Walking into J&B Transmission and Auto Repair at 1905 Greenleaf St., one sees a young woman with a determined expression working on cars. Twenty-three-year old Jessica Garcia has worked at J&B for the past four years, and has become one of the shop’s full-time mechanics. While women have been equaling or surpassing the numbers of […]

“Exceptional Voices,” the exhibit that opened at the Evanston Public Library (EPL) earlier this month, explores such questions as “Where have we come from?”; “How are we all connected?” and “What is the meaning of home?” The event was a culmination of a Photovoice project sponsored by Kids Global Network, the Evanston Township High School […]

On Nov. 15, “Resilient Families: Learning to Move Through Life’s Challenges” was held at Northwestern University’s Segal Visitor Center.  Metropolitan Family Services of Evanston/Skokie Valley in collaboration with Evanston Cradle to Career, The Moran Center for Youth Advocacy, and Illinois ACES Response Collaborative sponsored the event as part of their ongoing commitment to instill trauma-informed […]

The impact of adverse childhood experiences (or ACEs) – such as physical or mental abuse, sexual abuse, and substance abuse, among others – reaches far beyond childhood, according to research presented at a Nov. 15 conference at Northwestern on trauma-informed care.  The more ACEs a person has had, the greater likelihood that person will suffer […]

On Nov. 27, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky met with young constituents at Family Focus, 2010 Dewey Av., to hear what these teens and preteens would like her to work on when she returns to Washington D.C. Dozens of excited children and teens were gathered in the Family Focus library among a circle of beaming Family Focus […]

In a unanimous vote Oct. 9, City Council moved to adopt changes to Evanston’s Welcoming City Ordinance that align it more closely with the Illinois Trust Act.  That means immigrants in the City of Evanston can no longer be detained by police based solely on immigration status and handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

“To have this going on at the start of the school year when the air is so full of promise is really hard,” said Joe Gietl, Supervising Attorney with the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC). Mr. Gietl was referring to the rescission of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions […]