Chicago Community Areas: Youth In Poverty-2018

Understanding Need
for Non-School,
Volunteer-Based
Tutoring and/or
Mentoring Programs
based on Number of
High Poverty Youth
between age 6 and
age 17 living in each
Chicago Community
Area.
Data provided by Social IMPACT
Research Center at Heartland
Alliance
33 W. Grand Avenue, Suite 500,
Chicago, IL 60654
Maps and analysis by
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
www.tutormentorexchange.net
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2018 UPDATE!

Maps showing
different sections of
the city are on the
following pages.
Each map is
numbered so you can
determine what
section of the city
each map points to.
Data courtesy of Social IMPACT
Research Center at Heartland Alliance
33 W. Grand Avenue, Suite 500, Chicago,
IL 60654
Maps in this presentation were created
using the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC's
Chicago Program Locator. As of 2021 that
site is available only as an archive.
https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-
archive
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Pg. 2
This presentation
first created in 2011.
Updated 3/21/2018

How Many Youth in Poverty?
On each map, the top number is
the number of youth between age
6 and 17 living below the poverty
level.
The second number is the
percent of total youth in that age
group who live below the poverty
level.
Note the changes between 2011
and 2018.
1245
49%
Pg. 3
2011 data reported in yellow
2018 data reported
in blue
1255
48%

Data used to show number and percent of youth in poverty was provided in
2011 and 2018 by Social IMPACT Research Center at Heartland Alliance. Visit
http://www.heartlandalliance.org/research/annual-poverty-report/
@ Copyright Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, 2013 Contact: tutormentor2@earthlink.net Pg. 4
This shows Excel spread sheet from 2011. A similar set of data were provided for 2018 update.

Learn to use maps, like the one at
https://tinyurl.com/TMI-ChicagoProgramsMap
Until 2010 the Tutor/Mentor
Connection hosted a GIS
mapping capacity and
interactive Program Locator
map, to create maps showing
existing tutor/mentor
programs in each community
area, based on age group
served and type of program.
Green stars on this map are
existing programs.
Note: As of 2021 the Program Locator is now an archive. View at
https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive
Pg. 5

2142
33.9%
3,191
26.4%
1,350
39.3%
708
22.3%
955
28%
Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Far North Community Areas
1
263
9.3%
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 6
2106
36%
4,284
36%
271
11%
686
20%
1070
29%
1,352
35%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago North Lakefront Community Areas
1218
17.2%
1340
24.4%
3563
38.3%
137
5.4%
495
11.2%
476
9.6%
2
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 7
726
11%
125
3%
222
4%
1485
31%
2360
28%
374
7%

1593
46.9%
Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Near LOOP North Community Areas
2540
34.2%
1781
38.6%
These are headquarter
Locations in LOOP
3
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 8
2171
31%
495
18%
1734
35%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Mid NW Community Areas
2717
25.9%
2368
28.9%
4542
29.1%
3563
38.3%
1280
27.5%
1340
24.4%
4
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 9
1700
19%
2344
32%
4206
30%
1485
31%
1294
32%
2360
28%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago West Side Community Areas
5
6356
34.6%
5023
47.8%
2115
48.2%
2448
48.4%
4717
55%
2540
34.2%
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 10
7127
42% 4509
40%
2171
31%
2050
59%
2046
55%
4178
61%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Near South Community Areas
6
2202
35.8%
1136
23.4%
762
40.9%
411
36.6%
1008
44.3%
2076
49.3%
3874
42.8%
296
28.2%
553
20.2%
495
25%
302
54.4%
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 11
1978
36%
1098
40%
1126
30% 798
41%
1143
54%
3753
47%
163
59%
1364
38%
350
26%
341
17%
302
17%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago South Central Community Areas
7
5321
42%
2202
35.8%
2622
27%
401
16.9%
1136
23.4%
3874
42.8%
553
20.2%
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 12
7144
51%
793
31%
1978
36%
1136
23.4%
1126
30%
3285
35%
1098
40%
3753
47%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Hyde Park Community Areas
8
4205
54%
3656
62.1%
4400
41.6%
1245
49.8%
1920
43.5%
3277
49.5%
2981
40.1%
415
17.8%
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 13
2531
49%
2549
54%
1410
52%
294
14%
2236
51%
3310
46%
2585
50%
2765
39%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Far SE Community Areas
9
1644
29.8%
370
53.1%
574
33.6%
1932
32.6%
358
16.4%
631
50.2%
3176
37%
1488
42.2%
2548
39.3%
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 14
1766
39%
192
17%
247
55%
419
26%
3272
44%
288
34%
1304
44%
2107
45%
1619
33%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Far South Community Areas
10
3176
37%
2555
35.8%
1336
64.5%
501
13%
131
3.3%
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 15
69
2%
3272
44%
2319
49%
1411
72%
1239
30%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Far SW Community Areas
11
231
6.4%
873
16.3%
1498
20.7%
661
20.1%
2690
32.2%
4746
39%
1670
19.8%
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 16
553
10%
861
21%
1802
24%
4386
42%
1655
20%
734
17%
2628
29%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Mt. Greenwood Area
12
49
1.6%
501
13%
131
3.3%
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 17
83
3%
69
2%
1239
30%

Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Far NW side of Chicago
13
43
2,4%
254
7.6%
266
5.5%
285
9%
532
10.1%
376
17.4%
2717
25.9%
4542
29.1%
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 18
414
25%
4206
30%
694
12%
0
0%
66
2%
229
5% 307
9%
1700
19%
263
9.3%
271
11%

Use these Maps to understand where tutor/mentor
programs are most needed throughout city.
Educate donors, volunteers
and leaders so they are
actively looking for ways to
distribute needed resources
into the neighborhoods
where the numbers show
these programs are most
needed.
Also use maps to Improve flow of needed operating resources to tutor/mentor programs.
Read more. See the ideas shared at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
Pg. 19
This will help improve
distribution of K-12,
volunteer-based, non-school,
Tutor/Mentor Programs in
high poverty areas.

Create your own map
While the Tutor/Mentor Program Locator, built between 2004 and 2008 is no longer available, you can
still create map stories, using the current Chicago programs map at
https://tinyurl.com/TMI-ChicagoProgramsMap
This is map of the Austin
neighborhood on West
side of Chicago showing
an increase in high
poverty youth since 2011.
It is also showing access
routes, like Grand
Avenue, North Avenue,
and the Eisenhower
Expressway, that bring
potential volunteers and
donors through the
neighborhood every day.
6356
34.6%
7127
42%

Use multiple platforms to create your maps.
The Tutor/Mentor Program Locator, built between 2004 and 2008, offered the ability to create maps
with layers of information showing programs, demographics, assets and political leaders. View this
PDF to see ways that maps could be created using the Program Locator.
http://tinyurl.com/TMILocator-how-to
We've kept it available as an archive so new partners from any city might step forward to rebuild it.
Contact Dan Bassill @tutormentorteam if you're interested in doing that.
You can use platforms like
Google maps to learn about
businesses, faith groups,
colleges, and universities in
the Austin area. These are
potential supporters of
tutor/mentor programs in the
area.
Combining information from
various data platforms is a
way to create map stories
that focus attention on
specific neighborhoods.
6356
34.6%
7127
42%

An organized, volunteer-based tutor
and/or mentor program is a place in a
neighborhood where kids and volunteers
from various backgrounds and work
experience meet on a regular basis. In
some programs youth and volunteers
stay involved for many years.
This map shows locations of non-school
youth serving organizations in the
Chicago region who include volunteer
based tutoring and/or mentoring in some
way in their program design. They are all
different, so you need to view web sites
to shop and compare.
There are not enough programs to serve
the 200,000+ youth living in high poverty
areas of the Chicago region..
Find map at https://tinyurl.com/TMI-ChicagoProgramsMap
Pg. 22

Groups need to be working in every high poverty community area to identify existing
programs, help new programs grow where more are needed, and provide on-going
resources to help each program become the best it can be.
Pg. 23

Form a study group in your business,
faith group, college, high school and/or
alumni group.
Use this information and other
resources on the Tutor/Mentor Institute,
LLC web sites to help you support the
growth of existing programs and form
new ones where more are needed.
Hold conversations
in face-to-face
settings and in on-
line spaces, such as
Twitter chats.
Invite Dan Bassill, to
participate and help you
understand these ideas.

