Loyola University Chicago
Here you will find all of CURL's research projects and publications.
CURL is collaborating with Loyola’s Center for Criminal Justice Research (CCJ) and the Winnebago County’s Partnerships and Strategies Reentry Committee to develop an integrated reentry system that is organized around risk, needs and responsivity principles.
Read MoreCURL 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 conducting a multi-year evaluation research project on the Chicago Community Trust’s We Rise Together Initiative (WRT) in collaboration with colleagues from Quinlan School of Business and Institute for Racial Justice at Loyola and the community-based organization MAPSCorps.
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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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Courtesy of Jane Addams Senior Caucus
CURL is working Jane Addams Senior Caucus and the Language Access Coalition to better understand the challenges of Limited English Proficient (LEP) seniors living in the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) buildings.
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CURL is working with Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC) to improve tracking of the organization's main outcomes for their career manufacturing trainees in ways that are the most efficient and are disaggregated by race and gender.
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CURL partnered with the Loyola School of Education on a Democracy Schools grant from the McCormick Foundation. The intent of the grant was to support the advancement of civic education in public high schools by addressing race equity issues. This collaborative venture, the Equity Cohort Initiative, partnered with five public high schools (Senn, Curie, Grayslake Community, Hinsdale South, and Glenbard South) in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Task Force meeting. Courtesy of the city.
CURL is a member of the Chicago City Clerk Task Force that has been looking at problematic municipal fines and fees and their impact on Chicago residents, especially on low-income and working residents.
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This grant will evaluate the Cook County Circuit Court’s Family Court Enhancement Project (FECP), which was a demonstration project funded by OVW in 2016. Through a mixed-methods approach, this project seeks to understand the impact of FCEP on the safety and fairness of child-related remedies in Orders of Protections for litigants and their children, the long-term effects on parenting arrangements, as well as the overall FCEP court process.
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Courtesy of Erie Neighborhood House
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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