Announcements
Join Equal Hope’s Health Ambassadors Program!
February 3, 2023
Equal Hope will be launching a Health Ambassadors Program on Wednesday, March 15th. This is an exciting opportunity for 18-24-year-olds in the Chicagoland area. Health Ambassadors will build and practice skills during their involvement with the program. Activities planned include canvassing with Equal Hope’s own community health workers, scheduling events, learning about health equity and…
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Centering Cervical Cancer Care
January 23, 2023
Researchers at UI Health and UI Cancer Center are conducting focus groups of people from your community in hopes of learning how they can improve the way they provide care for patients with cervical cancer. These researchers would like to connect with people who could be getting cervical cancer screening (Pap tests) but have not…
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Join Our Associate Board!
October 18, 2022
The Equal Hope Associate Board strives to build a diverse and invested board of current and aspiring professionals (including students and healthcare trainees) from all disciplines and backgrounds who support Equal Hope’s mission to promote equitable health outcomes across Chicago and Northern Lake County by increasing access to high quality healthcare through quality assessment, education,…
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A Statement on the Corrosive Effects of Structural Racism
June 2, 2020
The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Surely now is such a time of challenge and controversy – a time when inequity and injustice in our society are jarringly on…
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Caring for our Community During COVID-19
March 16, 2020
Dear Equal Hope Community: These are difficult times as our global community is challenged with covid-19 (Coronavirus). We want you to know that Equal Hope is doing everything we can to contribute to community wellness. Here are the steps we are taking for our clients and navigators: We are available for our clients, especially those…
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Check out Equal Hope’s Cervical Cancer PSA
February 27, 2020
Check out Equal Hope’s new cervical health PSA! What an honor to have Val Warner and Robin Robinson as spokeswomen for cervical cancer prevention. Uninsured? Underinsured? Unsure? Contact Equal Hope now for a free pap screening. Call 312-942-3368 or visit us at equalhope.org
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Stories
Can a Vaccine Really Prevent Cancer?
February 27, 2020
Cervical Cancer is an almost 100% preventable disease caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). Nearly all of us (>80%) will be exposed to HPV in our lifetime, but only certain strains of the virus are related to cancer. The surest way to protect yourself against cancer-causing strains of HPV is to get vaccinated. The HPV vaccination…
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Announcements
Equal Hope Rebrand PSA
February 27, 2020
Rebranding can be tough – especially when there’s a name change involved! We are so excited to continue our health equity work under our new, much shorter name, EQUAL HOPE!
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Stories
Equal Hope Featured in the Tribune
February 27, 2020
In 2015 Angela Williams of Morgan Park was diagnosed with cervical cancer for the first time. Today, after beating cancer three times, Williams wants to do what she can to raise awareness about cervical cancer. Thanks to a group of dedicated doctors from a number of Chicago area hospitals and health equity advocates here at…
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