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Healthcare workers: Learn how HB1312 protects patients + providers from ICE in hospitals. Join the training on Dec 14 at CTU HQ, 11am. Details + registration: https://bit.ly/hcwnoice
#Chicago #HealthJustice #ImmigrantRights
#Chicago #HealthJustice #ImmigrantRights
December 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Healthcare workers: Learn how HB1312 protects patients + providers from ICE in hospitals. Join the training on Dec 14 at CTU HQ, 11am. Details + registration: https://bit.ly/hcwnoice
#Chicago #HealthJustice #ImmigrantRights
#Chicago #HealthJustice #ImmigrantRights
Access to quality maternity care shouldn’t depend on your ZIP code. Kennedy-King’s new midwife program is a powerful step toward closing long-standing gaps on Chicago’s South Side.
Maternity Care Is Lacking On The South Side. Kennedy-King's Midwife Program Aims To Change That
Students in the program will train in a state-of-the-art simulation classroom and earn national certification and state licensure.
blockclubchicago.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Access to quality maternity care shouldn’t depend on your ZIP code. Kennedy-King’s new midwife program is a powerful step toward closing long-standing gaps on Chicago’s South Side.
Chicago’s budget = Chicago’s health. 🏙️❤️🩹
On In the Loop, experts break down what alternative budget proposals could mean for equity, community wellbeing, and the services people rely on.
Listen:
On In the Loop, experts break down what alternative budget proposals could mean for equity, community wellbeing, and the services people rely on.
Listen:
Critique of Chicago alders’ alternative budget proposals
“People need to decide whether to tax corporations and pay for youth jobs, violence prevention… or tax Chicagoans and cut vital services,” says Julie Dworkin, co-executive director of the Institute for the Public Good.
www.wbez.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Chicago’s budget = Chicago’s health. 🏙️❤️🩹
On In the Loop, experts break down what alternative budget proposals could mean for equity, community wellbeing, and the services people rely on.
Listen:
On In the Loop, experts break down what alternative budget proposals could mean for equity, community wellbeing, and the services people rely on.
Listen:
Illinois is facing uncertainty—and public health is under pressure. But we’re not stepping back. ✊🔥
Health & Medicine is advancing aging equity, public health funding, reproductive justice, workforce support, and trauma-informed care statewide. 💜🏥
www.hmprg.org/donate/
#StrongerTogether
Health & Medicine is advancing aging equity, public health funding, reproductive justice, workforce support, and trauma-informed care statewide. 💜🏥
www.hmprg.org/donate/
#StrongerTogether
December 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Illinois is facing uncertainty—and public health is under pressure. But we’re not stepping back. ✊🔥
Health & Medicine is advancing aging equity, public health funding, reproductive justice, workforce support, and trauma-informed care statewide. 💜🏥
www.hmprg.org/donate/
#StrongerTogether
Health & Medicine is advancing aging equity, public health funding, reproductive justice, workforce support, and trauma-informed care statewide. 💜🏥
www.hmprg.org/donate/
#StrongerTogether
Health & Medicine is nearing 45 years of advancing health justice in Illinois. 💜 Your year-end gift strengthens advocacy, leadership development, and community partnerships statewide. 🌱🏥
Consider $50 monthly or a $150 one-time gift.
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Consider $50 monthly or a $150 one-time gift.
www.hmprg.org/donate/
December 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Health & Medicine is nearing 45 years of advancing health justice in Illinois. 💜 Your year-end gift strengthens advocacy, leadership development, and community partnerships statewide. 🌱🏥
Consider $50 monthly or a $150 one-time gift.
www.hmprg.org/donate/
Consider $50 monthly or a $150 one-time gift.
www.hmprg.org/donate/
Chicago families are still feeling the trauma of recent immigration raids — from daycare centers to schools to neighborhoods across the city. Chicago Health’s new reporting captures the impact and what communities are doing to heal. 💜
Read here:
chicagohealthonline....
#HealthJustice #Chicago
Read here:
chicagohealthonline....
#HealthJustice #Chicago
After the Raids - Chicago Health
Chicago families grapple with trauma following federal agents' immigration sweeps.
chicagohealthonline.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Chicago families are still feeling the trauma of recent immigration raids — from daycare centers to schools to neighborhoods across the city. Chicago Health’s new reporting captures the impact and what communities are doing to heal. 💜
Read here:
chicagohealthonline....
#HealthJustice #Chicago
Read here:
chicagohealthonline....
