Creating Culturally Competent Measures for Integrated Arts, Literacy and Cultural Identity Curricula Project -- Changing Worlds

January 01, 2009 / Teresa

CURL and Changing Worlds created a research partnership for a new, stand-alone measurement development study the impact of Changing Worlds’ literacy program.

categories / Children and Youth
tags / Past

Evaluation of Catholic Charities' Homelessness Prevention Call Center

October 30, 2008 / Teresa

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.

categories / Homelessness, Participatory Evaluation
tags / Past

Evaluation of the Illinois Children's Health Foundation Pipeline Dentistry Project

October 01, 2008 / Teresa

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.

categories / Health and Healthcare, Participatory Evaluation, Education and Curriculum Development
tags / Past

Formative Evaluation of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s Treatment Coordinator Pilot Program

August 30, 2008 / Teresa

CURL conducted a formative evaluation of the of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s (AFC) Treatment Coordinator pilot project which was implemented in seven agencies. The design of the pilot allowed agencies to implement the treatment coordinator position in response to the unique factors present in their organization, while still providing strong enough direction so that commonalities developed.

categories / Participatory Evaluation
tags / Past

Connecting Fractured Lives to a Fragmented System: A Process Evaluation of the Chicago Housing for Health Partnership

May 01, 2008 / Teresa

Chicago Housing to Health Partnership (CHHP), a program of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, is an innovative housing first model for individuals who are homeless, have chronic medical conditions, and have been recently released from the hospital. CURL partnered with AFC to conduct this second project, which was a small quality assurance study of the CHHP case management system. This was done in order to evaluate the implementation process of this demonstration project for the CHHP and various stakeholders and to inform policy makers as to the operations of this innovative model of addressing and preventing homelessness.

categories / Homelessness, Participatory Evaluation
tags / Past

Evaluation of Rebuilding Chicago Together-Metro Chicago's National Rebuilding Day Program

April 21, 2008 / Teresa

Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) conducted an outcomes and process evaluation of National Rebuilding Day (NRD), a one-day program organized by Rebuilding Together – Metro Chicago (RTMC), to examine the sustainable impact of programming on Chicago communities and participant homeowners.

categories / Housing, Participatory Evaluation
tags / Past

Media Burn - Digitizing and Access to the Chicago Collection of Historical Videotapes

April 01, 2008 / Teresa

As part of an on-going partnership between the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) and the Media Burn Archive, videotapes from the Chicago Collection of the Media Burn Archive were preserved, digitized, and made available online at mediaburn.org. The project created access to videotapes of critical historical importance both to Loyola’s academic programs and to the wider community of scholars, students, filmmakers, and community groups.

categories / Technology
tags / Past

Three City Youth Policy Research in Action Project

March 01, 2008 / Teresa

In response to the split decision supreme court ruling in 2006 that struck race from consideration in school district reintegration initiatives, CURL partnered with researchers from the University Of Michigan School of Social Work and St. Louis University School of Public Policy Studies to conduct youth led participatory action research projects with high school students from metro Detroit, metro St. Louis and the Chicago land area.

categories / Children and Youth, Participatory Evaluation, Policy, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

Evaluation of Illinois Department of Health Services Open Door Demonstration Project

February 01, 2008 / Teresa

Over the course of three years CURL, in conjunction with Loyola’s School of Social Work, and with the financial support of The Michael Reese Health Trust, conducted an evaluation of the Illinois Department of Human Services’ (IDHS) Open Door Demonstration Project as part of the Smart Paths Initiative.

categories / Participatory Evaluation, Health and Healthcare
tags / Past

Residents’ Voices in Affordable Housing Policy and Practices in the U.S. and Australia

January 01, 2008 / Teresa

UWS faculty/students and tenant leaders in a video conference with Loyola, Oct. 2008.

The Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago partnered with the Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre University of Western Sydney to launch Residents’ Voices, a project designed to develop new ways to research and understand affordable housing issues in Chicago, Sydney, and Adelaide.

categories / Housing, International Collaborations, Participatory Evaluation
tags / Past