The Cube provides a space for diverse ranges of people, places, and communities to participate in communications of all kinds, from traditional book production to user experience research to web and app development. With guided faculty mentorship, ou...

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...

Street Teams are student-run, creative collaborations within ComArtSci. Interdisciplinary groups of students partner with nonprofit organizations and assist them with media projects. They have real-world learning opportunities while giving back to th...

As a community-based researcher, I participate in and serve on multiple community groups including the groups working on issues related to tobacco use, opiate drug use, gun safety and suicide prevention, and early educational opportunities in my rura...

This project examines how women workers and employers have navigated the informal economic sector, especially in the industries of household and personal services, as well as work/family balance, in the Lansing-East Lansing metropolitan region and as...

Conducted effective outreach and engagement strategies in light of COVID-19 by working in conjunction with partnering agencies. Distribution of Flint Registry handouts and materials by partnering and collaborating with community partners as they se...

Digital archive of photographs from Mali. Managing website, social media posts, communications from broad community, overseeing three undergraduate researchers on the project.

Direct student providing free legal services and trainings/education

One of my summer classes partnered with Communities in Schools to support their summer programs, specifically with their Reading Buddies program.

Students worked with local non-profit organizations to draft a couple grant proposals

The Kinship Care Resource Center is one of several community programs in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. The KCRC serves kinship care families across the state by providing information and referrals to resources and services f...

MSU AgeAlive is a program within the College of Osteopathic Medicine that is dedicated to building a central, coordinated aging hub at MSU that can bring together aging-related research, education, and community outreach and engagement. Dr. Clare Luz...

I work with my community partner (MOASH) to create a toolkit to teach consent to K-5 students in Michigan Public Schools. Because of the age-range, it is focused a lot on friendship and respecting boundaries, and recognizing emotions in others, check...

We had received a grant to produce a series of training modules meant to train key sport stakeholders (administrators, coaches and parents) about how to prevent abuse in youth sports. We have partnered with the National Alliance for Youth Sports as t...

USAID Empowered Youth is a five-year activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to empower Kenyan youth ages 18-24 years old and adolescent girls ages 15-19 years old by increasing their prospective economic opp...

This was a public event held online in cooperation with the Capital Area District Library, a panel discussion on John Lewis' graphic memoir March. Panelists included academics, activists, artists and teachers: Julian Chambliss, MSU Professor of Engli...

Beginning Latino farmers are changing the face of specialty fruit production in the Midwest by replacing an older generation of Caucasian farmers. However, transitioning from employment in industrial and farm laborer settings to farm owners is challe...

Latino beginning farmers (los granjeros) in the Great Lakes are establishing in the small fruit industry and are just entering vegetable production. La Cosecha (the Harvest) program is recognized as a successful program for Latino farmers of all ages...

Field placements for social work students.

In February of 2020, the Writing Center in collaboration with the East Lansing Public Library founded a Community Writing Center. The project was spearheaded by Co-Directors Angelo Moreno and Dr. Grace Pregent. The goal was to expand access to MSU's ...

The primary goal of the project is to recover the people of the historical slave trade and make the information available to general public, researchers, and students. We also conducted workshops and presentations. The underlying technology is also k...

Collect and disseminate the work of Quilting around the world.

This project provides brief, 3-session teleconsultation for parents/caregivers of children with social, emotional, and/or behavioral concerns as they navigate implementing structure, routines, and home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This proj...

This project trains community-based mental health clinicians (psychologists and social workers) in Regulation of Emotional Lability in Autism Spectrum Disorder through Caregiver Supports (RELACS), a parent-mediated ER intervention for preschool-aged ...