UHI Summit 2011

Hello, it's Taylor. Last Thursday, all of the SSP team participants(South Chicago, Woodlawn, and Greater Grand Crossing) attended the Urban Health Initiative Summit. During this summit, we addressed many health issues in communities. We were able to do a live polling that showed us all of the ethnicities being represented, and what their major problems were in their community. After the live polling was done we saw the top three things communities were struggling with. The top three were, education, economic development, and family development. Then, we broke up into small groups and discussed the three topics. We told them whether we agreed or not, and how we felt about it. This small discussion gave us a chance to meet new people. The group that I was in included a representative from CPS and a worker from Project Brotherhood. At the end of the day, we all enjoyed ourselves and were able to see that many communities were facing the same problems we were. It was a great experience, and I hope to attend it again next year. Keep checking back in for more updates about our Summer!