Our Programs

The Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency Preparedness program is designed to empower High School students with the emergency response skills needed to potentially save lives in the communities struck most by health disparities that lead to a higher rate of strokes, heart attacks, and gun violence. 

The TRAP Violence Program focuses on providing the proper resources through trained professionals and workshops in an effort to help students cope with the violence seen most prevalently in their communities and the resulting trauma.

This interactive 8-week program targets students 13-19 years of age, from underserved communities surrounding the University of Chicago, that provides exposure to various medical careers, guidance on applying into medical professional schools, and provides ongoing didactics and mentorship to address the lack of available health professionals from communities suffering from the worst of health disparities.

Aims to address the deficits of sports medicine support and coverage provided to HS contact sports such as football, where we provide free sports physicals for eligibility, sideline coverage with physicians, sports as a violence prevention strategy, and workshops on how athletes and coaches can recognize and respond to common sports emergencies prior to arrival of paramedics.

This Program seeks to provide UChicago undergraduates as well as Underrepresented Minority premedical students with clinical exposure (shadowing), didactics, community outreach, and career guidance facilitated by emergency medicine physicians and trauma surgeons, within the context of UCMC’s Level one trauma center and ER.

Docs Off The Block is a project created to allow for the voices of underrepresented physicians to be heard. We get to hear their stories, their values, and what they are doing to combat the lack of minority representation in the field of medicine.

It's a space for people who are in the position to push change to speak about the many systemic injustices they fight everyday while giving back to the communities they serve.

 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 of color 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 minority high school students who are underrepresented in medicine. 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.

After the Association of American Medical Colleges released an alarming report informing the nation that the already low number of black men applicants to medical school was decreasing BMWC took this as a call to action.

The Mission: To increase the number of black men in the field of medicine through exposure, inspiration, and mentoring.  MedCEEP & Dr. Abdullah Pratt share the organization's interest in increasing representation in the field of medicine and provides free workshops and clinical skills training at their annual conference.

HIS Leadership Summit is a huge event created to foster an environment of excellence for young men of color 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.

MedCEEP collaborates with The Black Fire Brigade to offer workshops and skills sessions for their events. The program aims to increase diversity in the EMS and fire safety profession by instructing inner-city youth in the EMS and fire curriculum. This allows them to be directly involved with the community while engaged in noble work and gain their trust and respect. 

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.