CURL and the Chicago Foundation for Women jointly collaborated on the “Evaluation: The Road from Programming to Policy” program to train organizations that serve women and girls. Expert-led workshops, participant-selected research projects, and community-wide dissemination will deepen organizational understanding of data analysis. The development of assessment as an organizational tool will provide immediate change as well as lasting skills, assisting agencies as they continue to navigate in an increasingly data driven sector.
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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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CURL partnered with the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) to evaluate their Victim Assistance Program (VAP). The VAP provides assistance to public housing residents who are victims of violent crimes that occur on CHA property or are impacted by a traumatic event.
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CURL partnered with Catholic Charities to evaluate their Homelessness Prevention Call Center. The Call Center is a Homelessness Prevention Initiative of the City of Chicago’s “10-Year Plan to End Homelessness.” Launched in January 2007, the Call Center directs individuals identified as being at risk for homelessness to appropriate short-term funding agencies and other social services as deemed appropriate.
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The Illinois Children's HealthCare Foundation funded two initiatives at Southern Illinois University and at the University of Illinois Chicago to assist those schools in making programmatic changes to their dentistry programs with the goal of increasing the number of dental students and graduates who are interested in community-based, pediatric, and special-needs dentistry.
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