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Approach: In Practice

The Approach: Defined page discusses how MSU defines outreach and engagement. This page provides tools, best practices, and examples of outreach and engagement.

Tools

The Capable Communities Web site explains and demonstrates in depth an outcome- and asset-based model for community development that was created by University-Community Partnership's staff (Robert Brown and Celeste Sturdevant Reed) for human services professionals, faculty members, and community organizers. It provides a number of examples of where and how the model has been implemented.

Best Practices

Best Practice Briefs is a periodical of University-Community Partnerships, a department of the Office of University Outreach and Engagement. Each issue is comprised of concise articles aimed at presenting state-of-the-art knowledge about human services. Drawing on basic research, evaluation reports, and field experience, Best Practice Briefs offers the best current thinking about human service policy and program development, in an accessible user-friendly form.

Visit the Best Practice Briefs Web site for the current and back issues of the publications.

Examples of Outreach and Engagement

The following are selected project descriptions that demonstrate outreach and engagement work:

• Cleaning Polluted Groundwater: The Schoolcraft Project
• Michael J. Dybas, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor, Center for Microbial Ecology and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Revitalizing Communities: Small Town Design Initiative
• Warren J. Rauhe, M.A., M.L.A., A.S.L.A.
• Director, Small Town Design Initiative and Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture Program, School of Planning, Design, and Construction

• Developing Civic Literacy: The Service-Learning Writing Project
• David D. Cooper, Ph.D.
• Professor, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures

• Meeting the Nursing Shortage: RN Refresher Online
• Teresa A. Wehrwein, Ph.D., R.N., C.N.A.A.
• Assistant Dean for Professional Partnerships and Faculty Practice and Associate Professor, College of Nursing
• Kathleen A. Kessler, R.N., M.S.N., A.P.R.N., B.C.
• Academic Specialist, College of Nursing

• Saving Children's Lives: Chikankata Epilepsy and Febrile Seizure Study, Zambia
• Gretchen Lano Birbeck, M.D., M.P.H.
• Director, International Neurologic and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program and Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology; Department of Epidemiology

• Helping to Rebuild Rwanda: The PEARL Project
• Daniel C. Clay, Ph.D.
• Director, Institute of International Agriculture and Professor of Sociology

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