Chicago

List of Placement Organizations

• Alternatives, Inc. assists youth and families struggling with family conflict, poverty, substance abuse, academic issues, gang involvement, and violence by offering comprehensive, community-based programming in youth and family counseling, leadership development, academic enrichment, and violence and substance abuse prevention.
  AVODAH provides a Youth Leadership Organizer to Alternatives, Inc.
• Chicago SCORES! works with youth in the North Lawndale and Little Village neighborhoods to lead healthy lifestyles, be engaged students, and become agents of change in their communities using soccer, writing, creative expression, and service-learning.
  AVODAH provides a Community Resource Manager to Chicago SCORES!
• Chicago Women’s Health Center is a health collective that provides gynecological and mental health care, health outreach and education, and advocacy for women’s health rights.
  AVODAH provides an Office and Volunteer Programming Coordinator to Chicago Women’s Health Center.
• Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago serves the educational, cultural, psychological, and socio-economic needs of Ethiopian and other immigrant groups in Chicago and surrounding areas.
  AVODAH provides a Youth and Family Life Education Team Member / Facility Development Research Team Member at The Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago.
• Interfaith Worker Justice works to educate, organize, and mobilize the U.S. religious community on issues and campaigns to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.
  AVODAH provides a Public Policy and Organizing Advocate to Interfaith Worker Justice.
• Lakeview Action Coalition is a community organization acting to sustain racial and economic diversity in the Chicago communities of Lakeview and North Center and to build bridges between community members.
  AVODAH provides a Community Organizer to the Lakeview Action Coalition.
• Trilogy, Inc. assists people in their recovery from serious mental illness by helping them discover and reclaim their own capabilities and life direction.
  AVODAH provides a Recovery Counselor to Trilogy.

This list is intended to give you an idea of the type of position you might have while in AVODAH. This is not the full or final list of potential positions available. Position and placment descriptions vary from year to year.