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Led by Interim Director Dr. Lauren Beach and Associate Director Erik Elias Glenn, the Evaluation, Data Integration and Technical Assistance (EDIT) Program attempts to foster a learning community to improve the health and wellbeing of sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations.
Read More +EDIT is a leader in community-based evaluation focused on improving the health and wellbeing of sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals. We empower community agencies to strategically plan, implement, and evaluate innovative and culturally responsive programming that serves SGM individuals.
Founded in 2015, EDIT provides an array of technical assistance (TA), capacity building assistance (CBA), and coaching services to community-engaged agencies. Housed within the Institute for Sexual Gender Minority Health & Wellbeing (ISGMH) at Northwestern University, EDIT’s office is located in Chicago and provides services to agencies in Chicago and beyond.
We focus on advancing health equity and identifying health needs among understudied SGM populations, including bisexual, transgender, asexual, intersex, racial/ethnic minority, adolescent and older adult communities.
Our Mission
We are a leader in community-based evaluation focused on improving the health and wellbeing of sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals. We empower community agencies to strategically plan, implement, and evaluate innovative and culturally responsive programming that serves SGM individuals.
We develop and apply innovative methods to rigorously analyze SGM health disparities using a variety of data sources and applying an intersectional and community engaged approach.
Read More +We focus on advancing health equity and identifying health needs among understudied SGM populations, including bisexual, transgender, asexual, intersex, racial/ethnic minority, adolescent and older adult communities.
We are committed to meaningful involvement of communities in all aspects of our research and evaluation work. We value lived experience as a legitimate form of expertise and means of knowledge.
We share best practices and lessons learned from program evaluation and research studies with policymakers, funders, researchers, and service providers to improve community response to serving sexual and gender minority individuals.
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Partners
- Access Community Health Network
- AIDS Foundation of Chicago
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
- Austin Health Center of Cook County
- Brave Space Alliance
- Brothers Health Collective
- CALOR
- Center on Halsted
- Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus
- Chicago Department of Public Health
- Chicago House & Social Service Agency
- Chicago Women’s AIDS Project
- Coalition for Justice and Respect
- Esperanza Health Centers
- Haymarket Center
- Heartland Human Care Services, Inc.
- Howard Brown Health
- Illinois Department of Public Health
- John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
- Jorge Prieto Health Center
- La Casa Norte
- Making A Daily Effort
- Metropolitan Family Services
- Project Vida
- Provident Hospital
- Puerto Rican Cultural Center
- Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center
- Universal Family Connection
- University of Chicago’s Center for HIV Elimination
- The University of Chicago Medicine
