CURL is working in partnership with the Center for Health Equity and Innovation and Cook County Health to facilitate an evaluation of the Flexible Housing Project (FCP) program. The Flexible Housing Pool (FHP), coordinated by Chicago Center for Housing and Health addresses health and housing aims to decrease utilization of emergency services and hospitalizations by connecting people to stable housing and the supportive services they need in order to improve health outcomes.
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This project is an evaluation of an expandable and replicable private/public partnership pilot project to maximize health care coordination for pregnant and parenting mothers residing in supportive housing, a population that has experienced the complex health impact of homelessness. This is in collaboration among Housing Opportunities for Women (HOW), the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Loyola University's Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL).
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The Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University Chicago, by invitation of the Center for Housing and Health, conducted interviews with clients who participated in the City’s Chronic Homeless Pilot Project.
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In a partnership with the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness and other service and advocacy organizations, the Loyola University Chicago Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) and photographer Noah Addis organized this exhibition to present positive images of individuals moving from homelessness to housing. The exhibition confronts the dominant stereotypes that homeless individuals are helpless street beggars or that organizations serving them are just providing handouts without addressing long-term solutions.
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In partnership with Heartland Alliance, CURL received a two-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to:
(1) Define the essential components of the Housing First model;
(2) Develop a fidelity index for Housing First programming;
(3) Test the finalized fidelity index for reliability and validity; and
(4) Assess the degree to which fidelity predicts improved substance abuse treatment access for clients.
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Working with various social service agencies that provide homelessness services, the research team evaluated the programs and models that have been put into place under the Chicago Plan and provide data to make necessary mid-course corrections and improve implementation going forward. The four key components of the project are a qualitative study of homeless clients, a longitudinal client survey, a homeless service agency survey, and a service inventory.
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CURL partnered with Catholic Charities to evaluate their Homelessness Prevention Call Center. The Call Center is a Homelessness Prevention Initiative of the City of Chicago’s “10-Year Plan to End Homelessness.” Launched in January 2007, the Call Center directs individuals identified as being at risk for homelessness to appropriate short-term funding agencies and other social services as deemed appropriate.
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Loyola University Chicago's Center for Urban Research and Learning and Catholic Charities worked together to develop and implement a process and outcome evaluation of the St. Leo Campus for veterans, a unique partnership between a private organization, Catholic Charities, and a public one, the Veterans Administration. The purpose of this evaluation was to both assess the implementation process of this project for Catholic Charities, the Veteran's Administration and St. Leo's Veteran Campus various stakeholders and to provide a blueprint for the national reproduction of the model.
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