Case Management & Community Navigation
CTJC provides case management for survivors and their families that is strengths-based, person-centered, and trauma-informed. We work to address needs self-identified by participants including employment, housing, healthcare, and more.
At CTJC, Case Management consists of holistic reentry services for survivors as they rebuild their lives in the wake of the sustained trauma of police violence and incarceration. These supports include assistance in securing housing, food, medical insurance, employment and educational resources, and emergency financial assistance. We also engage in crisis care, court accompaniment, transportation assistance, and drivers license acquisition. This holistic support makes possible the success of survivors in their journeys reintegrating and thriving in community.
Community Navigators
CTJC’s Community Navigators work with the Case Manager to provide public education to communities impacted by policing and incarceration, and connect participants with critical and holistic support using a trauma-informed approach. Community Navigators are headquartered out of CTJC’s offices in Woodlawn , but they are often in the field meeting community where they’re needed, such as taking a participant to a job interview, or accompanying a participant to retrieve necessary IDs.
Know Your Rights
Community Navigators regularly offer Know Your Rights trainings on what do if and when you are stopped by the police. Know Your Rights workshops can be held with schools, youth programs, partner organizations, and community members in Woodlawn and across the Chicagoland area. Know Your Rights workshops can also be held virtually, if needed.
Survivor Repair Fund
The Survivor Repair Fund is CTJC’s mutual aid fund. We see repair as a continuous act of healing and care that happens together with community. Using our Politicized Healing approach, CTJC’s Case Manager works closely with participants who request funds, ensuring that our support doesn’t stop at providing cash assistance, but extends to providing holistic care and support for those experiencing crisis.
The Fund is an important resource with critical impact, and we know it is a temporary means of survival while we continue to work to build the new world we envision.
The Survivor Repair Fund is fully sustained by our community, and 100% of donations go directly to survivors.
As much as we would like it to be, the Fund is not an endless resource, and it is limited to what is available in the Fund at any given time. We try to fulfill requests as often as we are able, but we rely on our community of supporters to keep the Survivor Repair Fund up and running smoothly. We are always accepting donations of any size to sustain this resource.
