Community TV Network (CTVN) helps low-income youth and adults in Chicago identify, address, and resolve issues using media arts and computer technology. CTVN aims to gives youth the awareness, motivation, and tools to create a positive future for themselves and their neighborhoods.

Productions include "Visions of Humble," created by youth who live in public housing, which discusses issues related to public housing. Students took advantage of the platform and media skills offered by CTVN to examine issues surrounding gentrification and public housing.

Youth involved in CTVN have also covered the political influence of Latinos in Chicago, the mayoral races, immigration, and police brutality. In addition, CTVN covers youth issues such as summer jobs, school resources, and youth violence.

A solutions-oriented program, CTVN encourages students to hold summits at the TV studio to seek and discuss ways to address local issues.

CTVN offers free digital video production to youth throughout Chicago by offering classes and partnering with neighborhood school sites. In addition, CTVN’s Hard Cover program is an after-school and summer program open to all teens in Chicago, with participants working as a team to produce a cable-TV show, "Hard Cover: The Voices and Visions of Chicago’s Youth." A new, 30-minute program is cablecast every two weeks. Hard Cover is the nation's longest-running youth produced cable-tv series; it received a 2003-2004 "Coming Up Taller Award" by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.