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Kelley, Michele

JÓVENES SIN FRONTERAS:
LATINO YOUTH TAKE ACTION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE & WELL-BEING
Michele A. Kelley, Meghan Benson, Mayra Estrella and Joann Lugardone
January 2009
GCP-09-01:

Latino adolescents in the U.S. endure health and social inequities such that they are less likely to complete high school and less likely to have access to health care than their non-Latino white counterparts. These disparities can compromise chances for health and social advancement over the life course.

The purpose of this paper is to present a participatory evaluation using an empowerment framework to demonstrate how a local, urban cultural center for youth fosters (1) Latino Unity and positive youth development among participants; (2) youth led action and organizational empowerment, (3) positive community connectedness and community-building and (4) broader societal connectedness and social justice

Kerby, Susan

Improving Health Care Efficiency: Strategic Approaches to Managing Care for Asthma, Sickle Cell Disease and Tuberculosis; Conference Proceedings
Elizabeth S. Hauser, Richard B. Warnecke, Susan Kerby, and Charles Bright
April 1996
GCP-96-5
This report details the proceedings of a conference of local policy makers, researchers, health care providers, and others to discuss the effective and efficient health care management of sickle cell disease (SCD), asthma and tuberculosis. The report is a summary of the panel presentations, and the recommendations for policy development.

Kordesh, Richard

Esperanza Familiar: Partnership in the Settlement House Tradition
Paper originally prepared for presentation at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's conference on Community Outreach Partnership Centers in East St. Louis, Illinois, September 25, 1998.
Richard Kordesh
December 1998
GCP-98-4
This paper uses a network analysis to study the emergence of a community-university partnership in Chicago's Pilsen community. It tracks the creation of Esperanza Familiar, a joint product of the Resurrection Project, a community development corporation in Pilsen and the Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. The partnership creates and disseminates knowledge to such diverse beneficiaries as faculty, graduate students, staff of the Resurrection Project and families in the neighborhood. This learning is reminiscent of the education-based approaches to community empowerment that were spawned by Jane Addams' Hull-House in Chicago in the early twentieth century.