Contents
- 1 C3EN Hosts Second Annual Meeting
- 2 Electronic Patient Portals Improve Mental Health Screening Efforts
- 3 NIH Funds C3EN Research: Activity and Recreation in Communities for Health (ARCH)
- 4 C3EN Team Member Highlight: Marshall Chin
- 5 CSAC Member Highlight: Karyn Bolden Stovall
- 6 Aunt Martha’s Receives $9 million grant
- 7 CSAC Member Highlight: Carlos Nelson
- 8 Humans of Chicago: Paige Brown
- 9 C3EN Team Member Highlight: David Ansell
- 10 In Memoriam: Joyce Chapman
- 11 C3EN at HEAN: Kirsten Dickins wins Top Poster Award
- 12 C3EN Announces Cycle 3 Pilot Awardees
C3EN Hosts Second Annual Meeting
On September 20, 2023, C3EN held its second annual meeting at the UIC medical district Marriott Hotel, convening over 70 community partners and researchers over a half day of presentations, breakout groups, and a poster session.
Electronic Patient Portals Improve Mental Health Screening Efforts
C3EN researcher Neda Laiteerapong pioneers efforts to improve screening for mental health issues through online screening tools; new study in partnership with Melissa Duplantis, chief behavioral health officer of Chicago Family Health Centers, funded to screen for PTSD on Chicago’s south side
NIH Funds C3EN Research: Activity and Recreation in Communities for Health (ARCH)
C3EN is delighted to announce that Activity and Recreation in Communities for Health (ARCH), led by Brad Appelhans, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at Rush University Medical Center and C3EN Investigator Development Core co-director, in partnership with Paris Thomas, executive director of Equal Hope, a Chicago not-for-profit organization focused on eliminating health inequities, has received funding from NIH to study a novel approach to reducing depressive symptoms and lowering cardiometabolic risk.
C3EN Team Member Highlight: Marshall Chin
There’s a variety of reasons why Asian Americans have been too invisible. Some of it is that the data are not collected or, or that granular data that divides Asians across different subgroups often are not collected. Some of it is being treated as the other, always being a perpetual foreigner, or even as the model minority myth—it’s another way of making invisible the heterogeneity within the Asian population.
CSAC Member Highlight: Karyn Bolden Stovall
There’s been a lot of stigma about mental health conditions, especially in communities of color, because we have centuries of experience of having to pretend we’re okay — even when we’re not — because it kept us safe. Because we’ve had to be so protective has meant that we have not gotten the services that we need and that we deserve.
Aunt Martha’s Receives $9 million grant
Congratulations to C3EN partner Aunt Martha’s Health and Wellness on receiving a $9 million grant from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott’s charity fund, Yield Giving!
CSAC Member Highlight: Carlos Nelson
The ecosystem here in Chicago is so unique, and the community development world is such a strong rich world. I want our community-based organizations like GAGDC to play more of a key strategic role just as our great colleges and universities and health systems have.
Humans of Chicago: Paige Brown
Everything in life, it’s all a group project—nothing is done best completely and totally alone when there are outcomes that impact us all.
C3EN Team Member Highlight: David Ansell
It took me many years to be brave enough to speak honestly or put together what I was seeing and to be able to say, “This has social causation, and part of the social causation is structural racism and economic deprivation”… if I’m proud of anything it was to change the narrative around causation.
In Memoriam: Joyce Chapman
Joyce Chapman’s vision was aligned with the vision of C3EN, which is to build coalitions of diverse organizations and individuals to fight for social justice. We hope the Joyce Chapman Award will help continue her legacy by facilitating partnerships between researchers and community organizations who can work together to achieve our dream of a just society.
C3EN at HEAN: Kirsten Dickins wins Top Poster Award
On September 13 and 14, C3EN attended the Health Equity Action Network national meeting in Bethesda, Maryland as one of 11 health disparities centers across the United States. Congratulations to Pilot Awardee Kirsten Dickens for winning a Top Poster Award!
C3EN Announces Cycle 3 Pilot Awardees
Congratulations to Cycle 3 C3EN Pilot Awardees Victoria Flores, Melissa Gutierrez Kapheim, Shilpa Iyer, Anne Hoffman and Lauren Little (co-PIs), Milkie Vu, and Mohan Zalake!