Fearless Friday: Erin Duran,
2015
Gettysburg College
Fearless Friday: Erin Duran, Christina L. Bassler
SURGE
As we conclude PRIDE Week, we honor Erin Duran, the fearless director of LGBTQA Advocacy and Education. In Erin’s three years at Gettysburg, he has established institutional support for the LGBTQA community and has worked to make the campus more inclusive and accepting of all students. [excerpt]
Cosmic (Center Of Science And Mathematics In Context),
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Cosmic (Center Of Science And Mathematics In Context), Roxane Johnson De Lear
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
The Center of Science and Mathematics in Context (COSMIC) is a joint venture of the College of Education and Human Development and the College of Science and Mathematics at UMass Boston. This presentation highlighted their STEM initiatives for English Language Learners (ELLs), engineering learning in urban elementary schools, and professional development for teachers of Advanced Placement courses.
Study Of Sexual Exploitation In Boston,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Study Of Sexual Exploitation In Boston, Megan Klein-Hattori, Jackie Lageson, Julianne Siegfriedt, Kate Price
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
This project helps policymakers target resources and implement policies to facilitate the exit of prostituted individuals from sexual exploitation, and to deter those who facilitate the sale of sex and those who buy sex (“Johns”) from engaging in this exploitive behavior. This study interviews members of the Boston Police Department, survivors of sexual exploitation, Johns, and facilitators of the sale of sex. Boston is aiming to decrease demand for prostituted individuals by 20% over the next two years, and this research is the first step in that initiative.
Batec: Broadening Advanced Technological Education Connections,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Batec: Broadening Advanced Technological Education Connections, Deborah Boisvert
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
BATEC brings together cross-sector stakeholders from education, industry, and the community to collectively build a seamless and robust education-to-workforce pathway among students underrepresented in IT fields, including women, those from ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds, and students with disabilities.
Research And Education In Parallel: Scientific Outreach Through On-Site Experiments At The Museum Of Science Boston Living Laboratory,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Research And Education In Parallel: Scientific Outreach Through On-Site Experiments At The Museum Of Science Boston Living Laboratory, Vivian Ciaramitaro, Hiu-Mei Chow
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
Our world is multisensory, as is our perception of it: we see lips move while we listen to what is being said, we smell food as we taste it, we touch a surface as we feel its texture as we look at. Cross-modal sensory processing, the way information from our different senses interacts and influences our conscious perceptual experience is ubiquitous in everyday life, yet, it is not well understood, compared to unimodal sensory processing, processing information from a single sensory system. One of our research goals is to standardize a set of computer-generated stimuli and procedures to study sound-shape …
Umass Boston’S Partnerships With The Brazilian Immigrant Center & Dominican Development Center,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Umass Boston’S Partnerships With The Brazilian Immigrant Center & Dominican Development Center, Eduardo Siqueira, Natalicia Tracy, Rosalyn Negron, Tim Sieber
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
This partnership bridges the resources and knowledge of community members with those of an urban research university to influence policy and services that affect immigrant communities with the overall goal of promoting health, economic well-being, and culture.
Helping Elders Living With Pain (Help),
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Helping Elders Living With Pain (Help), Suzanne Leveille, Tongjian You
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
The HELP study, which is a two-year study supported by a R21 grant from National Institute on Aging, is a direct extension of our previous work examining attentional demands of chronic pain in the older population. The HELP study is designed to compare two different exercise programs - simple body exercise and mind-body exercise, in their effects on pain symptoms, cognitive function, dual-task walking ability, and levels of pain-related biomarkers in community-dwelling older adults with multisite pain who are at risk of falling.
Increasing Community Engagement For Individuals With Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Increasing Community Engagement For Individuals With Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, Jennifer Bose, Jennifer Sulewski
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
These three projects highlight various aspects of the Institute for Community Inclusion's efforts to increase community engagement of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, both locally and nationally. The Transitions to Work project, for which ICI provides evaluation assistance, partners with Boston-area employers to increase engagement of adults with disabilities in the regional workforce. The Community Life Engagement initiative complements the employment focus by looking at other aspects of community life, such as volunteerism and participation in community events and resources. On the national level, Real People Real Jobs is a website and publication series highlighting the employment successes of …
National & International Disability Inclusion In Employment,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
National & International Disability Inclusion In Employment, Debrittany Mitchell, Heike Boeltzig-Brown, Quinn Barbour
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
Through research, technical assistance, training and collaboration the Institute for Community Inclusion strives to improve employment outcomes for individuals both nationally and internationally. The following highlights some of the work currently in progress in the United States and Japan.
Center For Social Policy: Reshaping Poverty Policy For And With Families And Communities,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Center For Social Policy: Reshaping Poverty Policy For And With Families And Communities, Julia Tripp, Mary Coonan, Priyanka Kabir, Susie Devins
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
The Center for Social Policy is a research and evaluation think tank of choice for policy makers, funders, and business leaders focused on the root causes of poverty. Our research and evaluation work helps organizations adapt to changing needs in a changing world. Our recommendations and technical assistance lead to community-driven systems change and improved program and business practices.
