September 2022 McK-UDOS Coalition Newsletter

PROGRAM UPDATES 

• School Workshop/Presentations 
  • Show some student activities  
  • Update them on parent workshops 
  • We’re setting up meeting with Schools 
  • Workshops are for elementary, middle school, and high school students 

• Local Business Partner 
  • At the end of July, we went to local businesses around Chinatown and Pilsen to put stickers up 
  • Comments:  
    • Justin Kerr advised creating a way to acknowledge these businesses and offer them something in return to encourage other businesses to participate 
    • Possibly acknowledging them on MAHA’s website, sending them updates on community statistics related to substance use 
    • Western and 35th corner convenience shop as a place to target with our efforts 
    • Extend these McK-UDOS partnership stickers to restaurants that sell alcohol/substances 

• Summer Tabling Events 
  • Throughout the summer, we tabled events at BPNC Playstreets Community events and attended some Back-to-School fairs 
  • Talked to local residents about MAHA and the McK-UDOS Coalition 

• MAHA’s New Building 
  • We recently purchased a new building; the address is 218 W 26th St 
  • All MAHA’s programs will be in one place 
  • The move-in date is still unknown, but the earliest is the end of September  
  • We can have future in-person meetings and events in the building. 

• Training 
  • Carolina has been finding different training we can do to better support the people we outreach 
  • Be There Certificate from the Born This Way Foundation, where it gave us advice on how to approach someone going through a crisis, listen, show support, setting boundaries, and connecting them to help. 
  • We’ll be working with Prevention First with Randyl Wilkins next Wednesday to talk about Mental Health First Aid and QPR training.  

• Youth Coalition 
  • We met with them last Sunday and they have an agenda this year on recruiting more members and wanting to be more involved in events 
  • They would like to join in on our future meeting 
  • Comments: 
    • Justin Kerr: Involve youth coalition in community events/service projects through collaboration with other organizations organizing such events 

PARTNER SHARING UPDATES  

• Justin Kerr - McKinley Park News
  • Working with Northwestern University for help/training to become more successful 
  • D&D event https://mckinleypark.news/events/featured-events/event/18652-level-eater-bonus-action 

• Maribel Martinez - Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BPNC)
  • Working on helping migrants that recently arrived and now located in Burr Ridge 
  • Hiring staff to travel to Burr Ridge and work with migrants (job posting attached in email) 
  • BPNN Coalition meeting on Monday @10:30am 
    • Focused on LGBTQ and gender inclusion 

• Peter Xu - Project Vision 
  • Have an opportunity for students at the age of 16 to 24 years to get paid and be involved in develop neighborhood civic projects 
    • 10 hours per week during the school year 

OPEN DISCUSSION

• Feedback on Resource Guide for prevention and treatment services
  • It is a draft of what the resource guide might be like (attached in the email) 
  • Picked places that either had several locations around Chicago or were local/close in the McKinley Park area 
  • Almost all of them provide their services in Spanish 
  • Hoping to translate the final version in Spanish 
  • Comments: 
    • Justin K.: develop an online version 
    • Create a sort of online database with more resources that can be posted on the McKinley Park News 
    • Mimi commented that a QR code can be placed on pamphlet that would direct to this online version 

NEXT MEETING

• November 17, 2022 11:30 am – 1:00 pm