Next meeting of the HPKCAC on April 28 at 6:30pm

The next virtual meeting of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Action Council will take place on Wednesday, April 28, at 6:30pm via googlemeets. Here is the googlemeet link: https://meet.google.com/yxz-bbgu-qzi If you'd like to dial in by phone: (US) +1 803-999-5506‬ PIN: ‪682 585 190‬# Hope to see you there!

Pilot Light Food Education Program for Teachers

Pilot Light is offering professional development and support to Pre-K through 12th grade teachers who would like to introduce food education into their classroom teaching. For more information click here.

Covid Vaccine Available for Residents with South Side Zip Codes

Hello everyone, If you have not gotten vaccinated yet, you can find information about how South Siders can do so here.

100 graduating high school students to receive care packages for college on April 10

M.E.A.N. Girls Empowerment will provide care packages to 100 graduating high school seniors planning to attend college in Illinois from 12pm-2pm on Saturday, April 10 at Oliver Harvey College. Please click here for more details and the link to register.

CPS survey to assess types of mental health support that would be helpful for the community

The FACE2 Department is inviting CPS stakeholders to fill out the survey below in order to help them provide targeted mental health support through some virtual programming. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNVmlr8wJZ36q4Mih8n3sIit9_9u1M_p7ayUVHEfYkyz7dpQ/viewform

Next meeting of the HPKCAC on February 24 at 6:30pm

The next virtual meeting of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Action Council will take place on Wednesday, February 24th at 6:30 pm via googlemeets. Here is the googlemeet link: https://meet.google.com/fsu-xejm-eis If you'd like to dial in by phone: (US) +1 740-480-1367 (PIN: 492436924) Hope to see you there!

Scholarship opportunities for high school seniors

Please note the following two scholarship opportunities for high school seniors: Amazon Black Employee Network Scholarship http://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/amazonBEN/ Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/amazonfutureengineer/ The Gregory, Sr. & Betty Elaine Bush Scholarship Fund through the Greg Bush Jr. Foundation https://gregbushjrfoundation.org/?page_id=2002