C3EN Team Member Highlight: Lisa Kuklinski
“Working in partnership with people directly experiencing lack of health care, I saw the injustice of people not being able to access health care and what a great contributor it was to homelessness.”
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.”
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.”
C3EN Team Member Highlight: Molly Martin
When I started my career, community-based participatory research was new, and my mentors were concerned that my research approach with community partners would not work. But it did! Together with my community partners, we generated useful research results that influenced programs, policies, and lives.
C3EN Hosts Second Annual Meeting
On September 20, 2023, C3EN held its second annual meeting at the UIC medical district Marriott Hotel, convening over 70 community partners and researchers over a half day of presentations, breakout groups, and a poster session.
Electronic Patient Portals Improve Mental Health Screening Efforts
C3EN researcher Neda Laiteerapong pioneers efforts to improve screening for mental health issues through online screening tools; new study in partnership with Melissa Duplantis, chief behavioral health officer of Chicago Family Health Centers, funded to screen for PTSD on Chicago’s south side