The Bridges to Latino Health conference run by the The Loyola University Chicago's Public Health Action Project, Graduate School and Stritch School of Medicine outlined the barriers facing Latino community access to health care and facilitated discussion of effective means to address these concerns.
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Loyola University Chicago's Center for Urban Research and Learning and Catholic Charities worked together to develop and implement a process and outcome evaluation of the St. Leo Campus for veterans, a unique partnership between a private organization, Catholic Charities, and a public one, the Veterans Administration. The purpose of this evaluation was to both assess the implementation process of this project for Catholic Charities, the Veteran's Administration and St. Leo's Veteran Campus various stakeholders and to provide a blueprint for the national reproduction of the model.
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CURL worked with UIC to conduct focus groups with community members in gentrifying and non-gentrifying Chicago neighborhoods to determine if gentrification disrupted the availability of local medical care, affected residents' social networks, contributed to stress felt by these residents, or placed additional financial demands on them that resulted in cutbacks in their usage of medical facilities.
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CURL partnered with Andersonville Chamber of Commerce to identify the major concerns of business owners living and working in Andersonville to create a plan of action for the future.
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Growing Home is a social enterprise that provides transitional jobs and job training to participants by employing them in organic agriculture at their two urban and one rural farm sites. This project assisted Growing Home in setting up a tracking database by collecting contact and other baseline data from past graduates and following recent graduates for three months post-program to determine outcomes.
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CURL, in collaboration with the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness and the financial support of the Retirement Research Foundation, embarked on a project to better understand the stories and the needs of this aging population.
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CURL worked with Catholic Charities to provide a needs assessment of their Street Interventions (SI) program. SI identifies teens and young adults in need of alternative education, working primarily out of the Back of the Yards neighborhood. SI improves the lives of at-risk-youth by providing positive environments of structure and support.
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