Explore how support can continue across the places and decisions that follow violence. There is no single timetable for a family’s recovery.
A flexible map of support, not stages of grief. People can enter, revisit, or skip parts of this pathway; care can overlap.
The impact reaches beyond one household
The whole block matters.
The person who was hurt. The family waiting. The neighbor who heard it. The child who saw it. The worker returning to the counter. There is room to ask for support.
You do not have to tell your whole story to find your next step. Choose a starting point, or call SnR directly.
Optional words of support. You do not have to tell your story to use this.
Immediate danger or a medical emergency? Call 911. SnR is not an emergency dispatch service.
What brings you here?
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A little clarity before you reach out.
What happens when I contact SnR?
Start with what you need most. SnR can discuss the situation, identify possible support, and help you understand the next steps. The response depends on the needs, available resources, and appropriate services.
Do I need to share every detail?
No. Begin with the information you are comfortable sharing. Do not send Social Security numbers, medical records, case files, or sensitive location information through a general website form.
Is contacting SnR an emergency response request?
No. A website visit, email, or general inquiry does not dispatch police, an ambulance, or an SnR responder. Call 911 when there is immediate danger or a medical emergency.
Our work / from the scene forward
Support begins in crisis. It should not end there.
Solutions & Resources connects immediate presence with practical advocacy, family stabilization, and continuing support. The work is personal. The coordination must be dependable.
From the scene forward
How each part connects to the work of healing.
These are places where support can meet a person—not milestones they must complete. A funeral applies only after a death; justice-system processes and healing can move on different timelines.
Presence in the immediate aftermath of violence, emotional and spiritual support, family liaison, and coordination with the systems responding around a family.
02 / Practical support
Family stabilization
Help identifying urgent needs and navigating resources, including transportation, food, work, housing-related concerns, and communication with employers, landlords, or creditors when appropriate.
03 / A voice beside yours
Victim advocacy & navigation
Support understanding victim-assistance processes, compensation applications, court-related needs, and communication with appropriate agencies. Assistance is not a guarantee of eligibility, payment, or a legal result.
04 / Care through loss
Bereavement & memorial support
Guidance and accompaniment around body-identification procedures, vigils, funeral arrangements, memorial needs, and the decisions families confront after a violent death.
05 / Beyond the immediate aftermath
Healing & family wellness
Trauma-informed emotional and spiritual care, counseling triage and referrals, and connections to appropriate individual, child, family, or group support.
06 / A prepared community
Training & institutional coordination
Workshops, speaking, and community education that help leaders understand the human aftermath of violence and strengthen how institutions communicate and respond.
Services depend on individual needs, appropriate referrals and available resources. Contact SnR to discuss what can be offered; clinical treatment, legal representation and direct financial assistance are not guaranteed.
Pastor Donovan Price, Founder and Executive Director.
Founder & Executive Director
Pastor Donovan Price.
Rev. Dr. Donovan E. Price Sr. founded Solutions & Resources in 2016. His work brings together street-level crisis response, victim advocacy, spiritual care, and the practical coordination families need after violence.
Families move between hospitals, public agencies, courts, homes, and the responsibilities of daily life. SnR’s work is to help keep those connections from breaking when people are already carrying more than they should have to carry alone.
“When the police tape goes up, Solutions and Resources is there.”
Alicia Michelle Straughter, Ph.D. (M.A. in Organizational Development and B.A. in Communications), is a distinguished leadership strategist, HR executive, and nonprofit management consultant with over 25 years of experience in strategic HR, nonprofit and business management, and transformational leadership. She spent 20 years working alongside leadership expert and motivational speaker Stedman Graham in a senior leadership role, where she played a key part in developing youth leadership programs focused on identity-based leadership, celebrity events, nonprofit management, and personal development.
As the founder and CEO of AMS Consulting Services Inc., a minority-owned HR firm, she has successfully led initiatives in leadership development, government contract management, and organizational transformation. She has managed budgets exceeding $15 million, spearheaded impactful programs for women and youth empowerment, and coached industry leaders to develop authentic, purpose-driven leadership strategies.
Read more about Dr. Straughter
Her experience extends into higher education, where she has served as an adjunct professor in the school of business, teaching and mentoring emerging leaders and designing programs that bridge academic theory with real-world leadership application.
She is also the chief creator of the Women Who Empower Chronicle, a platform dedicated to amplifying the voices of women leaders through storytelling, leadership insights, and empowerment resources.
Beyond consulting, she hosts the Soul of a Leader podcast, where she engages in transformative leadership conversations. She is also an accomplished author who co-authored Soul of a Leader Echoes from Episodes from the Soul of a Leader Podcast Guests. She is the author of Strategies and Practices of Women Who Lead and is developing a 7-day devotional for women in leadership. With a passion for mentorship, diversity advocacy, and leadership excellence, Dr. Alicia Michelle Straughter continues to push boundaries, shaping the next generation of leaders and fostering inclusive, purpose-driven workplaces.
