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    • About
      • Mission & History
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    • Rite to Wellness
      • Quality of Life Plan
      • Wellness Village
      • Business Corridor Plan
      • Safe Spaces
      • Youth Development
      • Community Safety (CSCC)
    • Events
    • Careers
    • Get Involved
  • Home
  • About
    • Mission & History
    • Our People
  • Rite to Wellness
    • Quality of Life Plan
    • Wellness Village
    • Business Corridor Plan
    • Safe Spaces
    • Youth Development
    • Community Safety (CSCC)
  • Events
  • Careers
  • Get Involved

About

Our Mission

Improve the health, wellness and quality of life for residents of Garfield Park, bringing together community members and stakeholder organizations to address the socioeconomic, systemic, individual and environmental factors impacting wellness.  

Our Vision

A vibrant and healthy Garfield Park, where community members have agency and leadership to determine their destiny.  

Our Goal

To address the root causes of the multiple complex structural and social conditions and eliminate the life expectancy gap.  

History of GPRWC

The Garfield Park Rite to Wellness Collaborative came together to change a horrifying statistic: residents of Garfield Park have a thirteen-year lower life expectancy than residents living just three miles away. This “death gap” is the result of conditions including poverty and lack of economic opportunity, lack of access to quality health care and wellness opportunities, substance use, gun violence, lack of high-quality food, the psychological impact of multi-generational trauma, and decades of systemic disinvestment and racism. 


GPRWC began meeting informally in 2019, bringing together residents, non-profit, healthcare, and faith leaders that work and live in Garfield Park. In 2021, the group formally organized, created an executive board, and hired its first staff member. Now, just three years later, the Collaborative has several full-time staff members plus contracted experts, and can boast of several major successes, with more in progress – all built on collaborative initiatives with nonprofit, business and government partners. 

The 11 founding organizations of the GPRWC include:

Bethel New Life

Bobby E. Wright CBHC

The Community Builders

Garfield Park Community Council

Habilitative Systems, Inc.

The Institute for Nonviolence

The Leaders Network

MAAFA Redemption Project

Nation Builders Construction Group

New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church

Project Forward

Rush University Medical Center

United For A Better Living

West Side United

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