The Court Involved Youth Project at Health & Medicine is thrilled to announce two exciting developments!
- The Project’s Cook County Court Involved LGBTQ Youth Task Force has received a two-year grant from an anonymous donor in the amount of $110,000, which will support the time of Sarah Schriber, Project Coordinator and Task Force Community Convener, as well as enable the Task Force to hire a part-time person to work with Sarah to support its work. (Download job description for Part-Time Assistant Policy Analyst for the LGTBQ Task Force)
- Additionally, the Task Force is now an award-winning Task Force! The Alliance of Illinois Judges has given the Task Force its Honorary Chair Award, the first time it has bestowed the honor on a group and not a jurist. Sarah and Carmen Casas, Juvenile Probation Supervisor and Task Force System Convener, will receive the award on behalf of the Task Force at the Alliance’s annual officer’s installation reception on June 15, 2011.
The Task Force was convened to address the needs of court involved youth who identify as or are perceived to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning. Its key stakeholders – judges, attorneys, probation officers, secure facilities’ staff, community based providers and advocates – are committed to:
(1) researching and adapting promising practices relating to effective, professional and sensitive policies, training, programs and services and
(2) coordinating the implementation of these practices across the system in furtherance of creating and sustaining a system that supports all youth.
Funding and the recognition resulting from the Honorary Chair Award will contribute to pushing forward this important work.
For more information about the Task Force, or the Court Involved Youth Initiative please email Sarah.
In the meantime, please forward the Task Force Job Posting to anyone that you think would be qualified and interested.
As debates continue about cutting entitlement programs like Social Security in order to balance the federal budget, Health & Medicine is co-sponsoring a rally NEXT Wednesday May 18th: “Social Security: Keeping the Promise to All Generations”.
Economic Security is important to all Americans, and Social Security is a life-line to economic security for many. Please join us Wednesday to hear Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and several Social Security beneficiaries talk about the importance of Social Security to economic security.
Social Security is once again under attack as Congress debates cutting it in the name of the federal deficit. Social Security has not contributed a penny to the deficit and is a promise that must not broken.
Join us as we hear from beneficiaries and advocates and learn about the national campaign to protect and strengthen Social Security. We will also discuss the proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
Keynote Speaker: Eric Kingson
Co-Director of the national coalition Strengthen Social Security. Served as policy advisor to two presidential commissions – 1982 National Commission on Social Security Reform; 1994 Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform
Special Guest: Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Wednesday, May 18
10am – Noon
Workers United Union Hall
333 S Ashland Ave
Chicago, IL
A light Breakfast will be provided
This Event is Free
Space is Limited
To Reserve a Seat contact:
Emily Stuart
(312) 427-2114 ext. 207
illinoisara@gmail.com
deficit. Social Security has not contributed a penny to the deficit and is a promise that must not broken.
Join us as we hear from beneficiaries and advocates and learn about the national campaign to protect
and strengthen Social Security. We will also discuss the proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
Keynote Speaker
Eric Kingson
Co-Director of the national coalition Strengthen Social Security
Served as policy advisor to two presidential commissions – 1982 National Commission on Social Security
Reform; 1994 Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform
Special Guest
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Wednesday, May 18
10am – Noon
Workers United Union Hall
333 S Ashland Ave
Chicago, IL
A light Breakfast will be provided
This Event is Free
Space is Limited
To Reserve a Seat contact:
Emily Stuart
(312)Social Security is once again under attack as Congress debates cutting it in the name of the federal
deficit. Social Security has not contributed a penny to the deficit and is a promise that must not broken.
Join us as we hear from beneficiaries and advocates and learn about the national campaign to protect
and strengthen Social Security. We will also discuss the proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
Keynote Speaker
Eric Kingson
Co-Director of the national coalition Strengthen Social Security
Served as policy advisor to two presidential commissions – 1982 National Commission on Social Security
Reform; 1994 Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform
Special Guest
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Wednesday, May 18
10am – Noon
Workers United Union Hall
333 S Ashland Ave
Chicago, IL
A light Breakfast will be provided
This Event is Free
Space is Limited
To Reserve a Seat contact:
Emily Stuart
(312)
Overcoming the Legal Barriers to the Telehealth Revolution of Health Care
12:00- 1:30 Friday, June 3, 2011
Chicago Bar Association Health Law Committee
321 S. Plymouth Ct., Chicago, IL 60604
Meeting Room: Will be posted on the first floor
(No Charge)
(CBA lunches may be brought to the meeting room. Purchase lunch tickets at the first floor CBA shop ($12.00 non-CBA members; $9.50 CBA members)
Co-Sponsors: Leadership Greater Chicago, Cook County Department of Public Health, Health & Medicine Policy Research Group’s Center for Long Term Care Reform
The healthcare industry is facing enormous challenges. The health care reform of 2010 increases the number of insured by 32 million people. The number of elderly persons who require more health care will double by 2030. By 2025, there is a projected physician shortage of 130,000. In spite of these challenges, health care providers must maintain and improve the quality of health care.
This challenge is forcing the industry to explore new models of care delivery and consider information technology and telehealth as potential enhancements and the new modalities. Telehealth is a broad concept used to denote new ways for health professionals to share information, work collaboratively and deliver services using a wide range of information and communication technology.
Telehealth uses telecommunications to connect patients with health care providers not at the same location. Telehealth enables health care providers to monitor the condition of their patients. Telehealth is also a way to provide specialist health care consultations. Telehealth requires the rethinking of traditional models for healthcare delivery, licensure, credentialing, liability and reimbursement.
Panel:
- John Blum, Professor, Loyola University Law School; Board Member, Center for Telehealth & e-Health Law
- Robert Rich, Director, Institute of Government & Public Affairs University of Illinois; Faculty, College of Law & Medicine, University of Illinois
Moderator: Nancy Kaszak, Member of CBA Health Law Committee & Consultant to University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs
For more information, contact Nancy Kaszak at: 773-472-0181
Now in its fourth year, our Schweitzer Fellows for Life “Leadership by Example” Lecture series invites exemplary individuals to share their stories and advice about promoting social justice. We kick off the series on Thursday, June 2nd with guest speaker Dr. Richard David, an attending neonatologist and co-director of the neonatal intensive care unit at Stroger Hospital. Dr. David’s clinical work involves care for newborns from low-income minority and immigrant populations in Chicago. His research focuses on perinatal epidemiology and more specifically on the relation between social inequality – especially racism in its various forms – and birth outcomes.
Dr. David’s lecture will be held at Loyola University Chicago, Beane Hall, 111 E. Pearson St., 13th Floor. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are strongly recommended. Please send an email to RSVP@hmprg.org or call 312 372-4292 ext. 24.