Building Effective School-Family-Community Partnerships Through Community Dialogues; And Super Friends, Super Readers! Engaging Community To Support Young Children's Social Emotional Development,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Building Effective School-Family-Community Partnerships Through Community Dialogues; And Super Friends, Super Readers! Engaging Community To Support Young Children's Social Emotional Development, Angel Fettig, Kaitlin Gould, Lauren Brodsky
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
Super Friends, Super Readers! guides children through interactive shared reading sessions by using dialogic reading techniques that aim to support the development of social emotional skills. In a separate project, UMass Boston and the YWMC offered a series of community dialogues among a diverse group of parents and educators to instill a greater sense of trust and overcome unintentional racial divides that have impeded effective parent engagement and student achievement.
Calderwood Writing Initiative At Umass Boston,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Calderwood Writing Initiative At Umass Boston, Denise Patmon, Carolyn Wong, Cedric Woods, Elena Stone
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
Founded in 2003, the Calderwood Writing Initiative is dedicated to improving the teaching and practice of expository writing. In the past, the Initiative has sponsored a wide variety of experimental programs & approaches.
From Data To Community Action: A Case Study Building On The Massachusetts Healthy Aging Community Profiles,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
From Data To Community Action: A Case Study Building On The Massachusetts Healthy Aging Community Profiles, Nina M. Silverstein, Brittany Gaines, Darlene Adams, Dorothy Wideman
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
The Healthy Aging movement is a driver in the promotion of Evidence-Based programs such as Chronic Disease Self- Management (CDSMP) programs related to falls prevention and diabetes. Such programs are critical in any recommendations for short or long term interventions to communities to address challenges to aging well.
Statewide Partnerships Through Community Mediation Center Grant Program,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Statewide Partnerships Through Community Mediation Center Grant Program, Madhawa Palihapitiya, Rosalind Cresswell
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
The Community Mediation Center Grant Program is administered by the Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration to advance the public mission of community mediation in the Commonwealth.
Sparc – A Community-Based Participatory Research Project With Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorders,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Sparc – A Community-Based Participatory Research Project With Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Richard Fleming
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
SPARC (Supporting Physical Activity and Recreation in the Community) aims to meet a community-identified need for more physical activity programming for youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). SPARC’s collaborative approach addresses the unique social, cognitive, behavioral, and physical needs of this growing population of children by infusing diverse perspectives into its model. This project incorporated a CBPR conceptual and methodological model, a strong community partnership, and an evidenced-based instructional approach, to develop and evaluate a community-based walking program for adolescents with ASD.
Family Gym: A Novel Initiative To Prevent Obesity Among Families With Young Children,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Family Gym: A Novel Initiative To Prevent Obesity Among Families With Young Children, Ronald Iannotti, Patrick Filanowski, Emily Mccular
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
Family Gym is a program that occurs every Saturday at one of three community centers. In this program, parents bring their child(ren) in for up to 90 minutes to play in areas equipped with engaging, age-appropriate activities. Each area is staffed by student activity leaders trained to make the experience safe and fun. Parents are encouraged to play with their child(ren). The research aspect of Family Gym is observing the families and how they interact as well as their activity level. As a research team, we want to learn how parents participating in physical activity with their child(ren) affects both …
A Breakthrough Series Collaborative To Support Trauma-Informed Practice In Early Care & Education Programs,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
A Breakthrough Series Collaborative To Support Trauma-Informed Practice In Early Care & Education Programs, Anne Douglass, Leigh Perreault, Lucas Dangler, Rachel Chickerella
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
The Breakthrough Series Collaborative to supports trauma-informed practice in early care & education programs and aims to close the gap between theory and practice by creating collaborative learning opportunities that use emerging science to address barriers and promote quality improvements in focus area.
Promoting College And Career Readiness For All Middle School Students,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Promoting College And Career Readiness For All Middle School Students, Lori Cooney
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
Future Quest is designed around national and state college and career readiness standards to assist all middle school students to prepare for high school and postsecondary education and employment after high school. Future Quest provides online activities that promote student self-discovery, self-advocacy, self-exploration, organization, and technology literacy skills. Project personnel from the Institute for Community Inclusion are working closely with middle school teachers, students, administrators and families in Massachusetts to embed these college and career readiness skills into the middle school curriculum.
Inclusive Concurrent Enrollment Partnership,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Inclusive Concurrent Enrollment Partnership, Aimee D'Avignon, Amy Cook, Colleen Regal, Felicia Wilczenski
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
The Inclusive Concurrent Enrollment Partnership has enrolled students with disabilities from local public high schools for the past 6 semesters, since the Fall of 2012. These students audit courses that match their personal interests or career goals in order to experience a fully inclusive higher educational setting.
Developing Capacity And A Culturally Appropriate Mindfulness Intervention For Inner City Survivors Of Violence,
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Developing Capacity And A Culturally Appropriate Mindfulness Intervention For Inner City Survivors Of Violence, Stephanie Hartwell, Anna Andrews
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
This project examines the acceptability and cultural relevance of Mindfulness for low-income communities of color most affected by urban/gun violence. The burden of violence extends to classmates, friends, family members, and communities through adverse effects on parenting, quality of life, economic productivity, and social cohesion.
