Program areas at IMAN
Health clinic: iman's community health center has become a leading provider in the community that delivers high-quality primary health care and support services to the largely uninsured population of chicago's southwest side. The community health center is staffed by a full-time medical director, health clinic administrator, lab technician and many volunteer physicians, nurses and rotating medical students who devote their time and hearts to patients. We treat both acute and long-term health conditions with a focus on prevention as the best foundation to keep yoyur family health and active. Iman's health clinic also provides behavioral health counseling.
Youth and organizing: in 2008, iman institutionalized the youth council. It is comprised of dynamic youth leaders who were have been formally trained and developed through iman programming. Iman's youth council leaders gain more knowledge and experience about the organization's campaigns and departments, hold weekly meetings, hone effective communication skills, draw up the vision for the direction of the youth department, and discuss campaign strategies.the youth council is also responsible for communicating iman;s youth work to the public and board of directors. Issue areas iman's youth council organizes around include: food access, juvenile justice, and youth employment
Green reentry: support to formerly incarcerated indivuduals facing barriers to employment has been a cornerstone of iman's work since its inception. Through green reentry, iman provides transitional housing, life skills training, and workforce development in the field of green contruction for formerly incarcerated men.
In january 2016, the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (iman) expanded to the atlanta metro area. This effort is the result of several years of working closely with leaders in atlanta and successfully training local community organizers. Directly serving "returning citizens", iman atlanta's green reentry program offers a holistic regiment including transitional housing, spiritual development, basic education, like skills instruction, on-the-job construction training, and job placement support.
Arts and culture: iman has incorporated art and cultural expression as an itegral aspect of its programming since the inception of the organization over ten years ago. Celebrating traditional Muslim art forms while actively engaging contemporary expressions of popular cuture has lent a dynamic edge to iman's art and culture programming that has generated local, national, and international media coverage arts. Moreover, iman's role in such programming has served to empower and connect young muslims and others with a vibrant means to connect to one another and the larger society.
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