Community-Campus Partnership Support
Round 9 Awardees – Spring 2023
Funding Period: May 2023 – May 2024
“Interprofessional Collaborative Practice to Improve Access to Care and Advance Health Equity at the Healthcare United at Gateway Clinic”
NAU Lead Academic Partners: Holly C. Carroll, PT, DPT, Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Clinical Education, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Community Partner: Heather Murray, PTA, Program Manager & Administrator, Healthcare United at Gateway (HUG) Clinic, Gateway Community College
Partner Website: HUG Clinic
Supporting Partners:
- Pamela Bosch, PT, DPT, PhD, Professor, Physical Therapy Program, NAU
- Holly Carroll, PT, DPT, Associate Clinical Professor, Physical Therapy Program, NAU
- Alison Essary, DHSc, MHPE, PA-C, Professor, Chair of Physician Assistant Studies, Physician Assistant Program, NAU
- Hayley Root, PhD, MPH, ATC, Athletic Training Program, Assistant Professor, NAU
- Lara Taggart, EdD, OTR/L, Assistant Clinical Professor, Occupational Therapy Program, NAU
Goal of Partnership: The partners will explore ways to increase access to health care for underserved people in Arizona and create a plan to encourage students in health professions to work with underserved groups of people.
“Cultivating Partnerships to Support Wellbeing Among Arizona’s School Administrators”
NAU Lead Academic Partners: Angelina Castagno, PhD, Professor, Educational Leadership, Northern Arizona University
Community Partner: Paul Tighe, EdD, Executive Director, Arizona School Administrators (ASA)
Partner Website: Arizona School Administrators
Goal of Partnership: The partners will explore the most urgent needs related to wellbeing among Arizona’s diverse school leaders and create a plan for how to address those needs.
“Exploring Opportunities to Collaborate with the Chinle Comprehensive Care Facility: Occupational Therapy and Hand Therapy Departments & the Hand Clinic”
NAU Lead Academic Partner: Cindy Ivy, OTD, MEd, CHT, OTR/L, Clinical Professor, Occupational Therapy
Community Partner: Tauni Malmgren, OTD, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist, Indian Health Services, Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility
Partner Website: Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility
Goal of Partnership: The goal of this partnership is to explore how occupational therapists can address patient needs at the Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility.
“How the dynamics between LGBTQ+ individuals and their peers in senior living communities affects LGBTQ+ care access”
NAU Lead Academic Partner: Megan McCoy, PhD, MSS, MLSP, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work
Community Partner: Tena Alonzo, MA, Director of Education & Research, Beatitudes Campus: A Senior Living Community
Partner Website: Beatitudes Campus
Goal of Partnership: The partners will plan a community discussion for aging LGBTQ+ individuals and allies in Arizona with the goal of understanding LGBTQ+ experiences in senior living communities. The partnership also aims to form a group that will provide feedback and insight to researchers.
“Advancing health equity through a diverse healthcare workforce: Engaging with Native American nurses and potential nurses to improve care for Indigenous peoples”
NAU Lead Academic Partner: Suzanne McWilliams, DNP, MSN, RN, Associate Clinical Professor, College of Nursing
Community Partner: Jeffrey Axtell, MEd, Director, American Indian Health – Area Health Education Center, Arizona Advisory Council on Indian Health Care
Partner Website: American Indian Health – Area Health Education Center
Goal of Partnership: This partnership’s goal is to explore ways to remove barriers for Native Americans who want to enter the nursing profession and to find opportunities to increase awareness and knowledge of nursing for Native Americans.
“Developing community relationships to understand educational inequities among immigrant families in Arizona”
NAU Lead Academic Partner: Leah Mundell, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sustainable Communities
Community Partner: Roxana Cardiel, BA, MA Sustainable Communities (expected 2025), Community Organizer, Northern Arizona Interfaith Council/Institutions for Community Leadership
Partner Website: Northern Arizona Interfaith Council/Institutions for Community Leadership
Goal of Partnership: The goal of this partnership is to establish and/or strengthen relationships with organizations across Arizona who work with the education system and immigrant families. The partners will discuss how to work with communities to overcome educational injustices that immigrant families face.
“A community-led initiative to promote Indigenous Pride among Native Americans living unsheltered in Flagstaff, Arizona”
NAU Lead Academic Partner: Katsuya Oi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Community Partner: Somana Tootsie, AA, CNA, Executive Director and Co-Founder, 4th World Foundation
Partner Website: 4th World Foundation
Goal of Partnership: Guided by both sociological insights and an Indigenous-centered approach, this project centers on a one-day event designed to empower and honor the resilience of Unsheltered Relatives (a term emphatically referring to Native Americans navigating housing challenges).
“Health equity/environmental health/climate change in Tucson”
NAU Lead Academic Partner: Lucero Radonic, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Community Partner: Catlow Shipek, MA, Senior Program Director, Watershed Management Group
Partner Website: Watershed Management Group
Supporting Partners:
- Emery Eaves, PhD, Department Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Luis Salgado, BS, Green Infrastructure Project Manager, Watershed Management Group
Goal of Partnership: This partnership will build a coalition to explore inclusive options for improving stormwater management in Tucson, AZ to adapt to the needs of the community as the climate changes.
“Exploring Barriers to Rehabilitation Care Continuum in Native Americans, following Discharge from Post-Acute Rehabilitation Setting”
NAU Lead Academic Partner: Indrakshi Roy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (Previously Assistant Research Professor, Department of Health Sciences at NAU)
Community Partner: Jon Cook, PT, DPT, MBA, LSSGB, Chief Executive Officer, Rehabilitation Hospital of Northern Arizona
Partner Website: Rehabilitation Hospital of Northern Arizona
Supporting Partner: Tarang Kumar Jain, PhD, DPT, BPT, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, NAU
Goal of Partnership: This project will address inequities in rehabilitation care (the health care patients receive after a hospital visit) in northern Arizona and find ways to improve rehabilitation care so that it reflects the needs and desires of community members, focusing on those who belong to vulnerable populations.
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