Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities (ARCC)

Established in 2008, the Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities’ (ARCC) mission is to catalyze and support research partnerships driven by and rooted in Chicagoland communities’ unique assets and experiences to achieve health justice. Our vision is a Chicagoland where community-driven health justice is achieved. We support authentic community-academic research partnerships between Chicagoland communities and Northwestern University by providing partnership facilitation, capacity-building resources and technical assistance, seed grants, and advocacy for supportive structural and institutional systems and policies in the research enterprise that center community leadership. ARCC is guided by our Community-Academic Steering Committee of community- and faith-based organizations, public agencies, and Northwestern faculty and staff. ARCC is a program of the Center for Community Health serving Northwestern’s Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) and the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science (NUCATS) Institute.