This Resource Gathering brought together partners across education, health, and community services to advance Chicago’s Quality of Life Plan for girls. This work is about more than symptoms—we’re confronting structural conditions that shape safety, housing stability, mental health, and economic opportunity. Why this matters A comprehensive QLP is a strategic investment framework that recognizes: you can’t address safety without housing stability; you can’t improve education w

On September 16-17, 2025, at the 2025 Conference of the Cook County Human Trafficking Task Force, I kept thinking about something: we're having all these separate conversations about problems that are fundamentally connected. Our "Are the Girls Well?" data argues a clear connection: 111,591 Black girls went missing in Chicago between 2000-2021. During that same period, 13% of CPS students experienced homelessness - 53% of them girls. When I see those numbers together, I don'