HealthMatters™ Community Academic Partnership (CAP) is a collaboration between University of Illinois at Chicago and two community based organizations, ARCA (New Mexico) and NorthPointe Resources (Illinois) that aims to improve health of people with developmental disabilities (DD).

Our Goals


  • Develop and share tools for bidirectional health promotion research, service-learning, and training.
  • Support program development, implementation, and evaluation for health promotion and disease prevention.
  • Disseminate and integrate evidence-based health promotion services for people with DD.
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