Urban Sustain

 - Exposure 101
 - Translations
 - Project Impact

In Exposure 101 Chicago youth learn to fight environmental toxins and poisons in their neighborhood!  The youth are offered fun and  intense six week summer program or eight week afterschool program.  The youth are given skills in research, community health education, public speaking, leadership and much more.  Projects have ranged from holding a community forum, education local politians on the dangers of tobacco. to creating Public Service Announcements on the hazards of Lead (Pb).  This next generation of leaders are given skills to create a clean and safe community. 

Translations is a unique program to which offers job readiness skills for youth.  Through the "Art of Interviewing" confidence is created, generational misconceptions are addressed and they are prepared for the next steps in their life.  Life Skills are established in either an 8 hour course or a 4 week afterschool program.  The Illinois Department of Employment Security - Hire the Future program has partnered with Urban Sustain to trained their staff on the "Art of Interviewing".

Do you wonder about how healthy your neigborhood is?  Join our community discussions and Community coaches in sharingyour concerns you have for your environmental health and safety. Project Impact give the community an opportunity to build social capitalby coming together in a peacefu manner to mix, mingle, mobilize and find real solutions.  Previous Project Impact projects include: Success to bring healthier food to grocery stores in South Shore, Southside Beach Rapid Trash Assesments, Campaign to remove Chicago's bottle water tax and other short lived projects which address which have a long impact on the health of the community!