The following Health Career Opportunity Programs (HCOP), funded by the Bureau of Health Research Services Administration, have been discontinued as of September 01, 2006, due to lack of appropriations:

K_12 curriculum; Student Support Groups - EPI/BSST(quantitative skills)/Environmental Calculation; Summer Residential Enrichment Programs (SREP); Pre-Matriculation Program (PMP); Saturday College; High School Summer Public Health Institute (HSSPHI); National Public Health Week celebrations (city-wide); Chicago State University; Field Trips

Current Junior High/Elementary School programs offered

Public health curriculum
This classroom-based instruction introduces the field of public health to 6th - 8th
graders though a four-week, student-focused course that will supplement the science curriculum and emphasize public health issues related to immunization, environment health hazards, public safety, and water quality. Assessment of knowledge gained is achieved through the administration of pre- and post-tests.
Contact: Dorothy Washington-Calvin, 312.996.5955, dwashi5@uic.edu

Public health assemblies
Designed to develop awareness in Chicago Public School students from the West and South
Sides of Chicago of the importance of public health sciences and careers and the contributions
of public health to our everyday lives, especially in the prevention of diseases and the
protection of water and the environment.
Contact: Dorothy Washington-Calvin, 312.996.5955, dwashi5@uic.edu

Field trips
Trips by students to healthcare establishments to observe health professionals at work and
learn from them. Also trips to laboratories, science museums, and other institutions that
provide enriching learning experiences.
Contact: Dorothy Washington-Calvin, 312.996.5955, dwashi5@uic.edu

Non-residential public health institute
Held at the Early Outreach Program at UIC and Chicago State University during the summer.
It is a six-week (six hours/day) annual program for entering 6th to 8th graders from the Chicago
Public Schools who are interested in pursuing health careers. The program provides them with a summer program of intensive reading, mathematics and science enrichment courses and increases the academic preparedness necessary to take science and mathematics courses in high school, while also providing academic skills necessary for public health endeavors.
Contact: Dorothy Washington-Calvin, 312.996.5955, dwashi5@uic.edu

Participation in National Public Health Week
Our students also participate actively in activities held in conjunction with National Public Health Week every year.

Saturday College
A thirty-weeks (six hours/week) academic enrichment program for students in grades 6
to 12 from the West Side and the South Side of Chicago who are interested in health
careers. The college provides preliminary education that will enrich their academic experiences and expose them to public health science research. These activities are expected to increase their interest in science, mathematics and public health research and motivate them to take Honors and Advanced Placement Science courses. This runs simultaneously at Early Outreach Program at UIC and Chicago State University.
Contact: Dorothy Washington-Calvin, 312.996.5955, dwashi5@uic.edu

Teacher In-Service Training
Provides six teacher-in-service workshops annually on cultural competence and the
fundamentals of public health for high school counselors and teachers of science and
mathematics, in order to increase their understanding of the impact of prejudice and
stereotypes on the delivery of health care and on public health and to increase cultural
awareness and improve the curriculum and learning environment of students. Participating
teachers will receive CPS Lane Credit promotion.
Contact: Dorothy Washington-Calvin, 312.996.5955, dwashi5@uic.edu or Bambade Shakoor-Abdullah, 773.843.9542, Bambade@aol.com