Collaborative Healing Initiative Within Communities (CHIC)

Sade' Cooper and Hilari Smith, Co-Founders

Economic Mobility

CHIC’s mission is to build women’s economic, social, and cultural capital because powerful women build healthy families and thriving communities. CHIC offers a variety of services in intervention and prevention that address economic deprivation, mental health, youth violence and the overall stability of the family.

Year Founded: 2017

Collaborative Healing Initiative within Communities (CHIC) helps families break intergenerational cycles of poverty and violence. They strengthen families and communities by strengthening women and girls. We fill a critical gap in the landscape of institutions and service providers by offering culturally-relevant, whole-family, female-focused supports that directly intervene in the systems that most frequently fail communities: education, workforce, and criminal justice.

CHIC is created by women, for women. They are a grassroots organization, and a frontline team. At times, they are first responders. Their mission brings them into schools, into families, into community and in these spaces we see violence daily. CHIC see the kinds of violence made visible by the news, and we see more insidious forms of violence that no media outlet would think to cover: isolation, depression, cumulative family loss.

Sade’ Cooper CHIC

Sade’ Cooper

Co-Founder and CEO

Hilari Smith - CHIC

Hilari Smith

Co-Founder and COO

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