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Gads Hill Center provides the chronically underserved communities of Chicago's southwest side with critical resources. By keeping in touch with our community's changing needs, Gads Hill keeps its programs relevant in order to better serve the community's emerging issues, in addition to those that are well-documented. The articles and reports below are just a few examples of research that keeps Gads Hill in touch with the struggles individual families face, as well as the community, city and state-wide issues that surround the population we serve. These resources include information on:
State of Latino Chicago: This is Home Now Metropolitan Chicago is undergoing a profound transformation from a region dominated politically and demographically by European Americans to one in which no single racial or ethnic group will be the majority. However, at more than 1.6 million, or 20 percent of the population, Latinos have recently emerged as the largest minority group in metropolitan Chicago. This study examines the status of the region's fastest growing population, and includes information on income, employment, education and other topics essential for understanding the current status and future prospects of Chicago's Latinos. Click here to access this report.
A Shared Future: The Economic Engagement of Greater Chicago and Its Mexican Community Forty-five business and civic leaders from the Mexican and non-Mexican communities created a Task Force to identify the challenges and opportunities of integration affecting Mexican immigrants and their children in the Chicago region, regardless of citizenship or country of birth, and to make recommendations on how these might be addressed. The report focuses on ways that Chicago's civic leaders can bolster the region's economic power by harnessing the full capacity of the Mexican community, making recommendations for ways in which Mexicans and the wider community can partner at all levels of government, business, education, and civic life. Click here to access this report.
Opportunities and Challenges: A Community Perspective on Nonprofit Services for Latinos and Community Need
In order to understand more about nonprofits that deliver services for Latinos and service needs that are unmet, IFF and Heartland Alliance conducted a series of eight focus groups with community members and nonprofit leaders in four primarily Latino communities including large and small urban, suburban, and rural areas. The report focuses on the challenges related to serving the growing Latino population effectively, and on the gap between existing programs and resources for serving Latinos. Click here to access this report.
Here and Now: The Need for Performing Schools in Chicago's Neighborhoods This study compares and analyzes the geographic distribution of performing public school options against the changing demographics of Chicago's 77 community areas. The assessment identifies and ranks communities in need of performing school options, with the assumption that families should have access to a performing school or school choice options within their community or immediate region. The report presents citywide findings as well as findings for the communities with the highest need for performing school options. Click here to access this report.
A Report on the Chicago Region's Health & Human Services Sector United Way of Metropolitan Chicago and the Chicago Community Trust together invest more than $70 million annually in health and human services provided by Chicago's nonprofit sector, critical to building a strong community. To gain a better understanding of how funding strategies and leadership can help strengthen the sector, this study considers how major demographic shifts, policy changes, and funding trends are affecting the performance of agencies and the nonprofit sector. Click here to access this report.
The Demographics and Academics of College Going in Illinois In order to help the State of Illinois understand the extent it is providing access to educational opportunities that lead to successful transitions to college and the workforce, the Illinois Education Research Council is undertaking a six year longitudinal study following the 113,660 students in the Illinois high school class of 2002. The study examines how well high school graduates are prepared for the next stages of their lives, and whether patterns of differential preparation along with background characteristics and high school attributes are related to entry into and success in college. Click here to access this report.
Keeping Illinois Competitive -
An Illinois Status Report on Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Education After a review of demographic, technological, and globalization trends, as well as Illinois' performance on a variety of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) indicators, Keeping Illinois Competitive concludes that Illinois faces five challenges. Addressing these challenges will require the public and private sectors working together to ensure that the STEM education system prepares the skilled workers needed to support Illinois' economic development and quality of life. Click here to access this report.
Consumption Trends of the U.S. Hispanic Population from 1980 to 2003 Between 1980 and 2003, the number of Hispanics in the United States increased dramatically from 14.6 million to 39.2 million. As a proportion of the national population, the share of Hispanics more than doubled from 6 percent to nearly 14 percent during this period. Hispanics have also been playing an increasingly important role in national consumer spending, accounting for 9.2 percent of spending by 2003. This article provides insights on how the expenditure patterns of Hispanics differ from those of the rest of the US, and how differences have converged or widened over the years. Click here to access this report.
2006 Report on Child Care in Cook County: Elements of Child Care Supply and Demand Action for Children's report provides both a larger picture and salient details of child care and early education in Cook County for planners, policy makers, people in the child care field, researchers, journalists, and other interested parties. Click here to access this report. |
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