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Center for Healthy Work

School of Public Health

UI Health is UIC’s academic health enterprise

2016 – 2021 Initiatives

The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work project (GLHW) has established four subcommittees to brainstorm, develop, implement, and evaluate worker health interventions in Greater Lawndale. Learn more about the interventions below.

2016-2021 Initiatives Heading link

Greater Lawndale Loteria

An evidence-informed, historically grounded, and worker justice themed educational game to promote healthy work in Greater Lawndale by informing critical dialogue and shifting knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs.
Building Community Wealth

Evaluation efforts for Co-op 101 Workshops to increase knowledge and awareness about worker cooperatives among GL residents in collaboration with Co-op Ed Center, Women for Economic Justice, Lawndale Christian Development Corporation, & Coop4Lib.
Policy Analysis to Support Informal Workers

A policy analysis to support informal workers in collaboration with Equity & Transformation and Street Vendors Association of Chicago.
Intersectoral Capacity Building

A policy analysis to support temp workers’ health through changes to workers’ compensation systems in Illinois in order to build capacity and accountability among current community members, CBOs, and local government.
COVID-19 Stories & Trauma-Informed Data Collection

A COVID-19 Stories Project to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the work situations of GL community members. Using a trauma-informed story collection approach, 26 GL community members were interviewed about by youth from Greater Lawndale.

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