Career and Employment Services

Media misrepresents gang violence in the city of Chicago.  Over the summer, MAVReC focused on researching the relationship between gang violence and how it was represented in the media. On […]

This summer, 60 of our youth participated in jobs through the Chase Empowerment program. They were assigned to 5 different sites around the city to work on projects relating to […]

The mission of the Youth Research Collaborative is to promote Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) as a counter space for discounted, diminished, and underestimated youth. YPAR empowers [...]

We asked two youth participants — Justin and Carlos — what it was like to have a conversation with Mayor Emanuel at the Argyle Night Market last week. Listen to what […]

Earlier this week, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless visited Alternatives, Inc.’s Wicked Truth and Youth Advisory Board summer program.  Organizer Hannah Willage accompanied Sonovia, her two [...]

Last week, Jaime challenged youth in our Wicked Truth program and the Youth Advisory Board to introduce themselves using “I am From…” poems and illustrative photographs.  Each participant [...]

Tabitha is a student from Amundsen High School who participated in Alternatives’ GreenCorp program which started last summer and continued through the school year.  We sat down with her at [...]