C3EN participates in ACCESS Community Health Network’s Hypertension-Palooza
Join C3EN Partner ACCESS Community Health Network for Hypertension-Palooza April 19 and 20 at ACCESS Center for Discovery and Learning, 5139 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago.
Community Action Spotlight: St Stephen AME Church
“It really don’t take much to share food. I never think I don’t have enough to share. Jesus fed people, he encouraged people, and he asked people how they were doing. If we could do that, we’d be all right.”
April 23: Join C3EN on Zoom for a Violence Prevention Town Hall
Join C3EN and Phalanx Family Services on Zoom for a virtual violence prevention town hall on April 23, 6-7:30CT. Pilot Awardee Chuka Emezue, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Women, Children, and Family Nursing at Rush University College of Nursing will be...
CSAC Member Highlight: Pat Lyons
“Instead of placing blame on individuals, it’s crucial to shine a light on social factors that impede marginalized communities’ ability to achieve and maintain good health.”
Humans of Chicago: Wayne Cauthen
Let’s judge our being one of the top cities in the world by how many people in our city are not helpless, how much of our population doesn’t need drastic help, and how many people have food within walking distance. If we could do that, I think we would be one of the top cities in the world.
C3EN Virtual Mental Health Town Hall discusses violence and barriers to mental health care in Chicago
“Mental health is health,” says C3EN Pilot Awardee Rachel Boutté. “There is no way to separate mental health from physical health because they’re connected in the same way that all of us have a brain that is connected to a body.”