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Create Change Through Knowledge About Traumatic Brain Injury (Tbi), Debra M. Sellers Aug 2012

Create Change Through Knowledge About Traumatic Brain Injury (Tbi), Debra M. Sellers

Debra M. Sellers

Fact sheet about traumatic brain injury. Describes types of injuries, risk groups, physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes. Consequences affect relationships, daily living and work. Communities and individuals can help survivors adjust.


Create A Supportive Community For People Who Experience Traumatic Brain Injury (Tbi), Debra M. Sellers Aug 2012

Create A Supportive Community For People Who Experience Traumatic Brain Injury (Tbi), Debra M. Sellers

Debra M. Sellers

Community tip sheet to help people with traumatic brain injuries.


Create Positive Differences For People Who Experience Traumatic Brain Injuries, Debra M. Sellers Aug 2012

Create Positive Differences For People Who Experience Traumatic Brain Injuries, Debra M. Sellers

Debra M. Sellers

Individual tip sheet to help those who work with people with traumatic brain injuries.


Living Wills In Kansas, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman Mar 2012

Living Wills In Kansas, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman

Debra M. Sellers

A living will allows you to record in writing, what type of care you want at the end of your life, if you have a terminal illness.


Durable Power Of Attorney For Health Care In Kansas, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman Mar 2012

Durable Power Of Attorney For Health Care In Kansas, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman

Debra M. Sellers

Name a person authorized to make your health care decisions for you, when you are not capable of making decisions for yourself, with a Durable Power of Attorney.


Advanced Directives In Kansas, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman Mar 2012

Advanced Directives In Kansas, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman

Debra M. Sellers

Advance directives are documents to state how you want to be cared for at the end of your life: durable power of attorney for health care and living will.


Cost-Effectiveness Model For Youth Efnep Programs: What Do We Measure And How Do We Do It?, Elena Serrano, Mary Mcferren, Michael Lambur, Michael Ellerbock, Kathy Hosig, Nancy K. Franz, Marilyn Townsend, Susan Baker, Peter Muennig, George Davis Jul 2011

Cost-Effectiveness Model For Youth Efnep Programs: What Do We Measure And How Do We Do It?, Elena Serrano, Mary Mcferren, Michael Lambur, Michael Ellerbock, Kathy Hosig, Nancy K. Franz, Marilyn Townsend, Susan Baker, Peter Muennig, George Davis

Nancy K. Franz

The Youth Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is one of the United States Department of Agriculture's hallmark nutrition education programs for limited-resource youth. The objective of this study was to gather opinions from experts in EFNEP and related content areas to identify costs, effects (impacts), and related instruments to develop a cost-effectiveness model (instrument) for youth EFNEP, which does not exist. A cost-effectiveness model determines the economic or financial cost of producing an impact. The findings highlight several challenges in identifying inputs through consensus and provide a roadmap for the creation of a model that can be adopted …


Enhancing Marital Enrichment Through Spirituality: Efficacy Data For Prayer Focused Relationship Enhancement, Steven R. Beach, Tera R. Hurt, Frank D. Fincham, Kameron J. Franklin, Lily M. Mcnair, Scott M. Stanley Jan 2011

Enhancing Marital Enrichment Through Spirituality: Efficacy Data For Prayer Focused Relationship Enhancement, Steven R. Beach, Tera R. Hurt, Frank D. Fincham, Kameron J. Franklin, Lily M. Mcnair, Scott M. Stanley

Tera R. (Hurt) Jordan

We examined 393 African American married couples assigned to (a) a culturally sensitive version of a widely disseminated relationship enhancement program (CS-PREP) (b) a similar version of the same program that also included a focus on prayer (PFP condition), or (c) an information-only control condition in which couples received a self-help version of the same program. Husbands averaged 40.5 years of age and wives averaged 38.9 years. We found a significant interaction between intervention and time of assessment, reflecting group differences in linear trends for the three conditions, with the two intervention conditions performing better than the control condition, and …


Appraisal Learning Networks: How University Archivists Learn To Appraise Through Social Interaction, Kimberly D. Anderson Jan 2011

Appraisal Learning Networks: How University Archivists Learn To Appraise Through Social Interaction, Kimberly D. Anderson

Kimberly D. Anderson

The appraisal of archival materials for ongoing value is one of the core responsibilities of the archivist, yet empirical research on how archivists learn to appraise is absent from the field. The purpose of this study is to understand how and when archivists learn to appraise and to devise a methodology for further studies in archival learning and knowledge transmission. It was hypothesized that the appraisal learning (continuing and formal) structures of university archivists can be understood as a network of relationships that demonstrates lineages of ideas and influences. The study employed an iterative process in which exploratory research and …


Tbioptions Postcard, Debra M. Sellers Sep 2010

Tbioptions Postcard, Debra M. Sellers

Debra M. Sellers

TBIoptions helps people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), their families and caregivers. It links people to services and resources in their local communities to promote successful living.


Tbioptions Brochure, Debra M. Sellers Sep 2010

Tbioptions Brochure, Debra M. Sellers

Debra M. Sellers

TBIoptions helps survivors of traumatic brain injury and their families contact organizations in Kansas to promote successful living. Examples include therapy, personal care attendants, housing, transportation, legal, mental health, and vocational services.


