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: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honors Comp (Fall 2016): 2016-17 | International Service, Social Justice | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska | English, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2016-17 | None | None | 16 | 320 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Refugees | Traditional ENGL2160 Arts and Sciences Honors Composition II | ||
| Stephenson-Harrington Internship (SHI) - Claudia Stephenson-Harrington Internship (SHI) - Claudia (Fall 2019): 2019-20 (1274) | Economic Impact, Social Justice | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska | Goodrich Scholarship Program, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Community-Based Learning | Internship/Externship | None | Fall | 2019-20 | Fall | 2019-20 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Disadvantaged Populations, Other | Data Entry | The intern worked with weekly volunteers to help collect, move, and set up household items in homes for new refugees. Additionally, the intern collected, organized, and updated data. | |
| Seven Days of Service - 3/22/2017: 2016-17 (003) | International Service | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, North High, Omaha Public Schools | Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) | Volunteering | Volunteerism | None | Spring | 2016-17 | None | 7 | 26 | 0 | 9 | 49 | 0 | Inter/Trans-culture | Phone banked ethnic grocery stores and restaurants to create directory for clients, assembled in-take packets | |||
| Nathan Hale FLC (Fall 2016): 2016-17 | Educational Support | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Nathan Hale Middle School, Omaha Public Schools | Freshman Leadership Council, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2016-17 | None | None | 15 | 45 | 0 | 10 | 25 | 0 | Leadership and Mentoring | In this project the two groups worked together to gather coats for Lutheran Family Services. The groups decided to have a competition to see who could gather the most coats. They got together to make posters and then talk about the project. P-16 FLC Student Government. | ||
| Gerontology (Fall 2016): 2016-17 | Health and Wellness | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska | Gerontology, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2016-17 | None | None | 16 | 320 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Gerontology | |||
| Seven Days of Service - 3/21/18: 2017-18 (003) | Economic Impact, International Service | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska | Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) | Volunteering | Volunteerism | None | Spring | 2017-18 | None | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Food and Water Security, Refugees | Volunteers will be organizing donations in the food room and the warehouse. | |||
| World Geography (Fall 2016): 2016-17 | International Service | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska | Geography & Geology, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2016-17 | None | None | 16 | 320 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Inter/Trans-culture, Refugees | Traditional GEOG1000 Arts and Sciences Fund World Regional Geography | ||
| FLC(Fall 2017): 2017-18 | Educational Support | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Nathan Hale Middle School, Omaha Public Schools | Freshman Leadership Council, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2017-18 | None | None | 20 | 160 | 0 | 20 | 80 | 0 | Civic and Political Engagement, Youth Programming | 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. | ||
| Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska RSafe Program Evaluation (Fall 2018): 2018-19 (1299) | Educational Support, Health and Wellness, Social Justice | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska | Support and Training for the Evaluation of Programs (STEPs) | Engaged Research | None | None | Fall | 2018-19 | Spring | 2018-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Capacity Building, Health Awareness, Domestic and Sexual Violence | Lutheran Family Services requests STEPs to provide evaluation services for their RSET/RSafe program. STEPs will provide treatment fidelity services including a logic model, retrospective data analysis, training alumni survey, and a focus group of current participants. | ||
| A Film Screening of "This Is Home: A Refugee Story": 2018-19 (866) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, International Service, Social Justice | Central High School, Omaha Public Schools, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Omaha Public Schools | Philosophy and Religious Studies | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Community-oriented lecture/event | None | Spring | 2018-19 | Spring | 2018-19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Refugees, Theatre and Cinema | UNO and community members are invited to view the moving and informative documentary “This Is Home: A Refugee Story,” which follows four Syrian refugee families as they navigate a new life in Baltimore, MD during the first 8 months after resettlement. After the film, there will be a brief panel discussion with Lacey Studnicka of Lutheran Family Services and two Central High School students whose families were resettled in Omaha as refugees from Syria. Food will be provided. This event is sponsored by Lutheran Family Services, Omaha Public Schools, Central High School, Goldstein Family Community Chair in Human Rights, and the UNO Department of Religious Studies. | ||
| Nebraska Families Collaborative Adoption Program Evaluation (Spring 2017): 2016-17 (2352) | Economic Impact | Child Saving Institute, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Nebraska Childrens Home Society, Nebraska Collaborative Center | Support and Training for the Evaluation of Programs (STEPs) | Engaged Research | None | None | Spring | 2016-17 | Summer | 2016-17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 108 | 0 | 0 | The purpose of this project is to evaluate the new Nebraska Adoption Project of Nebraska Families Collaborative. Collaborating partners include Lutheran Family Service, Nebraska Children's Home Society, and Child Saving Institute. The Nebraska Adoption Project is designed to improve permanency outcomes for children/youth in the Eastern Service Area child welfare system who are considered "hardest to place" (see logic model). Process evaluation components will determine if services were delivered as intended and adhered to the program models (fidelity), and provides a cost-benefit analysis of the program. The outcome evaluation components will determine the outcomes for the youth in foster care. An experimental research design with random assignment will be utilized. Qualitative research will be used to capture rich data for process evaluation purposes. The sample available for this evaluation is anticipated to be 108 youth, with 72 youth in the Treatment group (Nebraska Adoption Project), and 36 youth in the Treatment As Usual (Wendy's Wonderful Kids) group. | |||
| The NGO/Nonprofit Response to the Refugee Crisis: 2017-18 (887) | International Service, Social Justice | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Refugee Empowerment Center, Yates Community Center, Educational Community Partnership ECP | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), Public Administration | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Workshop | None | Fall | 2017-18 | Fall | 2017-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | Refugees, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity | The UNO School of Public Administration invites you to the 2nd public forum on the NGO/Nonprofit Response to the Refugee Crisis. The Panel of Experts Includes: Amelia Rosser, Former Interim Assistant Director of Refugee Empowerment Center; Current MPA Student; Dekow Sagar, Program Coordinator; International Center of the Heartland, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Inc. Veronica Hill, Program Coordinator and ESL/Migrant Teacher Trainer Yates Educational Community Partnership (ECP), Omaha Public Schools. Facilitated by: Dr. Hans Louis-Charles, Assistant Professor Emergency Services Program, School of Public Administration. ADDITIONAL PARTNERS: Listed above | ||
| Studies in Social Welfare (Spring 2019): 2018-19 (1076) | International Service | Catholic Health Initiatives, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska | Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2018-19 | Spring | 2018-19 | 2 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Refugees | Students will write a grant, using an RFP provided in class but based on a real organization. Students will have the choice of whether they let the organization know. | ||
| Nature of Crime (Fall 2019): 2019-20 (1225) | Social Justice | Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2019-20 | Fall | 2019-20 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students in the Nature of Crime course worked with Lutheran Family Services on a Service Learning project. | |||
| Internships: 2019-20 (1406) | Economic Impact, Health and Wellness, Social Justice | Douglas County Juvenile Assessment Center, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Omaha-Douglas County Victim Assistance Program, Omaha Police Department, United States Marshals Service | Criminology and Criminal Justice | Community-Based Learning | Internship/Externship | None | Spring | 2019-20 | Spring | 2019-20 | 15 | 2,400 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Employment and Workforce, Social Justice Awareness, Other | Robbery CIT Training Mental Health | Student interns assigned community agencies for experiential learning. |