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Focus areas: Healthy Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
In collaboration with the Center for Rural Engagement, Dr. John Keesler and School of Social Work master's students launched the development and administration of a survey to understand citizens' attitudes toward mental health and addictions. The...
Focus areas: Healthy Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
The Center for Rural Engagement collaborated with the Bedford REC Recovery Center on the Local Coordinating Council grant to provide educational services to those in recovery for substance use disorder.
Focus areas: Community Resilience, Quality of Place, Healthy Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
This is a Center for Rural Engagement staff-initiated project with faculty affiliates to develop a publicly accessible Interactive Map of Center for Rural Engagement projects in order to share information with both IU researchers and community...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
Students worked with INergize to create an alley activation plan to encourage and provide a walking path from 1st Street to Main Street, which will connect the Linton Public Library and the Carnegie Heritage & Art Center to the downtown business...
Focus areas: Quality of Place, Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
In 2019 the Linton Farmers' Market was the only farmers' market in Greene County and one of a few vendors where local, fresh foods could be purchased in Greene County. The Linton Farmers' Market demonstrated its potential for growth by hosting more...
Focus areas: Quality of Place, Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
To assist the Little Theatre in retaining its position as a vibrant part of the Bedford community, students created best practices for fund development, board development, community relations, and audience development. The class investigated...
Focus areas: Healthy Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
The Center for Rural Engagement and the Live Well Lawrence County Coalition worked together to promote evidence-based strategies to prevent obesity and build capacity.
Focus areas: Community Resilience
Status: Completed
The Center for Rural Engagement teamed up with IU Sustainable Food Systems Science to hold community interest meetings in counties across the Indiana Uplands. In this project, we listened and learned from community members about their food system to...
Focus areas: Community Resilience
Status: Completed
Indiana Geological and Water Survey (IGWS) communicated with several agencies at the federal, state, county, and municipal level to compile a list of 100 springs to analyze in a two-year period. This project collected field data and performed lab...
Focus areas: Community Resilience
Status: Completed
This project expanded on previous work which investigated 100 springs across the 11-county Uplands region by analyzing arsenic in those springs as well as other groundwater samples from wells in rural areas. This expanded project looked at arsenic...
