The Center for Faith-Based and Community Health Initiatives is a joint project
of Advocate Health Care, the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago
with support from the Chicago Department of Public Health, and the University
of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Neighborhoods Initiative. Staff from each of these
institutions formed the Center to focus and coalesce the work Chicagoland’s
faith and health movement more powerfully on eliminating health inequities by
building loving communities.
The Center is organized around four work areas.
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Developing outcomes-oriented faith and health partnerships in specific
communities.
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Exploring models of working with faith communities that best support their
capacity to lead in impacting the health of their communities.
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Providing leadership development to strengthen and expand the base of leaders
at all levels of faith and health partnership.
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Connecting the myriad faith and health activities in the metropolitan area.
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