The Cebrin Goodman Center is committed to helping young people fulfill their potential as happy, healthy contributing members of society. The often tragic consequences of drug use, abuse, and addiction are a powerful threat to the realization of that goal.
Cebrin Goodman Center Partners
CGC High School Program
The Cebrin Goodman Center supports a wide variety of prevention activities in more than 30 high schools throughout Illinois. Programs include alcohol and drug abuse prevention education and clubs, parent education programs, operation snowball, and professional substance abuse counselors.
Participating districts: Forest View, Barrington, Downers Grove, East Leyden, Elk Grove, Evergreen Park, Glenbard, Grayslake, Hindsdale, Libertyville, Lyons Township, Nazareth Academy, Niles North, Oak Park/River Forest, Palatine, Prospect, Schaumburg, Stevenson, Vernon Hills, West Leyden, Wheeling, Woodstock, Zion-Benton
The Cebrin Goodman Teen Institute (CGTI) is an award-winning program that offers opportunities for teens throughout Illinois to learn about leadership, healthy choices, and working with others to create better communities.
CGTI empowers youth with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to lead an alcohol, tobacco, and other drug-free life. We make this a reality by helping teens develop and strengthen leaderships skills, educate them to lead peers to reduce the frequency of substance use and other addictive behaviors, teach to advocate for positive change within their schools, communities, and local government, and encourage healthy decision making skills.
Youth Guidance’s Working On Womanhood (W.O.W.) is a school year-long group counseling and clinical mentoring program that aims to improve social-emotional competencies for girls in 7th-12th grade exposed to traumatic stressors in high risk and under-resourced communities in Chicago.
The Lillian and Larry Goodman Foundations’ Cebrin Goodman Center supports the W.O.W. program at Burnham Academy and Kelvyn Park High School.