The Youth Futures Mobile Legal Clinic offers outreach and legal
assistance to homeless and unaccompanied youth at various sites
throughout Chicago, including high schools, youth housing programs and
drop-in centers. Focused on meeting the educational and legal needs of
unaccompanied youth, Youth Futures is the only program of its kind in
Illinois. CCH’s Youth Futures attorney, Beth Cunningham, can assist youth experiencing housing instability with a variety of civil legal problems, including but not limited to:

• Education
• Discrimination
• Civil Rights
• Public Benefits
• Identification Issues
• Housing
• Partial Emancipation
• Expungement

Current clinic sites include: the Center on Halsted, the H.E.L.L.O
youth activism group at Broadway Youth Center, Teen Living Programs and
The Night Ministry’s youth outreach van.

Along with providing legal services, Youth Futures also gives young
people an opportunity to find their voice and speak out on issues that
affect their lives through the H.E.L.L.O (Homeless Experts Living
Life’s Obstacles) group co-sponsored by CCH and The Night Ministry.

H.E.L.L.O youth leaders educate the public, policy-makers and the media
about issues affecting homeless and unaccompanied youth. The group
participates in a variety of different activities, including press
conferences, rallies, and an annual Art Show and Speak Out. H.E.L.L.O
youth have been instumental in CCH's No Youth Alone campaign, an effort
to secure $15 million from the State of Illinois to increase homeless
youths' access to housing, education and transitional jobs programs.