#HealthJustice #Chicago
Learn more about Nicole’s work and the impact on Chicago’s street medicine community ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4pxOMSG
#StreetMedicine #WoundCare #HealthEquity #HomelessnessResponse #SchweitzerFellows #CommunityHealth #ChicagoHealth #HMPRG
https://bit.ly/4pxOMSG
#StreetMedicine #WoundCare #HealthEquity #HomelessnessResponse #SchweitzerFellows #CommunityHealth #ChicagoHealth #HMPRG
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Learn more about Nicole’s work and the impact on Chicago’s street medicine community ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4pxOMSG
#StreetMedicine #WoundCare #HealthEquity #HomelessnessResponse #SchweitzerFellows #CommunityHealth #ChicagoHealth #HMPRG
https://bit.ly/4pxOMSG
#StreetMedicine #WoundCare #HealthEquity #HomelessnessResponse #SchweitzerFellows #CommunityHealth #ChicagoHealth #HMPRG
Breaking barriers to reentry: Jenna Pasanen began by creating reentry workshops for women at Cook County Jail and then helped build a university–jail learning partnership. Her Schweitzer Fellowship sparked work that’s become a model for trauma-informed support.
Read more: https://bit.ly/48jjIPm
Read more: https://bit.ly/48jjIPm
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Breaking barriers to reentry: Jenna Pasanen began by creating reentry workshops for women at Cook County Jail and then helped build a university–jail learning partnership. Her Schweitzer Fellowship sparked work that’s become a model for trauma-informed support.
Read more: https://bit.ly/48jjIPm
Read more: https://bit.ly/48jjIPm
“I was born a sickle cell patient, but I chose to become a researcher.” ❤️
Dr. Ronisha Edwards-Elliott, Director of Chicago AHEC & Workforce Programs, recently defended her PhD—turning lived experience into leadership in health equity.
Read her story: ow.ly/zBg750XtPWj
Dr. Ronisha Edwards-Elliott, Director of Chicago AHEC & Workforce Programs, recently defended her PhD—turning lived experience into leadership in health equity.
Read her story: ow.ly/zBg750XtPWj
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
“I was born a sickle cell patient, but I chose to become a researcher.” ❤️
Dr. Ronisha Edwards-Elliott, Director of Chicago AHEC & Workforce Programs, recently defended her PhD—turning lived experience into leadership in health equity.
Read her story: ow.ly/zBg750XtPWj
Dr. Ronisha Edwards-Elliott, Director of Chicago AHEC & Workforce Programs, recently defended her PhD—turning lived experience into leadership in health equity.
Read her story: ow.ly/zBg750XtPWj
💚 Impact Report
What does health equity look like in practice? Schweitzer Fellows partner with communities across Chicago to expand access to care, challenge inequities, and build lasting change.
Explore their stories in the Impact Report: https://bit.ly/48lDmeO
#SchweitzerFellows
What does health equity look like in practice? Schweitzer Fellows partner with communities across Chicago to expand access to care, challenge inequities, and build lasting change.
Explore their stories in the Impact Report: https://bit.ly/48lDmeO
#SchweitzerFellows
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
💚 Impact Report
What does health equity look like in practice? Schweitzer Fellows partner with communities across Chicago to expand access to care, challenge inequities, and build lasting change.
Explore their stories in the Impact Report: https://bit.ly/48lDmeO
#SchweitzerFellows
What does health equity look like in practice? Schweitzer Fellows partner with communities across Chicago to expand access to care, challenge inequities, and build lasting change.
Explore their stories in the Impact Report: https://bit.ly/48lDmeO
#SchweitzerFellows
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October 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
. @hmprg.bsky.social partnered with us to guide the strategic planning process and summit design, ensuring that community voices remained at the center of every conversation.
🎉 Fellows Fest 2025–2026 is here!
Support Chicago’s Schweitzer Fellows as they advance health equity and justice across our city - cbo.io/app/public/bi... 💚
#FellowsFest #HealthEquity #SchweitzerFellows
Support Chicago’s Schweitzer Fellows as they advance health equity and justice across our city - cbo.io/app/public/bi... 💚
#FellowsFest #HealthEquity #SchweitzerFellows
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🎉 Fellows Fest 2025–2026 is here!
Support Chicago’s Schweitzer Fellows as they advance health equity and justice across our city - cbo.io/app/public/bi... 💚
#FellowsFest #HealthEquity #SchweitzerFellows
Support Chicago’s Schweitzer Fellows as they advance health equity and justice across our city - cbo.io/app/public/bi... 💚
#FellowsFest #HealthEquity #SchweitzerFellows
💜 The Cook County Board honored Margie Schaps for a lifetime of leadership in health equity and justice.
Her impact continues to shape Health & Medicine’s voice for justice in health care.
#HealthEquity #PublicHealth
Her impact continues to shape Health & Medicine’s voice for justice in health care.
#HealthEquity #PublicHealth
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
💜 The Cook County Board honored Margie Schaps for a lifetime of leadership in health equity and justice.
Her impact continues to shape Health & Medicine’s voice for justice in health care.
#HealthEquity #PublicHealth
Her impact continues to shape Health & Medicine’s voice for justice in health care.
