Englewood Workers Dedicated to Helping Others Get a Fitness Boost to Help with Pandemic Stress JULY 20, 2020 The Primo Center’s employees help Chicagoans experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit’s new fitness focus is helping them cope with these stressful times. Read more
Primo Center Creates New Facility to Serve Chicago’s Most Vulnerable JULY 20, 2020 Christine Achre and Jean Jourdain talk about Primo Center’s new fitness facility meant to help the wellbeing and lives of the city’s homeless. Watch here
Primo Center Partners with Global Gift Registry to Raise In-Kind Donations for Homeless Chicago Women and Children JULY 16, 2020 Primo Center, Chicago’s largest and highest performing provider of services and shelter for homeless children and their families, becomes the first Chicago recipient and partner of Global Gift Registry. Read more
Kids Connected: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty through Integrated Healthcare MAY 18, 2020 COVID-19 is exposing Chicago’s deep economic and health inequities that have plagued Black and Brown communities on the South and West sides of the city for generations. There is a 30-year life expectancy gap between residents living in the North and South and West
New Englewood Community Kitchens Opens to Improve Health Outcomes for all Residents of Greater Englewood NOVEMEBER 1, 2019 Once considered a food desert with few options for accessing healthy food, the Greater Englewood community now has new opportunities to improve nutrition education with the opening of Englewood Community Kitchens at the Primo Center. Located inside
ILCHF Commits $11.5 Million to Improve Children’s Mental Health JULY 13, 2018 Building upon its successful Children’s Mental Health Initiative (CMHI 1.0), the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation is applying lessons learned to help five more Illinois communities develop a coordinated system of care for children and families. The Foundation awarded 13 month $200,000 planning grants
The Primo Center for Women and Children Among First to Receive Day 1 Families Fund Grant NOVEMEBER 20, 2018 The Primo Center for Women and Children (“Primo Center”) is pleased to announce it’s been selected to receive a $2.5 million grant from the Day 1 Families Fund to boost the organization’s programs focused on families experiencing homelessness. Funding
