Success Stories
"CEED has allowed the framework for collaboration and networking. With the CEED grant, there is now an arena for best practice exchange to happen; which in turn, should create policy changes around contributing factors of heart disease and diabetes in our local communities. CEED supports these communities, in different aspects, locally and city-wide. It allows us the potential to progress aggressively toward real policy changes." ~Dinah Ramirez, Healthy Southeast Chicago Director and CEED Coalition Member
"Through CEED@Chicago, we intend to expand and implement many community health initiatives." ~Amparo Castillo, Diabetes Empowerment Education Program (DEEP) Coordinator
- Best practices are programs and activities that have been shown to have a positive outcome or result based on evaluation and research.
- Promising practices are those activities that demonstrate the potential to effectively impact the selected issue.
Under REACH 2010, CEED@Chicago's predecessor, the following programs showed themselves to be especially noteworthy: