Whole New Worlds

Building a community that returns like family to give back is called paying it forward. Jasmine and Ryan are just two examples of former Primo Center residents who help out after they've moved on to whole new worlds.     

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Primo Center Clinical Director Trevaughn Davis-Neal explains how she helps team members stay strong for their clients.   

This show is a collaboration between Rivet360 and Primo Center.   
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Valery was living in a storage unit in Chicago when she gave birth to her daughter, Serenity. Now Serenity is 4—and doesn’t remember the time they spent there.

This show is a collaboration between Rivet360 and Primo Center.   
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Entering a shelter can be scary and it’s hard to know how newcomers will react. Primo Center Senior Case Manager, Carla Dudley tells a story of winning the trust of a particularly volatile new resident.

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Everyone in the family has a role: Jade’s the goofy one, Paul’s the helper, and Alexis is the “mom” among the kids. Together they’re a dream team—like a PB&J sandwich. Tomorrow they’re going home. 

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Most people coming into shelter have a hard time trusting the people around them. Primo Center’s Chief Officer of Quality & Impact LaShunda Brown is in charge of earning their trust.   

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Avery’s been at Primo Center longer than most of the other residents -- and he wants to leave. But he doesn't know when that might happen.

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Most of the thousands of homeless people in Chicago have been kicked out of at least one other shelter. Not at Primo Center where they work with rulebreakers instead of removing them. Primo Senior Clinician Trevaughn Davis-Neal discusses how Primo makes it work and how she’s bringing the approach to other shelters in Chicago.     

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Food plays a major role in our lives. At Primo Center, the kitchen is where community starts.     

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One of the largest barriers to therapy for the homeless community is the physical travel involved with accessing those mental health services. Dr. Bhaskar Sripada decided he’d come to them. This episode describes Dr. Sridapada’s journey of providing mental health services to the vulnerable homeless population in Chicago through Primo Center and before.   

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Isaiah and his mom are newly homeless. As he acclimates to the shelter, Isaiah starts writing about other people whose worlds have fallen apart.   
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Host Ron Brown sits down with Primo CEO Christine Achre to map out Primo Center’s trauma-informed approach to ending family homelessness.   

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Thousands of people are living in Chicago’s homeless shelters. Some of those shelters are run by Primo Center, the largest provider of services and shelter for homeless children and their families in Chicago. Primo Center  which does things a little differently.   Co-hosts Jesse Betend and Ron Brown take you to Primo’s Sangamon shelter to meet the families, hear their stories, and learn how their approach is different -- a...

There are thousands of homeless people in Chicago. A third of them are kids like Avery… Coming soon from Rivet360 and Primo Center.   

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This show is a collaboration between Rivet360 and Primo Center.   
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