The Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) is currently hiring for a full-time Health Educator to be based out of our office at Lurie Children's Hospital. This individual will provide training and education to CLOCC staff and partner organizations to promote the Consortium's healthy lifestyle messaging ( 5-4-3-2-1 Go®   and  five SMART®), help initiate and maintain license agreements for message use, and advance a social determinants of health perspective among CLOCC partner organizations. 

The Health Educator will be involved in various strategies to disseminate CLOCC's message and our social determinants of health approach across Chicago and throughout the CLOCC network, and will be responsible for developing, revising, and delivering trainings to staff at various city agencies (including youth participants in those agencies), community-based organizations, and other groups. This individual will also work with CLOCC's leadership to ensure all messages and activities are consistent with evidence-based strategies. 

Visit the full posting on Lurie Children's website to learn more or to apply.

Monday, November 19th, served as the International World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Locally, leaders from the Chicago Department of Transportation, the Chicago Department of Public Health, the Illinois Department of Transportation and others gathered at Chicago's Federal Plaza to honor local victims of traffic violence and to renew the urgency of implementing the Vision Zero Chicago action plan. The event was held with a solemn backdrop of 132 empty pairs of shoes spanning across the plaza, representing Chicago's traffic crash victims from the past year.  

This event will continue to be observed internationally each year to remember the many millions killed and injured on the world's roads, together with their families and loved ones. 

Learn more about Vision Zero Chicago here, and sign the Vision Zero pledge. 

Art Display Of Shoes Depicts Chicago Traffic Deaths - WBBM 

Your Absolutely Essential Everything you Need to Know About Vistion Zero Guide - State of Place

On October 10, the Trump administration announced its plan to broaden the "public charge" test that has been a part of U.S. immigration law for decades. The new rule could force immigrant families to choose between obtaining permanent legal status and utilization of important resources like healthy food, safe housing, and health care. ( See the rule change page here.) The proposed changes to the rule could block immigrant families from utilizing non-emergency Medicaid, Section 8 housing vouchers and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). 

Health advocates are already hearing stories of families not enrolling for these important supports that are known help them to live safe and healthy lives. There is ample evidence that SNAP participation is a strong contributor to healthy diets for low-income families. This rule change would surely add to the burden of diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and other nutrition-related diseases in our country and put children in particular at much greater risk.

 

Before Trump's "public charge" rule can be finalized, the administration is required by law to review and respond to every unique public comment they receive about the proposed regulation. This means only individualized opinions, in your own words, will be reviewed. We urge all members of our CLOCC community to learn more at protectingimmigrantfamilies.org and submit a comment voicing your personal opinion about the rule. Comments are being accepted through December 10th.

• As Chinatown Residents Panic Over Latest Trump Immigration Crackdown, Forum Offers Advice - Block Club Chicago
   
• At Thanksgiving, Trump's Public Charge Policy Threatens Food Security - The Hill [Opinion] 

The Institute for Population Health and Medicine (IPHAM) Population Health Forum will take place on December 4, 2018. The event will include a keynote speech by Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Galea's scholarship lives at the intersection of social and psychiatric epidemiology, with a focus on the behavioral health consequences of trauma, including those caused by firearms. He was named one of Time magazine's epidemiology innovators and has been listed as one of the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds."

In addition to the keynote, the IPHAM Population Health Forum will include a research poster session and breakout sessions. This event will be held at the Lurie Medical Research Building, 303 E. Superior St. in Chicago. Click below for details or to RSVP.