The Kedzie Center

#HIRING: If you have a passion for community mental health, innovative programming, and working with a team of avid learners and a dynamic leadership team committed to equity, we encourage you to apply. It's a great opportunity to lead and grow. Please read more and contact us for more information! #thekedziecenter 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gsc8Rwx

It's Kedzie's 10th birthday! We are so grateful to everyone for supporting our work and collaborating with us to offer innovative and responsive services. We hope to celebrate in the months to come. Stay tuned! In the meantime, please visit our social media to learn about our current offerings or our website to donate. You can also choose something from our Amazon wish list! Links attached 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gdShsmyG We appreciate you and look forward to continuing to serve the North River community. We are offering Youth Mental Health First Aid, community circles, and Child Parent Psychotherapy for children 0-6 and their caregivers. #TheKedzieCenter #CommunityMentalHealth #ChicagoMentalHealth #HappyBirthdayKedzie

Join us in welcoming our 2024-25 EMHS clinical interns. We hosted our annual student potluck at LOSAH, but students will provide services at LOSAH Center of Hope / Centro de Esperanza and The Kedzie Center Aidee Villeda : The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Mariana Torres : Adler University Yesenia Hernandez : Adler University Albany Rodriguez : Northeastern Illinois University Diego García : University of Chicago Isabelle Sandweiss : University of Chicago Nicole Pytlik : University of Chicago

#HIRING: Help us do more by joining our team! Reach out if you have any questions! 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gsc8Rwx #kedziecenter #losahcenter #nowhiring

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MICHELLE MCMARTIN — 11/15/1973-10/1/2024 It is with sadness and gratitude that we remember Michelle McMartin. She was a friend, mentor, colleague, supervisor, teacher, advocate, and extraordinarily generous and kind human being. She was authentic and brought all of herself to everything she did. Her passion and enthusiasm were contagious and so evident in every relationship she had with colleagues and clients alike. We are all fortunate to have known her and learned from her. She inspired us to adopt some of her many qualities such as her acceptance, encouragement, laughter, and deep compassion for others. She made us better versions of ourselves. We will miss her tremendously and treasure the many gifts she gave us. We are grateful that she poured so much of herself into each of us so that a part of her will always be with us. After earning her master’s degree in social work at Loyola University Chicago, Michelle began her career at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School in the ‘90s and worked as a therapist at the Juvenile Protective Association and as Clinical Supervisor at the Erikson Institute. She returned to the O School as Associate Director, then worked as a Staff Therapist at The Family Institute. She was beloved at each of these places and left an indelible mark on everyone she supervised and with whom she interacted. She came to The Kedzie Center first as a consultant and then in 2019 became our Associate Director. For the last two years, she found her happy place as EMHS Director of Clinical Training and Supervision. We are all honored to have had the privilege of working alongside her. Most recently, she served on the Board of the North River Commission on their Community Health and Safety Committee. Michelle brought joy and reflection to everything she did. We will remember her always and carry on her lifelong mission of providing quality services to those who needed it. She is survived by her loving partner Craig and her cat Miah. There will be a celebration of life in the weeks to come; we will share information once we have a date. Thank you.

Last week, our EMHS team engaged in Restorative Practice training. We are fully equipped to provide our communities with Circles that bring together individuals who wish to engage in relationship development, community building, problem-solving, healing and decision making in a new and inclusive way. We experienced a deeper level of connection and commitment to sharing this experience with our North River and LOSAH communities. Stay tuned for details but we’ll be offering FREE circles through the end of the year! #restorativejustice #circlekeepers #losah #thekedziecenter

#HIRING: If you have a passion for community mental health, innovative programming, and working with a team of avid learners and a dynamic leadership team committed to equity, we encourage you to apply. It's a great opportunity to lead and grow. Please read more and contact us for more information! #thekedziecenter 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gsc8Rwx

Join this important conversation with the LoSAH Center of Hope and co-authors Cobe Williams & Josh Gryniewicz about their new book Interrupting Violence: One Man's Journey to Heal the streets and redeem himself. Let’s gather in community to better understand violence in our neighborhoods. #communityviolence #expandedmentalhealth Book Link: https://a.co/d/fbZvTT4

We are grateful to all our corporate sponsors, individual donors, and our auction donors for supporting our annual fundraiser and mission to provide accessible, quality mental health care. We reached 78% of our fundraising goal!  If you'd still like to donate, please donate on the link attached. For photos of our event, please visit our website!. 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gFeYbP4Z #TheKedzieCenter #LOSAHCenter

Thank you to all our guests and sponsors for making this another successful event! We greatly appreciate your support and presence. Our thanks to our emcee, Jenné Myers, and our guest speaker, Sol Flores. It was a heartwarming and encouraging evening! #HopeGrowsInCommunity #TheKedzieCenter #LoSAHCenter #SolFlores #JenneMyers