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Street Right-Sizing Initiative

Peoria, Illinois
Develop a Street "Right-Sizing" Initiative for overbuilt arterial streets within the City that allows for the reduction and/or reallocation of underutilized lane miles of roadway and provides focused - or even increased - maintenance on the lane m...
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Expand health care education efforts in Belmont Cragin

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Patient Innovation Center | PrimeCare Community Health, Community First Medical Center Project Timeframe: Short-term
health

Offer cardiac arrest prevention workshops

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Illinois Heart Rescue Project Timeframe: Mid-term
health

Create a trilingual resource guide to navigate the Affordable Care Act

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Patient Innovation Center | PrimeCare Community Health Project Timeframe: Early Action Project
immigration health

Increase community education on health care

Chicago, Illinois
With a diverse community comes the responsibility to widen the scope of health care outreach for residents from a variety of backgrounds and languages. By partnering with major institutions such as schools, churches and nonprofit organizations, lo...

Create awareness and prevention of elder abuse

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: NWSHC | HAS, Mather's-More than a Cafe Project Timeframe: Mid-term
health

Increase outreach & education to LGBTQ & Latina/o community regarding Affordable Care Act

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: HAS IPC Project Timeframe: Mid-term
health

Develop a multi-purpose community center

Chicago, Illinois
The multi-purpose community center should incorporate the living room model for access to health services. Project lead | Partners: PCC Community Wellness Center, PrimeCare Community Health | 30th, 31st & 36th Wards Project Timeframe: Long-term
health public-space park building

Oak Park Public Library

Chicago, Illinois
Our community is the driver for everything we do. Our vision is to empower every voice in our community, and our mission is to share the information, services, and opportunities that fulfill Oak Park's aspirations of literacy, education, diversity...

Plan for New Open Spaces alongside New Residential Development

Washington, Illinois
Parks, playgrounds, and athletic fields play an important role in enhancing the health of the community. Making sure that additional open space is a part of any new development is necessary in order to ensure that all residents have access within ...
park public-space open-space walking bicycling housing land-use

Fitness Trail along Logan Square Boulevards

Chicago, Illinois
To encourage people to enjoy the boulevards, we propose to set up fitness trail through the system in Logan Square. Many residents already run along the boulevards, and these 20 stations would be spread out to enhance a cardio exercise. Additional...
land-use workout fitness running public-space walking park

Improve access to transit, such as expanding bus services on weekends

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: NWSHC, 30th, 31st & 36th Wards, LISC, City of Chicago Project Timeframe: Mid-term
health transit

Improve education on nutrition and safety

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Prosser Culinary Arts Project Timeframe: Mid-term
health

Create an intergenerational health awareness program with older adults & students

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: NWSHC | CPS, Mather's-More than a Cafe, Riveredge Hospital Project Timeframe: Long-term
health youth-programs

Expand access to health care to uninsured, specifically undocumented populations

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Old Irving Park Community Clinic Project Timeframe: Mid-term
immigration health

Open a Belmont Cragin neighborhood community center

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: NWSHC | 30th, 31st & 36th Wards, CPS, LSC, Block Clubs, Churches Project Timeframe: Long-term
arts health safety youth-programs public-space park building

The Petcoke Fields of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
The City of Chicago is allowing the Koch Brothers to dump their petcoke dust right next to the river. This affects both the water quality and the living quality of the people in the surrounding area. The problem stems from the fact that petcoke is...
water public-space land-use

Eliminating Manganese Soil Contamination

Chicago, Illinois
Following articles from the Chicago Tribune, there is a dangerously high number of manganese in our soil because of a surrounding metal, shipping and handling company called S. H. Bell. Do to the processing of metals, our soil gets affected due to...
health soil contamination

Gather Usable Data on Social Determinants of Health

Peoria, Illinois
The conditions into which people are born, grow, and age are widely regarded as playing a fundamental role in our health and well-being. Yet, there is an insufficient level of collaboration or monitoring of social determinants and health outcomes....
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Outreach to older adults

Chicago, Illinois
Older adults are a key component in our community and should have the resources to better navigate their lives whether living with assistance or independently. We will create an intergenerational health awareness program with older adults and lo...

Expanded Public Safety Community Relations Initiatives

Peoria, Illinois
Expand upon existing public safety community engagement and relationship building activities and evidence-based crime reduction programs to build stronger community connections that can improve neighborhood safety and livability.
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Support our Community Bike Ride

Chicago, Illinois
This will be our second annual community bike event that will serve as a means of engaging youth and residents in underserved communities and teaching them about the benefits of wellness via biking and walking. Our organization, We Keep you Rolli...
health safety wellness walking street bicycling

Improve referral system to mental health providers

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Riveredge Hospital | PrimeCare Community Health, Community First Medical Center Project Timeframe: Mid-term
health

Create a community health care clinic at Steinmetz High School

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Steinmetz HS LSC, PCC Community Wellness Center | 36th Ward, CPS Project Timeframe: Short-term
health schools public-space building