be a part of that."

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A new, 138,000 square foot,
$15M indoor sports facility is set
to open on the South Side in
the Pullman neighborhood in
2015. Pullman, which is
adjacent to Roseland and
served by the Roseland
Children's Initiative, has been a
community looking for
development opportunities for
decades. The building of a new
sports facility will keep youth
involved and active the whole
year round.
Per SGA board member David
Doig, President of the Chicago
Neighborhood Initiatives, "The
feeling was that there were
really good outdoor park
facilities but there weren't
indoor facilities for families and
youth to enjoy when it gets
cold."
Congratulations to David and
his team for this amazing
accomplishment.
Click here to read more.
Board of
Directors
President & CEO
Susana Marotta
Board Chair
Victoria Noonan
Immediate Past Board
Chair
Donald A. Belgrad
Board of Directors
Jack Ablin
Nanette Bufalino
Joel T. Cooper
John W. Cultra
John E. Dancewicz
David Doig
Mary G. Fedorak
Joe Feldman
Elaine Fiffer
Susan Fisher­Yellen
The technology room at the Woodlawn Resource Center will
help teach computer literacy skills to residents of the
community.
Open House Opens Doors for
Opportunity in Woodlawn
One of the Johnson sisters at the Woodlawn Resource Center
Open House on July 16, 2014.
On July 16th, SGA reaffirmed its commitment to
Chicago's South Region by partnering with the
Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) through a
CHOICE Neighborhoods grant. Together they hosted an
open house full of food, fun and focus on the future to
celebrate the grand opening of the Woodlawn Resource
Center.
"Everyone is excited about the Center opening. There
are great services here," Patricia O'Neal, a Woodlawn
Community member, said.
At the open house, Woodlawn residents got a taste of
SGA's comprehensive offerings by "speed­dating" the
services, meeting with all the support specialists and
learning which programs fit their current and future
needs.
Angel Goldman, who arrived
at the open house with her
mother and her daughter,
came in planning to use a
variety of the center's
opportunities. "I want to get
more information about

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Angel Goldman at the July 16th
open house.
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housing, and I want to find a
job," she said.
Talisa Reese, another
community member,
agreed,"I need a job. I'll take
all the help and resources I
can find. I have good
customer service skills. I just
need to be able to use
them!".
Amateur photographer and
Woodlawn resident, Terry
Brown, came to check out
the community building opportunities. "My camera was
stolen a while back," he said, "so now I'm trying to get
involved in other ways."
Much like Terry, mother and daughter Faith and Lois
McGhee stopped by the open house to see what
services were offered and take part in the community
being built at the center.
"Woodlawn has good people," Darryl Jones, a
contractor, said. "We just need opportunities for the
community. We need jobs."
"This will definitely be helpful for the community. This will
definitely help people," Angel Goldman said.
Faith and Lois McGhee stopped by the open house to see what
services were offered and to take part in the community being built at
the Center.
To see photos from the event, visit SGA's flickr page by
clicking here or going to www.flickr.com/SGAyouth.
Bright Promises = Big Futures
SGA is proud to share that two organizations with
nearly 250 years of meeting the needs of local

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And our Individual
Sponsors:
Karen & Matthew Kaplan
Susan & Roger Stone
Family Foundation
Schnadig­Belgrad
Foundation
Joseph Pedott Memorial
Trust
Mr. Mark Stone
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Belgrad
Vicki & Robert Noonan
Peggy & Jim Swartchild
Hunt Memorial Trust
Mills Family Charitable
Foundation
Rachel & Neal Seltzer
Mr. & Mrs. Robert
Newman
Debbie & Jim Franczek
Katharine & James Mann
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children have come together for an important
project benefitting youth on Chicago's South Side.
The Bright Promises Foundation recently awarded
SGA a two­year grant to train youth agencies in
Roseland on being trauma­informed. For more than
140 years, Bright Promises has been creating
opportunities for Illinois children to reach their full
potential by supporting evidence­based
programming to meet emerging, unaddressed
needs. Currently, their focus is on reducing the
effects of childhood trauma to provide real and
lasting solutions.
The Bright Promises grant will allow for the creation
of a trauma informed culture training and
assessment network in the south region. Led by
SGA, this effort will bring together Roseland­based,
youth­serving community organizations to assess
current uses and opportunities to further
incorporate trauma­informed care, provide staff
trainings, and deliver opportunities to share trauma­
informed knowledge and best practices.
SGA looks forward to its partnership with the Bright
Promises Foundation to move the needle on the
South Side.
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