Chicago Youth Opportunities Initiative

To provide youth in care (Ages 14-21) with trusting relationships via mentorship while providing tools to build emotional confidence and live a successful life. To provide foster youth with the tools to empower their minds, transform their communities, and help them achieve through their educational and career pursuits. Our mission is to improve the lives of foster youth within the Chicago community. We help our youth set and accomplish goals by providing workshops for academic growth and literacy, career exploration, personal investigation and goal-setting, community service, scholarships and lifelong friendships through our mentoring program. Our programs empower youth to dream astronomically and set lofty goals but also help develop the life skills necessary to achieve their vision. We also provide our youth with educational and career resources, scholarships, and lifelong friendships through our mentoring program.