Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership Awarded $24M to Lead Community Health Response Team – WTTW (Chicago)

The program is part of the city’s $1.2 billion Chicago Recovery Plan to support local recovery from the social, economic and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This new team will allow the health department “to transition from emergency response to community health response, particularly...causes that contribute to Chicago’s racial life expectancy gap,” which has reached 10 years between Black and White Chicagoans, according to city officials.