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Project Insight: Chicago

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Lesson 1: Health Justice, Disaster Preparedness, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Community Resilience

6 Lessons

Social Determinants of Health

Divergent Paths, a Health Equity Story

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

From Risk to Resilience

READ: What is Community Resiliency?

Food for Thought!

Lesson 2: Racial Justice

7 Lessons

The Myth of Race

If You Want to Talk Health, You Have to Talk Racial Justice

Why is Racism a Public Health Issue?

How Systemic Racism Led to COVID-19's Rapid Spread Among People of Color

Police Violence is a Public Health Issue

EXPLORE: Mapping Police Violence

Food for Thought!

Lesson 3: COVID-19 and Disability Justice

5 Lessons

1 Million Covid Deaths

Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy

My Body Doesn't Oppress Me, Society Does

Health Equity for People with Disabilities

Food for Thought!

Lesson 4: Immigrant and Refugee Health

6 Lessons

Why Do People Migrate?

The Racist History of US Immigration Policy

How Years of Interventionism Created a Migration Crisis

Healthcare for Undocumented Immigrants

Pick a Video to Watch

Food for Thought!

Lesson 5: Food Justice

5 Lessons

What Causes Food Insecurity?

Why Eating Healthy is so Expensive in America

Activism and Food Justice

Food for Thought!

Lesson 6: Environmental and Housing Justice

10 Lessons

Environmental Justice, Explained

Why COVID-19 is an Environmental Justice Issue

Environmental Racism is the New Jim Crow

Environmental Factors and Your Health

Healthy Housing = Healthy Communities

Defining Youth Homelessness

Ending Youth Homelessness is Possible

OPTIONAL: Homeless Youth: An Invisible Crisis - NBC Chicago

Food for Thought!

Lesson 7: Mental Health

6 Lessons

READ: Mental Health Criminalization

Intersections of Social Justice and Mental Health

EXPLORE: Youth Risk Behavioral Survey Trends for Mental Health

Understanding ACEs

Food for Thought!

Lesson 8: Violence Prevention

6 Lessons

How Gun Violence Leaves Lasting Trauma

Hospital Based Violence Intervention

READ: COVID and Gun Violence

LISTEN: Gun Deaths Increased During the Pandemic

EXPLORE: Youth Risk Behavioral Survey Trends for Experiencing Violence

Food for Thought!

Lesson 9: Harm Reduction

5 Lessons

Jay-Z: the War on Drugs is an Epic Fail

Harm Reduction Saves Lives

Needle Exchanges

EXPLORE: Youth Risk Behavioral Survey Trends for Substance Use

Food for Thought!

Lesson 10: Sexual and Reproductive Justice

10 Lessons

A Brief History of reproductive Justice

Visioning New Futures

The Right to Self-Determination

Gender Affirming Care

Gender Affirming Care Saves Lives

EXPLORE: Youth Risk Behavioral Survey Trends for Sexual Behavior

EXPLORE: State Policies

Explore: Love is Respect

Is This Normal?

Food for Thought!

Lesson 11: Research!

4 Lessons

Youth Participatory Action Research

EXPLORE: YPAR Stepping Stones

EXPLORE: Examples of YPAR Projects

Food for Thought!

Project Insight: Chicago

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Lesson 11: Research!

EXPLORE: YPAR Stepping Stones

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