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The Opioid Problem: An awareness and prevention campaign in Highland, Illinois

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:37:42 +0000

The mission of the collaboration is to improve the health of Madison County due to the increasing rate of opioid usage. As of 2014, 60% of deaths were caused by drug overdose. The project identifies risk factors and possible solutions to eradicate the opioid epidemic

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

SIUE Successful Communities Collaborative Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Charlotte Chance
Nursing
Clinical Assistant Professor
cchance@siue.edu
(618) 650-5375

Local Government / Community Contact
Brian Wilson

Chief of the Highland EMS

Applying the Community Nursing Practice Model to the Bellevue Fire Department’s Public Health Outreach

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:37:12 +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.

Community clinic introduces new chronic care measures

Like many rural US communities, the residents of Paoli, Indiana face healthcare barriers such as poverty, chronic disease, and a high patient-to-physician ratio (). Southern Indiana Community Health Care (SICHC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center located in Paoli which provides the underserved region with accessible care and support. The clinic recently implemented new management and staffing procedures in order to provide improved care for patients with chronic illnesses. Seeking to familiarize chronic care patients with home visits and improve its chronic illness management, SICHC reached out to the School of Nursing at Indiana University.

Students join the clinic on home visits to inform patients, provide care

Through the Sustaining Hoosier Communities (SHC) program, Southern Indiana Community Health Care partnered with Dr. Greg Carter’s transitional health care course. Working with community partner Donna Charles of SICHC, student participants arranged to conduct home visits for patients with chronic illnesses and home safety concerns. Their objectives were to complete routine care procedures, identify any potential patient risk factors, and educate chronic care patients about the benefits of home visits on mental and physical health.

Improving chronic care through accountability and efficiency

Under SICHC’s guidance, Carter’s students completed multiple chronic care home visits throughout Orange County. Their efforts led to the discovery of risk factors which may have been impacting patient health, such as “poor diet, low housing quality, and isolation” (). This project constituted an important step in rolling out SICHC’s new chronic care procedures to the community. Participants provided an essential service to local patients while gaining real world healthcare and nursing experience.

Patients suffering from chronic illnesses are a unique demographic at the clinic, as they require routine support and care. Together, students and healthcare providers intervened to better patients’ lives. Their collaborative efforts promise to improve community trust and patient health outcomes.

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
Greg Carter
gracarte@indiana.edu
812-855-6026

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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Ada Inman — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:33:53 +0000

Successful Communities Collaborative

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SIUE Successful Communities Collaborative (SCC) is a cross-disciplinary program that supports one-year partnerships between the University and communities in Illinois to advance local resiliency and sustainability based on community-identified environmental, social, and economic issues and needs. Our mission is to connect communities with the students and faculty of SIUE.

SCC selects a single partner community (generally a city or county) through a competitive application process. Working with administrative staff and stakeholders in the selected community, the collaborative helps identify 10–15 projects that will advance local resiliency and sustainability based on community-identified needs. Each project is connected with one or more key courses at SIUE that can provide research or technical support to move the project forward.

SCC provides innovative strategies to move community-identified, high-priority sustainability goals forward. Communities often face limited resources to explore sustainability and quality of life questions. SCC seeks to reduce those obstacles by linking existing graduate and undergraduate courses at SIUE to explore innovative solutions to community-identified projects.

Fun Facts about SCC

SCC is one of the �鶹��Ƶ programs active on and . Visit their social media pages to stay up to date regarding their program.

Year Program Established | 2017
Country | U.S.
Federal Region of Program | 5

Public or Private Institution | Public
Number of students at institution | 14,000

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City Partners

Contact Info

Connie Frey Spurlock
Faculty Director
(618) 650-2945
cfrey@siue.edu

Indiana University

Ada Inman — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:13:58 +0000

Sustaining Hoosier Communities

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Indiana University’s Sustaining Hoosier Communities (SHC), an initiative of the forges partnerships between local communities and leaders and Indiana University’s faculty, staff, and students to enrich the health, prosperity, and vitality of our region.

Through undergraduate and graduate courses—in disciplines including public health, information systems, public policy, arts administration, folklore, public relations, biology, art and design, social work, and law—IU students and faculty work closely with community partners to generate real, innovative outcomes to the community’s projects.

During the 2017-18 year, 16 faculty members taught over 600 students in 20 courses at Indiana University through which they collaborated with local leaders in Lawrence County to understand and address social, economic, and environmental sustainability challenges and opportunities the community identified. During the 2018-19 year, SHC will collaborate with Orange County, Indiana.

Fun Facts about SHC

Indiana University junior, Sarah Murphy, was particularly excited about her outdoor recreation class last fall, as the class included developing a plan to turn the decommissioned Avoca Fish Hatchery into a sustainable recreation site. The outdoor recreation class was one of 20 courses at Indiana University Bloomington participating in the SHC initiative last year. For Sarah Murphy, the project hit close to home. As a native of Lawrence County, Sarah was excited to use her Indiana University coursework to help her home community. “It’s awesome to be able to work with this project because I’m from here,” she said. “You can see the potential of the site.” Murphy and her fellow students developed a plan that will draw community members to the site for programs that can be sustained economically over time.

Year Program Established | 2016
Country | US
Federal Region of Program | 5

Public or Private Institution | Public
Number of students at institution | 48,500

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by Alex Eady
by Carol Johnson

Past City Partners

2020-2021 | Washington County • Population: 28,036 (2019)
2019-2020 | Greene County • Population: 32,006 (2018)
2018-2019 | Orange County • Population: 19,489 (2018)
2017-2018 | Lawrence County • Population: 45,495

Contact Info

Colleen Rose
Director of Student Engagement, IU Center for Rural Engagement
812-856-3379
rosec@indiana.edu