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CVOC 105-50
Appalachia Service Project This course provides an opportunity for students to have a service learning experience in Jonesville, VA. There for five days, the students will have the opportunity to help a family in need with housing improvements, making their home dryer, warmer, and safer. The main objective of the course is for students to fully participate in service during our week in the Jonesville area. While in Virginia, students also have the opportunity to explore the particularities of Appalachian culture. Service learning involves processing and reflection upon the context, the needs, and the motivations for service. This reflective piece makes the experience truly service learning. PT 635: Service-Learning ProjectStudents develop, implement and evaluate individualized or small group service learning projects. Projects may take on a variety of formats, but must have a common goal of promoting health for a group who otherwise would not have access to that service. Students contract with service learning coordinators for specific requirements.
INTD 299 Spring Term, 2016 Community Building in República DominicanaThis 3-credit course is a service-learning study of the culture, society, economy, politics, and history of this Caribbean island. Our course includes pre-May group meetings, 3 formal pre-departure classes, and nine days in the Dominican Republic. Our first destination in the Dominican Republic is Santo Domingo’s Colonial Zone-a UNESCO World heritage site. The remainder of the time will be in the Northern Coast Region, where we will assist in the completion of projects designed by and for the communities. Students will write daily journals on their cultural insights and submit them, along with photographs and other artifacts in support of their observations.
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Integrating an Occupational Therapy Health and Wellness Program into an existing Cancer Support Community
This quantitative study will use a prospective, one-group pretest-posttest design to explore the effects of a four-week Occupational Therapy Health and Wellness Program. Currently 2 of the research investigators are in our OTD 2019 cohort and at CSC for their Doctoral Capstone Experience providing additional programming related to caring for the cancer survivor caregiver and integrating an OT sexuality and intimacy program. With this project they are collecting pretest and post-test data as well as providing group (2:1) OT services around various topics in survivorship. One additional OT that is a UIndy alumni (OTD 2018 class) is engaged with this project as the grant hired her to administer the group OT Health and Wellness education groups provided. Additionally, my OTD 620 Cancer Survivorship Elective course students (12) came to each of the four week sessions to provide group (2:1) OT services around the various topics in survivorship. Katie M. Polo, DHS, OTR, CLT-LANA
This quantitative study will use a prospective, one-group pretest-posttest design to explore the effects of a four-week Occupational Therapy Health and Wellness Program. Currently 2 of the research investigators are in our OTD 2019 cohort and at CSC for their Doctoral Capstone Experience providing additional programming related to caring for the cancer survivor caregiver and integrating an OT sexuality and intimacy program. With this project they are collecting pretest and post-test data as well as providing group (2:1) OT services around various topics in survivorship. One additional OT that is a UIndy alumni (OTD 2018 class) is engaged with this project as the grant hired her to administer the group OT Health and Wellness education groups provided. Additionally, my OTD 620 Cancer Survivorship Elective course students (12) came to each of the four week sessions to provide group (2:1) OT services around the various topics in survivorship. Katie M. Polo, DHS, OTR, CLT-LANA
Lived Experience of Cancer Survivorship: A Photovoice Study
This participatory-action research study used a photovoice methodology to elicit the lived experiences of cancer survivors in the community. We collected data from 12 participants that were active at CSC. Five student researchers (OTD class of 2020) enrolled in our OTD research applications series were able to conduct focus groups and analyze pictures that participants took that best represent their survivorship journey. Katie M. Polo, DHS, OTR, CLT-LANA
This participatory-action research study used a photovoice methodology to elicit the lived experiences of cancer survivors in the community. We collected data from 12 participants that were active at CSC. Five student researchers (OTD class of 2020) enrolled in our OTD research applications series were able to conduct focus groups and analyze pictures that participants took that best represent their survivorship journey. Katie M. Polo, DHS, OTR, CLT-LANA
The 7th International Symposium on Service Learning, Galway, Ireland,
June 14-16, 2017
Project Outreach: Interprofessional Service Learning to Meet Community and Professional Needs
Faculty from multiple programs (public health, social work, health sciences) collaborated with the Intercollegiate YMCA to establish an interprofessional collaborative service-learning experience. The experience included students from undergraduate to doctoral level and various course formats (traditional service-learning, hybrid, and extreme e-service-learning). There were unique successes and challenges, many linked to the nature of the varying course formats and levels of students. The project was successful in that students from all involved courses developed skills that were applicable within their fields of study, as well as learning about some of the challenges inherent in working with health professionals trained somewhat differently than themselves. A definite area for improvement was to offer better and more regular collaboration between students at each stage of the process. Lessons learned may be helpful to those seeking the pursuit of similar future projects that offer service-learning opportunities to their students and increase interprofessional practice.
June 14-16, 2017
Project Outreach: Interprofessional Service Learning to Meet Community and Professional Needs
Faculty from multiple programs (public health, social work, health sciences) collaborated with the Intercollegiate YMCA to establish an interprofessional collaborative service-learning experience. The experience included students from undergraduate to doctoral level and various course formats (traditional service-learning, hybrid, and extreme e-service-learning). There were unique successes and challenges, many linked to the nature of the varying course formats and levels of students. The project was successful in that students from all involved courses developed skills that were applicable within their fields of study, as well as learning about some of the challenges inherent in working with health professionals trained somewhat differently than themselves. A definite area for improvement was to offer better and more regular collaboration between students at each stage of the process. Lessons learned may be helpful to those seeking the pursuit of similar future projects that offer service-learning opportunities to their students and increase interprofessional practice.