August 27, 2021
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
The recent Northwestern Medicine Breakthroughs article "Advancing Health Equity Research at Feinberg" highlights how the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC), a program of the Center for Community Health (CCH), is helping move the needle forward by facilitating equitable and collaborative community-academic research partnerships between Chicagoland communities and Northwestern Medicine investigators which aim to address health inequities through
community-engaged research.
ARCC Steering Committee member Chicago Youth Programs, Inc. (CYP) is hosting a “Back 2 School Block Party” on Saturday August 28, 2021 for all the youth and families in the communities they serve. One of CYP's goals is to ensure that they are not only one of the supports in their communities through the programs and services they provide, but that they are also a pipeline and connection to the resources that the communities offer its residents. 

Event: CYP Back 2 School Block Party
Date/Time: Saturday August 28th   12:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Chicago Youth Programs, Inc. 5350 S. Prairie Ave. Chicago, IL 60615
Nature is healing. ARCC community and academic Steering Committee members and seed grantees spent time focused on rest and rejuvenation at the Garfield Park Conservatory. It was a wonderful afternoon to gather(safely) in person to connect
Upcoming Session Opportunity:

A team from Northwestern University is working to better understand the life experiences of pregnant women and mothers of infants (ages newborn-12mos.) This team aims to gather stakeholder input on ways to optimally engage mothers and discuss strategies to make the research study feasible and useful. 

Specifically, they would love to hear from:
Pregnant women or mothers One way that the Center for Community Health (CCH) is helping translate research findings into practice more quickly is through Stakeholder-Academic Resource Panels (ShARPs)
of infants (12m or younger) who...
·        are lacking resources/support
·        are experiencing significant stress
·        have a history of substance abuse

Individuals who work or interact closely with mothers described above as a:
·        community based organization representative
·        social worker
·        case manager 

Sessions will take place:
September 15, 2021, 6pm via web conference
 
For more Information on upcoming ShARPs:
Contact Josefina Serrato, josefina.serrato@northwestern.edu
 
To request a ShARP or learn more about other CCH consultation services, email us or visit here.
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