Evidence & context / dates matter
Count what happened. Never lose who matters.
Research helps explain the scale and uneven burden of violence. SnR’s own reporting must show what the organization did for families. Those are different questions—and both deserve honest answers.
Chicago research / historical context
Behind the citywide averages.
These findings come from the University of Chicago Crime Lab. They are not 2026 live counts, SnR performance measures, or evidence of a formal research partnership.
2024 analysis
22×
Unequal exposure to fatal violence
The Crime Lab reported that Black residents were 22 times more likely to be killed than White residents.
Progress deserves recognition. Ongoing grief deserves support. Our position: a decline in violence does not remove the needs of families already living with its consequences.
Sources checked September 10, 2026. Refer to each report for measurement definitions, data cutoffs, and limitations. Comparisons above are not combined into a single trend line.
SnR reporting / separate from city data
Make the work accountable.
An impact report should distinguish the families reached, the services delivered, and the changes people report—without making their most private experiences public.
Unique families supported and incident responses, with a defined reporting period and clear counting rules.
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Lasting support
Follow-up contacts, completed referrals, court accompaniment, and practical support—counted separately from individuals.
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Family-defined progress
Consented feedback on access, navigation, and support. No claim that SnR caused a citywide crime reduction.
Reporting priorities are discussed with partners using defined periods, clear counting rules and appropriate privacy safeguards. No audited SnR performance totals are presented on this page.
An additional community data source
HeyJackass is an independent community data source. Visit the publisher for its current figures and definitions; its counts are not presented here as official data or SnR performance measures.
SnR’s citywide commitment begins with recognizing that every community has people, history, strengths, and needs—not just a place in a crime table.
Find your place in Chicago
Rogers Park
Support can include people and places beyond the immediate household.
Choose a name, click a shape on the map, or use the numbered directory. Your selection highlights the matching community area—not an incident or a person’s address.
Community areas are not wards, ZIP codes, or every named neighborhood. This map is a geographic guide, not a dispatch service, office-location map, or record of SnR encounters.
The city we share
Chicago · 77 community areas
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Opening Chicago’s community map…
Published geographic boundaries—not generated shapes.
Selected: Rogers Park
Community areaYour selection
Boundary source: City of Chicago Data Portal. The map requires internet to load the official boundary file. No location request, incident tracking, or personal-data collection is used.
Speaking / training / institutional dialogue
Bring the realities of the frontline into the room.
Book Pastor Donovan Price for a keynote, a facilitated conversation, or practical training on violence, grief, trust, and the responsibility to stay with families after a crisis.
Pastor Donovan Price speaking about the work of Solutions and Resources.
Rev. Dr. Donovan E. Price Sr.
Field experience. Systems insight. Human consequence.
Founder and Executive Director of Solutions & Resources, Pastor Donovan works where violence, grief, families, and public systems meet.
The conversation can be shaped for universities, healthcare teams, public-safety leaders, victim-service professionals, faith communities, foundations, and civic audiences.
Engagements are tailored to audience and purpose. Speaking inquiries are not confirmed bookings. Fees, travel, availability, and scope are discussed privately.
Signature conversations / tailored to your audience
Not just inspiration. A different understanding.
Keynote / public dialogue
The Blue Glow
What violence leaves behind after the emergency response ends. A conversation about traumatic loss, human dignity, and what it means to remain present.
Training / leadership workshop
The First 180 Minutes
The first hours after violence, viewed through a family’s experience. Explore communication, coordination, and the gaps between police, hospitals, and community support.
Faith & community leadership
Faithful Presence
How faith communities can meet grief without rushing it, speaking over it, or reducing practical care to comforting words.
Institutions / cross-sector teams
Families Between Systems
Identify where people get lost between agencies, responsibilities, and referrals—and what meaningful, lasting support could look like.
Helping professionals
Who Cares for Those Who Show Up?
The human cost carried by responders, advocates, clergy, and caregivers. Make room for the people whose job is to stay steady for everyone else.
Philanthropy / civic audiences
After the Headlines
Why prevention and survivor support belong in the same conversation, and why sustained care cannot depend on the length of a news cycle.
Discuss the topic, audience, duration and format with SnR before confirming an engagement. These talks are not advertised as accredited continuing education or clinical treatment.
Start a conversation
Tell us about your room.
Who will be listening? What do they need to understand? What do you hope they do differently afterward?
Prepare an email inquiry, review it, then choose Open in email app and send it. Nothing is submitted by this form, and no date is reserved until SnR confirms the engagement.
