Contents
- 1 C3EN participates in ACCESS Community Health Network’s Hypertension-Palooza
- 2 Community Action Spotlight: St Stephen AME Church
- 3 C3EN Team Member Highlight: Lisa Kuklinski
- 4 April 23: Join C3EN on Zoom for a Violence Prevention Town Hall
- 5 C3EN’s Lawndale Town Hall prompts suggestions for reframing health care, especially for youth
- 6 CSAC Member Highlight: Pat Lyons
- 7 C3EN Announces Cycle 4 Pilot Awardees
- 8 Meet Joyce Chapman Community Grant Awardee John Martin
- 9 Humans of Chicago: Wayne Cauthen
- 10 C3EN Virtual Mental Health Town Hall discusses violence and barriers to mental health care in Chicago
- 11 CSAC Member Highlight: Swati Goyal
- 12 Next C3EN Mental Health Town Hall February 28
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.”
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.”
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...
C3EN’s Lawndale Town Hall prompts suggestions for reframing health care, especially for youth
At February Town Hall, community members agreed that researchers must take time to be present in the communities they are researching, build trust, and observe people in the environments in which they live.
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 Announces Cycle 4 Pilot Awardees
Congratulations to Cycle 4 C3EN Pilot Awardees Chibuzor Abasilim, Allison J. Carroll, Eva Chang, Melissa Crane, Lindsay Sheehan, Marie Statler, and Anna Volerman! C3EN Pilot Awardees receive up to $60,000 in funding to obtain data to establish an NIH-funded program of...
Meet Joyce Chapman Community Grant Awardee John Martin
We expected age, sex, and BMI to be contributors [to back pain], but we found that the top 2 out of 1000+ variables were income and education. Now my research group focuses on how social determinants of health are related to spine disease and low back pain.
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.”
CSAC Member Highlight: Swati Goyal
How do we continue to address and involve the Latinx community, the African American community and also involve the immigrant populations, the migrant populations, the refugee populations, and the variety of Asian populations that exist in the city of Chicago and Illinois?
Next C3EN Mental Health Town Hall February 28
February 28, 6-7:30PM: Join C3EN and West Side United at Lawndale Christian Health Center for a mental health town hall featuring guest speaker LaDawne Jenkins of Alive Faith Network - register at...