Progress 10/01/08 to 09/30/13
Outputs
OUTPUTS: The Families and Communities Together (FACT) Coalition conducted several forums and training workshops for building collaborations and grant proposal development. FACT provided funds for four planning grants. The planning grants were targeted to MSU-Extension professionals across the state to provide the resources to develope proposals. In addition, FACT supported nine multidisciplinary, community participatory research and outreach projects. The projects addressed a wide range of issues, e.g., financial health and education, immigrant health seeking, parental involvement, promoting academic success, obesity prevention, and professional development with tribal head start programs. FACT continued to monitor past projects and determined that a five fold return on investment was generated in external research funding and the cooperating scholars sustained a strong record of scholarly publications while serving local and state public needs. PARTICIPANTS: County and state MSU-Extension professionals, faculty members from kinesiology, communicative sciences and disorders, pediatrics and human development, microbiology and molecular genetics, edpidemiology, nursing, economics, large animal sciences, animal science, teacher education, advertising, public relations and retailing, geography and anthropology were participants from MSU. Community partners included the Michigan Bankers Association, Michigan Association of Bankers, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Michigan Credit Union Leagues, CHUM Therapeutic Riding Inc., Calumet public school library, Ingham County Health Department, Lansing Latino Health Alliance, Great Lakes Chinese Center, Lansing School District, CAS Head Start, and InterTribal Council of Michigan. TARGET AUDIENCES: Target audiences are Michigan families and communities. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
FACT has been terminated by MAES and MSU-E.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/08 to 12/31/08
Outputs
OUTPUTS: We held three forums for community partners and faculty. At the forums, procedures for establishing community partnerships and developing and submission of grant proposals were discussed in depth. In addition, we held a session at the new faculty orientation program for the university. We sent out a newsletter to about 500 past participants in FACT programs as well as a call for proposals. PARTICIPANTS: During the past year, FACT funded 8 community partnerships of MSU faculty with community groups such as the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park, MI, South side Community Coalition, Lansing, MI, Ottawa Area Intermediate School district, Ingham County Family Court, and Otwego county Commission on Aging. TARGET AUDIENCES: MSU faculty conduct research that creates knowledge to support new program efforts and change in communities. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Not relevant to this project.
Impacts
We are receiving biannual reports for all recipients of FACT funds. Project impacts include research to support and enhance community programs, services, and new efforts such as literacy efforts. We received a grant (Accelerating Change through Transformative Community-University Engagement. Co-Principal Investigator. Wk Kellogg Foundation. 2007-2008) to fund the efforts with establishing community partnerships.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/07 to 12/31/07
Outputs
OUTPUTS: This project supports the Families and Communities Together (FACT) Coalition: a multidisciplinary research, Extension and outreach coalition that focuses on Michigan Families and Communities. All research is community based, multidisciplinary focused. FACT links faculty researchers and resources with community partners and initiatives across Michigan. Our goal is to support the health and well-being of Michigan's children, families, and communities. Through our annual grant program and collaborative opportunities, we are realizing the vision of an engaged land-grant university. In addition, the Innovations Research program at FACT is designed to increase our competitive stance for federal research funding and grants that address issues related to the health and well-being of children, youth, families, and communities. Examples of titles of new research efforts in 2007 are Post-Deployment Adjustment of Michigan National Guard Couples, and , Building Alliances for Disability
Leadership. FACT research proposals in the coming year must focus on one of the five following topic areas: Families and Aging Families and the Economy Family and Community Diversity and Disparities Family and Community Health Families, Technology and Human Development We also facilitate collaborative work across MSU's campus and with community partners by sponsoring a series of forums for interdisciplinary work and professional development; maintaining a listserv with over 700 participants to disseminate information and promote discussion on child and family issues; and building a directory of faculty, Extension staff and community professionals that will help faculty find partners for your work and link campus and community.
PARTICIPANTS: Co-Directors include Dr. Cheryl Booth, Michigan State University and Dr. Patricia Farrell, Michigan State University.
Impacts
Faculty have leveraged internal funds for comunity participatory research/outreach projects with external funds at a 1-5 dollar ratio. These funds have allowed expanded research and resulted in extensive publications. In addition nearly one third of our community partners received additional funding as a result of the FACT-funded projects in which they participated. Other benefits reported by our community partners include broadening the learning experiences of students, improving program quality, and policy recommendations and change.
Publications
- Accelerating Change through Transformative Community-University Engagement. Grant from the WK Kellogg Foundation. 2007-2008.
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Progress 01/01/06 to 12/31/06
Outputs
This project supports the Families and Communities Together (FACT) Coalition: a multidisciplinary research, Extension and outreach coaltion that focuses on Michigan Families, including children and youth, and the communities in which we live. This year we refocuse our grants program on these focus areas; families and the economy, families and community ehalth, and families and community diversity and disparities. In addition we conducted an evaluation survey of community partners regarding expectations and saisfaction with university partnerships and projects. FACT sustains a multidiciplinary network of faculty, Extension staff and community professionals and stakeholders. To further connections it hosts e-mail information and discussion lists with more than 500 participants, a searchable directory, and acts as a clearinghouse of information.
Impacts
Faculty have leveraged internal funds for community participatory research/outreach projects with external funds at a 1-4.5 dollar ratio. These funds have allowed expanded research and resulted in extensive publications. In addition nearly one third of our community partners received additional funding as a result of the FACT-funded project in which they participated. Other benefits reported by our community partnersh include broadening the learning experiences of students, improving program quality, and policy recommendations and change.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/05 to 12/31/05
Outputs
A survey of community partners on 60 innovations in university - community partnership research projects determined the expectations, impacts, benefits and intentions following their experiences. The majority of community partners would like to continue to work with research faculty. The main benefit from the partnership was in new knowledge that helped partners address their objectives. Other impacts included changing or clarifying mission, organizational practices and procedures and securing additional funds.
Impacts
The FACT coalition will require indicators that the community partnership has engaged stakeholder input and is focused on obth scholarship and community objectives.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/04 to 12/31/04
Outputs
Multiple strategies for initiating multidisciplinary and cross colleagiate research projects were implemented, including an obesity council and community vitality competitive grant program. Initiate program to establish mechanism for impact assessment, sustaining community engagement and outcomes.
Impacts
A university-wide coalition at Michigan State University called Families and Communities Together (FACT) offers a model for engagement that is responsive to public demand for relevance by addressing pressing social issues and community needs. In implementing this model, the coalition is working through challenges and issues related to effective community engagement. Coalition projects are focused on obesity, literacy, parenting, nutrition, and community vitality.
Publications
- Booth, Cheryl, Shruti Vaidya, Patricia Farrell, Janet Bokemeier. 2004 Leveraging Resources and Sustaining Partnerships in Tough Economic Times. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 9(1)
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Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03
Outputs
This year we introduced a new model for Extension initiated - community research projects. We are comparing the impact, sustainability and outcomes of projects/programs with different models of community engagement.
Impacts
A university-wide coalition at Michigan State University called Families and Communities Together (FACT) offers a model for engagement that is responsive to public demand for relevance by addressing pressing social issues and community needs. In implementing this model, the coalition is working through challenges and issues related to effective community engagement. Coalition projects are focused on obesity, literacy, parenting, nutrition, and community vitality.
Publications
- 2003 Booth, Cheryl, Shruti Vaidya, Patricia Farrell, Janet Bokemeier. Families and Communities Together (FACT) Coalition: Evolution of a University-Wide Engagement Model. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 8(1)
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Progress 01/01/02 to 12/31/02
Outputs
The project supports FACT, a university wide coalition that is a multidisciplinary and multifunctional program focused on challenging and informing knowledge and best practices about children, youth and families. FACT activities involve faculty from ten colleges at Michigan State University. Projects were completed in the areas of Family engagement and community vitality; Youth development- Community and Schools, and Children, Nutrition and Health.
Impacts
One FACT project evaluated the impact of a social marketing project, The Eat Healthy, Eat Breakfast campaign to increase breakfast eating among kids ages 11-15. They found that following the campaign 9 percent of students began to eat breakfast, 9 percent parents are finding more ways to provide breakfast, and eating breakfast reduced health complaints by 32 percent.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/01 to 12/31/01
Outputs
The Families and Communities Together (FACT) Coalition involves faculty, extension staff and community professional from across the state. This past year FACT supported 11 multidisciplinary community engagement research and extension projects. Projects including studies of Muslim immigrant families and of community support for Sudanese refugee youth. Another project works with teen fathers identifying gaps in parenting skills, nutrition knowedlge and anger management. Children in foster care are at high risk. FACT is supporting a project to assess the challenges in education after aging out of care. Projects are determining youth and community assets with a focus on meeting needs of children and youth in after school times and out of school experiences. These FACT initiatives are innovative university-community partnerhsips that focus on children, nutrition and health and youth development. In addition FACT supported a Forum on Dialogues with Foundation, attended by
faculty, foundation profesionals and community partners. Nonpartisan education seminars for Michigan policymakers have focused on violence prevention, child care, divorce, and moving famlies out of poverty. A MSU Census Data Resource project launched a web site to provide Michigan demographic information in user-friendly formats.
Impacts
One FACT project evaluated the impact of a social marketing project, The Eat Healthy, Eat Breakfast campaign to increase breakfast eating among kids ages 11-15. They found that following the campaign 9 percent of students began to eat breakfast, 9 percent parents are finding more ways to provide breakfast, and eating breakfast reduced health complaints by 32 percent.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/00 to 12/31/00
Outputs
Established FACT (Families and Communities Together) Coalition. A model for family-centered community development has been piloted with projects in children, nutition and health and youth develop: communities and schools. A website www.fact.msu.edu is designed with a searchable database of faculty expertise and community partners, regular scientific journal articles on families and community capacity to support positive experiences.
Impacts
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Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/99 to 12/31/99
Outputs
A coalition, Families and Communities Together (FACT), of MSU research, Extension and outreach was established to facilitate research and outeach efforts that meet the needs of Michigan families, fosters innovative collaborations with MI communities and supports the capacity of communities to serve their citizens. A multidisciplinary coalition of MSU faculty, extension staff and professionals from communities and organizations jointly sponsored a series of forums; and, served as a clearinghouse with a listserv, database of expertise, web site and publications. About 300 faculty and community partners have been involved with the FACT coalition. Twelve collaborative research projects on children, youth and families isssues in sixteen MI counties were awarded on a competitive basis. These initiatives are innovative university-community partnerships that focus on youth development, feeding children, young children, health, and diversity in families.
Impacts
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Publications
- No publications reported this period
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