Community-Based Research Fellows Reports

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A Statewide Needs Assessment of Sexual Assault Survivors’ Civil Legal Needs

A Statewide Needs Assessment of Sexual Assault Survivors’ Civil Legal Needs

​​​​​​​​Megan R. Greeson​Associate Professor,Department of Psychology, DePaul University​​​A Statewide Needs Assessment of Sexual... read more

Shutdowns Associated with Covid during Pandemic, Impact on the Healthcare

Shutdowns Associated with Covid during Pandemic, Impact on the Healthcare

​​​​​Kathleen Conte​Short Summary  Shutdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic significantly worsened health conditions for... read more

Assessment for the Rohingya Refugee Community in West Rogers Park

Assessment for the Rohingya Refugee Community in West Rogers Park

​Anne Saw (Senior Fellow), Report 1 (2020)Anne Saw (Senior Fellow) and Joanna Buscemi​Saw, A., Nau, S., Jeremiah, R. D., &... read more

Exploring Residential Transition Experiences of Individuals Displaced from Single-Room Occupancy Buildings

Exploring Residential Transition Experiences of Individuals Displaced from Single-Room Occupancy Buildings

​​​​​​​Molly Brown,Ph.D., Department of Psychology​Annual Report Steans Center Community-Based Faculty Fellowship Exploring... read more

Memory Building in Chicago’s Community Center for Survivors and Families of Police Torture

Memory Building in Chicago’s Community Center for Survivors and Families of Police Torture

​​María del Rosario Acosta López, Memory Building in Chicago’s Community Center for Survivors and Families of Police Torture - by Maria... read more

Self-management hypertension in the African Americans from west side Chicago neighborhood churches

Self-management hypertension in the African Americans from west side Chicago neighborhood churches

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Daniel J. Schober Assistant Professor,Master of Public Health Program​​Introduction This brief report... read more

Children’s Language Use and Development in a Spanish Immersion Early Education Classroom

Children’s Language Use and Development in a Spanish Immersion Early Education Classroom

​Carolina Barrera-Tobón and Sung Park-Johnson​Children’s Language Use and Development in a Spanish Immersion Early Education... read more

Undocumented Immigrant Youth Mental Health Study

Undocumented Immigrant Youth Mental Health Study

​​Maria Ferrera (Senior CbR Faculty Fellow), ​Report 1Undocumented Immigrant Youth Mental Health Study - by Maria Ferrera (2017)There... read more

Local Policy Context, Social Services, and Latino Youth Development in the Calumet Region

Local Policy Context, Social Services, and Latino Youth Development in the Calumet Region

​​Meghan Condon, Local Policy Context, Social Services, and Latino Youth Development in the Calumet Region - by Meghan Condon​The... read more

Strengths Based Career Development with Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

Strengths Based Career Development with Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

​​Rebecca E. Michel​, ​Strengths Based Career Development with Individuals Experiencing HomelessnessThe Fellowship supported... read more

Nursing Student Led Health Education: An Evidence-based Curriculum for 6th Graders in Chicago’s South Side: A Pilot Study

Nursing Student Led Health Education: An Evidence-based Curriculum for 6th Graders in Chicago’s South Side: A Pilot Study

​Randi Singer, Nursing Student Led Health Education: An Evidence-based Curriculum for 6th Graders in Chicago’s South Side: A Pilot... read more

School, Family, and Community Partnerships for Healthy Eating in a High-Risk Urban Neighborhood

School, Family, and Community Partnerships for Healthy Eating in a High-Risk Urban Neighborhood

​​Jocelyn Carter, ​School, Family, and Community Partnerships for Healthy Eating in a High-Risk Urban NeighborhoodChildhood obesity is... read more

Stories of Solidarity: Interfaith Engagement with Detained Immigrants

Stories of Solidarity: Interfaith Engagement with Detained Immigrants

​​​Christopher D. Tirres,  ​Stories of Solidarity: Interfaith Engagement with Detained Immigrants - by Christopher D.... read more

Alternative Therapies for Sexual Assault Survivors

Alternative Therapies for Sexual Assault Survivors

​​Chris Einolf, ​​Alternative Therapies for Sexual Assault SurvivorsThe project partnered with a service provider to design a survey about... read more

Exploratory Study of Restaurant Stressors

Exploratory Study of Restaurant Stressors

​​Julia Lippert,   Exploratory Study of Restaurant Stressors - by Julia Lippert​The project was conducted in partnership with... read more

S-Score Risk Assessment Methodology for Community-based Organizations

S-Score Risk Assessment Methodology for Community-based Organizations

​​Janine L. Spears, ​ S-Score Risk Assessment Methodology for Community-based Organizations​This research defines a structured... read more

Understanding Digital Crime Prevention: Investigating How Communities Use Technology to Address Crime

Understanding Digital Crime Prevention: Investigating How Communities Use Technology to Address Crime

​​​Sheena Erete, Understaning Digital Crime Prevention: Investigating How Communities Use Technology to Address Crime ​For the... read more

A Voice for Change: Using photovoice and shared narrative to illustrate the value of harm reduction

A Voice for Change: Using photovoice and shared narrative to illustrate the value of harm reduction

​Suzanne Carlberg-Racich (Public Health), A Voice for Change: Using photovoice and shared narrative to illustrate the value of harm... read more

Exploring the Experiences of Domestic Violence with Arab Immigrant and Arab-American Women

Exploring the Experiences of Domestic Violence with Arab Immigrant and Arab-American Women

Sonya Crabtree-Nelson (Social Work), Exploring the Experiences of Domestic Violence with Arab Immigrant and Arab-American Women - by... read more

Resilience Amongst Young Men Who Have Sex with Men (YMSM)

Resilience Amongst Young Men Who Have Sex with Men (YMSM)

Douglas Bruce (Health Sciences),​​Homeless and marginally housed young men who have sex with men (YMSM) face multiple adversities in their... read more

Foregrounding Behavioral Change to Develop Healthier Lifestyle Behaviors and/or to Manage Chronic Diseases

Foregrounding Behavioral Change to Develop Healthier Lifestyle Behaviors and/or to Manage Chronic Diseases

​Foregrounding Behavioral Change to Develop Healthier Lifestyle Behaviors and/or to Manage Chronic Diseases​Teresa... read more

Preserving Pilsen: Planning for Sustainability and Social Justice

Preserving Pilsen: Planning for Sustainability and Social Justice

​​​​​​Euan Hague and Winifred CurranThis project was a partnership with the Pilsen Alliance to collect, analyze, and disseminate data on... read more

Digital Storytelling to Prompt Social Change

Digital Storytelling to Prompt Social Change

​This project was designed to explore how personal, digital stories can prompt social action. Students ran an on-campus digital storytelling... read more

Urban Agriculture: Assessing the Economic Opportunities and Obstacles to Chicago’s Community Gardens

Urban Agriculture: Assessing the Economic Opportunities and Obstacles to Chicago’s Community Gardens

Cathy May (Political Science)​, ​​This project examined the economic sustainability of urban community gardens for employment purposes.... read more

Community Writing Project (School for New Learning)

Community Writing Project (School for New Learning)

​​​Steffanie Triller (School for New Learning), The goal of the Community Writing Project was “to provide a forum for creative... read more

Reducing Domestic Abuse Using Culturally Responsive Interventions for Perpetrators

Reducing Domestic Abuse Using Culturally Responsive Interventions for Perpetrators

Neil Vincent (Social Work)​, ​This study explored the strengths and needs of perpetrators of intimate partner violence who successfully... read more