This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community. Various filters are provided to gain a better understanding of how different UNO units collaborate with the community.
| Project | Project Focus Areas | Community Partners | Campus Partners | Engagement Type: | Activity Type: | Other Activity Type: | Start Semester: | Start Academic Year: | End Semester: | End Academic Year: | Total UNO Students: | UNO Students Hours: | UNO Faculty/Staff Hours: | Total K-12 Students: | K-12 Student Hours: | Total Number of Other Participants: | Topics: | Other Topics: | Description: | Subtags: |
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| Evidence based Nebraska - School-based - Alternative School: 2020-21 (1402) | Social Justice | Alliance Alternative High School, Alliance Public Schools, Juvenile Case Management System, Nebraska Writers Collective, Platte County Juvenile Services, Saunders County Youth Services | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2020-21 | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | School-based programs help provide educational support, training and/or supervision for youth where academic and/or behavioral problems originated in the school setting. There are four types of school-based programs: After School, Alternative School, School Interventionist, and School Resource Officers. Alternative Schools focus on youth who have been expelled or suspended form their home school system to provide academic enrichment to the youth. This helps youth earn credits while waiting to return to school so they don’t fall behind in school work, grades, and can graduate in a timely manner. | |||
| Evidence based Nebraska - School-based - After-school: 2021-22 (1401) | Social Justice | Blue Valley Community Action, Inc, Boys and Girls Club of Lincoln, Juvenile Case Management System, YWCA Adams County | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2021-22 | None | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | School-based programs help provide educational support, training and/or supervision for youth where academic and/or behavioral problems originated in the school setting. There are four types of school-based programs: After School, Alternative School, School Interventionist, and School Resource Officers. After-school programs provide activities during the summer and after-school time frames to give youth a place to be engaged in constructive activity in order to reduce juvenile crime. This can include tutoring services or other educational support for youth. | ||
| Evidence based Nebraska - System Improvement: 2020-21 (1404) | Social Justice | Buffalo County Community Partners, City of South Sioux City, Community Connections, Douglas County Administration, Four County Juvenile Services, Gage County MAPS Community Coalition, Holt County Juvenile Services, Juvenile Case Management System, Lancaster County Human Services, Panhandle Partnership, Platte County Juvenile Services, Seward High School, Seward Public Schools, YWCA Adams County, YWCA Lincoln | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2020-21 | None | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | System Improvement programs don’t generally work directly with youth, but rather support the programs, agencies and initiatives that do the direct work. This includes, but is not limited to, grant writers, coordinators, evaluators, training/quality improvement programs, and data collection. System Improvement also included backbone support organizations, which are organizations or agencies that serve as the backbone for the entire initiative, coordinating participating organizations and agencies, facilitating technology and communications support, logistical and administrative details, and data collection and reporting. | ||
| Evidence based Nebraska - Assessment: 2020-21 (1370) | Social Justice | Child Saving Institute, Douglas County Juvenile Assessment Center, Family Skill Building Services, LLC, Juvenile Case Management System, Platteview High School, Winnebago Youth Crisis Intervention Center | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2020-21 | None | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | Assessment programs are a Direct Service program - a program that meets with a youth a few times to conduct a singular service, in this case, to evaluate the youth to identify mental health and/or behavioral risks and needs. Programs may use any number of different assessment tools to assess the risks and needs of the youth and provide recommendations for services for prevention and intervention. Under Assessment programs are also Assessment Centers, which are a location where staff can meet with youth to complete the evaluations, and Referral Services, which are agencies that help youth and families find services within their communities based on their assessed needs. | ||
| Evidence based Nebraska - Mentoring - School-based: 2020-21 (1394) | Social Justice | Centennial Public Elementary School, Centennial School District, Centennial Public Junior Senior High School, Centennial School District, Juvenile Case Management System, Platte County Juvenile Services | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2020-21 | None | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | Mentoring programs match a young person (mentee) with a more experienced person who is working in a non-professional capacity (mentor) to help provide support and guidance to the mentee in one or more areas of the mentee’s development. There are 4 types of Mentoring programs: Community, Juvenile Justice, School, and Youth Initiated. School-based mentors meet with youth on school premises to focus on school-related issues. The goal of this relationship is to improve youth attendance, grades, and attitudes toward school so that the youth is more likely to graduate. | ||
