COMMUNITY HEALING RESOURCE CENTER
Who We Are
LIVE FREE ILLINOIS mobilizes Black churches and system impacted leaders to improve public safety and transform our broken criminal justice system.
What We Do
The Community Healing Resource Center provides holistic healing services and trauma-informed care to people impacted by gun violence and other forms of violence, directly or indirectly free of charge.
Our model not only serves victims of violent crimes and their families but the entire community as well.
We know that everyone who resides in the community is impacted by the trauma of violence.
Our Values
Accountability: We are accountable to the community we serve, ourselves and our churches. Moreover we are accountable to challenge institutions, systems and people in power when necessary.
Integrity: Adhering to the principles of honesty, truthfulness, and ethical behavior when engaging in the organizing work.
Grassroots: We prioritize and organize marginalized voices empowering them to lead as we challenge systems of racism, domination and exclusion.
Culture: We are an unapologetically Black, faith based, organization committed to uplifting and loving of our people, communities and institutions.
Faith: As faith based organizers our grounding principles is love. Through the power of love we are moved to:
- Wrestle with powers and principalities
- Love justice do mercy, and walk humbly before God
- Bring about the Kingdom of God on Earth
- Activate Faith Communities through the power of the Holy Spirit