Welcome to Free Root Operation

We serve single mothers and women, often erased from gun violence advocacy, as a public safety infrastructure. 

Free Root Operation (FRO) addresses the root causes of gun violence through a method of critical care encompassing wraparound wellness, economic justice, and education services for women caretakers in the Chicagoland area through our BLOOM Network, a fleet of violence prevention programs with its most expansive program being the ​​BLOOM Cohort. These services are foundational pillars of our violence prevention initiatives, which are substantiated by research centering communal wisdom. This is the innovative approach behind our operation to restore families and communities impacted by poverty-induced gun violence to safe, abundant, and liberated sites of Oasis.