New research found a Chicago youth development program that provided youth with long-term support is associated with reduced poverty in early adult life.
and an emergency medicine physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children Hospital of Chicago.
Sheehan, along with her co-authors, examined the long-term impacts of the Cabrini-Green Youth Program that served youth living in and around the segregated housing project that had a history of community violence. “There’s not many people in my community that have gone off to college,” said Willingham, who’s a rising junior at Boston’s Northeastern University and was recently accepted into the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Atlanta resident Diamond McNulty, 35, who grew up in the Cabrini-Green Homes and runs multiple businesses, including a catering company and cooking education business, also credits Chicago Youth Programs for his success.
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