The
Center for Impact Research is an independent nonprofit
policy research center at the forefront in the fight
against poverty. Our mission is to address issues
of economic and social justice through community
based research that identifies innovative policy
strategies for meeting the needs of low-income women,
men, and children. Our projects result in effective
solutions crafted in collaboration with low-income
persons, community organizations, and governmental
agencies.
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Applied
Research
CIR conducts research and demonstration
projects and provides technical assistance and
training at the grassroots level to promote public
policies that more accurately reflect the needs
and interests of low-income people.
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Innovative
Practice
CIR brings together researchers
and practitioners, community activists and organizers,
policy makers, public service workers, and funders
to inform the field and to develop new approaches
to address systemic issues of economic and social
justice.
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Our
work has impact
CIR's focus on key poverty issues
and action-oriented research changes attitudes,
policies, and lives.
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research led directly to the adoption of the Family
Violence Option in the 1996 federal welfare reform
legislation, which provides battered women on welfare
with more time and specialized services to enable
them to go safely from welfare to work; to the Illinois
State Board of Education's improvements to the Chicago
GED testing system; to the creation of the U.S.
Department of Labor's Chicago Sweatshop Task Force,
which is creating innovative ways to identify and
eliminate sweatshop working conditions; and to the
establishment of the Prostitution Alternatives Roundtable,
the first collaborative effort in Chicago to bring
comprehensive services to women and girls in prostitution.
CIR's Teen Project led to the establishment of on-site
domestic violence services at two Illinois Department
of Human Services Teen Parent Services sites and
to the appointment and training of teen specialists
in each local welfare office. |
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For
history and background of the Center for Impact
Research, click
here.
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