Options for Youth Chicago Employee Directory
Civic and Social OrganizationsIllinois, United States11-50 Employees
Options for Youth Chicago is a nonprofit focused on expanding opportunities for vulnerable youth in Chicago by developing programs that build on each young person’s strengths and potential. The organization partners with children and teens in underserved neighborhoods to support them through high school completion and pathways to postsecondary education, aiming to interrupt cycles of intergenerational poverty. Its program portfolio includes the Subsequent Pregnancy Program, the What’s Up with Manhood initiative, and the Options Program, each designed to address specific needs—delaying a second teen pregnancy for first-time mothers, promoting healthy choices and leadership among teen boys, and ensuring high school graduation for parenting students, respectively. Based in Chicago, Illinois, Options for Youth Chicago operates within the civic and social organizations sector, emphasizing education and youth development as core services. The organization serves a local population through targeted, school-based and community-oriented interventions that combine academic support with ongoing personal development to improve educational outcomes and long-term opportunity for participants.