June 16, 2022
Home to the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC)
and Northwestern Primary Care Practice-Based Research Program (NP3) 
Current resources and services focus primarily on research:
 
● Partnership brokering & development
 
● Workshops, seminars & team training
Funding opportunities
 
● Consultations, proposal review & support
 
● Patient, Clinician & Stakeholder Engagement
 
To learn more, please visit our website
● New MSCI Course: Antiracist Strategies for Clinical and Translational Research: contact MSCI degree administrator Adam White
A recent NUCATS article highlights Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) community partner and seed grantee Mary Roberson and her nonprofit, the Northern Illinois Recovery Community Organization (NIRCO).

In 2021, ARCC facilitated a partnership between Maryann Mason, PhD, associate professor of Emergency Medicine, and Roberson: Engaging recovery communities of color: a partnership promoting health equity through addressing co-morbidity. The community collaboration seed grant project sought to address and dismantle health-related barriers for persons of color in recovery from substance misuse. 

Read the full article here.
Ariel Thomas Sansing, Community Engagement Liaison for the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) has been accepted into the inaugural ProInspire Leadership Institute Fellowship Program for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Emerging Leaders! She looks forward to leaning into the learning process over the next three days in order to emerge a more grounded, informed, and effective advocate on issues central to historically marginalized communities.

The ProInspire Leadership Institute: Managing People and Power (or PLI) is a three-day immersive, virtual workshop designed to engage people and project managers in ProInpsire’s leading self and people practices for Race Equity Impact. Over the course of three days, participants will build connections and relationships with other social impact leaders while engaging in targeted learning, sharing, and skills building. Learn more here.
the Center for Health Equity Transformation, in collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, is hosting a virtual Juneteenth celebration, where we will discuss Black History in Chicago, the importance of culture and place, and what it means to the people who live there.
 
Friday, June 17  
Noon to 1 p.m. CST 
 
Featured Guests:
  •  Sherman "Dilla" Thomas is an urban historian and TikTok sensation who has been actively preserving and sharing the rich history and culture of the city of Chicago, highlighting its people, architecture and impact on the world.
 
  • Mary Pattillo, PhD, is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and chair of the department of African American Studies at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University.
  • 2022 Call for Applications: Culture of Health Leadership Institute for Racial Healing. Eight of the 40 participants in the last cohort are from Chicagoland! Due Jul 14
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The Center for Community Health is supported, in part, by the
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute,
Grant Number UL1TR001422 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award and
the Institute of Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM).
Center for Community Health
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/cch/
cch@northwestern.edu