Catalyzing Employee Change With Transformative Learning, Nancy K. Franz Mar 2010

Catalyzing Employee Change With Transformative Learning, Nancy K. Franz

Nancy K. Franz

Businesses, organizations, and government agencies have invested heavily in employee training. The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) reports these costs as 2.15% of payroll (ASTD, 2008). A large amount of this investment is directed at improving employee knowledge and skills. Although most organizations are good at this, often a need exists to develop a deeper level of behavior change in employees. This type of change can be difficult to accomplish and sustain over time. Adult education theory, in particular transformative education theory, has enhanced the ability of organizations to bring about deeper change in employees through training and …


Kansans Optimizing Health Handout, Debra M. Sellers Feb 2010

Kansans Optimizing Health Handout, Debra M. Sellers

Debra M. Sellers

You will attend six classes with other people with ongoing health issues, family members and caregivers. Manage health and control chronic disease symptoms with medication, communication, exercise and diet.


Kansans Optimizing Health Postcard, Debra M. Sellers Jan 2010

Kansans Optimizing Health Postcard, Debra M. Sellers

Debra M. Sellers

For people with ongoing health issues, their family members and caregivers. Deal with problems, using communication, medication, exercise, and diet.


Cooperative Extension: A Complex Organization, Nancy K. Franz, Lisa Townson Dec 2008

Cooperative Extension: A Complex Organization, Nancy K. Franz, Lisa Townson

Nancy K. Franz

The authors provide an overview of the Cooperative Extension System and its program evaluation challenges. Part of the historic land-grant system, Extension exists in all states and territories of the United States and is funded through federal, state, and local (usually county) appropriations, as well as competitive grants and other sources. Complex funding, staffing, and accountability structures combined with widely varying programs and delivery methods make program development and evaluation challenging for Extension. Although each state’s Extension service operates autonomously, they all share a need to communicate program impacts and public value, which has become the main driver for program …


Unforeseen Consequences Of Mothers’ Return To School On Children’S Education Aspirations And Outcomes, J. Jill Suitor, Mari Plikuhn, Megan Gilligan, Rebecca S. Powers Aug 2008

Unforeseen Consequences Of Mothers’ Return To School On Children’S Education Aspirations And Outcomes, J. Jill Suitor, Mari Plikuhn, Megan Gilligan, Rebecca S. Powers

Megan Gilligan

Parents' educational attainment is generally completed before offspring are born. Thus, there is little opportunity to study the ways in which children's observation of their parents' pursuit of education may augment the effects of structural factors on intergenerational transmission processes. In this article, the authors use qualitative and quantitative data collected from thirty-five women across a decade following their return to school to examine the effects of children's observations of their mothers' educational achievements on the children's educational aspirations and achievements in adulthood. The return to school was consequential only when mothers completed their degrees; when they did not, their …


Plan Your Future With Advance Directives Poster, Debra M. Sellers Aug 2008

Plan Your Future With Advance Directives Poster, Debra M. Sellers

Debra M. Sellers

Poster, three pages that define Living Will, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care.


Assistive Technology Postcard, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman Jul 2008

Assistive Technology Postcard, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman

Debra M. Sellers

Postcard on assistive technology, tools to help make life easier, for people with arthritis, disabilities, etc.


Fashion An Easier Lifestyle With Assistive Technology: Leader's Guide, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman Jul 2008

Fashion An Easier Lifestyle With Assistive Technology: Leader's Guide, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman

Debra M. Sellers

Assistive technology is about tools to help make life easier, for people with arthritis, disabilities, etc. It helps with meals, housework, personal care, and other activities.


Fashion An Easier Lifestyle With Assistive Technology: Fact Sheet, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman Jul 2008

Fashion An Easier Lifestyle With Assistive Technology: Fact Sheet, Debra M. Sellers, Erin J. Dittman

Debra M. Sellers

Assistive technology is about tools to help make life easier, for people with arthritis, disabilities, etc. It helps with meals, housework, personal care, and other activities.


Dissemination Of Couples Interventions Among African American Populations: Experiences From Prosaam, Tera R. Hurt, Kameron J. Franklin, Steve R.H. Beach, Velma Mcbride-Murry, Gene H. Brody, Lily D. Mcnair, Frank D. Fincham Jan 2006

Dissemination Of Couples Interventions Among African American Populations: Experiences From Prosaam, Tera R. Hurt, Kameron J. Franklin, Steve R.H. Beach, Velma Mcbride-Murry, Gene H. Brody, Lily D. Mcnair, Frank D. Fincham

Tera R. (Hurt) Jordan

In this article, we discuss successful delivery of culturally sensitive variations of empirically grounded strategies for relationship enhancement and divorce prevention. This discussion focuses on the importance of religious traditions in culturally sensitive marriage enrichment services. In particular, we highlight our ongoing investigation of the Program for Strong African American Marriages (ProSAAM) and share some of our experiences in disseminating ProSAAM to communities in northeast Georgia


College Students' Experiences And Perceptions Of Harassment On Campus: An Exploration Of Gender Differences, Robert D. Reason, Susan R. Rankin Jan 2006

College Students' Experiences And Perceptions Of Harassment On Campus: An Exploration Of Gender Differences, Robert D. Reason, Susan R. Rankin

Robert D Reason

Using a campus climate assessment instrument developed by Rankin (1998), we surveyed students (N = 7,347) from 10 campuses to explore the different experiences with harassment and campus climates reported by men and women. Both men and women reported experiencing harassment, although women experienced harassment at statistically significantly higher rates than men. Women reported higher rates of sexual harassment, while men reported higher rates of harassment based upon sexuality. These findings are understood, and implications are provided, using a lens of power and privilege.


