Project: VISION

📓✏️📖 Support Project: VISION’s 2024-2025 Back to School Fundraiser! 🎒📚📐 To donate 🌟: bit.ly/pvback2school

As we gear up for the 2024-2025 school year, Project: VISION needs your support to continue empowering our students with the resources they need to succeed. Please help us raise funds for crucial educational supplies, engaging Saturday Camps, and Chromebooks to ensure our students are equipped for academic success.

Every contribution makes a difference in providing our students with quality educational, personal, and civic development tools. Let’s work together to give them the best start this school year!

Come and Celebrate our community work! Please join us for the 2024 CYSC Summer Symposium event TOMORROW!

🗓️ Wednesday, August 14, 2024
⏰ 2pm - 4pm
📍 PV High School Center

5 different CYSC groups will be showcasing their projects that address community needs ranging from:

- 🌱 Environment (Green Spaces)
- 🎮 Life Skills (Survival Mode)
- 🗳️ Civic Engagement (REVISE)
- 👵🏻 Elderly Support (HeritAGE and Harmony)
- 🌟 Extracurricular (STARQuest)

The first day of school is only 2 weeks away! Join PV's team of tutors and work directly with middle or high school youth and help foster their academic success! 📖

Learn more about how you can get involved: http://bit.ly/pvtutoring

Don't miss the Chinese American Service League Anti-Hate Action Center's Art Against Hate Day! Join us for a great creative outlet for youth to fight against hate with positive public art. Promote positive messages and images of peace, compassion, unity, and advocacy!

🗓️ Friday, August 9, 2024
⏰ 4pm - 6pm
📍 Chinatown Public Library *location change*

Scan to register and enjoy free boba tea for your participation🧋

Here's a sneak peek for tomorrow's Chicagobility Art Showcase! Please stop by to feast your eyes on these works of art!

🗓️ TOMORROW, August 2, 2024
⏰ 10am-4pm
📍 PV High School Center

You're invited! Please join us for the 2024 Chicagobility Art Showcase, an art gallery proudly featuring visual art projects created by the Chicagobility students centered around celebrating Asian American history through the theme of "Feeding Our Community." 🍜 🥟 🍣 🍚

🗓️ Friday, August 2, 2024
⏰ 10am-4pm
📍 PV High School Center

Our youth have worked hard all summer, so please check out their art pieces!

🍁 Project: VISION 🍁 is recruiting for CYSC Fall 2024! Contribute to community projects that will benefit Chicago's Chinatown in 2024.

Join CYSC, a paid leadership program for Chicago residents aged 16-24, to participate in service projects on topics ranging from education to the environment. Learn about civic engagement from an Asian American perspective with an AAPI curriculum and develop 21st-century skills and transferable leadership values.

This program commitment will be in the Summer and Fall, and applicants are expected to complete both terms. You will begin the project planning process in the summer and implement your projects in the Fall!

📝: https://forms.gle/nE9fzHfcJC4kCNTf6
Applications are due by August 16th, 2024.

Project: VISION is hiring! We're looking to grow our team for the upcoming school year. If you want to make a difference with youth, join the team and please help us share widely.

🔹 Case Manager
🔹 Program Manager (High School)
🔹 Program Leaders (High School & Middle School)
🔹 Tutors (High School & Middle School)

We Are Chinatown! ☀️ The PV team celebrating with other community members and organizations Chinatown becoming a State Designated Cultural District at Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community- CBCAC’s We Are Chinatown event! Stop by our booth now until 5pm to chat!

17th Annual Fall Soiree:
https://bit.ly/fallsoiree24

Project: VISION Summer Newsletter ☀️ - https://mailchi.mp/04f2229eea93/jul2024

Week 2 was shorter due to the July 4th holiday, but Summer Campers still had a fun week! They created and filmed their stop motion projects, watched the new Minions movie, and put their brains together to solve puzzles and escape the rooms at CluedIn 🔍

Save the Date for Project: VISION's 17th Annual Fall Soiree!

