Working with various social service agencies that provide homelessness services, the research team evaluated the programs and models that have been put into place under the Chicago Plan and provide data to make necessary mid-course corrections and improve implementation going forward. The four key components of the project are a qualitative study of homeless clients, a longitudinal client survey, a homeless service agency survey, and a service inventory.
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The Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago formed a partnership with Women and Girls’ Collective Action Network and Chicago Girls’ Coalition to conduct a secondary data analysis to determine how young women and girls are faring in Illinois.
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CURL and Changing Worlds created a research partnership for a new, stand-alone measurement development study the impact of Changing Worlds’ literacy program.
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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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