Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Wellness, Aging, Business, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Holistic Wellness, Health Awareness, Develop./Physical Disability
Description : UNO Social Work 1500 students will work with gifted and talented eighth grade students from Norris Middle School to plan the Sensory Festival for JP Lord School students and their families. UNO students will experience the field of social work and help the eighth graders learn cultural humility and how to work with students who have multiple disabilities. This project will be in a virtual environment, and the Sensory Festival will be a "take-home" festival.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 25
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 2,100
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Holistic Wellness, Youth Programming, Health Awareness
Description : UNO students along with Omaha South High Art students will create a cookbook from collected recipes and stories from community members accessing the food pantry at Together Inc. SOWK1500820/Social Work and Civic Engagement. P-16 Project.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 25
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 2,100
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Youth Programming, Develop./Physical Disability
Description : UNO students will work virtually with YAS! - Young Adult (and Adolescent) Series (YAS!) is programming for tweens, teens, and young adults to adulthood. YAS! programs/classes this semester will focus on Be Safe trainings, Down 2 Box, Improv, Running Club, and more. The classes run weekends/evenings - times/days vary depending on the class and event.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 4
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Wellness, Aging, Business, Health Awareness, Music/Dance
Description : Sound Health: Bringing Music to Medicine contributes to the environment of care for patients, visitors, and staff through live music while giving music students the chance to engage with the community and perform. Due to restrictions on volunteers and visitors in health care facilities, UNO School of Music students will mentor Central High School Orchestra students via ZOOM on their pieces. The final video performances of Central High School Orchestra students will be shared with the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Healing Arts program and made available in patient rooms on the Healing Arts channel.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 34
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 272
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Gerontology, Music/Dance
Description : Dr. Fox’s students from MUS 2100 and individuals from UNO School of Music created cover songs from various genres. These songs were requested by residents from retirement communities, nursing, and assisted living facilities around the metropolitan area. The objective of this service-learning project was to provide the geriatric population joy during COVID-19. UNO students recorded themselves and the individual recordings were presented to the local community.
Engagement Type:
Board Memberships
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2022-23
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
1
Topics:
Mental Health, Capacity Building
Description : UNO faculty in social work serving as vice president for NAMI Nebraska. The position is a 2-year service position ending in October 2022.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Faculty Research
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Human Rights & Trafficking, Domestic and Sexual Violence
Description : To develop statewide estimates of known victims and individuals at risk of human trafficking in Ohio.Methods. We collected information from 12 state and local sources including child welfare, legal services, and law enforcement data. We collected the data from agency records dating 2013 to 2018. However, the majority of data were from calendar years 2014, 2015, and 2016 (roughly 95% across individual and aggregate sources). We used probabilistic matching to estimate victim and at-risk cases-accounting for duplicates.Results. According to available data, there were 1032 known victims during the study time frame. We identified approximately 4209 at-risk individuals based on youths presenting with common risk factors for trafficking victimization.Conclusions. Estimating the prevalence of human trafficking is an important public health research priority. As the first "cataloging" of existing record systems in Ohio to our knowledge, this study provided a comprehensive overview of the number of victims and the type of information that is available in the state. This study highlights the importance of moving toward the use of epidemiological approaches to measure the prevalence of human trafficking.
Engagement Type:
Board Memberships
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Dr. Troy Romero serves on the Board of Directors
Engagement Type:
Board Memberships
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Lyn Holley serves on the Board of Directors
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Capacity Building, Health Awareness
Description : For this project, Christopher Decker gave a presentation called "Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Omaha and Nebraska" at the Nebraska Data Users 2020: A Virtual Conference.