Community Engaged Scholarship Forum
PROGRESS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS: ADVANCING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE Tuesday, March 2, 2021
POST-EVENT REPORT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Hearing from University Leadership. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Criminal Justice Reform Ecosystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Ann E. Cudd, Provost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
CONNECTing Research to Action: Bringing Pre-arrest Diversion to Allegheny County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Kathy Humphrey, Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement. . 1
Welcome to the Year of Engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 About the Forum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Data for Racial Justice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 From Grief to Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Definitions of Community Engagement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Institutionalization of Community Engagement at the University of Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Participate in the Engagement Community of Practice . . . . . 8
Community Outreach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Community Relations Committee of the University Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Community Engagement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Engaged Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Thank You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2021 CESF Sponsors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Keynote Speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Forum Planning Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Communications and Event Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Weaving Community to Rebuild Social Trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A Collaborative Effort: The Homewood Community Development Collaborative and the Pitt CEC. . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Community Engagement Centers Internal Advisory Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Engaged Scholarship Development Initiative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Civic Advising Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Catalog of Opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Poster Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Partnerships of Distinction Honorees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Pittsburgh Data Jam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Justice Scholars Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Collaborative Partnerships in the Time of COVID: Care and Connection Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PittPharmacy: SilverScripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Digital Bridge Building to Meet Critical Community Needs Through Strategic Partnership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project . . . . . . . . . 12
Elevating Family and Community Voices: Highlighting Culturally Humble Approaches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 National Perspectives on Critical and Liberatory Practices in Community Engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Funding and Publishing Engaged Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . 5 Finding Civic Learning in the University Catalog: How Course Attributes Identify and Enhance Opportunities for Engagement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Research for Equity and Power (REP): Strategies and Lessons Learned about Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Shifting Power in Educational Research and Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Health Equity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Healthy Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Interprofessional Diabetes Education—Wellness Pavilion at the Homewood Community Engagement Center. . . . . . 6 Pittsburgh Quality of Life (P-QOL) Survey Working Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Food Ecosystems Honors Scholar Community . . . . . . . . . 11 Individual Awardees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2021 Tracy Soska and John Wilds Outreach and Engagement Leadership Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2021 CESF Collaboration Champion Awardee. . . . . . . . . . 13
HEARING FROM UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP Ann E. Cudd, Provost I think the title of this forum: Progress through Partnerships: Advancing Community Resilience really sums up not only the great work we are going to hear about today but also points to challenges we have overcome. Despite the adversity presented by the pandemic, we persevere—with determination and humility—and gain new knowledge in the process. And we celebrate the deep and outstanding community-engaged scholarship taking place across all University of Pittsburgh campuses. No doubt, the power generated through the partnerships we form, the research and discovery that are emerging because of them, and the people at the heart of these exceptional efforts, are even more vital than ever before. Today’s impressive forum programming reflects just that. The vibrant work happening here not only drives vital University-community partnerships—but changes lives in the process.
Kathy Humphrey, Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement The University of Pittsburgh has a long and rich history of service to the city of Pittsburgh and surrounding region. Our goal has always been to leverage our teaching and research to support the priorities and needs of the communities in which we reside, as we believe this creates strong communities and in turn, a stronger university. And over the years, our commitment of service to the community has only grown deeper and our investment within the community only extends wider. And while we have had great success over the years, we recognize that we have not done this work by ourselves. We understand that what has made our efforts possible are the relationships we have built with organizations that share our values and our commitment to improving and uplifting our communities through engagement, scholarship, and service. We honor those relationships and celebrate the tremendously important work being done across our campuses, throughout our city, and around the world. Because of our community partners we are able to align our engagement mission with organizations who best serve the communities in which we co-exist. Through their innovative work, we have created unique opportunities to educate, to include, and to connect as we sheltered in place and practiced social distancing. And while it has been challenging, in true Pitt spirit we have risen to the challenge and remained committed to service.
