Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 189
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Civic and Political Engagement, Youth Programming, Gerontology
Description : Food for Thought is a long-term service learning project that connects the culinary program at Blackburn Alternative Program with the senior’s programming at Adams Park Community Center. Every Wednesday, Blackburn students will create a healthy meal for the seniors at Adams Park. At this project, UNO students from Jeff Knapp's Social Work and Civic Engagement course will focus on helping serve at the meals and interact with the seniors creating intergenerational relationships. The project culminates with a Thanksgiving celebration, Fall Harvest, at Blackburn Alternative Program.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 4
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 120
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 4
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 228
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Civic and Political Engagement, Youth Programming, Gerontology
Description : Food for Thought is a long-term service learning project that connects the culinary program at Blackburn Alternative Program with the senior’s programming at Adams Park Community Center. Every Wednesday, Blackburn students will create a healthy meal for the seniors at Adams Park. At this project, UNO students from Jeff Knapp's Social Work and Civic Engagement course will focus on helping serve at the meals and interact with the seniors creating intergenerational relationships. The project culminates with a Thanksgiving celebration, Fall Harvest, at Blackburn Alternative Program.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 25
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 275
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 5
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 20
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education, Climate and Sustainability
Description : This project will introduce students from UNO and Burke High School to the concept of hydroponics. Hydroponics is a form of sustainable agriculture practice that can be done on both a commercial scale as well as in individual persons homes. The technique uses only ten percent of the water used in traditional agriculture with up to thirty percent more yield. The students will be building their own systems. Due to uncontrollable circumstances midway through the project, the students were unable to grow the produce to donate to other students at Burke High School.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 20
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 160
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 20
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 80
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Civic and Political Engagement, Youth Programming
Description : Sara Ridgley’s students from Nathan Hale Middle School worked together with the members from UNO’s Freshman Leadership Council. The students all participated in activities that revolved around personality traits. Early in the semester, all of the students took personality test to determine what category they would fall into. FLC members then created activities that all of the participants could partake in together. FLC connected with middle school students to help learn about government and student involvement. All students worked to make placements together which were donated to Children's Hospital.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
51
Topics:
Literacy
Description : This interactive reading series asks the question: What happens when writers pull back the curtain on their creative process and invite the audience to become part of the conversation? Feedback is an ongoing series that aims to enliven the conversation about the writing process. Part reading, part conversation, the goal of this reading series is to provide working writers with a space to read and discuss their work, to invigorate the audience by inviting them into the writer’s process and creative development, and, through our free writing workshops, to provide adults and young adults in our community an opportunity to generate their own work.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 27
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 405
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description :
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Youth Programming, Capacity Building, Social Justice Awareness
Description : The goal of this evaluation plan (statement of work) is to provide an independent evaluation of the effectiveness and fiscal impact of the family finding statewide pilot as stipulated in Legislative Bill 243 (Section 8). This evaluation will be conducted by the Support and Training for the Evaluation of Programs (STEPs) program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. It will be led by Jeanette Harder, PhD, and Pamela Ashley, M.Ed. The goals of the family finding statewide pilot as stipulated in LB 243 are as follows: 1. Promote kinship care and lifelong connections through the process of family finding. Family finding is the process of engagement, searching, preparation, planning, decision-making, lifetime network creation, healing, and permanency (Sections 1-3). a. Search for and identify family members and engage them in planning and decision-making. b. Gain commitments from family members to support a child through nurturing relationships c. Achieve a safe, permanent legal home or lifelong connection for the child, either through reunification or through permanent placement through legal guardianship or adoption. 2. Prevent recurrence of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or other maltreatment of children. 3. Reduce the length of time children spend in foster care. 4. Reduce multiple placements of children in foster care.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 14
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 252
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Raise Awareness
Description : UNO students from Dr. Ritzman’s autism spectrum disorders class develop activities for a Fall Festival for children (preschool to school age) who are a part of the Autism Society of Nebraska. This project reinforces classroom curriculum for UNO students by practicing supports and knowledge about ASD and implementing them in the form of a Fall Festival. The festival benefits ASN by having a gathering for children and families to celebrate fall/Halloween that they may not be able to participate in the larger public. Public spaces and some school activities are not always catered towards individuals with autism, causing and overwhelming experience. The students make this environment friendly and safe for the families to participate.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 20
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 371
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Raise Awareness
Description :
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming, Capacity Building
Description : In Years 3 and 4 of our evaluation of the Avenue Scholars Foundation, we will perform both quantitative and qualitative projects to evaluate their high school, college, and career services. Some projects will be submitted for publication and presentation at professional conferences and, therefore, we will seek IRB approval. Other projects, however, will only be completed for purposes of informing Avenue Scholars' services.