Building for the Future: Continuing the McCormick Foundation’s Initiative for the Professional Development of Childcare Educators

June 01, 2010 / Teresa

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).

categories / Children and Youth, Community Capacity Building and Strategic Planning, Education and Curriculum Development
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Ounce of Prevention Fund Community Assessment

July 01, 2009 / Teresa

The CURL Research Team evaluated The Ounce’s Community Assessment Projects which inform strategic decisions made at the Ounce and its delegate agencies. The findings from these assessments guide program designs and external partnerships while ensuring that the centers are meeting the needs of their service areas.

categories / Children and Youth, Community Capacity Building and Strategic Planning
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Partnership for a Curriculum on Civic Engagement

June 01, 2009 / Teresa

This partnership between CURL, Mikva Challenge, and Loyola's School of Education sought to create a holistic 'civic engagement' curriculum for Chicago's middle school and high school students. Topics such as civil rights and democracy in action were key components.

categories / Children and Youth, Education and Curriculum Development
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Status of Young Women and Girls in Illinois

January 01, 2009 / Teresa

The Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago formed a partnership with Women and Girls’ Collective Action Network and Chicago Girls’ Coalition to conduct a secondary data analysis to determine how young women and girls are faring in Illinois.

categories / Children and Youth
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Creating Culturally Competent Measures for Integrated Arts, Literacy and Cultural Identity Curricula Project -- Changing Worlds

January 01, 2009 / Teresa

CURL and Changing Worlds created a research partnership for a new, stand-alone measurement development study the impact of Changing Worlds’ literacy program.

categories / Children and Youth
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Three City Youth Policy Research in Action Project

March 01, 2008 / Teresa

In response to the split decision supreme court ruling in 2006 that struck race from consideration in school district reintegration initiatives, CURL partnered with researchers from the University Of Michigan School of Social Work and St. Louis University School of Public Policy Studies to conduct youth led participatory action research projects with high school students from metro Detroit, metro St. Louis and the Chicago land area.

categories / Children and Youth, Participatory Evaluation, Policy, Race & Ethnicity
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Young Women's Action Team

January 01, 2008 / Teresa

Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Urban Research and Learning conducted an evaluation of Girl Leadership U (GLU), a series of six sessions hosted by Young Women’s Action Team (YWAT) in which emerging young women leaders develop skills that can be utilized in efforts to take action and create social change.

categories / Children and Youth, Participatory Evaluation
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Evaluation of Erie Neighborhood House's TEAM program: The Effects of a Tutoring/Mentoring Program on Adolescent Academic and Non-Academic Outcomes

January 01, 2008 / Teresa

The goal of this project was to create a comprehensive evaluation of Erie Neighborhood House's Tutoring to Educate for Aims & Motivation (TEAM) program and assess its effects on several aspects of youth’s lives’- academic and non-academic. In collaboration with the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and the University of Illinois at Chicago, several evaluations took place to assess the effectiveness of TEAM, including a longitudinal evaluation of youth’s self-concept, self-esteem, and sense of connectedness.

categories / Children and Youth, Participatory Evaluation
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Chicago Freedom School

June 01, 2007 / Teresa

CURL in partnership with the Chicago Freedom School conducted an evaluation of the Chicago Freedom School's inaugural 6-week summer institute for Chicago youth during the summer of 2007. The CFS summer institute was a six-week program, where youth (“Freedom Fellows”) participated in courses that made connections between their own interests and social justice issues. The summer institute was designed to allow the Freedom Fellows to have an opportunity to ask questions about their lives, to see the connection between the means and the ends of creating change, and to develop as agents of social change.

categories / Children and Youth, Participatory Evaluation
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Chicago Girl’s Coalition: Youth-Led Research on Aggressive Behavior

February 08, 2007 / Teresa

The Chicago Girl's Coalition (CGC), which has a membership of approximately 60 organizations engaged in youth-led research on relational aggression in girls, particularly in communities of color. CURL reviewed existing research on this topic, presented it to the youth members of the coalition for their reaction, and provided research content for a web-based information clearinghouse on girl-on-girl aggression.

categories / Children and Youth, Community Safety
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