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WELCOME TO THE YEAR OF ENGAGEMENT Annually, the Provost announces an over-arching theme for the academic year. The “Year of” program is designed to channel our community focus, guide our sponsored activities, and coalesce our collective interests. While the Pitt community faces unique challenges this year, we remain committed to making the Year of Engagement just as stimulating, productive and impactful as those of the past. During the Year of Engagement, we will create opportunities and partnerships that positively impact our campuses, our region and ultimately change our world for the better. The Year of Engagement will challenge each of us to reimagine how the Pitt community engages with new and existing partners, especially during a time when we can’t be together physically. It requires us to elevate our thoughts and practices regarding connecting with one another and doing the work needed to uplift and improve our communities. And it will provide resources for launching new and innovative projects and initiatives that ultimately bring us closer together. The Year of Engagement will provide us with opportunities to authentically learn about our common goals and our shared values.
ABOUT THE FORUM The University of Pittsburgh Community Engaged Scholarship Forum elevates, celebrates and reflects on collective approaches to community-engaged scholarship through the development of sustainable pathways and partnerships that build deep, reciprocal processes to achieve mutually beneficial, community-identified priorities. Scholarship is broadly defined to include research, creative activity, inquiry, programming and teaching.
Definitions of Community Engagement Mutually beneficial and sustainable outreach and engagement are of value to the University and its broader communities. By community, we refer to groups of people who share commonalities, including geography, identity, affiliation, interest, circumstance, profession or practice, faith and/or family/natural supports. Community outreach is the provision and promotion of University services and resources for community use. Community engagement is the collaborative development and delivery of initiatives through partnerships between members of the University and members of the broader public. Engaged scholarship seeks to discover new knowledge through activities that collaboratively generate, exchange or apply academic and community knowledge and practices through reciprocal partnerships among members of the University and members of the broader public.
THANK YOU We would like to thank our event sponsors, keynote speakers, planning committee and virtual support for their part in making the 2021 Community Engaged Scholarship Forum possible.
2021 CESF Sponsors Year of Engagement Office of the Provost Office of Community and Governmental Relations University Honors College Elsie Hillman Civic Forum at the Institute of Politics School of Social Work Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation Health Sciences Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Al Richmond, Executive Director of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health in North Carolina
Chris Nayve, The Mulvaney Center for Community,
Muffy Mendoza, Brown Mamas Paula K. Davis, Associate Vice Chancellor for
Awareness and Social Action, University of San Diego
Health Sciences Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of Pittsburgh
Douglas Wood, Director, The Aspen Institute’s Criminal
Presley Gillespie, President, Neighborhood Allies
Justice Reform Initiative
Frederick Riley, Executive Director, Weave: The Social Fabric Project
Lina Dostilio, Associate Vice Chancellor, Office of Community and Governmental Relations
Mark A. Nordenberg, Chancellor Emeritus and Chair, Institute of Politics, University of Pittsburgh
Michelle Fine, City University of New York, Public
Shalini Puri, The Pitt Prison Education Project, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
Tania Mitchell, Associate Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota
Valerie Kinloch, Renée and Richard Goldman Dean, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
Science Project
Forum Planning Committee Shawn Alfonso-Wells, University Center for International Studies
Jocelyn Horner, School of Social Work
Eleanor Anderson, School of Education
Chaz Kellem, Office of PittServes
Samantha Balbier, Institute of Politics Mario Browne, Health Sciences Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Sarah Downing, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Jamie Ducar, Cochair, Office of Community and Governmental Relations Aliya Durham, School of Social Work Evelyn Garon, School of Social Work Michael Glass, Urban Studies, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Amanda Godley, Office of the Provost Olivia Hartle, Office of the Provost Everett Herman, University Honors College
Ron Idoko, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Gena Kovalcik, Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation Noble Maseru, Health Sciences Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lydia Morin, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Caroline Passerrello, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Cassie Quigley, School of Education Alka Singh, School of Computing and Information Julia Spears, Cochair, Office of the Provost Leslie Smedley, University Center for International Studies Tess Wilson, Health Sciences Library System Geoff Wood, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Communications and Event Support Gloria Mou, Office of the Provost
Accelevents virtual events platform
Louise Cavanaugh Sciannameo, Office of the Provost
On Location virtual session production and livestreaming support
Amy Woodall, Office of the Provost Eleanor Graves, Office of University Communications and Marketing
