Why support girls’ mental health?
In August, the CME Group Foundation announced a new grantmaking strategy with an initial $2 million investment to support young women and girls impacted by trauma and violence in Chicago, so that all of the city’s girls can thrive. Working with community-based partners, school leaders, state-level stakeholders, researchers, and the philanthropic community, the Foundation’s trauma response initiative will:
- Increase girls’ access to trauma-responsive supports in Chicago’s public schools and under-resourced communities, and
- Advance systems, research, and policy change to expand trauma-responsive practices and supports throughout the systems that touch girls and youth.
A study from the University of Chicago Education Lab found that "an astonishing 38% of 9th- to 11th-grade adolescent girls in Chicago’s neighborhood schools exhibited signs of PTSD at baseline.
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