Bring Chicago Home: A Solution to Chicago’s Homelessness Crisis
Roughly 86,000 Chicagoans are experiencing homelessness and a solution is clear: a dedicated revenue stream to expand housing subsidy programs and supportive services. This talk features members of the Bring Chicago Home coalition in a conversation on addressing the city’s homelessness crisis.
Sam Carlson
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
Carlos de Jesus Rivera
Center for Housing and Health
Lamont Burnett
ONE Northside
Seminar date: October 29, 2019
Priorities of Adverse Community Experiences, Trauma, and Resilience in Greater Englewood
The Englewood and West Englewood (Greater Englewood) communities on the South Side of Chicago experience disparities in health outcomes and low life expectancies. Structural violence and trauma are associated with poor health outcomes. The Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience (ACE/R) framework is a useful tool to engage low-income communities experiencing structural violence, trauma, and community resilience to understand what to target. If unaddressed at the individual level, trauma makes it hard to succeed in school, interferes with work productivity, damages relationships, increases the of violence, and is associated with shorter lifespans.
Rodney Johnson, MPH
President, One Health Englewood
Action Champion, EQLOP Health and Wellness
Seminar date: September 17, 2019
Addressing High Blood Pressure through a Community Health Worker Intervention in Westside Chicago Churches
This talk described the development of a community-based participatory research project in partnership with African American churches on the West Side to improve health equity. Focusing on the development and evolution of the community partnership process and the design and recruitment process for a church-based blood pressure intervention.
Elizabeth Lynch, PhD
Associate Professor
Rush University Medical Center
Preventive Medicine
Daniel J. Schober, PhD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor
DePaul University
Master of Public Health Program
Seminar date: May 28, 2019
‘What’s really in my drugs?’: Early experiences of establishing a real-time, street-based illicit drug-checking service in Chicago
Greg Scott
DePaul University
Chicago Recovery Alliance
Lydia Karch
CDC Foundation
Seminar date: March 12, 2019
People Power and The Fight for Health Equity
James E. Bloyd, MPH
Cook County Department of Public Health
Seminar date: January 22, 2019