Work Hard Pittsburgh video production
Meghan Young, Office of University Communications and Marketing
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WORKSHOPS Weaving Community to Rebuild Social Trust Social trust starts in our neighborhoods. It is the faith that people will see each other, act with a sense of shared humanity, and do what they ought to do. This past year showed how much our trust in each other has eroded, with a bitter election, an unchecked pandemic, rising and unequal economic pain and overdue demands for racial justice. As we look to rebuild social trust so our nation can move forward, where do we start? How do we help our neighborhoods and local institutions more deeply understand one another and strengthen their connections? This workshop explored ways for weaving communities and building bridges of trust as we chart a path ahead. PRESENTER: Fred Riley, Executive Director, Weave: The Social Fabric Project
Valerie Kinloch
Presley Gillespie
Muffy Mendoza
Fred Riley
PANELISTS: Valerie Kinloch, Renée and Richard Goldman Dean, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh; Presley Gillespie, President, Neighborhood Allies; Muffy Mendoza, Executive Director, Brown Mamas
A Collaborative Effort: The Homewood Community Development Collaborative and the Pitt CEC
Digital Bridge Building to Meet Critical Community Needs Through Strategic Partnership
Mutual benefits, reciprocity, authentic relationships, impact, sustainability, anti-racist practice, asset-framed and driven, partnership, trust building and strengths-based are words that speak to Pitt’s approach to engagements through the Community Engagement Centers (CECs). The Homewood Community Development Collaborative leads efforts to enhance the quality of life. This panel discussion centered on Homewood priorities and discussed ways that Pitt engagements have aligned with Homewood’s vision for itself.
This partnership engaged 12 seniors within the community by teaching computer skills to combat loneliness and isolation. Since the pandemic, digital literacy has become a necessity, especially for older adults. The challenge has been addressing the digital divide and engaging virtually due to limited skills or lack of access to technology.
SPEAKERS: Walter Lewis, Mubarik Ismaeli, Monique McIntosh, Jerome Jackson, Reverend Ware, Jerome Gloster, Daren Ellerbee
Collaborative Partnerships in the Time of COVID: Care and Connection Partners Care and Connection Partners have come together to share best practices and resources to serve clients effectively during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This group shared strategies and lessons learned for effective community-engaged collaboration to better support clients, including group roles, cocreation of materials, communication, resource navigation, advocacy and information sharing.
SPEAKERS: Kirk Holbrook, Alka Singh, Justin LeWinter, Kenzie Eggert
Elevating Family and Community Voices: Highlighting Culturally Humble Approaches This workshop highlighted why and how elevating family and community voices is essential to designing and implementing effective community programs while exploring how participants can use these strategies in their own work. The workshop bright spotted strategies that work, including a video series highlighting immigrant mothers from three cultures whose stories, though unique, share a love of their home culture and a deep desire for those who are working with their children to honor that culture. SPEAKERS: Ivonne Smith-Tapia, Colleen Young
SPEAKERS: Mary Ohmer, Neashia Johnson, Carol Hardeman, Tamra Burchfield, Marlene Williams, Raymond Robinson, Carrie Finklestein
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National Perspectives on Critical and Liberatory Practices in Community Engagement This keynote presentation featured a dialogue among national leaders in the field of critical and liberatory community engagement, whose work employs community-engaged teaching, research, and economic practices that advance social justice. Their work is described as critical and liberatory because it moves away from traditional community engagement practices toward those that are concerned with social transformation. MODERATOR: Lina Dostilio, Associate Vice Chancellor, Community Engagement, University of Pittsburgh
Michelle Fine
Tania Mitchell
Chris Nayve
Lina Dostilio
Funding and Publishing Engaged Scholarship This workshop—part of the University of Pittsburgh Engaged Scholarship Development Initiative—demonstrated how to build awareness of strategies to secure funding and publish work relevant to Engaged Scholarship, including how to write grants expressing community engaged scholarship principles and approaches, and how to write articles based on community engaged scholarship processes and outcomes for peer-reviewed publications. SPEAKERS: Lina Dostilio, Lauren Collister, Tiffany Gary-Webb, Sara Goodkind, Michael Holland, John Wallace
Finding Civic Learning in the University Catalog: How Course Attributes Identify and Enhance Opportunities for Engagement The increasing number of courses with a community engagement component reflects the University of Pittsburgh’s commitment to community engagement. However, what defines a civic learning/community engagement course at Pitt? This panel session described the new course attribute on civic learning. The attribute provides an indicator for those classes in the course catalog that include either a civic learning or civic learning plus engagement. Dean Joseph McCarthy conducted a conversation with faculty and students who worked to design this attribute and shared the dimensions of civic learning and engagement that are part of the new attribute. Participants learned how students, staff and faculty can use the attribute to enhance community engagement as part of the Pitt experience.
