Creating a free, publicly available curriculum for infants and toddlers that centers children of color and children in metropolitan environments.

Provide technical assistance and training for NAP webinars and conferences.

Support workforce development projects in various states, counties and tribes encouraging, through technical assistance and training, a positive work culture and partnerships, particularly with university social work programs. Develop resources for r...

Created a partnership with the Public Will Campaign and the Traverse Bay CAC to provide a Community Engaged Project as part of an advanced social work practice course, SW866 Leadership in Communities. In 2020, we spent this time on development of thi...

Studying an online intervention delivered to National Guard couples.

YELL provides a curriculum-based program focused on developing advocacy skills, disability identity/pride, and leadership skills, and addresses the impact of ableism, and internalized ableism.  Alongside this experience, it assists faculty/staff/ ser...

Healthy eating and obesity prevention applied research project; multi phase project involving supports for family meals in partnership with Head Start programs and Meals on Wheels programs.

Continuation of a funded NIH, NIEHS K01 Career Award to examine the value of low-cost technology development created through a community driven research process in Flint, Michigan around water access, affordability, and quality. 2021 included the ini...

As a board member, I developed the executive director evaluation online materials and contributed developing the agency development strategies.

Organized workshops on conditions in the Middle East, specifically Israel/Palestine -- specifically targeted toward improved understanding of current conditions

follow up on research to document lack of access to water and sanitation in the United States: 1) helped finalize case studies for communities struggling with access to water and sanitation that they can use to advocate for improved access 2) worked...

To help better understand the opportunities and barriers to soil and water conservation in the Western Lake Erie Basin Worked with the Michigan Association of Conservation Districts (MACD) and the county Soil and Water Conservation Districts in Lena...

Work with the Lansing Regional Sister City Commission to develop a youth initiative to celebrate the assets of youth of diverse backrounds in Lansing Region.

Class Social Movements and Collective Identities (Soc 481) All students volunteered with a social movement organization in the greater Lansing area or virtually. These included: Metro Lansing Poor People's Campaign Meta Peace Team Planned Parenthood ...

MSU Adolescent Diversion Program (ADP) is a two semester service-learning program operating in conjunction with Michigan State University and Ingham County Probate Court. The aim of this program is to divert adolescents in legal jeopardy from the juv...

The goal of the Senior Ambassador Program is to build relationships between students and senior citizens in the area. It was started as an initiative to combat loneliness in the area.

I provide services to K-12 districts on promoting strategies for engaging youth as partners in school systems change - academic, school culture, and supportive services for student physical health and psycho-social well-being. This work - a partnersh...

This federally-funded national child welfare project works with states and universities to recruit and prepare the future child welfare workforce, identify workforce issues in county, tribal and state child welfare agencies, and support projects to a...

Provide services to area courts; child custody reviews, guardianship reviews, self-help support, taking phone calls from public answering court related questions, supervised parenting time, and supervised parenting time trainings. Advocate for policy...

We are the lead continuous quality improvement partners for Community Tampa Bay's Inc. Anytown program, which provides high school youth with the skills and experiences needed to advocate for equity and inclusion in their schools and communities.

We produce workshops for employed child welfare professionals in Michigan to promote ongoing learning and skill development to support the competency of the workforce. This is supported by the Michigan Department of Heath and Human Services. We condu...

To develop a cooperative distributor local agriculture, food, and related products in collaboration with Allen Neighborhood Center (ANC) and East Lansing Food Coop, inc.

Goals: The purpose of this project is to capture and record a series of traditional folktales as told in their original languages (Fongbe, Goun, and Maxi) and make them available in a variety of digital, written, and visual formats for a broader audi...

This is an NIMH-funded effectiveness-implementation hybrid research study examining the benefit of training Part C early intervention providers to use an evidence-based, parent-mediated intervention for young children with social communication delays

I work as a consultant to medical examiner's offices and law enforcement agencies to determine whether a bone is human or not, to perform search and recoveries, scientific identifications via comparative radiography, skeletal examinations to estimate...