#HealthEquity #PublicHealth
📢 Health & Medicine urges greater public health investment and immigrant protections in Cook County.
Read Policy Director Wesley Epplin’s full FY2026 budget testimony and recommendations: tr.ee/hdNNO-I1-1
#HealthEquity #FundPublicHealth #CookCounty
Read Policy Director Wesley Epplin’s full FY2026 budget testimony and recommendations: tr.ee/hdNNO-I1-1
#HealthEquity #FundPublicHealth #CookCounty
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
📢 Health & Medicine urges greater public health investment and immigrant protections in Cook County.
Read Policy Director Wesley Epplin’s full FY2026 budget testimony and recommendations: tr.ee/hdNNO-I1-1
#HealthEquity #FundPublicHealth #CookCounty
Read Policy Director Wesley Epplin’s full FY2026 budget testimony and recommendations: tr.ee/hdNNO-I1-1
#HealthEquity #FundPublicHealth #CookCounty
BlueSky:
🚀 Launch your career in health policy with Health & Medicine!
Applications are open for our 2026 Graduate Paid Internship Program (Feb 2–Apr 20). Join us in advancing health equity.
Apply by Nov 28 → tr.ee/jfFCf8VnHn
#PublicHealth #Internship
🚀 Launch your career in health policy with Health & Medicine!
Applications are open for our 2026 Graduate Paid Internship Program (Feb 2–Apr 20). Join us in advancing health equity.
Apply by Nov 28 → tr.ee/jfFCf8VnHn
#PublicHealth #Internship
October 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
BlueSky:
🚀 Launch your career in health policy with Health & Medicine!
Applications are open for our 2026 Graduate Paid Internship Program (Feb 2–Apr 20). Join us in advancing health equity.
Apply by Nov 28 → tr.ee/jfFCf8VnHn
#PublicHealth #Internship
🚀 Launch your career in health policy with Health & Medicine!
Applications are open for our 2026 Graduate Paid Internship Program (Feb 2–Apr 20). Join us in advancing health equity.
Apply by Nov 28 → tr.ee/jfFCf8VnHn
#PublicHealth #Internship
📣 Schweitzer Fellowship Applications Are Open
Graduate students across disciplines can design and lead projects that advance health equity and address unmet health needs in Chicago communities.
Apply by February 1, 2026 → www.hmprg.org/chicag...
#SchweitzerFellowship #HealthEquity
Graduate students across disciplines can design and lead projects that advance health equity and address unmet health needs in Chicago communities.
Apply by February 1, 2026 → www.hmprg.org/chicag...
#SchweitzerFellowship #HealthEquity
October 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
📣 Schweitzer Fellowship Applications Are Open
Graduate students across disciplines can design and lead projects that advance health equity and address unmet health needs in Chicago communities.
Apply by February 1, 2026 → www.hmprg.org/chicag...
#SchweitzerFellowship #HealthEquity
Graduate students across disciplines can design and lead projects that advance health equity and address unmet health needs in Chicago communities.
Apply by February 1, 2026 → www.hmprg.org/chicag...
#SchweitzerFellowship #HealthEquity
Health & Medicine is entering a new chapter. A. Gita Krishnaswamy, M.Ed., MPH has been named Interim Executive Director as Margie Schaps prepares to retire after decades of visionary leadership.
🔗 www.hmprg.org/a-new-...
#HealthEquity #LeadershipTransition #PublicHealth #HMPRG
🔗 www.hmprg.org/a-new-...
#HealthEquity #LeadershipTransition #PublicHealth #HMPRG
October 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Health & Medicine is entering a new chapter. A. Gita Krishnaswamy, M.Ed., MPH has been named Interim Executive Director as Margie Schaps prepares to retire after decades of visionary leadership.
🔗 www.hmprg.org/a-new-...
#HealthEquity #LeadershipTransition #PublicHealth #HMPRG
🔗 www.hmprg.org/a-new-...
#HealthEquity #LeadershipTransition #PublicHealth #HMPRG
🌿 #BirthCenterWeek wrap-up: Over 400+ birth centers nationwide & growing!
Illinois has 5 accredited centers + 2 more coming soon. Each one expands access to midwife-led, family-centered care. 👶
Illinois has 5 accredited centers + 2 more coming soon. Each one expands access to midwife-led, family-centered care. 👶
September 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🌿 #BirthCenterWeek wrap-up: Over 400+ birth centers nationwide & growing!
Illinois has 5 accredited centers + 2 more coming soon. Each one expands access to midwife-led, family-centered care. 👶
Illinois has 5 accredited centers + 2 more coming soon. Each one expands access to midwife-led, family-centered care. 👶
🌿 Celebrating #BirthCenterWeek with the new Quincy Medical Group Birth Center in Quincy, IL!