PANELISTS: Michelle Fine, City University of New York, Public Science Project; Tania Mitchell, Associate Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota; Chris Nayve, Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Anchor Initiatives, The Mulvaney Center for Community, Awareness and Social Action, University of San Diego
Research for Equity and Power (REP): Strategies and Lessons Learned about Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) For the past two years, Homewood Children’s Village and the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work have worked alongside one another and with community residents to increase civic engagement around positive community change. This workshop illustrated how CBPR principles have furthered the community engaged partnership, and included challenges and lessons learned. SPEAKERS: Mary Ohmer, Katherine Holler, Donnell Pearl, Evie Damon, Shannah Tharpe Gilliam, Khadija Bey, Zinna Scott, Tanya McClenton-Todd, Dorothea Hall
Shifting Power in Educational Research and Development A cohort of 20 educators and 20 researchers participated in the design and implementation of an innovative equityfocused research process that positions Black and Latinx educators as research leaders. CESF attendees learned about the approach to this work and progress to date through an experiential and interactive session. SPEAKERS: Allyce Pinchback-Johnson, Medina Jackson, Meredith Bortz
SPEAKERS: Mark Kramer, Eric Macadangdang, Joseph McCarthy, Willa Doswell, Michael Glass
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Health Equity This keynote presentation featured a dialogue between Paula Davis and Al Richmond on “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” including an overview of the rich history of CCPH as an organization founded in 1997, a focus on communitybased participatory research and actionable advice for the health professions and practitioners (lessons learned, continuity/sustainability and accountability) This workshop aimed to:
• leverage the knowledge, wisdom and experience in communities and in academic institutions to solve pressing health, social, environmental and economic challenges;
• ensure that community-driven social change is central to the work of community-academic partnerships; and • build the capacity of communities and academic institutions to engage each other in partnerships that balance power, share resources and work toward systems change.
PANELISTS: Paula K. Davis, Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Al Richmond, Executive Director, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
Paula Davis
Al Richmond
HealthyCHILD HealthyCHILD is a partnership among the University of Pittsburgh and multiple community early childhood programs that aims to help teachers develop skills to address child behaviors in the classroom that often result from trauma, mental health challenges, and racial discrimination. HealthyCHILD partnerships exude trust, reciprocity and mutual benefit because we share common goals including, supporting the mental health and well-being of teachers, children and families, and attacking the schoolto-prison pipeline where it starts.
