Our Programs

MedCEEP’s Emergency Preparedness Workshop Program equips youth from Chicago’s South and West Sides with practical emergency response skills for strokes, cardiac arrests, and penetrating injuries—including gunshot wounds, stab wounds, and serious accidents. While national initiatives like ACEP’s 'Until Help Arrives' program focus on bleeding control, scene safety, and compression-only CPR, MedCEEP’s curriculum builds on this by incorporating stroke recognition and AED use to address the medical emergencies most common in the areas we serve. To date, more than 3,500 students across 15 local high schools have completed the program.

Our Medical Careers Exposure Program brings a dynamic, hands-on learning experience directly to high schools across Chicago’s South and West Sides. Over six sessions, students are introduced to a wide range of careers in healthcare—helping them explore what’s possible and how to get there.

But it’s more than career exploration. The program also includes our Emergency Preparedness Workshop, where students learn lifesaving skills like CPR, stroke recognition, and wound care, and our TRAP Violence Workshop, which helps students build resilience and learn how to navigate potentially high-risk situations.

This unique blend of real-world training and career exposure empowers students with confidence, clarity, and a stronger sense of direction as they think about their futures.

The TRAP Violence Program helps youth build resilience, navigate conflict, and respond to stress in healthier ways. Delivered in schools across Chicago’s South and West Sides, this interactive workshop dives into the root causes of violence, explores the personal and environmental factors that contribute to it, and equips students with tools to manage trauma, de-escalate conflict, and stay safe.

Through open dialogue and real-world scenarios, participants strengthen their awareness, sharpen their decision-making, and walk away with practical skills they can use in their daily lives—at school, at home, and in their communities.

Our interactive eight-week Summer Pipeline Program serves youth ages 13 to 19 from neighborhoods surrounding the University of Chicago. Designed to spark early interest in healthcare, the program introduces students to a wide range of medical careers, provides guidance on navigating the path to professional school, and offers ongoing mentorship and educational workshops.

By investing in local youth and helping them explore future careers in medicine, the program supports long-term goals of increasing access to healthcare professionals in communities where the need is greatest.

The Sports MedCEEP Program helps ensure that student-athletes have the medical and wellness support they need to stay healthy, safe, and game-ready. Many students in our communities face barriers to accessing the physicals required for school sports participation. To address this, we host eight free sports physical events each year, helping students meet eligibility requirements without added financial burden.

In addition to physicals, we provide sideline medical coverage at over 30 high school football games annually and offer workshops on mental health, stress management, and emergency preparedness. By combining physical health, mental wellness, and practical safety training, the program supports young athletes both on and off the field.

The Medical Bootcamp & Mentorship Program is designed to equip medical students with the skills, confidence, and guidance they need to thrive in their training and future careers. Through focused clinical skills workshops, study strategies, and one-on-one mentorship, participants gain hands-on experience and practical tools that strengthen their performance—especially in fast-paced specialties like emergency medicine.

Whether preparing for exams, rotations, or residency, this program helps students sharpen their abilities, expand their support network, and take the next step with clarity and purpose.

The Pre-Med SERVICE Program gives aspiring medical students a firsthand look at what a career in healthcare really looks like. Hosted at the University of Chicago’s Level 1 Trauma Center and Emergency Department, the program offers clinical shadowing opportunities, career guidance, mentorship, and workshops led by emergency medicine physicians and trauma surgeons.

Students gain valuable exposure to fast-paced clinical settings while participating in meaningful community outreach and interactive learning sessions—building a strong foundation as they prepare to take the next steps toward a career in medicine.

 The vision of the P.O.P. Foundation is to provide outreach services, educational seminars, as well as, college and career readiness opportunities. We encourage healthy lifestyle choices by working with active community partners to create a safe, fulfilling and academically enriching environment.

President Barack Obama started the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) initiative in February 2014 to address persistent opportunity gaps facing boys and young men from diverse communities  and to ensure all youth can reach their full potential. 

Today, the work continues as the MBK Alliance, an initiative of the Obama Foundation. The MBK Alliance has impact communities in major cities in the United States, with Chicago being one of the largest.

Project SWISH Chicago is a foundation that utilizes sports and entertainment as the driving force to unite people from diverse communities and cultures while providing a safe and supportive environment for youth and young adults.

Getting Grown Collective is a project that provides alternative access to health professionals and healthy lifestyle options through Elevated Healing, a free, monthly health clinic with Dr. Abdullah Pratt.

Elevated Healing began at Elevated Garden in April 2018 and offers stroke recognition workshops, Stop-the Bleed awareness classes, CPR training, conversations with health professionals and health screenings. 

We work in collaboration with Pritzker School of Medicine to provide undergraduate and medical students an opportunity to serve as mentors while providing high school students from diverse communities the opportunity to participate in a variety of lectures, discussions, and hands-on workshops, with the goal of giving insight into life as a healthcare professional.

HIS Leadership Summit is a huge event created to foster an environment of excellence for young men by providing a day of free workshops that include learning about financial literacy, entrepreneurship, gentlemen's etiquette, and how to maintain their mental health.

In collaboration with the Chicago Public School department, & Champs Mentoring Program of Chicago, MedCEEP's own Dr. Pratt provides his insight and knowledge to the summit's leadership panel.

Sweet Water Foundation utilizes a blend of urban agriculture, art, and education to transform vacant spaces and abandoned buildings into economically and ecologically productive and sustainable community assets that produce engaged youth, art, locally-grown food, and affordable housing. 

MedCEEP partners with the foundation to provide Stop the Bleed training and education on health and nutrition to community members.