Brooke de Heer and her community partner, Kate Wyatt received $5,000 from the SHERC Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) for their work with Flagstaff Initiative Against Trafficking (FIAT).
De Heer is an NAU assistant professor in criminology and criminal justice, and Wyatt, who founded FIAT three years ago, has worked with the Northland Family Help Center in Flagstaff for seven years.
By collaborating with… Read more
Only one percent of substance abuse treatment facilities in the US allow parents in treatment to keep custody of their children, despite research that proves successful recovery hinges on holding families together.
To address the issue… Read more
Beth McManis and Frank von Hippel, two Northern Arizona researchers, were selected to receive support funding of $5,000 each for one year through the Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) program.
CCPS, through the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community Engagement Core, is a program dedicated to developing community-university relationships. The program supports partners meet several times over the course of one year… Read more
Fairness First episode 2, titled “What are Community-Campus Partnerships,” is now available on our website, on iTunes, Podbean, and other listening apps.
In the episode, Carmenlita Chief and Alexandra Samarron discuss community-campus partnerships with Emery Eaves, medical anthropologist (Northern Arizona University), Rita Wright, assistant clinical professor in the Department of Social Work (NAU) and community… Read more
Are you an NAU researcher who has a community partner or would like to expand on a relationship with a potential community partner to improve health equity? SHERC’s Community Engagement Core, through its Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS), is offering up to $5,000 to assist community-campus partnership projects. Applications are due by May 15, 2020, at… Read more
What is health equity, anyway? Researchers from Northern Arizona University’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) are helping listeners to find out through a new podcast series “Fairness First.”
The podcast is part of the Community Engagement Core (CEC) of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), which is a grant initiative under CHER. One of the objectives… Read more