This year, we're looking forward to "Growing Together" and "Reaching New Heights" 🌱 We can't wait to celebrate with you!

🗓️ October 19, 2024
📍 New Furama

☀️ It's the end of the first week of Summer Camp 2024! Week 1 is all about trying new things! Through icebreaker activities, we all got to know each other better and discovered things we had in common. Campers put their investigative skills to the test by "Measuring the Spatter" 🔎 and tapped into their creativity with Perler bead-making activities. We went on adventure-filled field trips to Go Ape! and In The Game Hollywood Park

Today was the first day of Open Enrollment! We have already enrolled 253 students who are committed to participating in PV programs in Fall 2024! PV Alum encourages families to enroll during the last 3 days of Open Enrollment in July and August! We are excited to serve even more families this school year!

💥 Project: VISION is hiring! 💥 We're hiring for a number of positions in the coming months:

🔹Case Manager
🔹Youth Program Coordinator
🔹Program Leaders
🔹High School Tutor & Mentor
🔹Middle School Tutor & Mentor

ℹ️ All open positions are posted on our website: https://bit.ly/pvcareers

Please share with any community members interested in nonprofit work and looking to make a difference for community youth!

Project: VISION has been selected as a recipient of a grant from Cook County Health. Our project, Thriving Youths Initiative, will address the insufficient behavioral and mental health resources and support services for Asian American youth in Chicago’s Greater Chinatown community by expanding existing programming, as well as developing and implementing new preventative and early intervention strategies, including screening, case management services, strengthening social-emotional learning, providing access to clinical services, and educating parents and caregivers.

Thank you to Cook County Health and Cook County Government for supporting work to improve mental health in Cook County. We are .

We are so thankful to the Deloitte volunteers for making an ! Thank you for hosting a networking workshop for our high school students!

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📣ATTENTION, YOUTH!📣 We’re Helping Hands, a youth-led organization operating under Project: VISION that seeks to empower the migrant community in Chicago.

Sponsored by Target, .helpinghands is hosting a workshop this Saturday 1-4pm at Project: VISION's High School Center to assemble care packages for migrant students in CPS. Our workshop will provide the space for youth to make new friends from schools across the city, learn about the recent migrant crisis, and be proactively involved in alleviating the educational barriers migrant students often face. Additionally, service hours and refreshments will be provided.

Please register for the event through this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYVi9CDMnrcyZAlxqOUmR7f89Jian6q2MjjbJgwa0ixBTdIQ/viewform

We look forward to seeing you there!

📸We Run Chinatown Photo dump!

We're still reeling from an amazing closing run and the conclusion of We Run Chinatown 2024! Thank you for a great event!

On the last day of AAPI Heritage Month, we’re reliving We Run Chinatown 2024 to celebrate an amazing month of uplifting our AAPI communities and the members who make up the heart of our vibrant Chinatown! 💗 Thanks to YOU, we raised over $4️⃣6️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ to support our youth for the upcoming school year!

We are shocked to see the Parent Mentor line at $14M. This would be a cut of 32 schools and the whole Ladders initiative. Please keep working to ensure the budget includes $22.5M total -- $20M for the Parent Mentor Program and $2.5M for Ladders.

We know we have some incredible champions in the state legislature working around the clock in Springfield to fight for Parent Mentor funding. Our schools deserve to have community members like Parent Mentors so our students can get the care and love they deserve!

⭐Healy School
⭐Ward School
⭐Mark Sheridan
⭐John C. Haines Elementary School

As we head into Memorial Weekend, it's also the last weekend of We Run Chinatown 2024! We're making it count by running the Lakefront with our community leaders and partners at Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community- CBCAC and Midwest Asian Health Association! We're running, walking, and even biking 🚲 the Lakefront together to celebrate all our hard work. Have you completed your challenge yet? Let's inspire each other to finish strong! 💪