IN THIS ISSUE:
*Events
*Volunteer Opportunities
*Internships, Jobs, and Beyond...
*In the Spotlight: No Price for Valuable Health Care
EVENTS
Summer Links Information Session
Monday, November 30th
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Ida Noyes First Floor Lounge, (1212 E. 59th Street)
Summer Links offers an intensive 10-week internships to 30 returning College and graduate students committed to public service, community building, and social change. Interns receive a $4 000 stipend and participate in weekly day-long and evening trainings about Chicago and social justice issues. For more information, please contact Student Intern Hallie Trauger at htrauger@uchicago.edu
What’s Next for Chicago
Tuesday, December 1
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Roosevelt University, Congress Lounge (430 South Michigan Avenue)
Despite losing the Olympic bid, how can Chicago harness all the energy put into the bid to create a better city for every? Join the conversation featuring University of Chicago American History professor Adam Green and other diverse perspectives coming together to envision possible futures for Chicago. This program is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made online, by email, at events@prairie.org, or by calling 312.422.5580.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Splash! Chicago seeks new members to join our Student and Schools Recruitment Team. If you are at all interested in education and its structures, working with kids, or preaching atop lunch tables, you should sign up! Please call us at 773-789-7347 OR email splashchicago@gmail.com if you want to join our Recruitment Team.
Tutors in all subjects are needed at Hyde Park High School and John Hope HS. Please contact John MacDougall at 312-853-3932 or jmacdoug@roosevelt.edu
A 7th grade teacher, Jenny Jankowski, at Tarkington Elementary school is seeking UofC students interested in mentoring her 7th graders. The school is located at 71st and Kedzie, and is Chicago's first “green school”. (There’s a special need for mentoring male students who could benefit from a positive role model.) To get involved, contact Jennifer Jankowski at JLJankowski@cps.edu
INTERNSHIPS, JOBS, AND BEYOND...
Heart of Chicago Writing Contest
Deadline: November 30, 2009
Students should describe how they view The Heart of Chicago in one of three categories: Poetry, Narrative Fiction, and Narrative Non-fiction. Any aspect of the city may be considered for subject matter. Submissions will be accepted via email to katesoto@uchicago.edu and for more information visit: chicagostudies.uchicago.edu/heartofchicago_writing.html
Check out the “The Blog That Works,” the Chicago Studies blog: https://blogs.uchicago.edu/chicagostudies/2009/11/from_cobb_hall_to_the_corn_fie.html If you are interested in being a blogger, contact Chicago Studies Program Coordinator Rachel Cromidas at cromidas@uchicago.edu
Humanities in Action
Due: January 23, 2010
The HIA summer fellowship programs bring together international groups of Fellows to study minority rights and human rights doctrines in democratic societies. Separate programs will take place for five weeks in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, New York, and Warsaw. Students of all majors and academic disciplines are encouraged to apply. Full application materials are available at: http://www.humanityinaction.org/apply/usa
Applications for Teaching Artists through the Teaching Lab Collaborations (or TLC for short), have just gone live on-line here. For more information regarding job requirements and details, contact Jessica Hutchinson at jesshutchinson@uchicago.edu
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
No Price for Valuable Health Care
Anne Groggel, Staff Writer
Public health is on the minds of people around the nation in this midst of uncertainty around health care reform, finding quality and affordable health care. One thing can be agreed upon: the issue of health services is more important than ever. The State’s proposed 6.7% budget cuts to Health and Human Services would have a detrimental impact on the health of Chicago residents.
Beyond taking advantage of the free flu shots on campus, University of Chicago students are working to providing essential health services. Betsy Rubinstein, a graduate student at the School of Social Service Administration, decided to organize a fundraiser and raffle for the Chicago Women's Health Center located on the North Side. Founded in 1975 and the nation's oldest feminist health collective, Chicago Women's Health Center strives to make health care accessible to all women and transgendered people regardless of their ability to pay.
Chicago Women’s Health Center is a collective of women, including counselors, outreach health educators, and doctors who provide health education and accessible gynecological and mental health care to women and transgendered people in the Chicago area. Last year, CWHC served more than 6,000 Chicagoans through programs in gynecology, counseling, alternative insemination, outreach & education, and acupuncture.
Presently, the Center is working to raise money in order to move into a larger location, due to increasing demand for their services. Over the past few months, she coordinated with CWHC staff and T's Bar restaurant to put together the event, and has already received many in-kind donations from local businesses for the raffle. Betsy described her involvement as helping to support “an organization that provides health care in the right way.”
Rubinstein was especially drawn to the organization because of her interest in gender, health, and sexuality. The health center offers Trans Gynecology Access Program (TGAP) to provide gynecological services to transgender men. “I was incredibly pleased” Rubinstein stated “with an all-women run, feminist health collective that specifically reaches out to queer women and trans people.”
Betsy became involved with this nonprofit after shadowing Bess Hart, the Clinical Director at the Chicago Women’s Health Center. Bess Hart, a graduate from the Social Service Administration, currently works as a clinical social worker providing individual counseling at the clinic.
Potential budget cuts to the Public Health Budget mean fewer city services for an array of health program organizations. Organizations like Chicago Women’s Health Center become the lifeline to ensuring residents the health services they need. Reflecting on this budget crisis, Rubinstein concludes that “every person deserves sensitive, affordable, and comprehensive health care, and CWHC is a tremendous asset to our community for providing that for Chicagoans.”
The Chicago Women’s Health Center Fundraiser will be held at December 10th at 8pm at T’s Bar & Restaurant on 5025 N. Clark St. Students may contact Betsy at betsyrubinstein@gmail.com if you have any questions. For more information on Chicago Women's Health Center, please visit: http://www.chicagowomenshealthcenter.org
The University Community Service Center (UCSC) fosters the development of civic-minded students by providing substantive community service opportunities through community partnerships based on mutual trust and respect. If you have questions - how to get involved as a student or how to connect to students as a community organization - please contact us.
University Community Service Center
5525 S. Ellis Ave., Suite 160
Chicago IL, 60637
Tel: 773.753.4483
Fax: 773.834.1160
ucsc.uchicago.edu
