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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A project of the Loyola School of Nursing completed a needs assessment at Cristo Rey High School to establish and maintain a school-based health center for the medically under-served Latino children and youth in the Pilsen/Little Village neighborhoods of Chicago.
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Loyola's School of Nursing was awarded a grant in 1994 to establish a peer mentoring and health advocacy program with teens in Maywood. The 3-year project's grant from the Health of the Public Campaign was not renewed in 1997. CURL supported Carolyn Johnson, the coordinator of Healthy Teens, as the first CURL Graduate Community Fellow, allowing Ms. Johnson to work toward her master's degree in nursing while restructuring Healthy Teens as an on-going, sustainable project.
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Peer intervention in risk-taking among youth was a project developed between the principal and the faculty of Pierce Elementary School and Dr. Elizabeth Vera who has volunteered her services at Pierce School for a number of years. As a McCormick Faculty Fellow at CURL, she and 15 graduate students in counseling psychology in the School of Education interviewed 7th and 8th graders and made recommendations for strategic interventions.
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