UNEMPLOYMENT ALTERNATIVES PURCHASING GROUP history

After School Action Programs (ASAP), an initiative nationally recognized for its unique network structure and design, is launched in 1993.

Two years later, Girl World is founded as an initiative of ASAP. In 1994, EdgeUp is established as a partnership of schools, businesses, trade associations, and local social service providers.

In 1995, a Mediation Center is established at Senn High School and Mayor Daley’s Region One YouthNet Center – a City initiative to use public facilities to provide a “safety-net” for young people during after school hours.

In 1996, the students from YouthNet create the first Peer Jury (now call Restortative Justice) in the Chicago Public Schools.

Future history and science fiction, which take place in the author's future but is now our past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, is not alternate history: the author did not intentionally change the past.

In 2006, the Bricolage project completes the new mural façade of the 4730 building.

In 2014, Alternatives’ Board of Directors approves a strategic plan that includes opening a centralized youth center on Chicago’s South Side.

In 2015, Alternatives’ longtime service area for CCBYS crisis intervention and prevention services expands to include 11 additional South Side communities east of the Dan Ryan.

In 2016, Urban Arts programming expands into 4 high schools on Chicago’s South Side.

In 2018, Alternatives opens a South Side center in Washington Park at 241 E. 57th St