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We’re proud to be recognized for our work uplifting LGBTQ+ youth on Chicago’s West Side. Explore recent media coverage and press highlights that showcase how TaskForce is advancing health, equity, and opportunity in our community and beyond.
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- ABC 7 Chicago
2025 Chicago Pride Parade organizers are highlighting community organizations, like West Garfield Park's TaskForce Prevention and Community Services.
- Windy City Times
For the first time in its 54-year history, the Chicago Pride Parade will be led by a local community group: TaskForce Prevention & Community Services, a Black-led LGBTQ+ youth health and wellness organization based on the West Side.
- CBS News
This year's Chicago Pride Parade will honor a West Side organization serving the community for over three decades.
- Block Club Chicago
TaskForce Prevention & Community Services is the first-ever community group to lead the parade and plans to highlight their dedication to LGBTQ+ young people — and their Vogue School.
- Windy City Times
AIDS Foundation Chicago, Pride Action Tank, Brave Space Alliance, Life is Work, TaskForce Prevention & Community Services, and over 20 additional community organizations across Illinois issued a letter of solidarity this morning “to push back on the hate and attempted erasure of trans and gender expansive communities by President Donald Trump, his administration, and Congressional Republicans.”
- Austin Weekly
West Side nonprofit to lead 2025 Chicago Pride Parade for the first time
