UIC Center for Healthy Work

Nos enorgullece haber colaborado en esta capacitación junto al Great Lakes Center for Occupation Health and Safety, la Unión Latina de Chicago y Arise Chicago.

Estos materiales para capacitar al capacitador se enfocan en mantener la seguridad, la salud y el empoderamiento de los trabajadores que cuidan a otros y los que se encargan de la limpieza del hogar.

¡La guía de capacitación integral sobre salud y seguridad de los trabajadores domésticos está disponible en nuestro sitio web!

Puede encontrar la capacitación completa en: buff.ly/02MMwgP

#saluddeltrabajador #seguridaddeltrabajador #derechosdeltrabajadordoméstico

These train-the-trainer materials focus on keeping caregivers and housecleaners safe, healthy, and empowered. We are proud to have collaborated on this training with the Great Lakes Center for Occupation Health and Safety, Latino Union of Chicago, and Arise Chicago.

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The Domestic Worker Health and Safety comprehensive training guide is now available on our website!

You can find the complete training at: buff.ly/xOtAnwD

#workerhealth #workersafety #domesticworkerrights

#healthywork #greaterlawndale #chicago

4 categories from Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Certification Program Principles: Process Guide

Process - Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Certification Program Principles

From the close partnership with Working Family Solidarity (WFS) to the interactive and scholarly community engagement activity inspired by the World Cafe Method, each step ensured that the initiative was grounded in evidence and informed by workers. #workersafety

Read here: doi.org/10.25417/uic...

Cover page of Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Certification Program Principles: Process Guide

The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Certification Program Principles: Process Guide is now live!

This guide outlines the six steps taken to develop a set of values and practices that will inform the foundation of the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Business Certification Program. ⬇️

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"...Center’s work will inform and inspire future generations of researchers, practitioners, and advocates.”
– Kirsten Almberg, PhD, MS, Center for Healthy Work, Director

Here is how we are sustaining momentum for worker health and safety research into 2026 and beyond!

#WorkerHealth #Worker Safety

“As we enter the last year of the current grant cycle, our focus is on... embedding lessons learned into long-term strategies for systems change.

"Our commitment to open access resources, community dissemination, and integration into graduate education ensures that the...

"Together, we are shaping a future where every worker has a fair and just opportunity to achieve their highest level of health.”
– Kirsten Almberg, PhD, MS, Director of the Center for Healthy Work

Thank you for celebrating our milestones with us in 2025!

#WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #PublicHealth

As we wrap up our calendar year, we want to honor the accomplishments that reflect our progress, partnerships, and growing influence.

“These accomplishments reflect the collective effort of our dedicated team, community partners, and collaborators...

Explore the various ways our projects transformed evidence into practice this year with creative, community-driven approaches to healthy work!

#WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #WorkersRights #PublicHealth #UIC #Chicago

“In our nine-year history, we have demonstrated that meaningful change happens when worker voices, community and employer leadership, and evidence-based strategies converge.”
– Kirsten Almberg, PhD, MS, Director of the Center for Healthy Work

Here is how our team members advanced Total Worker Health by generating various scholarly outputs, strengthening neighborhood-level capacity, and filling longstanding gaps in occupational health practice!

#WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #WorkersRights #PublicHealth #UIC #Chicago

Through this whirlwind of a year, our center has remained steadfast in exploring the interconnectedness of work and health and addressing the root causes of precarious work. As we approach the new year, we are excited to share many of these significant contributions with you!

Excited to partner with National COSH this year to welcome COSHCON2025 to Chicago! We'll see you there: nationalcosh.org/COSHCON2025

Thank you for the shout out! Excited to tune in!

If you’d like, bring a small artifact (photo, charm, etc.) to add to our community altar to honor someone impacted by violence.

Community partners will present their interpretation of the Deeply Rooted findings using their own words and based on their lived experiences to influence UIC SPH abolitionist research, policy and action.

RSVP here: buff.ly/U6kNVbL

Hear 5 community partners from Little Village & North Lawndale (together known as Greater Lawndale) share their interpretation of the Deeply Rooted initiative, which emerged from our community partners’ calls to address various forms of violence experienced in the neighborhoods.

Join Greater Lawndale Healthy Work (GLHW) Project at the Deeply Rooted Gathering on this Wednesday, August 27th from 12:30-2 PM at SPH Room 160. Lunch will be provided. ⬇️

Chalkboard against blue background reading "welcome back" with stack of colorful books and an August calendar. Bottom of chalkboard reads "happy fall."

Happy start of fall semester at UIC! Wishing everyone an academic year filled with success and new opportunities.

To connect with EWS, including sharing you own story about pregnancy and extreme heat to push for change, fill out this form: buff.ly/20qjnxP

Visit extremeweathersurvivors.org for more information.

and advocate for the resources they deserve.

EWS is launching new digital spaces to connect with others on the frontlines, share peer support, build solidarity, and push for recovery efforts and protections that put survivors, frontline workers, and vulnerable populations first.

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Learn about a new project related to extreme heat and pregnancy:

Extreme Weather Survivors (EWS) is a new non-profit organization amplifying the voices of people directly impacted by dangerous weather so they can support each other, educate others, influence policy,...

🚨 100 days until #COSHCON2025!
Oct 8–10 | Chicago
Workshops. Organizing. Worker power.
🔗 Register now: nationalcosh.org/COSHCON2025 #COSHCON2025

#workerhealth #workersafety #communityhealth #publichealth #chicagolabor #NorthLawndale #LittleVillage

Research briefs from the Center for Healthy Work communicate main findings and takeaways from new publications related to worker health and safety, low-wage and precarious work, and workforce development. Visit our website for a full list of our research projects' publications.

The findings showcase the disproportionate precarity of employment reported by this sample of Greater Lawndale residents, which better informs the development of multilevel and community-oriented interventions to promote healthy work in North Lawndale and Little Village.

Read here: buff.ly/ziWZjnh