Artful Identifications: Crafting Survival In Japanese American Concentration Camps, Jane E. Dusselier Jan 2005

Artful Identifications: Crafting Survival In Japanese American Concentration Camps, Jane E. Dusselier

Jane E. Dusselier

"Artful Identifications" offers three meanings of internment art. First, internees remade locations of imprisonment into livable places of survival. Inside places were remade as internees responded to degraded living conditions by creating furniture with discarded apple crates, cardboard, tree branches and stumps, scrap pieces of wood left behind by government carpenters, and wood lifted from guarded lumber piles. Having addressed the material conditions of their living units, internees turned their attention to aesthetic matters by creating needle crafts, wood carvings, ikebana, paintings, shell art, and kobu. Dramatic changes to outside spaces of "assembly centers" and concentration camps were also critical …


The Influence Of Physical And Sexual Abuse On Marriage And Cohabitation, Andrew J. Cherlin, Linda M. Burton, Tera R. Hurt, Diane Purvin Dec 2004

The Influence Of Physical And Sexual Abuse On Marriage And Cohabitation, Andrew J. Cherlin, Linda M. Burton, Tera R. Hurt, Diane Purvin

Tera R. (Hurt) Jordan

Using ethnographic and survey data on low-income families residing in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we examine the relationship between physical abuse, sexual abuse, and women’s patterns of union formation. Both sets of data suggest that women who have been physically or sexually abused are substantially less likely to be married or to be in stable long-term cohabiting relationships. The data also suggest that the timing and different forms of abuse may have distinctive associations with union formation. Women who have experienced abuse beginning in childhood, particularly sexual abuse, are less likely to be in sustained marriages or stable cohabiting …


Welfare Reform: What About The Children?, Brenda J. Lohman, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Rebekah Levine Coley, Laura D. Pittman Jan 2002

Welfare Reform: What About The Children?, Brenda J. Lohman, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Rebekah Levine Coley, Laura D. Pittman

Brenda J Lohman

Within a sample of 1,885 low-income children and their families, preschoolers and adolescents show patterns of cognitive achievement and problem behavior that should be of concern to policy-makers. The preschoolers and adolescents in our sample are more developmentally at risk compared to middleclass children in national samples. In addition, adolescents whose mothers were on welfare in 1999 have lower levels of cognitive achievement and higher levels of behavioral and emotional problems than do adolescents whose mothers had left welfare, or whose mothers had never been on welfare. For preschoolers, mothers’ current or recent welfare participation is linked with poor cognitive …


Senior Design Projects To Aid The Disabled, Janis P. Terpenny, Robert Gao, John Ritter, Donald Fisher, Sundar Krishnamurty Jan 2001

Senior Design Projects To Aid The Disabled, Janis P. Terpenny, Robert Gao, John Ritter, Donald Fisher, Sundar Krishnamurty

Janis P. Terpenny

A new two-semester capstone senior design course sequence in the area of assistive technology has been developed and integrated within the established curriculum of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. Entitled “Senior Design Projects to Aid the Disabled,” the capstone sequence includes close collaborations with the Lemelson Assistive Technology Development Center (LATDC) at Hampshire College and Adaptive Design Services (ADS) under the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation (DMR). The new design course allows students to work directly with collaborators and disabled clients to solve specific assistive technology design problems. Through these …


Countrysides Transformed, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Mar 2000

Countrysides Transformed, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Rural and agricultural history provide their readers different perspectives on the ways in which the countryside has changed over the course of American history. Rural history approaches the question of change from the perspective of communities and families, while agricultural history generally eschews the social perspective for issues of crop production. Such is the case of two recent and important books in rural and agricultural history, Hal Barron's Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformationin the Rural North, 1870-1930 and Steven Stoll's The Fruits of Natural Advantage: The Making of the Industrial Countryside in California. While both authors are intimately concerned …


Women, Technology, And Rural Life: Some Recent Literature, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Oct 1997

Women, Technology, And Rural Life: Some Recent Literature, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Historical study of American farm women has had a relatively short life, reaching back approximately twenty years. Rural women rarely existed in earlier scholarship that reserved the categories of farmer and farming for males. Agricultural history thus manifested itself as a story of men and their tools, stretching back historiographically into the early days of the 20th century. Although in 1953 Jared van Wagenen described in careful detail many of the physical processes of farming in The Golden Age of Homespun, the women's work from which he derived his title occupied less than twenty pages at the end of his …