Samples of Press Coverage & Publications:
What’s Prison Education Worth? Inside and Out.
Chicago Public Radio (Interview)
Eight Forty Eight (interview spot).
Chicago Public Radio, 91.5 FM (WBEZ).
March 16, 2010.
Change of Subject: Why not a citizen senator?
The past Asst Deputy Commissioner for the
City of Chicago’s Department of Children Services.
Nov 20, 2008
Interview with Azim Ramelize: Detention vs. Intervention.
Chicago Public Radio (Interview)
Edwards, Steve (interviewer).
Chicago Public Radio, 91.5 FM (WBEZ)
May 16, 2006.
Lawmakers Visit Chicago for Juvenile Justice Policy Forum
National Conference of State Legislators
Legislators heard from Azim Ramelize, Assistant Commissioner,
Chicago Department of Children Family and Support Services,
about his rich life experience and current hard work with youth in Illinois.
Harlem Children’s Zone in Chicago Wrap-Up
April 2, 2010.
Coalition Provides New Ways to Combat Youth Crime
Caroline Moses. Northwestern University: Medill News Service
January 18, 2006
Youth Violence May Call for Stronger Medicine.
Chicago Public Radio (interview) Mitchell, Chip.
(Interviewer) Chicago Public Radio, 91.5 FM (WBEZ)
April 2, 2008
Economic Mentoring’ to Target Juvenile Offenders
Chicago Public Radio (interview)
Mitchell, Chip. (Interviewer)
Chicago Public Radio, 91.5 FM (WBEZ)
May 21st, 2008
From Gangster to Guardian:
How a Bullet Led One Man form the Streets of New York to Law School
The Florida Bar News
May 1, 2002
Samples of Recent Grant Funded Initiatives:
Ed Byrne JAG ARRA ($640,000)
Deliver youth development “group sessions” and life skills training, focusing on individual and collective responsibility, decision making, conflict resolution, school engagement and community awareness for:
(1) Social marketing practices that include research, critical analysis and writing projects, culminating in a youth led media message campaign (video, billboard, posters) against guns and violence.
(2) Healing circles and Restorative Justice facilitates restorative offering responses to youth crime and conflict.
(3) Restorative responses to crime and conflict, providing group engagement through peace-making circles, designed to repair the harm caused by crime and conflict.
(4) Workforce development referrals and employment opportunities for youth during the summer months.
Project Safe Neighborhood (62, 865.00)
YMCA SIP will hire outreach workers and begin conducting outreach in 2010. SIP is implementing programs with group sessions, home-visits and one-on-one counseling with referrals. SIP staff will expand intramural softball and other sports “on the Block” to include three new teams, each in three new neighborhoods, and recruit team members from the sixty (60) new youth being served by Project Safe Neighborhood. After September 30, youth still in need of services will be referred to other existing programs. Funding will provide purchase of necessary materials, including 1500 Gorp’s Gift books, 1500 plush Gorps, and 75 Gorp’s Gift Teacher’s Guides.
Samples of Pending Grant Funded Initiatives:
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Strategic Enhancement to Mentoring Programs ($450,000)
UCAN, The Black Star Project, & City of Chicago Dept. of Family and Support Services will develop programs designed to help reduce juvenile delinquency, drug abuse, truancy, violence and other problematic and high-risk behavior among disadvantaged/disconnected Chicago youth by matching them with positive role models in their community (and beyond).
OJJP Second Chance Act Juvenile Mentoring Initiative (800,000)
DFSS, The Cook County Juvenile Probation and Court Services Department (CCJPCSD), The Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center (CCTJDC), Cook County Juvenile Advisory Council (CCJAC), the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Community Justice for Youth Institute of Understanding are serving as applicants to develop reporting, program and fiscal management measures to implement a broad range of youth mentoring programs.