Following up on the Saving Our Homes research that was completed in 1996, this report provides the “stories” of successful organizing to preserve 10 Uptown high-rise buildings as affordable housing when they were threatened with going market rate prices.
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In June of 2009, the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network began to train the first volunteers for a new Court Watch program at the Centralized Domestic Violence Courthouse in Cook County. CURL’s research team assisted the Network by entering, organizing, and analyzing the data gathered by the court watch volunteers.
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In partnership with Heartland Alliance, CURL received a two-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to:
(1) Define the essential components of the Housing First model;
(2) Develop a fidelity index for Housing First programming;
(3) Test the finalized fidelity index for reliability and validity; and
(4) Assess the degree to which fidelity predicts improved substance abuse treatment access for clients.
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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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