Evaluation of the 100,000 Homes Campaign in Chicago
In May 2011, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) partnered with the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University Chicago to conduct a process evaluation of the Chicago 100,000 Homes Campaign, with a focus on outreach and housing coordination. The 100,000 Homes Campaign was a national effort led by Community Solutions to identify and permanently house 100,000 of the country’s most vulnerable homeless by July 2013.
Read MoreHeart Women & Girls Partnership
Heart Women and Girls, an organization working with women and girls in faith-based communities – especially in Muslim communities – to build “leadership and self-esteem through health and wellness programming” collaborated with CURL to conduct an assessment relating to health. The research was designed to measure attitudes, opinions, and knowledge of young Muslim college students as it relates to a variety of health issues. The outcomes will allow HEART and others in the field to be better equipped at targeting resources by understanding the community need.
Read MoreExamining the Impact of Community Policing
This pilot oral history project examined both these impacts and how a community organization “lives on” in the form of how it shaped both public policy and individual activists’ careers. In addition to being of specific interest to those seeking to understand community safety, the project also hopes to establish a model for understanding a community-based organization’s impact years after the actual work took place.
Read MoreEvaluation of Chicago Housing Authority's Victim Assistance Program
CURL partnered with the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) to evaluate their Victim Assistance Program (VAP). The VAP provides assistance to public housing residents who are victims of violent crimes that occur on CHA property or are impacted by a traumatic event.
Read MoreImmigration: Undocumented Students in Higher Education
Fairfield University, Santa Clara University and Loyola University Chicago partnered and received a grant from the Ford Foundation to explore experiences of undocumented students at Jesuit universities. The project seeks to better understand challenges and obstacles faced by undocumented students and ways of eliminating those barriers. The project has several short-term and long-term goals.
Read MoreBuilding for the Future: Continuing the McCormick Foundation’s Initiative for the Professional Development of Childcare Educators
In 2003 McCormick Foundation invested in agency-sponsored childcare programs to enhance organizational health and build their capacity to recruit, train, and retain high quality directors and teachers, thereby sustaining high quality childcare programming. To sustain this collaborative network of mutual support CURL will continue to utilize this collaborative (inter- and intra-agency) and cohort-based (i.e. policy fellows and program leaders) model for the next two years (2010-2012).
Read MoreUnderstanding Landlord Related Issues in Permanent Supported Housing
Uptown Resident Leaders: 15 Years Later
Following up on the Saving Our Homes research that was completed in 1996, this report provides the “stories” of successful organizing to preserve 10 Uptown high-rise buildings as affordable housing when they were threatened with going market rate prices.
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