Student Alliance for Homeless Youth

08/24/2018

SAHY School Supply Drive this Sunday, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Office Depot, 2722 Green Bay Road in Evanston, IL. Please stop by and contribute to help students living in shelters succeed in school!

12/18/2017

http://jwcdaily.com/2017/12/17/students-host-parties-for-homeless-kids/

09/05/2017

http://jwcdaily.com/2017/09/04/local-students-help-homeless-children/

09/01/2017

Student Alliance for Homeless Youth (SAHY) contributed backpacks filled with school supplies and hosted a Back-to-School Party to kick-off the school year for children living in homeless shelters. More than 200 children living in homeless shelters benefitted from the two programs, which were organized by high school students from New Trier, Maine South and Loyola Academy to help reduce barriers to education for homeless and impoverished youth.

On Sunday, August 27, SAHY hosted a Chicago Cubs-themed Back-to-School Party at two shelters in Wrigleyville. The Chicago Cubs mascot, Clark the Cub, made a special appearance thanks to a generous donation from the Chicago Cubs. Nearly 50 children and their family members, who live in the two shelters, attended the party. Twenty SAHY members, who attend New Trier, Loyola Academy and Maine South high schools, volunteered at the party.

In addition, SAHY delivered 188 backpacks filled with school supplies for homeless and impoverished children. The backpacks were distributed through Primo Center for Women and Children in the Englewood neighborhood; Chicago Hopes for Kids, a tutoring program that serves children living in nine shelters; and Another Chance Assembly that serves underprivileged children in the Austin neighborhood. This is the sixth year that SAHY has provided school supplies for students in need. Supplies were collected from the community at Office Depot stores in Evanston and Niles during August.

As part of its efforts to help homeless youth succeed in school, SAHY also raises funds each year for college scholarships provided through the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. Chicago Public Schools served 18,831 homeless students in the 2015-2016 school year.

07/17/2017

http://jwcdaily.com/2017/07/14/student-alliance-for-homeless-youth-recognized-by-chicago-coalition-for-the-homeless/

05/31/2017

SAHY is proud to support the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) College Scholarship Program for the seventh year. SAHY students have raised more than $20,000 over seven years to support scholarships and youth advocacy programs for homeless youth sponsored by CCH.

About the Program: To showcase the promise and tenacity of students who coped with homelessness, the CCH Law Project created a scholarship program in 2004. The program was the next step for a legal aid program that focuses its casework on helping homeless students and unaccompanied youth. Patricia Rivera, then director of the Chicago Public Schools’ Homeless Education Program, collaborated with CCH in creating the scholarship, and was the first of the private donors to fund the scholarships.

By May 2016, 13 scholarship recipients will have graduated with bachelor’s degrees, 39% of the 33 students eligible to do so. This compares well per a national study that showed in 2013 just 9% of students from the lowest income bracket ($34,160 or lower) had earned a bachelor’s by age 24 (University of Pennsylvania and Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, February 2015).

In 2016-17, 18 students attend colleges and universities in Illinois and Indiana, and historically black colleges in Mississippi, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.

CCH scholarships are funded by private donors and several groups: The Osa Foundation and Robin Lavin, Susan W. Pearson Memorial Fund, and the Student Alliance for Homeless Youth, led by teens from eight North Shore high schools. The program also benefited by grants from the Alvin H. Baum Family Fund, Sisters of Charity, BVM, and a $10,000 challenge grant from Elaine’s Hope, funded by educator Rhonda Purwin.

05/30/2017

http://jwcdaily.com/2017/05/29/annual-paddle-party/

Student Alliance for Homeless Youth (SAHY), a local organization run by high school students, raised over $6,000 in conjunction with it...

05/01/2017

http://www.chicagohomeless.org/cch-releases-new-findings-doubled-homeless-families-city-pledges-new-housing-resources/

A new analysis by Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) shows that 82% of homeless people in Chicago in 2015 sought shelter with relatives and friends, also known as being “doubled-up.” CCH’s report was released Thursday as its HomeWorks campaign joined the city of Chicago in announcing the city’...

04/25/2017

Thank you to Golf Mill Shopping Center for hosting SAHY's Supply Drive to collect food, toiletries and clothing items for teens experiencing homelessness.

04/25/2017

Thank you to The Grand Food Center for sponsoring SAHY's Supply Drive to collect snacks for tutoring programs provided for children living in shelters.

04/25/2017

Thank you to The Grand Food Center in Winnetka and Golf Mill Shopping Center in Niles, who hosted SAHY's Spring Supply Drive for Homeless Youth on Sunday, April 23. SAHY members collected snacks, toiletries, and clothing items. The snack items will benefit homeless children through tutoring programs provided by Chicago Hopes for Kids. Other supplies will be provided to Teen Living Programs and The Night Ministry's Cradle, that provides temporary housing for teens.