Community Collaborations
DiFulvio, Gloria. Collaborations include work with the University Health Services, Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention (on alcohol intervention evaluation described above). Also member of the University of Massachusetts campus and community coalition to reduce high risk drinking.
DiFulvio, Gloria. University Health Services, Mental Health Services
Gubrium, Aline. I am working with Tapestry Health on the Depo Provera project, both volunteering for the organization and conducting interviews with African-American, Puerto Rican, and white low-income women on Depo Provera, as well as several interviews with Tapestry staff.
Mietlicki, Shirley. I’m the PI for the HUD sponsored Holyoke Planners Network/Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) grant in Holyoke. It is an extensive collaboration of community leaders and the five colleges (AC, HC, Mt Holyoke, HCC and UMass). My role is to promote COPC on campus. Last spring, we hosted the South African delegation to Holyoke to meet with collaborators and understand the community/university partnerships. In my role, participate in the COPC Steering Committee meetings and also, on the Education Sub-committee which is providing college preparation workshops for Holyoke youth. This role has led me to interactions with the Holyoke Health Center, the 21st century after school programs, Nuestras Raices, Nueva Esperanza and Community Education Project.
Mietlicki, Shirley. As part of the Rural Families Speak study, contacts includeCommunity Action, Regional Council of Government, and Franklin County Community Development Center, to name a few.
Wexler, Lisa. Evaluator for Project Life, a regional community-based suicide prevention project in Northwest Alaska. Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grant, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA). Dates: June 1, 2006 thru May 31, 2009.
Gerber, Dan. Member of the Five College Culture, Health and Science Certificate Program - The Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science Certificate Program is an interdisciplinary effort to explore new liberal arts initiatives in human health, disease, and healing. The Program emphasizes the value of community-based service-learning experiences, and courses in the following areas: bio-cultural approaches; mechanisms of disease transmission; population, health and disease; healers and treatment; ethics and philosophy; and research design and analysis.
Gerber, Dan. The community service component of PH 160 My Body/My Health continues to be highly successful with the students, UMASS Office of Community Service Learning, and many surrounding non-profits in the area. The list of nonprofits requesting students continues to grow each year, and last year, 1,200 students completed more then 9,600 hours of community service.