| Evidence based Nebraska - Alternatives to Diversion - Tracker: 2019-20 (1378) | Social Justice | Better Living Counseling Services: Beatrice, Buffalo County Juvenile Division, CEDARS - Otoe County, Gage County MAPS Community Coalition, Juvenile Case Management System, Owens Educational Services: Grand Island, Owens Educational Services: Omaha, Washington County Juvenile Services | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2019-20 | None | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | Tracking services assigns a program staff (tracker) to work with the youth to monitor the youth’s behavior and help the youth make it to appointments related to their case (court, drug tests, school, etc). Youth can have a tracker and an EM, but can also have one program without the other. | ||
| Evidence based Nebraska - School-based - School Resource Officers: 2020-21 (1455) | Social Justice | Gordon-Rushville Public Schools, Howard County Sheriff, Juvenile Case Management System | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2020-21 | None | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | School-based programs help provide educational support, training and/or supervision for youth where academic and/or behavioral problems originated in the school setting. There are four types of school-based programs: After School, Alternative School, School Interventionist, and School Resource Officers. School Resource Officers are career law enforcement officers, with sworn authority, who are assigned by the local law enforcement agency to work in collaboration with school and community-based organizations. The officer is on school campus and youth can be referred to the program for criminal activity, behavior problems, and/or academic issues. | ||
| Evidence based Nebraska - Alternatives to Diversion - Electronic Monitoring: 2020-21 (1371) | Social Justice | Better Living Counseling Services: Beatrice, Better Living Counseling Services: Nebraska City, Buffalo County Juvenile Division, Gage County MAPS Community Coalition, Juvenile Case Management System, Lancaster County Human Services, Owens Educational Services: Grand Island, Owens Educational Services: Omaha, Sarpy County Juvenile Justice Center, Washington County Juvenile Services | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2020-21 | None | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | Alternatives to Detention (ATDs) are programs that increase supervision on a youth rather than placing the youth in a secure facility while awaiting their court hearings (prejudicated youth). Youth in these programs are allowed to remain in the community with the ATD intervention to help prevent them from committing new law violations and make sure that the youth appear in court. ATDs include electronic monitor, tracking services, day and evening reporting centers and shelter care. Electronic monitor (EM) programs use electronic devices, usually worn on the youth’s ankle, that monitors their location and movement centered around their home, allowing them to go to school, jobs, activities, etc. as approved by the personal monitoring their movement. | ||
| Evidence based Nebraska - Mental Health - Treatment: 2019-20 (1392) | Social Justice | Center for Psychological Services, PC, Colfax County Mental Health, Completely Kids, Family Service Lincoln, HopeSpoke, Juvenile Case Management System, Malone Community Center, Platte County Juvenile Services, Saunders County Youth Services, Sidney Public School District, Southwest Nebraska Juvenile Services | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2019-20 | None | None | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | Mental Health programs work with youth to promote the youth’s recognition of their abilities and help identify coping skills to assist with promoting mental health well-being. Mental health treatment services are provided to youth with the goal of promoting productive coping techniques and cognitive mental functioning through therapeutic options that are client focused. Some mental health programs may complete mental health assessments and treatment. | ||
| Evidence based Nebraska - Mediation - Restorative Justice: 2020-21 (1389) | Social Justice | AARP, Abide Omaha, Central Mediation Center - Sherman County, Central Middle School, Millard Public Schools, Concord Mediation Center, Gage County Attorney, Juvenile Case Management System, Nebraska Mediation Center, The Lighthouse, The Mediation Center | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2020-21 | None | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | Mediation/Restorative Justice is a form of conflict resolution in which trained leaders help the victim(s) and offender work together to resolve disputes. Mediators do not make judgements or offer advice, and they have no power to force decisions. Victims are able to have input into an offender’s sentence. Includes victim impact statements, defining the restitution owed, or other forms of affecting resolution of a juvenile justice case. Other stakeholders may participate in the process as well. |