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CAR Sponsors
with the Ford Foundation.
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Health/Wellness
Selected Chicago
Links
A list of clinics for the under-served and uninsured.
Local and national leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Improves HIV/AIDS services and funds/coordinates prevention, care, and advocacy projects.
Comprehensive AIDS service provider for northern Cook County.
CBHC is a coalition of organizations and individuals, working to help create and advocate for an accessible, quality health care system that provides for everyone. With offices in both Champaign, IL and Chicago, CBHC's energetic and dedicated staff employ a tenacious grassroots campaign to educate and involve health care consumers, build coalitions with other organizations who share their commitment to social justice, and make regulatory and legislative changes at the local, state and national levels.
A directory of CDS members who provide free or sliding scale services -- some specifically for children, the elderly and for those with HIV/AIDS.
Empowers women by providing access to gynecological health care, alternative insemination, health education, and counseling services in a respectful environment. Women pay what they can afford. Located on the first floor of the Cottage View Terrace senior residential building, Cottage View Health Center's primary focus is serving the health needs of the senior population of the Grand Boulevard, Kenwood, and Oakland communities on the South side of Chicago.
Expressive Therapy Concepts, a non-profit organization dedicated to education and service in the creative arts therapies and related modalities, combines the work of Dr. Eric B. Miller in psychotherapy, biofeedback therapy, and music therapy with the work of wife Lynn Miller in the fine arts to facilitate individual and community growth and healing. Near North Health Services health clinic serving the Oakland, Kenwood, Bronzeville, Grand Blvd. and Washington Park communities. Fifteen-dollar visits for the unemployed and uninsured.
Located in Southwest Humboldt Park, the Louise Landau Health Center is conveniently located in this rapidly growing community. This center boasts of state of the art medical facilities. $15 visits for the unemployed and uninsured.
Artists' health clinic that specializes in evaluating, treating and preventing work-related disorders in the arts. Patients can usually be seen regardless of their insurance coverage or ability to pay.
NNHSC’s Winfield Moody Health Center has been serving Chicago's Cabrini Green area since 1966. With a new building, state-of-the-art equipment and expert staff that understands health care as a complex set of relationships between ‘body and soul’.
Selected National/International Links
An extensive list of resources and information concerning both adult and children's health issues. Serving the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing health information to prevent harmful exposures and disease related to toxic substances. Links and referrals to information regarding health and safety issues for artists BOA was developed to provide artists with access to health coverage, dental insurance, technical assistance, discounted products and services through a nationwide network of partners. Provides additional information on chemical and material hazards in the workspace, as well as a database of these hazards. Provides links to several articles on health safety in the studio. A health surveillance system to monitor and prevent disease outbreaks (including bioterrorism.) Maintains national health statistics and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
This guide lists a selection of recent books, periodicals, and other library materials about the health and safety of visual and performing artists. Thorough, credible information on every aspect of your health.
The mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing or controlling those diseases, birth defects, disabilities, or deaths that result from interactions with the environment.
Directory of free clinics, listed by state.
Works to reduce human illness by studying environmental and individual factors underlying disease. A program of the Center for Disease Control, The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related disease and injury.
The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone.
Its mission is to educate and influence society to adopt safety, health, and environmental policies that prevent human suffering and economic losses arising from preventable causes. A program of the Department of Health and Human Services. Provides information on and studies the effect of toxic substances on the public health.
OCHP supports and facilitates EPA's efforts to protect children's health from environmental threats. This Office operates a grant program for state and local governments, conducts research and outreach on healthy homes, enforces the lead hazard disclosure law, and develops lead-based paint regulations and policies. OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education.
A non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the arts as an integral component of healthcare. Selection of over 14 short articles with tips on health and safety when working with art materials .
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