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: 6
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 228
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Health Awareness
Description : SOWK 1500-001 Social Work and Civic Engagement TR 10:00-11:15
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 165
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Employment and Workforce, Self-Sufficiency
Description : "Wednesdays from 5:00-8:00 pm, UNO students will be working with group facilitators to co-facilitate and direct a parenting class group and a family group on Wednesday evenings. Throughout these groups, UNO students will help with infant/toddler care, school-aged ‘Kids Club’, and observing staff facilitated parenting class as well as a Celebrating Families! curriculum group. UNO students will utilize the evidence-based questionnaire, Ages & Stages, to create developmentally appropriate activates for older children in the program. Students will also meet prior to and after the groups for supervision and reflection meetings. "
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 3
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 48
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Refugees
Description : Students will develop resource product for refugee clientele.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 16
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 464
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Mental Health
Description : Students will produce several administrative and media projects related to community-based mental health. They will also learn basic intervention, assessment, and social support skills in relation to persons with a severe and persistent mental illness. At the end of the semester, students will present research findings and products to the ACT team.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 110
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:
Early Childhood Education, Substance Abuse, Civic and Political Engagement
Description : UNO students will be working with group facilitators to co-facilitate and direct a parenting class group and a family group. UNO students will assist with infant/toddler care, school age kids club, and observing staff facilitated parenting classes.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
Internship/Externship
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Mental Health, Other
Description : The intern worked with the organization’s data to create internal scoring metrics to be used to rate the performance of the programs at the site. Through this project, the intern learned how to apply data analysis techniques to real data.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
Internship/Externship
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Other
Description : The intern provided support to the Heartland Family Service DBT Program, helping with client barrier assessments and case management. The intern also sat in on 1:1 sessions when appropriate.
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:
Capacity Building
Description : The evaluation activities below are designed to build on STEPs work with the PMP Coalition in previous years to provide evidence for the coalition to use in assessing need and providing services. For this work plan, STEPs will provide a community assessment on marijuana in Iowa and Nebraska as well as provide various evaluation services for the PMP Coalition, including an evaluation plan, curriculum consultations, and facilitated discussion on next steps on evaluation.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
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:
Capacity Building
Description : This evaluation plan builds on STEPs work with the PMP Coalition in previous years to provide evidence for the coalition to use in assessing need, providing services, and examining impact. For this work plan, STEPs will support staff and coalition members in processing the Marijuana Community Assessment findings, conducting an environmental scan, and finalizing the coalitions sustainability plan
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
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:
Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Youth Programming, Capacity Building, Health Awareness
Description : The purpose of this evaluation is to provide a process and outcome evaluation of Heartland Family Service's Healthy Alternatives to Little Ones (HALO) program, and to move HALO toward meeting current evidence-based standards. HALO is an early childhood substance abuse prevention program. We will conduct a literature review, prepare a logic model, conduct a survey of current providers, and conduct a quasi-experimental prospective study.