HealthMatters™ Program

HealthMatters Program™ located at the Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago is a partnership between community and academia with a common aim to improve health of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our goals are to develop and share tools for bidirectional health promotion research, service-learning, and training, support health promotion program development, implementation science, and evaluation and disseminate and integrate evidence-based health promotion programs and services where people with IDD live, learn, work, play, and worship. HealthMatters™ Program meets the Administration for Community Living’s criteria for evidence-based programs under Title III-D Highest Tier Evidence-Based Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Programs.