Request for Proposals – Advancing Healthy Homes/Healthy Communities Initiative, Deadline: May 15
Request for Proposals – Advancing Healthy Homes/Healthy Communities Initiative
(Deadline Extended! – May 15th, 2013)
See attachment for more details
The home and community is a place that serves many purposes besides a place of residency. Both are places where we begin and finish our day, where families and their children live, play, and grow for years, and where people have a sense of comfort and safety. Unfortunately, both the home and community for some is a place where many known and unknown environmental toxins are causing health hazards that are continuously affecting residents on a daily basis.
In response to the risks that environmental toxins disproportionately pose to children and families’ health, the Center for the Human Rights of Children, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy, Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University Medical Center, and Loyola Law School’s Civitas ChildLaw Center (“The Centers”) at Loyola University Chicago have developed an interdisciplinary, multi-sector initiative, Advancing Healthy Homes/Healthy Communities – Tackling Environmental Disparities (“Healthy Homes/Healthy Communities”).
As part of this initiative’s goal and the need for new or current search on healthy homes and communities, a request for proposals (RFP) is being offered to Loyola faculty/staff/students funded through a grant provided by the Provost’s office consisting of stipends between $1,000-$3,000 per proposal. The RFP is designed to encourage broad faculty involvement in the initiative’s goal and help develop a sustainable network of social, economic, political, and academic relationships, which will be a leading force in advocating for and creating healthier homes and communities.
The proposal can support:
1. Research that identifies a current or developing indoor environmental toxins OR
2. Identification of resources or assets that have/have not been previously recognized OR
3. Development of new policy ideas, interventions, or advocacy to address familiar problems
Attached you will find the RFP with more detailed information about the proposal, it’s goals, and expectations from those interested in submitting. If you have any questions, comments, or general inquiries, feel free to check out the Advancing Healthy Homes/Healthy Communities site (http://luc.edu/chrc/environmentsustainability/advancinghealthyhomeshealthycommunities/#d.en.83996) or contact:
Adrian J. Segura
Project Coordinator
Center For The Human Rights of Children
Loyola University – Chicago
6430 N. Kenmore Ave
Cuneo Hall, Room 323
asegura2@luc.edu
Ph: (773) 508-8052
ATTACHMENT: HHHCI INFO