{"id":1167,"date":"2021-02-22T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2021-02-22T11:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:48:02","slug":"luc-school-of-social-work-and-curl-partner-with-aarp-and-illinois-agencies-to-identify-challenges-solutions-for-50-illinoisans-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"LUC  School of Social Work and CURL Partner with AARP and Illinois Agencies to Identify Challenges &amp; Solutions for 50+ Illinoisans of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois residents are aging \u2013 with over 34% above the age of 50 and more than a third are African American\/Black, Hispanic\/Latino, or Asian American\/Pacific Islander. The COVID-19 pandemic\u2019s effects on older adults underscores the need to focus on this group, especially older communities of color.<\/p>\n<p>AARP-Illinois, Americans Advancing Justice \u2013 Chicago, Chicago Urban League and The Resurrection Project engaged Loyola University Chicago to conduct a literature review and analysis of existing research and data. Completed by CURL researcher Christine George and SSW faculty Jeanne Sokolec, the resulting report, <a href=\"https:\/\/aarp-states.brightspotcdn.com\/d4\/fb\/754cc35c4ff98366eb03bcb6f058\/final-aarp-disrupt-disparities-report.pdf\"><em>Disrupt Disparities: Challenges &amp; Solutions for 50+ Illinoisans of Color<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> includes research briefings on economic security, health, and connectivity as well as policy recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>AARP-Illinois will host a summit in partnership with the Illinois Department on Aging on April 26-27 to engage lawmakers on developing policies to address the problems; partner agencies have meetings planned throughout the state.\u00a0 The calendar of events is available <a href=\"https:\/\/states.aarp.org\/illinois\/aarp-illinois-and-racial-justice-advocacy-groups-launch-disrupt-disparities-report\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1175 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/files\/2021\/02\/Doc2-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois residents are aging \u2013 with over 34% above the age of 50 and more than a third are African American\/Black, Hispanic\/Latino, or Asian American\/Pacific Islander. The COVID-19 pandemic\u2019s effects on older adults underscores the need to focus on this group, especially older communities of color. AARP-Illinois, Americans Advancing Justice \u2013 Chicago, Chicago Urban League &#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-link btn btn-outline-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/?p=1167\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-engagement","category-faculty","category-research-and-grants","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}