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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CURL is assisting Health and Medicine Policy Research Group in their surveying and analyzing the impact of The Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program on the yearly cohorts of health and human service professionals who have participated in the program.
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CURL was approached to utilize Loyola’s expertise in a variety of interdisciplinary topics in order to conduct a literature review and analysis of the existing research and data focused on African American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, and Asian American/Pacific Islander older adults in Illinois.
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Led by HEART Women & Girls, researchers on this project hope to better understand sexual violence, sexual health, and barriers to services in Muslim communities in North America. To accomplish this, the research team has distributed a survey (in Feb 2020) to anonymously capture the experiences and perspectives on these matters.
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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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CURL is working to create a comprehensive program evaluation plan with Erie Neighborhood House’s (ENH) Proyecto Cuidate (which means Take Care Project in Spanish). ENH works to empower Latinx immigrants and others in the community through health and wellness education, community building and leadership initiatives, counseling, and advocacy. Proyecto Cuidate focuses on families as a whole unit in the Little Village, Cicero, and Berwyn communities by providing free counseling and education with the goals of violence prevention, family cohesion, and Restorative Justice.
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This was an evaluation for a consortium of safety net health care centers in Chicago and northern Illinois, led by the Lawndale Christian Health Clinic. We assessed the implementation of a new training and leadership program in relation to management and staff. We also assessed whether the project improved patient reports of satisfaction and impacted their wait times, among other measures.
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The AIDS Foundation of Chicago has two projects: Samaritan Program and Medicaid Housing in which they have been collecting data and conducting client surveys every six months to measure the impact of the harm reduction approach.
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This project delivered a process and outcome evaluation of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) Medicaid Supportive Housing Pilot Project in collaboration with AFC and Health Disability Advocates (HDA). CURL and HDA partnered in this research, with CURL focusing on the process evaluation and analysis of outcome data, and HDA focusing on the policy context and recommendations.
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