A family’s needs do not disappear when public attention moves on. Support the people, coordination, and practical work that help families find their next step.
What support can strengthen
Presence needs infrastructure.
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Readiness & response
Support the organizational capacity behind scene and hospital engagement.
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Practical family support
Strengthen navigation, coordination, and help with the needs that can destabilize everyday life.
03
Lasting support & healing
Make room for follow-up, family wellness, referrals, and the work that continues after a crisis.
No gift amount is presented as buying a fixed number of services. Specific restrictions or sponsorship commitments require an agreed scope and budget.
Discuss priorities, organizational capacity, the planned Healing Center, and an appropriate reporting framework before defining a funding commitment.
02 / Hospitals & public systems
Strengthen the connections.
Explore referral relationships, communication, survivor navigation, and practical coordination with clear responsibilities.
03 / Community & faith partners
Build from local trust.
Bring neighborhood knowledge, volunteers, meeting space, practical resources, or training needs into a shared conversation.
The next chapter / planned Healing Center
A place built around people.
SnR’s Healing Center vision brings advocacy, family support, wellness, group spaces, technology access, and community connection into one thoughtful environment.
A place for healing. A foundation for lasting care.
A planned SnR Healing Center, designed around dignity, family connection, practical advocacy, and the space to begin again.
Planned · Not an operating facility
Concept visualization—not a photograph of a secured or operating SnR property. Final location, design, services, funding, and opening date remain subject to confirmation.
Care & advocacy
A proposed home for family support, private conversations, individual and group wellness, and coordinated navigation.
Connection & access
Spaces for learning, gathering, technology access, and the practical work of reconnecting people with resources.
Voice & community
A vision for creative expression, storytelling, and community dialogue—always grounded in consent and dignity.
A considered selection—not a wall of logos. News coverage helps people understand the work; it is not an institutional endorsement.
NBC News reporting / July 2022
One Night in Chicago.
Kate Snow followed Pastor Donovan Price as he supported families in Chicago during NBC News’ July 2022 reporting on the human aftermath of gun violence. Content note: the linked account discusses shootings, death and bereavement.
FBI Chicago’s announcement recognizes Rev. Dr. Donovan E. Price Sr. and describes SnR’s victim advocacy, crisis intervention, and assistance to families affected by violence.
Recognition is described accurately; no government seal or implied agency endorsement is used.
For interviews, panels, and documentary inquiries Contact dprice@solutionsandresources.org or 872.702.1313. Any access involving survivors or families requires their informed consent and appropriate privacy safeguards.
Faith-based grief and trauma resources are here when that is the kind of support you are seeking. Faith-based materials are optional; the rest of the library remains available.
Choose what feels useful. Preview children’s materials with a trusted adult. These outside resources are educational, not personal treatment advice; inclusion does not imply a partnership or endorsement by the publisher. Book links go to publishers, not an affiliate checkout. Ask your library about borrowing.
A little space in the middle of it
You do not have to read everything today.
Choose a short reflection—or reach a person. Neither requires you to explain your loss here.
Explore organizer-listed support groups and gatherings in Chicago or online. Check the audience, format, and access details before you make plans.
Listings checked September 10, 2026. These are outside organizations’ events—not SnR-hosted sessions. A listed date does not guarantee a place. Confirm registration, time zone, accessibility, costs, and any intake requirement with the organizer. A remembrance walk is not a therapy group.
These listings need a fresh check. Use the organizer links for current dates before making plans.
More places to check
Organizer schedules. Not invented dates.
Some organizations publish opportunities through their own calendar or a direct inquiry. These links help you find the next suitable gathering.
Know of a gathering that belongs here?
Send the public organizer link, date, audience, location, and any cost or registration requirement to SnR for review. Please do not include participant names or private stories. Listings need to be checked before they are added.
Support should see the person who was hurt—and the people around them whose days, relationships, and places may now feel different.
There is room for your experience, too
Who else is carrying what happened?
Choose a perspective below. These are starting points for a conversation, not a demand to disclose or a guarantee of a particular service.
The purpose is connection, not exposure
A wider circle. Not a wider audience.
Being part of the response does not entitle anyone to a family’s story, a child’s photograph, or a patient’s medical information.
Small, practical ways to show up
Ask before sharing details. Offer a specific task rather than pressure to talk. Share verified support information. Make space for employees, neighbors, and young people to decline a conversation or a public gathering.
Businesses can help sustain the network—with permission-based support for staff, trusted information, community partnerships, and contributions to the work—without turning someone’s loss into a promotion.
For grief. For the first difficult hours. For the people who care, the whole block, and the days that follow. Choose what fits; leave the rest.
180original reflections · 10 themes · on your terms
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Words are one place to begin
A person matters, too.
You can reach SnR without knowing exactly what to say.
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Presence.
