The Quad Communities Center for Working Families is designed to help local families earn income, keep it and grow it.  

In August of 2008, The Cara Program assumed management of the Quad Communities Center for Working Families.  Our Center for Working Families is a collaboration between Cara staff, LISC Chicago, the 4th Ward Alderman's Office, and the Quad Communities Development Corporation.  Its aspiration is to help community residents to (as authored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation) "increase their earnings and income (“Earn It”), reduce their financial transaction costs (“Keep It”), and build wealth for themselves and their communities (“Grow It”)."

For more information about the Center for Working Families model, please click here.  To read more about the vibrant communities of the Quad (including Douglas, Grand Boulevard, North Kenwood, and Oakland) and its Quality of Life plan (a multi-faceted strategy to revitalize the neighborhood's economic and community development), please click here.

To learn more first hand, come visit us at:

4655 South King Drive, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60653
(773) 924-2205

Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm