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Cultural Neighborhood Mapping

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:38:06 +0000

This is part of a year-long engagement with this project. During the fall quarter, students will identify and summarize available data to help describe Auburn’s 5 neighborhoods. Students will conduct stakeholder interviews, and will identify aspects of shared identity and diversity. Students will create a community profile of each of Auburn’s 5 neighborhoods to support community engagement in Auburn.

Livable City Year Contact Info
Teri Thomson Randall
Program Manager
terir@uw.edu
206.221.9240

University Faculty Contact
India Ornelas
Health Services
Professor
iornelas@uw.edu
206-685-8887

Local Government / Community Contact
Erika Klyce

South Campus Neighborhood Project Street Lighting & Accessibility

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:36:17 +0000

It’s important for students to feel and be safe in their own neighborhoods. Streetlights increase people’s ability to accurately report crimes. Without proper lighting, more crime and harm is expected. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Resilient Cities Initiative Contact Info University Faculty Contact Joni Meyer Health & Community Services [...]

Sewer Utility Wastewater Discharge Behaviors

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:36:04 +0000

Improper disposable of fats, oils, and grease (FOG) and “flushable” cleaning wipes can cause clogging issues, and improper disposable of pharmaceuticals can cause downstream environmental issues. Greater amounts of FOG and rags have been identified downstream of large areas of rental housing than of single family residences. The aim of this project will be to determine possible strategies to educate these residents about the issues associated with improper disposal of FOG, “flushable” wipes, and pharmaceuticals.

Livable City Year Contact Info
Teri Thomson Randall
Program Manager
terir@uw.edu
206.221.9240

University Faculty Contact
Scott Meschke
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Professor
jmeschke@u.washington.edu
206-221-5470

Local Government / Community Contact
R. Elwell

South Campus Neighborhood Project Stakeholder Engagement

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:35:13 +0000

Assessing the needs of the students within the South-Campus neighborhood in regards to their safety and well being. The South-Campus neighborhood has experienced high crime, accidents, and drug/alcohol related incidents due to the poor layout and inadequate lighting provided for students. Goals include: creating less vehicle accidents within intersections, decreasing the rate of assaults and drug/alcohol overdosing, and overall improve the safety of the neighborhood.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Resilient Cities Initiative Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Joni Meyer
Health & Community Services

jlmeyer@csuchico.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
Brendan Ottoboni

Director of Public Works-Engineering

Safe Routes to School

Victor Manzanilla — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:26:19 +0000

Orange County is a rural southern Indiana county comprising four incorporated towns and a number of unincorporated communities. Residents are intent on celebrating the county’s industrial roots, natural beauty, and historic architecture while embracing and preparing for the future. Local progress is driven in large part by “grassroots cooperative leadership” (), while legal and medical non-profits provide essential communal services. This community-oriented mentality lends itself to innovative partnerships between various actors working towards common goals in areas like infrastructure, culture, tourism, and healthcare.

Local community health center uses patient data to better understand its maternal care

Southern Indiana Community Health Care (SICHC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) located in Paoli, Orange County’s seat. A fixture in the Orange County community, SICHC provides residents with vital health services, including a “full-service family practice and obstetrics center” (). The center collects a wealth of data on the families it serves and attempts to improve care through data analysis. Eager to engage the community in its work and invite fresh perspectives on obstetric healthcare, SICHC sought out the help of students at Indiana University.

Equipped with the ACEs metric, statistics students conduct an analysis

Southern Indiana Community Health Care reached out to the Sustaining Hoosier Communities (SHC) program at Indiana University. This partnership connected community partner Doris Weaver of SICHC with Dr. Syndee Knight’s analytical problem solving course in the Department of Sociology. Knight’s students, proficient in statistical problem solving, analyzed SICHC’s obstetrics patient data through the lens of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) metric. The result of a landmark ongoing study, ACEs demonstrate a correlation between adverse or traumatic experiences suffered in childhood and poor physical or mental health later in life.

Making maternal care the best it can be while introducing curious students to the field

By analyzing the clinic’s obstetrics data in conjunction with known ACEs, students were able to identify relevant maternal health risk factors, such as substance use and barriers to care. Using these data-informed student findings, SICHC’s obstetricians can improve the quality of their care and the advice they give to new and expectant parents at the center. The partnership also gave students a valuable introduction to the obstetrics field.

Quality obstetrics care is a crucial part of a pregnant woman’s broader support system. Participating students helped Southern Indiana Community Health Care provide its patients with up to date information informed by leading research. Families who put their trust in the clinic can continue to expect quality family planning and peace of mind.

Sustaining Hoosier Communities Contact Info
Jane Rogan
Sustaining Hoosier Communities Director
jrogan@indiana.edu
(812) 855-0568
https://shc.indiana.edu

Indiana University Faculty Contact Info
Syndee Knight
sgknight@indiana.edu

Read the full story of the partnership.

