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Focus areas: Community Resilience,Quality of Place,Healthy Hoosier Communities,Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: In progress
Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure have been discussed at various levels in multiple geographic parts of Daviess County. Some emerging initiatives, including a cycling corridor to the new downtown Commons, would benefit from additional research...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: In progress
Since the 1930s, letters to Santa written by children across the country have been delivered to the town of Santa Claus, Indiana. The CRE Rural Archives Scholar is working with the town's Santa Claus Museum & Village to preserve, digitize, catalog,...
Focus areas: Community Resilience,Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: In progress
The community is seeking analytical insight into daycare issues in Daviess County and strategies to garner support for increasing childcare options and the childcare workforce. They hope to use this information to help the county develop local...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
The Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement, in collaboration with the Programming for the Performing Arts course through the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Arts Administration program, hosted a musical performance and...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
This proposal expanded upon two successful Eskenazi Museum of Art outreach programs: Creative Arts for Vets (CAV) and Look Club, as well as one new program, Arts-based Wellness in Healthcare. These programs aimed to
develop lasting partnerships...
Focus areas: Community Resilience,Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
Agriculture is important to the identity of Washington County, defining the landscape, culture, and economy. Student consultants from the Kelley School of Business worked with the Washington County Tourism Board to explore how to increase...
Focus areas: Healthy Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT), a combined use of approved medications, counseling, and behavioral therapies, is being adopted by states with high rates of opioid use in rural communities. Unfortunately, at the time of project creation, the...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
The expungement help desk was a collaboration between Indiana Legal Services, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and New Leaf New Life. The help desk was located at New Leaf New Life and was open two days a week during the late...
Focus areas: Quality of Place,Healthy Hoosier Communities,Education,Community Resilience,Leadership and Innovation
Status: In progress
The IU faculty tour of rural Indiana introduces IU Bloomington faculty to rural Indiana, expanding their capacity to collaborate with the state through research, service, creative activity, and student engagement. Areas of focus will include arts...
Focus areas: Healthy Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
During this project, John Keesler and the Center for Rural Engagement facilitated networking, planning, and care to address substance use disorder (SUD) issues in Clay County, including training in Trauma-Informed Care for the United Pentecostal...
