The Task Force is also working to redefine homelessness to include people who are doubled and tripled up to avoid being out on the streets. The Task Force will continue to oversee research on homelessness within the Latino community which is being completed by the Latino Research Department of DePaul University. The Task Force will also continue to support the start-up of a new program for Latino substance abusers to be run by Health Alternative Systems. YEP develops a core group of young leaders who serve as mentors and liaisons to a larger network of homeless youth in shelters and on the streets. YEP leaders serve as key spokespersons of CCH's Statewide Homeless Youth Campaign.
Homeless youth receive media and advocacy training to participate in the campaign.
The mission of CPPH is to protect the rights of public housing residents and to ensure the continued existence of public housing. The Coalition now has more than 45 members including public housing residents, community organizations, religious institutions, businesses and other nonprofit organizations. The Coalition to Protect Public Housing embraces a vision of revitalizing and rebuilding communities by creating a new Chicago which is racially and economically mixed and includes very low-income people. It calls on all residents of the city of Chicago to stop the wholesale demolition of public housing and the dispersal of its residents without guaranteed housing. The mission of the Law Project of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless is to support and advance the interests and rights of homeless women with children, youth and single adults through specific legal strategies.