Educate Donors, Leaders
Maps and other data can show where non-school tutor/mentor programs are
most needed and where existing programs operate. Maps can also show what
companies have business locations in different community areas and what
philanthropic organizations provide funds to organizations focused on youth
well-being. The can also show anchor institutions like hospitals, colleges, faith
groups. And they can show political districts.
The maps on the previous pages were created using the Chicago Tutor/Mentor
Program Locator Interactive map, which is now available only as an archive
at https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive
These maps show the number of youth age 6 to 17 in each community area of
Chicago who are below the poverty level. Thus, if there are 2,000 youth living
below poverty, that means there would need to be 40 youth
tutoring/mentoring programs each enrolling 50 youth to reach 100% of
that number.
The Tutor/Mentor Connection (Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC) has been collecting
information showing non-school tutor/mentor programs in Chicago since 1993,
breaking this down by age group served and type of program. The green stars
on the following maps show locations of existing site based programs. Groups
with community based mentoring could map addresses of clients to generate a
similar analysis. (go to next page)
Pg.25

Educating Donors, Leaders, pg. 2
Use your web site as your grant proposal. If each organization offering
tutoring/mentoring will show on its web site how many youth and volunteers are
on its active roster, and what type of tutor/mentor service they offer, as well as
what age group they serve, this information can be aggregated to show how
many youth in a community area are being served.
Thus, if you look at the map showing West Ridge, on the far North side of
Chicago, you’d find only one tutor/mentor organization, yet in 2011 there were
3,191 youth between the age of 6 and 17 living below poverty level. That
number has increased to 4,218 in 2018!.
Using the interactive tutor/mentor program locator* you can add layers, showing
poorly performing schools, and you can refine the list of programs to show
specific age groups.
This information shows a clear need for non-school youth supports,
including volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in the area, based on
poverty levels. Donors should be willing to support the existing organizations
and provide funds to help them constantly learn from others and improve what
they do so each might be considered “best” in what it does to help youth and
volunteers connect and stay connected.
*Note: Since 2013 the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC has not had the resources to update
the Program Locator. It's now (2021) only available as an archive.
Pg. 26

Educating Donors, Leaders, pg 3
Leaders, volunteers, youth and parents in the neighborhood can use this
information and quarterly events, such as those offered between 1994 and 2015, by the
Tutor/Mentor Connection, to reach out to potential resource providers and leaders who
have facilities in the community area to educate them a) why tutor/mentor programs are
needed and, b) ways they can be consistently engaged in supporting the growth of
mentor-rich programs in each community area.
Connect city-wide and nation-wide. While such groups can meet at the neighborhood
level this only engages a few people. Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC advocates for planning
groups, program leaders and volunteers connect with each other in on-line spaces, such
as social media. In doing so, they can also connect with other stakeholders from different
parts of the Chicago region, and with others from other cities throughout the country,
creating a greater level of idea-sharing and program support along with a greater public
awareness that supports the on-going effort of each program in every high poverty
neighborhood.
Pg. 27

Through this process we educate leaders who use their visibility
to help increase the flow and distribution of resources needed for
ALL tutor/mentor programs in a region to operate.
If leaders are seeking tutor/mentor programs based on where they are needed,
based on number of youth living in poverty, the choices of who they support are
limited by who operates a program serving youth in that neighborhood.
Can we educate more donors to look at your web site, see where you are,
who you serve, and what you do, then decide how much and in what ways they
want to help you?
Pg. 28

Let’s find ways to connect and talk about this.
At the following Tutor/Mentor Institute and Tutor/Mentor Connection web sites you
can see how we put these ideas to practice every day in our effort to support the
growth of well-organized, on-going, volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning
programs in high poverty areas of Chicago and other cities. Browse through these
sites and you'll find the graphics from this presentation and many more..
Http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
http://www.tutormentorconnection.org
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
Http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
http://www.twitter.com/tutormentorteam
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TutorMentorInstitute
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