This participatory evaluation research documented the two-year School-to-Work program. The program was organized around four career clusters--transportation, build environment, computer information systems, and metal works. Each career cluster was based on an integrated curriculum with core academics, exposure to career exploration activities, and off-site learning experience.
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The directory was a response to requests for a comprehensive, geographically targeted, usable listing of available services and providers in the three north lakefront community areas. First produced in 1997 the directory continued through 2002.
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A survey was conducted to determine the ownership of buildings, data on rental units, number of condos, rental rates, and other factors as a way of allowing the Edgewater Community Council (ECC) to better evaluate means of sustaining quality affordable housing in this lakefront community. Data were transferred to base maps as a guide to ECC's strategic planning.
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During the fall of 1996, Rogers Park Community Council (RPCC) and Loyola University Chicago's Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) partnered to work on a defensible spaces project within the Rogers Park Community that included community research, workshops and a community forum.
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Peer intervention in risk-taking among youth was a project developed between the principal and the faculty of Pierce Elementary School and Dr. Elizabeth Vera who has volunteered her services at Pierce School for a number of years. As a McCormick Faculty Fellow at CURL, she and 15 graduate students in counseling psychology in the School of Education interviewed 7th and 8th graders and made recommendations for strategic interventions.
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Loyola University's Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL), and Policy Research Action Group (PRAG), joined in collaboration with two community-based organizations, Howard Area Community Center (HACC) and Organization of the NorthEast (ONE), to study the potential adverse impact of welfare policy changes on different types of public benefit recipients in the Chicago neighborhoods of Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park. This collaboration was motivated by the partners' grave concerns over how low-income individuals and families would survive when faced with the termination of life-sustaining public benefits, and how the communities would cope with increased impoverishment and diminished funds.
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As part of the Midwest/Northeast Voter Registration Education Program, thirty volunteers were trained by Loyola faculty and graduate students to administer a telephone survey to determine the level of Latino participation in the democratic process. The research team published their findings in Harvard's Journal of Hispanic Policy.
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