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This resource provides practical, actionable strategies for health and human service organizations to strengthen sustainability during funding uncertainty. It highlights approaches for leveraging community assets, building partnerships, diversifying funding sources,...
This policy brief examines regional inequities in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), community conditions, and access to resources across Illinois, with particular attention to immigrant communities. It highlights how place-based inequities shape health and...
This toolkit provides a compilation of resources to help health professionals understand how trauma and the Social Determinants of Health intersect to shape the health and well-being of youth. It offers various tools for delivering trauma-informed, healing-centered...
Health and social service providers can improve health outcomes by linking patients to community resources. Resource referrals help address social needs and boost well-being but can be confusing, time-consuming, and intimidating due to barriers like bureaucracy,...
This resource guide was created to help Illinois families find support for everyday needs, such as food, housing, health care, and more. Families, providers, and advocates may use the guide to find statewide resources and tips on how to get started. Available in...
This report presents findings from a scan of resource databases across Illinois and interviews with community members and service providers. It examines how youth and families navigate health and social services and highlights strengths, gaps, and opportunities to...
This report outlines an environmental scan of the doula and CPM workforces in Illinois. Doulas are trained professionals who provide continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to their clients before, during, and shortly after childbirth. CPMs are...
This report underscores the necessity of establishing a more robust and sustainable community birth infrastructure in Illinois. Data was obtained from written surveys, individual interviews, and focus groups provided by community midwives, doulas, physicians,...
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group is proud to share our 2026 Policy Priorities, which outline our top policy priorities to advance health equity and human rights in Illinois. The priorities reflect our commitment to policy change that improves people’s lives...
Health & Medicine has launched a national search for its next Executive Director. Founded in 1981, Health & Medicine is a Chicago-based independent nonprofit organization working to improve the health of all people in Illinois by advancing health equity...