Community Outreach

At Accelerated Rehabilitation Centers, a healthy community is as important to us as a healthy body. Our sense of social responsibility is the foundation for our healthcare services, and we are honored to offer that same attention toward the underserved youth in our community.

Accelerated assists many worthwhile non-profit organizations.

Chicago Hope Academy - www.chicagohopeacademy.com

Chicago Hope Academy is a Christian high school that provides an education of spiritual and academic excellence to the youth of Chicago. Chicago Hope Academy incorporates a biblical worldview in each of its classes. It strives to prepare the students for college and life through excellent, rigorous, and relevant classes. They emphasize public speaking and argumentative writing throughout their curriculum. The founding trustees are graduates of Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern and other top ranked universities.

Cornerstone Academy - www.Cornerstonechicago.org

The Cornerstone Academy in Chicago, IL is a small private high school dedicated to giving students an opportunity to complete their high school careers in an atmosphere defined by Christian Faith. Cornerstone Academy offers outside-the-classroom work and community service experiences designed to prepare students for their vocations or college. They encourage students to give back to their neighborhoods through a variety of community service activities. Cornerstone also helps students who may wish to attend college by connecting them with area schools.

HighSight - www.highsight.org

HighSight is a nonprofit organization that provides scholarships, tutoring, mentoring and leadership development for students to attend and succeed at private high schools in Chicago. HighSight scholars meet three times a week with adult volunteer mentors for academic support. As the goal of every HighSight scholar is to attend college, HighSight provides a number of activities to help them achieve that goal, such as ACT preparation, application workshops and college fairs and visits. In the past six years, more than 95% of the HighSight graduates have enrolled in college.

Umoja - www.umojacorporation.org

Umoja Student Development Corporation was formed in 1997 to link the educational efforts of Manley Career Academy High School to the broader community and to serve as an advocate for young people. As a model for school community partnership, Umoja provides the intensive services that most schools simply cannot provide. When Umoja began, less than 10% of Manley graduates went on to college. With Umoja’s efforts, that number has steadily increased to over 60% of current graduating students attending two and four year colleges and universities all over the country.

Umoja engages hundreds of young people in thousands of hours of academic and college and career preparation, as well as service and leadership work in their schools and community including addressing issues of voter mobilization, community safety, and community beautification. Umoja also involves hundreds of business and community partners in activities to support young people, including tutoring, mentoring, job shadowing, offering internships and college scholarships, and assisting with fundraising.

Provident Foundation - www.provident.org

The Provident Foundation is dedicated to preserving the Provident Hospital and Training School legacy. The Foundation awards scholarships to hardworking students who are currently enrolled in medical and nursing schools and pursuing careers in the healthcare profession. The Foundation is passionately committed to ensuring the future health of our community and to supporting those who serve communities that have traditionally been underserved

Girls in the game - www.girlsinthegame.org

Girls in the game, founded in Chicago in 1995, provides and promotes sports and fitness opportunities, nutrition and health education and leadership development to enhance the overall health and well being of ALL girls.

Its two-fold purpose is to:

1) ensure that quality fitness, health and leadership programming is made available to girls, and

2) reduce the barriers that young girls face in accessing such programs.

METROsquash - http://www.metrosquash.org/

The METROsquash mission is to utilize squash, education, cultural experience and community service to empower Chicago Public School students to realize their full academic, athletic and personal potential. METROsquash has come into existence through the hard work of many people in Chicago and continues the great tradition of Urban Squash begun on the East Coast. Conor O’Malley, a Denison graduate and current Assistant Squash Professional at the University Club of Chicago, had the vision for METROsquash and has worked with the founding board members over the past two years to make the program a reality.

Health Care Professions for the Underserved
Mission: To identify, inspire and support underserved students by establishing relationships which foster success in healthcare professions.