Opening soon, QMG’s birth center will offer midwife-led care. 👶
Another step forward as Illinois expands access to safe, empowering birth options. ✨
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
Opening soon, QMG’s birth center will offer midwife-led care. 👶
Another step forward as Illinois expands access to safe, empowering birth options. ✨
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
September 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🌿 Celebrating #BirthCenterWeek with the new Quincy Medical Group Birth Center in Quincy, IL!
Opening soon, QMG’s birth center will offer midwife-led care. 👶
Another step forward as Illinois expands access to safe, empowering birth options. ✨
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
Opening soon, QMG’s birth center will offer midwife-led care. 👶
Another step forward as Illinois expands access to safe, empowering birth options. ✨
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
🌿 Celebrating #BirthCenterWeek with the new Quincy Medical Group Birth Center in Quincy, IL!
Opening soon, QMG’s birth center will offer midwife-led care. 👶
Another step forward as Illinois expands access to safe, empowering birth options. ✨
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
Opening soon, QMG’s birth center will offer midwife-led care. 👶
Another step forward as Illinois expands access to safe, empowering birth options. ✨
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
September 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🌿 Celebrating #BirthCenterWeek with the new Quincy Medical Group Birth Center in Quincy, IL!
Opening soon, QMG’s birth center will offer midwife-led care. 👶
Another step forward as Illinois expands access to safe, empowering birth options. ✨
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
Opening soon, QMG’s birth center will offer midwife-led care. 👶
Another step forward as Illinois expands access to safe, empowering birth options. ✨
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
🌿 Celebrating #BirthCenterWeek with the upcoming Chicago South Side Birth Center!
As the city’s first freestanding birth center, it’s building a safe, affirming, community-rooted space for Black birthing families on the South Side. 🤎
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
As the city’s first freestanding birth center, it’s building a safe, affirming, community-rooted space for Black birthing families on the South Side. 🤎
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
September 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🌿 Celebrating #BirthCenterWeek with the upcoming Chicago South Side Birth Center!
As the city’s first freestanding birth center, it’s building a safe, affirming, community-rooted space for Black birthing families on the South Side. 🤎
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
As the city’s first freestanding birth center, it’s building a safe, affirming, community-rooted space for Black birthing families on the South Side. 🤎
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterEquity
🤝 Birth Center of Chicago has supported nearly 450 births since 2021. This fall, they’ll welcome Certified Professional Midwives for even more personalized care. 🌿👶 #BelovedBirth #BirthCenterWeek
September 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
🤝 Birth Center of Chicago has supported nearly 450 births since 2021. This fall, they’ll welcome Certified Professional Midwives for even more personalized care. 🌿👶 #BelovedBirth #BirthCenterWeek
🤝 Birth is a partnership of care, respect & love. 🌿
Since 2021, the Birth Center of Chicago has supported nearly 450 births—and this fall, they’ll welcome Certified Professional Midwives for even more personalized care. 👶
#BelovedBirth #BirthCenterWeek
Since 2021, the Birth Center of Chicago has supported nearly 450 births—and this fall, they’ll welcome Certified Professional Midwives for even more personalized care. 👶
#BelovedBirth #BirthCenterWeek
September 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🤝 Birth is a partnership of care, respect & love. 🌿
Since 2021, the Birth Center of Chicago has supported nearly 450 births—and this fall, they’ll welcome Certified Professional Midwives for even more personalized care. 👶
#BelovedBirth #BirthCenterWeek
Since 2021, the Birth Center of Chicago has supported nearly 450 births—and this fall, they’ll welcome Certified Professional Midwives for even more personalized care. 👶
#BelovedBirth #BirthCenterWeek
🏥 Meeting families where they are.
PCC South in Berwyn—Illinois’ first licensed birth center—has long modeled affordable, community-rooted, midwifery-led care. 👶
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterWeek
PCC South in Berwyn—Illinois’ first licensed birth center—has long modeled affordable, community-rooted, midwifery-led care. 👶
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterWeek
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🏥 Meeting families where they are.
PCC South in Berwyn—Illinois’ first licensed birth center—has long modeled affordable, community-rooted, midwifery-led care. 👶
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterWeek
PCC South in Berwyn—Illinois’ first licensed birth center—has long modeled affordable, community-rooted, midwifery-led care. 👶
#BelovedBirth #BCW2025 #BirthCenterWeek
🌿 Since 2016, Bloomington-Normal Birth Center has welcomed 1,000+ babies in a safe, midwife-led space. Families call it “powerful.”
#BCW25 #BelovedBirth
#BCW25 #BelovedBirth
September 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🌿 Since 2016, Bloomington-Normal Birth Center has welcomed 1,000+ babies in a safe, midwife-led space. Families call it “powerful.”
#BCW25 #BelovedBirth
#BCW25 #BelovedBirth