Our Health Literacy Book Nooks & Needs Assessment project, developed in partnership with Dr. Laura Porter at Cherokee Health Systems, explores healthcare providers’ and staff members’ perceptions of patient health literacy needs across East Tennessee. As part of this initiative, we created Book Nooks in every clinic location, providing a steady rotation of books each month on a variety of health literacy topics identified by Dr. Porter.
I was honored to attend the CampusCOMPACT25 conference as a representative of the partnership between the University of Tennessee (UT) and Cherokee Health Systems (CHS). It has been my pleasure to collaborate with UT’s Drs. Julie Owens and Kerri Martin on the Health Literacy Book Nooks & Needs Assessment project.
The fourth annual eVOLve conference was a success, reaching the maximum number of attendees for both in-person and virtual. The 2025 theme of “Meeting Community Needs” weaved throughout the day with the keynote speaker and breakout sessions. The conference boasted 387 in-person attendees and over 600 virtual participants, hailing from 27 different states, including Hawaii.
Lyndsey Hornbuckle Describe your project: Cardiometabolic diseases have been shown to affect Black men and women at higher rates than other groups in the U.S. Physical activity can reduce the risk for these diseases, but few studies have looked at how Black adults can get enough activity to benefit their health. These studies are necessary […]
Samara Akpovo Describe your project: The “Parents and Caregivers as Educational Partners Collaborative” is funded by the Community Action Committee (CAC) Housing and Urban and Development (HUD) Choice Neighborhoods Transform Western Heights (WH) Grant. The aim of this program is to provide family-led educational experiences for the residents of the Western Heights neighborhood who are […]
Lori Caudle Describe your project: The Social Emotional Learning Trauma-Informed Preschool Studies (TIPS) is a research-practice partnership led by university faculty from UTK (Dr. Lori Caudle, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Early Childhood) and Western Carolina University (Dr. Cathy Grist, Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Birth-Kindergarten). This community-engaged work supports early childhood educators in the implementation of trauma-informed, […]
In this brief video, three students from the Project Excellence initiative at Austin East High School receive a full-tuition scholarship to attend The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The students received the scholarship after dcompleting curriculum for the community engaged initiative, Project Excellence.
