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: 8
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 302
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Homelessness/Shelter, Youth Programming
Description : Social Work 1500 students provide support and assistance in leading a service learning after-school club at Completely KIDS. Completely Kids works with Preschool – 6th grade children and families through school programs and homeless shelter partnerships. Their primary population is children in poverty, working to educate children and families on knowledge and skills to help break the poverty cycle. This project also involves UNO students providing support and helping with an after school service learning club. CK is relocating during big renovations next year. CK will work with the different site coordinators to identify a location within the 12 service sites. UNO students will help CK students identify a community need they would like to positively impact and help support CK students through the development and implementation of their project.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 4
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 232
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 12
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 12
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Homelessness/Shelter, Youth Programming
Description : Social Work 1500 students provide support and assistance in leading a service learning after-school club at Completely KIDS. Completely Kids works with Preschool – 6th grade children and families through school programs and homeless shelter partnerships. Their primary population is children in poverty, working to educate children and families on knowledge and skills to help break the poverty cycle. This project also involves UNO students helping to lead a nutrition/cooking club on Tuesdays/Thursdays, in collaboration with Together, Inc. Nutrition Club encourages kid participation using food jokes, sharing interesting food facts to learn about nutrition, and cooking with the use of kid-appropriate recipes. This project will conclude with the creation of a kid-inspired recipe book comprised of the dishes made during club. The club participants will also work with an artist to paint a mural in the food pantry of Together, Inc. the mural was in process at the end of the project.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 131
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 36,352
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Wellness, Aging, Business, Early Childhood Education, Food and Water Security, Refugees, Disadvantaged Populations, Inequality, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Holistic Wellness, Medical Services, Civic and Political Engagement, Homelessness/Shelter, Veteran Support, Self-Sufficiency, Poverty, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Capacity Building, Grief, Gerontology, Juvenile/Adult Justice System, Social Justice Awareness, Other
Description : 131 total students in practicum (38 BSSW + 93 MSW students 11 students did a full time/block practicum (11 x 512 hours = 5,632 practicum hours) 120 students did a part time/concurrent practicum (120 x 256 hours = 30,720 practicum hours) Total of 36,352 practicum hours for fall 2021 semester
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Other
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2021-22
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Veteran Support, Raise Awareness, Capacity Building
Description : This five-part podcast series reflects how war impacts all of us by listening to the different perspectives of those that have lived it, understanding how the media shapes our views of war, understanding our own feelings, and learning life skills for managing stress, fear, and anxiety. Our goal is to educate, remind you that you aren’t alone, and give you tools to navigate living and watching war.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2021-22
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Veteran Support, Capacity Building
Description : In the spring semester of 2022 Kay Siebler was an invited speaker/teacher to the Warrior Writer's groups for U.S. Vets who write.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Specialized service contract
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:
Mental Health, Veteran Support, Capacity Building, Health Awareness
Description : For this project Lisa Scherer provided advice to Offutt Air force personnel on emotional intelligence which is a construct they want to start measuring and training their cadets to know and demonstrate, particularly in times of stress.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Access to Higher Education
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 12
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 1,200
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education
Description : "MOEC has worked with MAV PR students and advisor Karen Weber for several years. Students have now produced two different videos encouraging students to complete the FAFSA. The latest version is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/je5o72f4csjfqbi/FAFSA%20PSA%20-%20Revised.mov?dl=0 " Video was shared broadly with MOEC schools and other entities.
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:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Employment and Workforce, Capacity Building
Description : Using a participatory, utilization-focused approach, STEPs will evaluate the Career Connectors Pilot Program at Metropolitan Community College. The evaluation will include developing a logic model, multivariate analysis, a costbenefit analysis, and obtaining and evaluating participant feedback.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
Internship/Externship
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 720
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Capacity Building
Description : UNO students hired as Collaborative interns are matched with community organizations, working 10 hours a week for that organization in the community. Students are paid through the grant-funded program. Nonprofits coordinate meaningful work for interns to benefit the student experience in different ways. Students typically intern during the fall and spring semesters and may serve the same organization for more than one academic year. Each unique student that works as a Collaborative intern with this specific community partner is identified within this project.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 25
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 56
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 15
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 18
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Veteran Support
Description : Students from Preston Love Jr.’s Black Experience in American Politics class are partnering with Joshua Jablonski’s Benson High School students on a community survey. The survey asked Omaha residents about why they voted in previous elections or why they chose not to. The survey used Professor Love’s previous research in North Omaha to inform and strengthen the research. The group got together in November to discuss the survey results, take a tour, and hear presentations from scholarship groups and student involvement on UNO’s campus.