Chicago AHEC FY2018 - Annual Report

On the local level, Chicago AHEC worked with our community partners to examine and respond to Chicago Public School (CPS) school closings and budget cuts as well as the fallout of the Illinois state budget crisis. [...] Chicago Public Schools’ Career and Technical Education Health Science Cluster With support from the Michael Reese Health Trust as a partner in their Youth Workforce Hospital/High School Initiative, Chicago AHEC continued to provide health career speakers to classrooms within CPS and embarked on a Postsecondary Project pilot in three Health Science Cluster schools: Dunbar, North Grand, and Sullivan. [...] Chicago AHEC collaborated with the Center for Public Health Equity to provide opportunities to CPS Health Science students at a forum focused on “The Chicago Forum for Justice in Health Policy: Creating A Health Equity Agenda for Chicago’s Elections.” Approximately 10 CPS students registered for the event. [...] Policy Criminalization of People of Color as a Barrier to Diversifying the Health Workforce Released in 2017, Chicago AHEC launched the first in a series of briefs on the many ways that the criminalization of people of color serves as barriers to diversifying the health workforce. [...] The issue brief series is available on the Health & Medicine website Health Workforce Development Strategic Partnerships and Leadership Chicago AHEC works with other Health & Medicine colleagues and partners on workforce related policy issues and challenges and is intentional about engaging new workforce specific coalitions and partners.