Pittsburgh Quality of Life (P-QOL) Survey Working Group Undergraduate and graduate students, University researchers and community partners are working to develop a 2021 QOL survey, building from previous QOL surveys. The panel reflected on the scientific and community engagement process for survey development. SPEAKERS: David Maynard, Ashley Khor, Brett Say, Hannah Hardy, Sabina Deitrick
SPEAKERS: Tracy Larson, Carole Barone-Martin, Debbie Gallagher, Chris Rodgick, Sally Rushford, Rachel LePage
Interprofessional Diabetes Education—Wellness Pavilion at the Homewood Community Engagement Center Faculty and students from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and School of Pharmacy discussed the development of an interprofessional diabetes education service at the Homewood CEC. This program is designed to offer a personalized approach to self-management while supporting student engagement in service-learning. SPEAKERS: Caroline Passerrello, Catherine Rebitch, Victoria Hornyak, Channing Moreland, Bonnie Virag
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Criminal Justice Reform Ecosystems Where true justice is realized, both safety and opportunity are defined and created by communities themselves, becoming free of the heavy weight of the criminal legal system. The CJRI mission is to amplify and promote policies and practices to transform the justice ecosystem and reduce mass incarceration and its harms to individuals and society. We do this at local and national levels through convening stakeholders and supporting collaborations, strengthening leadership, promoting use of data, increasing public awareness and changing the narrative around justice in the United States. This session highlighted the national perspectives on transformational opportunities for the justice continuum and shined a spotlight on programmatic and policy-shifting work advanced through local partnerships that the University of Pittsburgh has cultivated across faculty, students, elected officials and system leadership. PRESENTER: Doug Wood, Director, Aspen Institute Criminal Justice Reform Initiative PANELISTS: Mark A. Nordenberg, Chair, University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics, Shalini Puri, Cofounder, Pitt Prison Education Project Mark A. Nordenberg
Shalini Puri
Doug Wood
CONNECTing Research to Action: Bringing Pre-arrest Diversion to Allegheny County Pitt’s CONNECT and the ACHD partnered in 2019 for a threeyear-long exploratory to pilot process to bring jurisdictional equity to our county through pre-arrest diversion. This workshop shared the cross-department work of Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, School of Public Health and many other partners in justice reform.
From Grief to Action The Center for Analytical Approaches to Social Innovation (CAASI) is actively building tools to elevate racial equity and support the effort to fight the systematic racism that has been laid bare by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless more before them. SPEAKERS: Sera Linardi, Claire Guth
SPEAKERS: Kelley Kelley, Kaleigh Dryden, JoEllen Marsh
Data for Racial Justice This workshop introduced the new Law, Criminal Justice, and Society (LCJS) major and reviewed the developing partnership between LCJS students/instructors and the Abolitionist Law Center’s Allegheny County Court Watch program. The presentation included findings on race, policing and money bail from summer and fall 2020 reports. SPEAKERS: Wesley Hiers, Autumn Redcross
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Institutionalization of Community Engagement at the University of Pittsburgh Participate in the Engagement Community of Practice The Engagement Community of Practice is open to those who support their unit’s implementation of community engagement. Cofacilitated by Jamie Ducar, director of community engagement, and Julia Spears, associate vice provost for academic innovation, the goals of the community are to build a network of community engagement practitioners who can support and mentor one another, to advance community engagement at Pitt, and to strengthen the practice of community engagement. Email Jamie Ducar at jamieducar@pitt.edu to join.
Engaged Scholarship Development Initiative Faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows are invited to participate in the Engaged Scholarship Development Initiative (ESDI) to learn how to implement Engaged Scholarship, connect with other engaged scholars, and advance their own work. In 2020-2021, the initiative is taking place in two parts: Part I includes a series of open workshops that cover the basic elements, ethics and outcomes of engaged scholarship during the academic year, and Part II involves an intensive and competitive summer design workshop for select participants.
Civic Advising Program Community Relations Committee of the University Senate This committee, which includes community organization representatives as pro tem members, is the primary shared governance body that provides a monthly University forum on campus community relations. This committee works on projects of common interest such as pedestrian safety, community engagement, environmental health, and accessibility for those with disabilities.
Community Engagement Centers Internal Advisory Council The Internal Advisory Council, sometimes called the Faculty Advisory Council or Committee, represents the various interests and activities of the University of Pittsburgh, ensuring that the entire University is aligned and coordinated with Pitt’s neighborhood commitments. This diverse group of faculty and staff from across the University meets monthly.
