Building Recovery-Ready Rural Communities Describe your initiative. My initiative, Building Recovery-Ready Rural Communities, is a long-term engaged research partnership designed to create sustainable recovery infrastructure in East Tennessee and beyond. It began with the Building Connections Across the Bridge grant, which funded a transformative site visit to Texas for our partner, Align9. This experience—including a […]
Since 2020 I have had the privilege to collaborate with Denise Dean, East Tennessee Freedom Schools Executive Director, to incorporate phonics instruction to the Freedom Schools’ summer reading program.
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, […]
