About Your Turn

Begun during the pandemic, Your Turn is an ongoing information-gathering project launched by then-Bridge collective members Michael Workman, Avery R. Young, Bob Faust, Michelle Kranicke, David Sundry and Andrew Schachmann. Your Turn was conceptualized as a way to share your voice and become part of the larger demographic effort to prioritize crisis resource needs around the city as part of our Assembly Zones program (now discontinued barring further funding), partly designed to provide "public health stations" where people in "information deserts" can access low-fi resource information help. Our idea was to design a “station” with resource information pull-tabs containing mental wellness numbers, or assistance with domestic abuse, or whatever resources are needed for you to survive?

Sharing your story helps us figure out what the greatest needs are in specific parts of the city. What we really want to know is: what neighborhood in Chicago do you live in, and how easy or hard has it been to access crisis resources, at any time in your life? Including SNAP benefits or other food resources? Have you been able to find help and support facing domestic abuse, eviction, substance use, abuse and addiction, mental illness, unemployment insurance, or anything else you'd like to tell us about? Your survival stories will eventually be transformed into posters that will be put up around Chicago to elevate your voice and that of others who are fighting to makes ends meet.