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The Civic Advising Program, launched in Fall 2020, is associated with the University of Pittsburgh Student Government Board. It provides students with the “Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement” survey on civic, community and engagement interests originally launched on campus as part of the “Pathways for Civic Growth” research project—and connects them with the civic advisors and experiences that best fit their interests.
Catalog of Opportunities Learning outside of the classroom plays an important role for students when it comes to building lifelong competencies and ensuring success at Pitt and beyond. Pitt’s Catalog of Opportunities offers students the ability to find, track and share cocurricular activities and achievements in Business, Global, Honors, Outside the Classroom Credit and more.
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POSTER ABSTRACTS
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The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network StoryBank
My research is a digital ethnography being completed with the national nonprofit GLSEN, whose mission is to achieve racial justice, gender justice, and disability justice for all K-12 students, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) students. I am developing an organizational oral history archive that consists of personal narratives told by individuals connected to GLSEN’s work. The archive is a digital repository for my own analysis and new communications projects for the organization.
Sean Nonnenmacher
Building a Restorative School/Family Community
The authors are working collaboratively as part of a larger Research-Practice Partnership initiative (Shifting Power) to investigate the relationships between families and school staff at a Pittsburgh-area high school. Using a restorative lens, the project is intended to build a strong foundation for preventing and repairing future harms.
Eleanor Anderson, Judith Williams-Wright
Bridging the Digital Divide on Health Information in Public Housing Communities
With the support of NNLM Middle Atlantic Region, All of Us funding and a partnership with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh supported their residents at the intersection of digital literacy and health literacy. This project, “Connecting and Improving Digital Literacy & Health Literacy Outcomes in Public Housing,” was a collaborative effort that integrated National Library of Medicine and NIH health information resources into the housing authority’s existing programming.
Tess Wilson
Giving a Boost: A Pitt Med Volunteer Student Organization Supporting PreMedical Students from the University of Pittsburgh and Surrounding Region
Some students use paid consulting services in navigating the medical school admissions process, but this further limits those applicants who are already disadvantaged by society. To promote greater equity among applicants, “Giving a Boost” volunteers mentor underprivileged students from Pitt and other nearby schools during their medical school applications process.
Robert Dembinksi, Jonathan Ho, Daniel Pan
TPS 3Rs: Reading, Racial Equity, Relationships
The Pittsburgh Study Early-School-Age Cohort (TPS 3Rs: Reading, Racial Equity, Relationships) is developing an ecosystem intervention to enhance K-3rd grade literacy that centers on Black children. This poster describes the principles/processes followed to develop authentic community-university partnerships and reflects local history, voice, anti-racism and previous research.
Sharon Geibel, Shallegra Moye, Meghan Orman, Shannon Wanless
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Service-learning opportunities at the Medication Education and Wellness Center at the Homewood Community Engagement Center
This poster showcases the role of student pharmacists within community engagement, while also describing current and future health and wellness programming in collaboration with Community Engagement Centers (CECs). The commitment to community engagement at the University of Pittsburgh results in mutual benefit: improving the health of local neighborhoods while offering valuable learning experiences for health discipline students.
Alan Guo, Sharon Jayamohan, Winnona Meyer, Catherine Rebitch, Arianna Sprando
Virtual Adolescent Oral Health Education Program for the Homewood Community
A two-session, virtual oral health education program has been developed with assistance from the Pitt Community Engagement Center in Homewood and the Pitt Center for Teaching and Learning. Oral health education on diet, hygiene, smoking and vaping was tailored to address the specific barriers to oral health experienced by Black adolescents.
Kendra Rowey
Developing the SHRS Wellness Pavilion: Strengthening Communities through Health & Wellness Promotion
The SHRS Wellness Pavilion is a student-led space at the University of Pittsburgh, Homewood Community Engagement Center. The Wellness Pavilion aims to provide free services/programs to improve, promote and maintain our guests’ health and wellness through the use of evidence-based practices, interprofessional collaborations, person-centered approaches to care and community partnerships.
