Fabiola Varela-Garcia, Professor of Modern Languages worked with Casa Guatemala, a community organization serving Guatemalan immigrants. The project sought to understand and advocate for Mayan speaking immigrants in Chicago.
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In the face of present and future demand for child care with the implementation of welfare reform, the research team evaluated the barriers to viable, quality home child care businesses in Bronzeville on Chicago's MidSouth Side. The team sought to find an economic model that increases the profitability of home child care providers.
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This was a project to determine the need and usage of a youth center in the North of Howard community of Rogers Park. The research included surveying local youth to determine their priorities for a proposed youth center in the community.
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The directory was a response to requests for a comprehensive, geographically targeted, usable listing of available services and providers in the three north lakefront community areas. First produced in 1997 the directory continued through 2002.
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As part of the Midwest/Northeast Voter Registration Education Program, thirty volunteers were trained by Loyola faculty and graduate students to administer a telephone survey to determine the level of Latino participation in the democratic process. The research team published their findings in Harvard's Journal of Hispanic Policy.
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