Utah Tech University

Ada Inman — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:53:07 +0000

Community & Global Engagement Division

UT Alliance

Website |

Utah Tech University’s UT Alliance is a mutually-beneficial regional learning collaborative formally established among UT and cities within Washington and Kane Counties to expand and enhance learning opportunities for UT students and citizens, while providing access to select university resources for local governments, organizations, and industry. Membership in the UT Alliance is accomplished by participating in the program or through a UT Alliance agreement. UT Alliance was created as a result of UT’s Strategic Plan 2020-2025: Trailblazing Distinction and its goal entitled, Community as University. This goal reads, “Partner with Washington County and Kane County cities to blend the University with regional public and private spaces, human networks, organizations, and resources to formally designate and operate “UT Alliance,” an open, integrated and vibrant southern Utah learning ecosystem providing exceptional learning opportunities and catalyzing the economic and social development of southern Utah.” The concept of UT Alliance was discovered during the strategic plan writing process through learning of the �鶹��Ƶ program at University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Utah Tech University was established in 1911 and has made a dynamic transformation, growing from a junior college to a state college in 1999, and to a public, regional, comprehensive university in 2013. Utah Tech University is an open-enrollment institution committed to student access, affordability and success with an “active learning. active life” approach and our mission is to be an open, inclusive, comprehensive, polytechnic university. We have built strong partnerships with community organizations including Intermountain Healthcare, Washington and Kane County School Districts, local National Parks, and private industry. We seek stronger community based learning opportunities and partnerships within our community.

Fun Facts about the UT Alliance Program

Public or Private Institution | Public
Number of students at institution | 12,000
Year Program Established | 2020
Country | US

UT’s Community & Global Engagement Division has vibrant and well established partnerships with our local communities, a few highlights include:

Live Long! Live Well! Initiative in partnership with UT’s Lifelong Learning (ICL), St. George City and Intermountain Healthcare.
Community Building & Transformation partnership with Hildale City and UT’s FYE Program: students provide labor and expertise on issues facing this rapidly evolving community.
UT Kanab Education Center partnership between Kane County School District and UT: has extended concurrent enrollment access to Kane County high schools and provided the general community with access to lower-division college courses.

Highlight Articles/Videos

City Partners

1911-2020 St. George City, Utah – Population 89,587
2017-2020 Hildale, Utah – Population 2,896
2018-2020 Kanab, Utah – Population 4,931

Contact Details

Nancy Hauck, Ph.D.
Associate Provost, Community & Global Engagement
(435) 652-7844
hauck@dixie.edu

Erin O’Brien, Ph.D.
Community Engaged Learning Director
obrien@dixie.edu

Utah Tech University
(435) 652-7500

225 South University Avenue
St. George, Utah 84770

California State University, Chico

Ada Inman — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 22:17:09 +0000

Resilient Cities Initiative

Website:

The Resilient Cities Initiative (RCI) is an interdisciplinary applied research think-tank for cities and communities established by the Institute for Sustainable Development at California State University, Chico in 2016. The RCI connects real-world community sustainability projects – identified and funded by partner agencies – with faculty expertise and student innovation, scaled for impact, from departments and disciplines across the University’s academic colleges. Partner agencies are able to harness incredible momentum to ‘move the needle’ on pressing community projects by focusing a broad and coordinated cross-section of the University’s academic resources on them. The RCI directly engages hundreds of CSU, Chico students each academic year, providing impactful opportunities for them to put theory to practice in their own community and region.

Fun Facts about RCI

The Resilient Cities Initiative undertook a three-year Pilot Project with the Public-Works Engineering Department at the City of Chico, a longer-term engagement with a single partner than is typical of �鶹��Ƶ programs. The South Campus Neighborhood Project focused the energy and innovation of Chico State students on improving the public-rights of way in a residential neighborhood immediately adjacent to the campus and downtown Chico, where many of our students reside, socialize, do business and commute to campus, and where many of our campus and community interests intersect.

Year Program Established | 2016
Country | US
Federal Region of Program | 9

Public or Private Institution | Public
Number of students at institution | 17,200

Highlight Articles/Videos

Chico News and Review, 12/2017
Chico State Today, January, 2018
Sustainability: the Journal of Record, October, 2017

City Partners

2016-2019 | City of Chico, CA • Population: 100,000

Contact Info

Ann Schulte, PhD
Director of Civic Engagement & Faculty Fellow for Rural Partnerships
(530) 898-5486
akschulte@csuchico.edu

Social Media Addresses
Twitter: @RCI_Chico
Facebook: @rcichico
Instagram: @RCI_Chico
LinkedIn: /resilient-cities-initiative

Rural Indiana county launches new strategies

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 02:09:47 +0000

Like much of the U.S. and the State of Indiana, faces a challenging opioid epidemic. In 2016, the state declared a public health emergency in response to rising hepatitis C rates and the county averaged nearly 50 nonfatal overdose visits to local emergency rooms per 100,000 people, according to the Indiana State Department of Health. In 2017, opioid deaths reported three times their 2014 total.

SHC work a “tremendous asset” for Lawrence County towns

The county turned to the program (SHC) from . As part of the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities (�鶹��Ƶ) Network, SHC brought in about 550 students during the 2017-2018 school year to focus on projects community members from Lawrence Country prioritized, ranging from opioid abuse to tourism to economic development to public health.

Bedford Mayor Shawna Girgis called the initiative “a tremendous asset” to the community. “We are putting many of the plans that have been developed into action,” she said. Work on the area’s endemic opioid abuse problem was especially relevant.

“We are especially grateful that we can continue our collaboration to determine how local leaders and organizations can best assist individuals and families that are impacted by addiction, given the ramifications that this issue has on every aspect of our community,” she said.