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At the September 14, 2023 Feinberg School of Medicine Research Day hyperlink, the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) 10th Annual Dr. Virginia Bishop Community-Academic Research Partnership Award was presented to the Teen Mental Health Services within Public Libraries Partnership. This partnership, between the Oak Park Public Library (lead: Robert Simmons) and Northwestern University (lead: Ashley Knapp, PhD) and supported by an ARCC 2020 seed grant, is working together to provide accessible, evidence-based mental health services to teens residing in Chicago and surrounding suburbs, particularly, teens from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic (HURE) communities and has taken innovative action to design and implement digital tools for teens within library settings. Learn more here.

The award honors the legacy of the late Dr. Virginia Bishop, who passed away in February 2020. Bishop co-founded ARCC and served as ARCC’s co-director from 2007 – 2010.

Join ARCC and partners to dialogue, learn, & build connections on community-engaged research and funding opportunities. Open to community-, faith-based, & public organizations, as well as Northwestern research partners interested in community-engaged research. 

Details & RSVP here.

While ARCC is filling open staff positions, we are grateful to be collaborating with two new ARCC Affiliates on a part-time short-term basis. Learn more here about Pedro Serrano and Tamara Sutton and their experience and expertise with ARCC and Chicagoland communities. You may be hearing from & seeing more from them soon!

Congratulations to ARCC Director Jen Brown on being appointed Chair of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Advisory Panel on Patient Engagement. PCORI’s advisory panels provide recommendations to PCORI’s Board, Methodology Committee and staff to help plan, develop, implement, improve and refine the organization’s patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research funding and engagement efforts. The Advisory Panel on Patient Engagement is instrumental in helping us to ensure the highest patient engagement standards and a culture of patient-centeredness and input from other health decision-makers in all of PCORI’s research funding and other activities. Applications/nominations are open for the next cycle. Details here. 

Jen (on left) with PEAP Co-Chair Agatha Adigwe (center) & former PEAP Chair Karen Fortuna (on right)