CURL conducted an evaluation of the Midwest Harm Reduction Institute of Heartland Alliance’s (MWHRI) harm reduction (HR) training and technical assistance program. This program was provided to two organizations located in Chicago that provide housing and related services to people who are homeless.
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This was an evaluation of the Christian Community Health Centers’ Footprints Women in Prostitution Project. "Footprints" is a program that facilitates substance abuse and HIV prevention for women arrested for prostitution in Cook County. The program focuses on providing outreach and services to reduce the rate of infectious disease, drug use, especially injection drug use, relapse and recidivism.
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The Bridges to Latino Health conference run by the The Loyola University Chicago's Public Health Action Project, Graduate School and Stritch School of Medicine outlined the barriers facing Latino community access to health care and facilitated discussion of effective means to address these concerns.
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CURL worked with UIC to conduct focus groups with community members in gentrifying and non-gentrifying Chicago neighborhoods to determine if gentrification disrupted the availability of local medical care, affected residents' social networks, contributed to stress felt by these residents, or placed additional financial demands on them that resulted in cutbacks in their usage of medical facilities.
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Roseland Christian Health Ministries (RCHM) is a faith-based organization that runs Christian Community Health Center (CCHC), which provides primary health care services to the residents of the Greater Roseland community on Chicago's far south side. In 2004, RCHM created a new community health center in the Village of Dolton (a south suburb of Chicago), an area designated by the Bureau of Primary Health Care as a "Health Professional Shortage Area.” This new health center created 64 new jobs within five years.
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A Department of Criminal Justice project evaluated an effort to decrease the incidence of HIV infection among participants in the Cook County Sheriff's Female Furlough Program located at the Cook County Department of Correction.
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