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Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Reporting System (APORS) Case Management Services

Beauty and Barber Shops Health Initiative

Career Ladders

Chicago Partnership for Health Promotion

Community Technology Center: Computer Training Courses at Instituto del Progreso Latino

Community Technology Center: North Lawndale Community News

Community Technology Center: North Lawndale Employment Network

intimate portraits

New Directions

Pilsen Community Futures

Preserving Latino Urban Leaders

REACH 2010/Lawndale Health Promotion Project

School-Based Health Centers

Sustained involvement/technical support for previously established
community/technology centers

Teen REACH

UICNI Community Mental Health Program Student Therapeutic and Resource Services Program (STARS)


   

Program Description
The UICNI Community Mental Health Program is a school based intervention serving Chicago Public School students. The Student Therapeutic and Resource Services Program or STARS provides age appropriate, culturally and contextually relevant services to children and families. The program is designed such that children are engaged in a supportive relationship that enables them to talk about fears, worries, anxieties and other manifestations of behavioral and mental health problems that might otherwise be misinterpreted or go unnoticed.

Services Provided
-Individual Student Mental Health Assessments And Treatment
-Class Room Observations
-Family Consultation And Treatment
-Family Therapy
-Faculty Consultation
-In-Service Educational Opportunities For Cps Faculty

Service Sites
-Young Women’s Leadership Charter School/John B. Drake Elementary School
-Smyth Joyner Elementary School
-National Teachers Academy (Fall 2005)

Contact
-Medical Director: Karen Taylor Crawford, MD -Community Mental Health Program Director: Barbara Preib-Lannon, PhD, RN, (312) 136-2430, bpreib@uic.edu

Partners - UIC
-Mile Square Health Center
-Department of Psychiatry
-Medical Center

Partners - Community
-Mount Sinai Mile Square Health Center
-Local School Councils

Funding Source
Federal Bureau of Primary Health Care
Illinois Department of Human Services
Patient revenue

 

 

 

 

UIC Neighborhoods Initiative
Great Cities Institute (M/C107)
412 S. Peoria, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60607-7067
PH: 312.996.8700 FAX: 312.996.8933
email: mailto:gcities@uic.edu