C3EN Pilot Awardees Receive NIH Grants and Honors
Congratulations to C3EN Pilot Awardees Kirsten Dickins, Chuka Emezue, Li-Ting Longcoy, Elizabeth Tung, and Anna Volerman on receiving grants and honors from NIH!
C3EN hosts Community-Based Organization and Researcher Convening on June 5, 2024
On June 5, 2024 from 9:30 AM to noon, C3EN hosted a Community-Based Organization Research Convening on the subject of mental health in partnership with the University of Chicago Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM), the Chicago Consortium for Community Engagement (C3), Northwestern University Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS), and the UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Meet Joyce Chapman Community Grant Awardee Cassandra Ma
Over 95% of the kids that we work with were trafficked at age 13 or younger. Almost 99% of our kids have histories of sexual abuse prior to being trafficked. No child should have to endure the first incident, but absolutely not the subsequent revictimization that occurs.
C3EN Team Member Highlight: Lisa Kuklinski
“Working in partnership with people directly experiencing lack of health care, I saw the injustice of people not being able to access health care and what a great contributor it was to homelessness.”
C3EN Team Member Highlight: Molly Martin
When I started my career, community-based participatory research was new, and my mentors were concerned that my research approach with community partners would not work. But it did! Together with my community partners, we generated useful research results that influenced programs, policies, and lives.