About COHD

MISSION

Our mission is to provide computer training, practical life skills, and educational resources via technology in the greater Chicagoland area. Our objective is to facilitate a collaborative effort amongst our varied sites to enhance site capacity, maximize the utilization of computer technology by our clients, and encourage information exchange and skills transfer. This strategy will result in long-term operational feasibility, community responsiveness and improvement, and generate entrepreneurship.

COHD HISTORY

The Center of Higher Development (COHD) began in 1992 as a single-site after-school program. COHD was founded by Rev. Walter Gillespie with the purpose of providing a safe, wholesome, educationally enriching environment for youth after school. In 1994, it contracted with the Chicago Community Development Corporation to provide supportive services and computer training for residents of a Washington Park housing complex. COHD now operates seven community technology centers within large rent-assisted housing complexes, serving residents of these complexes as well as the surrounding communities.   Currently, COHD has seven locations as follows:

  • Archer Courts Technology Center
   2242 South Princeton Ave.
  • B. J. Wright Technology Center
  1350 South Morgan St.
  • Germano-Millgate Technology Center
   8732 South Burley St.
  • Magic Johnson/HP Inventor Center - Lakegrove Village Technology Center
   3515 South Cottage Grove Ave.
  • 51st King Drive Technology Center
   5049 South Dr. M. L. King Dr.
  • 61st Wabash Youth Center
   23 East 61st St.
  • Pheasant Ridge Technology Center
   9208 Hunter Dr., Orland Hills, IL

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Recipient of the 2005 City of Chicago Community Development Block Grant for Archer Courts Neighborhood Network Learning Center.

  • Recipient of the 2004 and 2005 State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Opportunity Grant for Lake Grove Village and Archer Courts Neighborhood Network Learning Centers

  • Recipient of Hewlett Packard’s 2003 Community CTC grant for Archer Courts NNLC

  • Recipient of the 2002 Magic Johnson/HP Grant for Lake Grove Village NNLC

  • Recipient of the 1999 HUD Best Practices Award for the Englewood Gardens NNLC

  • Participant in President Clinton’s “Welfare to Work” Initiative 1999

PARTNERS

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Web

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