2004-2005 Faculty Seed Fund Awardees
GCI Faculty Seed Fund awards go to University of Illinois
at Chicago faculty working on interdisciplinary urban-centered projects
with applied components. The following four UIC faculty members received
Seed Fund grants:
Joy Hammel
Occupational Therapy, College of Applied Health Sciences
Participatory Action Research with the Disability Community
to Address Inequities in Community Living and Participation Opportunities
in the Urban Communities
This participatory action research project focused on promoting praxis
by creating an interdisciplinary consortium to research and strategize
community living issues, and by actively involving and building the
capacity and power of people with disabilities with first hand experience
of oppression.
Beverly McElmurry
Public Health, Mental Health Administrative Nursing, College of Nursing
Economic Impact Analysis of Latino Immigrant Diabetes Program
in Chicago: Community Development Perspective
This study explored the economic significance of the community diabetes
program for Latinos and the methodological potentials of an input/output
model for economic evaluation of the program.
Margaret Strobel
Jane Addams Hull House Museum
Preserving Latino Urban Leaders in Chicago
Preserving Latino Urban Leaders is a pilot project to establish a Latino
Archives in Chicago. The project is also strategizing about how such
materials can be successfully used in communities to help children and
youth learn about their history and ethnic leaders.
Deborah Walens
Occupational Therapy, College of Applied Health Sciences
Food Management Strategies to Maintain Residential Stability
for Adults who are Homeless with Mental Illness
The objective of this study was to evaluate a food and nutrition management
life skills intervention with individuals who had mental illness, were
living in an emergency housing shelter and were at risk for homelessness.
The intervention was designed to optimize their independence in food
and nutrition management and to understand the pragmatics of delivering
a shelter-based intervention.
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