Umeka Ganjoo, Lauren Gutterman, Channing Moreland
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AWARDS Partnerships of Distinction Honorees The Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement’s Partnerships of Distinction Award, conferred annually at the Community Engaged Scholarship Forum, recognizes outstanding partnerships that are exemplars of community engagement. Honorees demonstrate reciprocity, mutual benefit and significant community impact. Congratulations to the 2021 Partnerships of Distinction Awardees.
The Pittsburgh Data Jam
Pitt Pharmacy: SilverScripts
The Pittsburgh Data Jam is an academic competition for high school students in the Pittsburgh region, which focuses on teaching about the use of big data to answer a research question. Operating in many local Allegheny County high schools, the program is set up in such a way that students work in teams of five to seven students to formulate a research question, find publicly available data sets, analyze their data, make data visualizations and present their findings to a panel of judges. Students learn skills pertaining to the scientific method, data analysis and how to give scientific presentations. In this regard, high school students are benefiting from this education in data analytics, and the Pittsburgh business community is benefiting as more young people become interested in data analytics to provide a future workforce. Development of the Data Jam and core curricula to train Data Jam mentors, as well as its current work to develop a curriculum that ties the Data Jam concept to math, computer science, statistics and science courses in high school, are critical steps needed to make education in data science much more broadly available throughout the United States and worldwide.
SilverScripts is a longitudinal Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience for first- and second-year student pharmacists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. SilverScripts provides an early immersion experience for student pharmacists to practice pharmaceutical care with older adults at community centers serving local Pittsburgh seniors. To achieve its mission to help seniors better manage their medications, the program partners with over 20 local senior community centers. At SilverScripts, student pharmacists offer comprehensive medication reviews, blood pressure assessments and safe medication disposal to help nearly 250 seniors better manage their medications. Student pharmacists are precepted on-site by more than 25 participating PittPharmacy faculty, staff, residents and fellows assisted by more than 10 practice-ready student pharmacists. In the fall academic term, student pharmacists expand upon their relationships established in the spring term to work collaboratively with students from other healthcare disciplines at the University of Pittsburgh including audiology, dental medicine, nursing, nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy and social work.
PARTNERSHIP CONTACT: Judy Cameron, Director of Pitt Science Outreach
PARTNERSHIP CONTACT: Lucas Berenbrok, Assistant Professor, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
Justice Scholars Institute The Justice Scholars Institute is a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh and Westinghouse Academy. In collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh’s College in High School (CHS) program, Justice Scholars provides a rigorous college preparation program for students in the ninth through 12th grades. The program implements a culture of college expectations for high school students who may otherwise have little opportunity for college exposure opportunities. A primary program component is the opportunity for the students to earn college credit through University of Pittsburgh courses. In addition to the courses, the institute offers college preparation support, opportunities for community engagement, and various resources that make a successful college transition more tenable. PARTNERSHIP CONTACTS: Esohe Osia, Assistant Professor of Practice, and Greg Latshaw, Director of Marketing and Communications, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
Food Ecosystems Honors Scholar Community Pitt Honors Scholar Communities are collaborations between faculty and students to confront some of the most critical challenges that touch our lives. The Food Ecosystems Scholar Community examines the global food system through the lenses of agriculture, engineering, environmental science, data, economics, public health, law, policy, humanities, urban planning and community development in partnership with Food21. The mission of Food21 is to enable our region to become a resilient, self-sustaining, and inclusive food economy. Together Pitt Honors and Food21 will explore issues such as food insecurity; resilience across the food ecosystem; expanding jobs and economic opportunity in the food economy; sustainability through the applications of clean and cost-effective use of energy; equity and inclusive participation in the food economy; and environmental responsibility of food production and processing. These efforts will use data analytics to better understand our food ecosystem and apply this knowledge to create meaningful
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economic, social, environmental and policy change related to food. By developing a diverse network of faculty performing research related to issues critical to food ecosystems, a myriad of undergraduate research opportunities become available to students that can provide critical insights for the larger region. PARTNERSHIP CONTACT: Everett Herman, Director of Student and Faculty Engagement, Pitt Honors College
Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project (HCUAP) partners University of Pittsburgh staff, faculty and students with arts and education organizations in the Pittsburgh area and artists and scholars from national and international institutions. Founded in 2016, the program creates shared opportunities for youth and adult arts education; public conversations about art, activism and social justice; mentorship
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and networking opportunities for underrepresented artists; and site-specific murals across the city. HCUAP offers threepronged and synthetic programming: youth workshops, mural production and public conversations to use dialogue about the arts as a prism for addressing larger community needs. Its model is to work with established local organizations that work in the area of afterschool arts programming, artist development and education contributing a focus on urban art and public space by generating curricula, mentoring teaching artists, producing murals and creating larger conversations about just urban governance. Primary activities are organizing youth street art workshops, public conversations and artist residencies that culminate in murals and gallery shows. All programming is free. PARTNERSHIP CONTACT: Caitlin Bruce, Assistant Professor of Communication, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
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INDIVIDUAL AWARDEES 2021 Tracy Soska and John Wilds Outreach and Engagement Leadership Award The Tracy Soska and John Wilds Outreach and Engagement Leadership Award was established in 2020 to honor a faculty member or staff engagement professional who serves the University of Pittsburgh through their outstanding dedication to University-community connections. Through their contributions, the awardee strengthens our institution’s knowledge, understanding, practice and reflection on the opportunities of community-based collaboration.
2021 CESF Collaboration Champion Awardee The CESF Collaboration Champion Award is presented by the Community Engaged Scholarship Forum to recognize a member of the University of Pittsburgh community or a community partner who has made significant contributions to the University of Pittsburgh’s culture of collaboration, further sustaining and supporting the institution’s commitment to strengthening communities through teamed work.
2021 Awardee The 2021 CESF Collaboration Champion awardee is Yvette Moore, a skilled professional and practitioner in diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education with 19 years of experience.
2021 Awardee The 2021 Soska Wilds Outreach and Engagement Leadership awardee is David Sanchez. David Sanchez is an Assistant Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department, the Assistant Director for the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation and the Program Director for the Master’s in Sustainable Engineering, the Undergraduate Certificate in Sustainability and the John C. Mascaro Faculty Fellows program. Focused on cocreating long-term partnerships that synergize community vision with Pitt’s core competencies of research and education, David has built up Pitt Hydroponics in Homewood, founded Constellation Energy Inventor labs for K-12 students, and recreated the Mascaro Center’s Teach the Teacher sustainability program for science educators in the region. As a teacher he designed and created the Sustainability capstone course which has annually partnered with community stakeholders to address sustainability challenges at all scales. Past projects have included evaluating composting stations in Wilkinsburg, building infrastructure resilience in Homewood, enabling community solar in Pennsylvania, improving energy efficiency in McCandless Township and improving water quality in our rivers.
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Yvette has worked directly with undergraduate scholars in engineering and the arts and sciences. She is currently the director of the Pitt EXCEL program, an undergraduate diversity program within the Swanson School Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Through her career, Yvette has held several roles in higher education at various universities and has worked with diversity, equity and inclusion-based programs in the Pittsburgh metropolitan community. She has earned various diversity awards at Shippensburg University and the University of Pittsburgh for her community engagement among the undergraduate scholars, staff, faculty and community stakeholders. Yvette received her Bachelor of Science in secondary education sociology/history from Shippensburg University, Master of Science in gerontology from Shippensburg University, and she is completing her doctorate in higher education management at the University of Pittsburgh. Her doctoral work focuses on understanding the importance of staff of color, the work they do, and the racial microaggressions, racial campus climate, and racial battle fatigue experienced among staff of color working to protect their undergraduate scholars in engineering. What Yvette is most proud of and what she credits is her faith in God and being able to walk in her gift. Yvette has been blessed to influence the lives of so many that would not have had such opportunities without experiencing her programs. As a servant leader Yvette believes “mediocrity is not an option.”
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