In the face of present and future demand for child care with the implementation of welfare reform, the research team evaluated the barriers to viable, quality home child care businesses in Bronzeville on Chicago's MidSouth Side. The team sought to find an economic model that increases the profitability of home child care providers.
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STRIVE (Support and Training Result in Valuable Employees) Chicago Employment Service, Inc., and the Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Urban research and Learning (CURL) collaborated on a participatory evaluation of STRIVE’s Career Path Project (CPP). STRIVE is a non-profit organization with a mission to help chronically unemployed, low-income adults enter the workforce and develop stable work histories.
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A project of the Loyola School of Nursing completed a needs assessment at Cristo Rey High School to establish and maintain a school-based health center for the medically under-served Latino children and youth in the Pilsen/Little Village neighborhoods of Chicago.
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This project collected demographic data on the metropolitan Laotian community and planned for a needs assessment with the LACS board.
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Loyola's School of Nursing was awarded a grant in 1994 to establish a peer mentoring and health advocacy program with teens in Maywood. The 3-year project's grant from the Health of the Public Campaign was not renewed in 1997. CURL supported Carolyn Johnson, the coordinator of Healthy Teens, as the first CURL Graduate Community Fellow, allowing Ms. Johnson to work toward her master's degree in nursing while restructuring Healthy Teens as an on-going, sustainable project.
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This was a project to determine the need and usage of a youth center in the North of Howard community of Rogers Park. The research included surveying local youth to determine their priorities for a proposed youth center in the community.
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