Passport to Chicago Community Network Curriculum

October 01, 2000 / Teresa

Passport is a civic engagement curriculum designed for high school-age youth in traditional academic or non-traditional learning environments. It is designed as a teacher’s guide with web-based downloadable activity components and link resources.

categories / Children and Youth, Policy, Education and Curriculum Development
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A History of Deborah’s Place: An Organization Serving Women Who Are Homeless or Formally Homeless in Chicago

October 01, 2000 / Teresa

Since its founding in 1985, Deborah’s Place has provided shelter, food, resources, and support to women in Chicago who are homeless or formerly homeless. Listening to the voices of current and former participants, staff, volunteers, and board members, this report attempts to capture the essence of the relationships of those women who built or participated in Deborah’s Place.

categories / Homelessness, Housing
tags / Past

Community Needs Assessment Guide: A Brief Guide on How to Conduct a Needs Assessment

September 07, 2000 / Teresa

The following is a community needs assessment guide designed by CURL researchers to aid organizations in identifying community assets and potential concerns. The guide briefly details the steps of the Concerns Report Method beginning with the planning phases and ends with the implementation of action committees and the utilization of findings from the needs assessment.

categories / Community Capacity Building and Strategic Planning, Community Need / Asset Mapping
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Smart Growth and Equity Policy Development

September 01, 2000 / Teresa Neumann

The project documented existing local, community-based projects in an effort to include these voices in the larger smart growth development discussion. It examined how the benefits of regional economic growth might be used more effectively to address pressing social problems in these communities and the broader region.

categories / Community Need / Asset Mapping, Community Capacity Building and Strategic Planning, Economic Development and Employment
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Housing Affordability Research Committee

September 01, 2000 / Teresa

The committee comprised of community-based organization leaders, citywide agency representatives, and university researchers. It built an independent, rigorous research database to inform public policy in the area of housing for extremely low-income families in the Chicago area. This was a joint project of CURL and the Roosevelt University Institute for Metropolitan Affairs and was funded by the Woods Fund of Chicago.

categories / Housing, Policy
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The Uptown Housing and Land Use Study

August 01, 2000 / Teresa

CURL partnered with Organization of the NorthEast (ONE) and State Representative Larry McKeon to collect data on land use and housing in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. This report is organized into three broad sections. First, a brief history of Uptown is provided to give readers a context for the setting of the study. Second, changes are examined that occurred in key demographic, housing and land use variables between 1990 and 2000. Finally, a variety of maps, graphs, and tables, to be found in the appendix, are used in presenting a more detailed picture of the community area.

categories / Housing
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Proviso East High School Health Center

August 01, 2000 / Teresa

The Loyola School of Nursing was awarded over $2 million from the Health Resources Services Administration and the Illinois Dept. of Human Services to develop a school-based health center at Proviso East High School in Maywood. The center sought to provide on-site comprehensive preventive and primary health care services to underserved adolescents.

categories / Children and Youth, Health and Healthcare
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Girls Transitioning to Women: Bethany Brethren Community Center

July 01, 2000 / Teresa

Bethany Brethren Community Center (BBCC) is a small church-based social service agency located in East Garfield Park serving primarily children and teen girls in after-school programs. In order to re-establish Girls Transitioning to Women (GTW), BBCC conducted a needs assessment. Yolanda Moore, the coordinator of the teen girls’ program, was awarded a CURL Community Fellowship and worked closely with CURL to train the girls to conduct the survey and analyze the results.

categories / Children and Youth, Community Capacity Building and Strategic Planning, Participatory Evaluation
tags / Past

Providence St. Mel – An Alumni Survey

June 01, 2000 / Teresa

This project was an assessment of the preparedness of graduates of Providence St. Mel High School, a private college preparatory school on Chicago's West Side. The research team assisted in developing and updating a database of graduates.

categories / Education and Curriculum Development
tags / Past

BOLD Chicago

June 01, 2000 / Teresa

CURL worked with the Building Opportunities for Leadership Development Chicago Institute (BOLD Chicago) to conduct a program evaluation of its leadership development course offered to high schools and middle schools in the Chicago Public School District.

categories / Children and Youth, Participatory Evaluation
tags / Past