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Staying Healthy and Flattening the Curve
Our Commitment to Community Health and Well-being: Dear Friends, PHIMC is committed to community health and well-being. To do our part in containing the spread of coronavirus and the resulting illness COVID-19, PHIMC staff are working remotely for the foreseeable future. All
PHIMC Newsletter – Winter 2020
Jenner and Block: Helping Two Illinois Nonprofits Merge and Grow
We were fortunate to have the help of Jenner and Block, LLP in negotiating the merger between Illinois Safe Schools Alliance and Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago, and we are happy to be included in The Heart of the
Making Schools More Inclusive for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students, 21st Show Interview on Illinois Public Media
For the 21st Show on January 30, 2020, Lee Gaines interviewed three members of Governor Pritzker’s Affirming and Inclusive Schools Task Force — Benton Goff, a junior at Southern Illinois University; Jennifer Gill, Superintendent of Springfield Public Schools District 186;
Inaugural Mary F. Morten Award for Justice
“The Institute has never given an award before, and we are excited to start by creating the Inaugural Mary F. Morten Award for Justice.”CHICAGO – January 31, 2020 – In a surprise move during the January 26, 2020 reception to
Illinois Reentry Conference: Advancing Criminal, Health, and Social Justice
March 3 – 4, 2020 ~ Springfield, IllinoisJoin us in Springfield for this biannual conference that brings together public health practitioners, healthcare providers, social service professionals, students, and community members to build skills around health equity, social justice, and reentry
Illinois Times on Teaching LGBT History
“The teaching of history has been too straight. A new Illinois law says it’s time to tell the whole story,” reads the subtitle on a recent Illinois Times article by David Blanchette. We could not agree more.Mr. Blanchette interviews multiple
How Illinois Safe Schools Alliance came to live at PHIMC, as profiled in the Windy City Times
Windy City Times Managing Editor Matt Simonette sat down with Karen Reitan, Mary Morten, and Nat Duran this fall to talk about how Illinois Safe Schools Alliance (the Alliance) came to live at Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago (PHIMC).
Request for Applications: AmeriCorps Program Host Sites
Request for Applications (RFA) for Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Allies and National Health Corps Chicago (NHC Chicago) AmeriCorps Programs PHIMC is seeking applications from organizations interested in partnering with our AmeriCorps programs, Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Allies and National Health
