Chez Smith has spent more than two decades building what the system kept failing to provide, health programs that actually reach Black communities because they were built inside them, not handed down to them.

Urban Community Health Services is the enterprise that holds that work. It encompasses Gyrls In The H.O.O.D. Foundation, which provides Black preteen and teen girls in Chicagoland with reproductive health education, menstrual hygiene resources, and housing support; Brilliant Brown Boys Book Club, a literacy and leadership initiative for Black boys; and a consulting practice that partners with healthcare organizations, school districts, and corporations to design culturally grounded health programs from the inside out.

This work is rooted in a simple conviction: proximity is the prerequisite. The most effective health programs are built by people who know the community, not about it. That principle drives everything here.

Inquire at, chez@urbancommunityhealthservices.com