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;
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).
Four years of youth-led advocacy results in unrestricted access to locker rooms for trans students
Grecia Magdaleno, Policy and Advocacy Manager for PHIMC’s Illinois Safe Schools Alliance, speaks to ABC-7 about the years of youth advocacy that resulted in District 211 allowing transgender students access to the locker rooms that align with their gender identity,
LaShyra Nolen, National Health Corps Chicago Alumna speaks with NPR about lack of diversity in medical training
LaShyra Nolen, National Health Corps Chicago Alumna (2018-2019) and first-year student at Harvard Medical School spoke to NPR’s Morning Edition on November 4, 2019, in a segment called “Diagnostic Gaps: Skin Comes In Many Shades And So Do Rashes.” “…
PHIMC Routine HIV Screening Successes Published
PHIMC’s nationally recognized model for integrating routine HIV screening in diverse healthcare settings is featured in the most recent issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Public Health Reports. “Routine HIV Screening as a Standard of Care: Implementing HIV Screening in General
