Progress 09/15/24 to 09/14/25
Outputs
Target Audience:HINU extension provides outreach and educational opportunities to community members in Dougals and surrounding communities. We work with various partners to maximize our reach and exposure. Within this past year our programming has grown and attendance and demand for all activities have grown. We have offered 105 training or educational opportunities to the public and have have over 3000 attendees. Our social media following has grown to include over grown to over 1200 followers that are active in attending our programming. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We have been able to provide many opoortunities for our interns and our staff as well whether it is professional devlopment through the workshops and trainings we host or throug opportunities to attend NERAOC and FALCON which we had people attend both. The feedback is always useful to see what other programs are doing and asking questions of USDA staff on programming an guidance. Our students always love attending FALCON and meeting other young people from other TCU and seeing the work they are doing. It inspires them to also look at projects and get ideas on what they could do. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Community participation has grown and continues to grow. We now have community members asking for workshops and offering to lead workshops of interest. We are looking at growing to take more opportunities out into the communities this year especially the reservations many of the people from the reservations have asked about hosting workshops on the reservation and this has been something we have talked to tribal and community partners with adn hope to grow over the next year.. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?continue to grow participation and outreach to the community in a positive and meaningful way. Find new opportunities to partner and grow workshops on the four local resevations.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
HINU Extension interns created and organized a plan for gathering campus recycling and have a scheduled of collections times and sites. We have recieved interest from individuals and other groups on campus that want to help or get involved in working on this project. We also hosted in partnership a conference focusing on Climate Change on Childrens Helath. This was attended by a diverse group of people from many backgrounds and alot of knowledge and research that has been done and is being done in these areas.HINU extension has visited the and worked with all four of the local tribes on projects. We worked with the Prairie Band and Kickapoo on a youth summit as well as a few wellness and gardening workshops with the Boys and Girls club. We will continue to build out opportunities located on the reservations in the next year. We have created a monthly open market that allows local artists and small business owners a opportunity to sell their products and merchandise. This became a very popular monthly event and needed due to the loss of a small business that housed many of the loacl artist. The artists approaached us and asked us about the possibility of partnering with them to provide some space and this has turned out to be a great thing form many local entrepruers and many people attend and purchase items from the vendors. The student workers design and market all of the events and have now started creating their own events that in many case they teach. We brought in someone to teach how to make corn husk dolls and all of our interns attended and learnt how to make the dolls and have now went out and held four workshops where they teach children and adults to make dolls. HINU Extension partnered with the city of Lawrence and started work on a officialMOU with the city and this year that was finalized and signed creating the first MOU between the city and HINU. This has created opportunities for many different projects for students and interns to gain hands on experience in working with local profesionals in project like prairie restoration, species identification, creating new interactive signs in the park that helps guest with education of plants, animals and the ecosystem as a whole. We have hosted foraging workshops at both the HINU campus and Prairie park and many people have attended and shared knowledge and even created dishes from the foraged foods for participants to try. We also hosted for the 2nd year in partnership with Kansas wildlife a hunters safety course, a special harvesting hunt, a deer processing work shop, a deer butchering workshop, and a deer cooking workshop. This again was a successful well attended series that many community members from all over the area attended al or some othe workshops. Our largest and biggest event was a Bison harvest and feast. The Cheyenne Arapahoe tribe of Oklahoma donated 2 bison and sent several people to lead the harvest in their way. Community members participated in all of the processing and cooking it was truly a large undertaking but with community it was a poerful and beautiful weekend to see everyone from all backgrounds come and participate as a community and learn about the cultural significance of this process and to be able to have a meal together and learn together was again beautiful and powerful.Overall this year has been one of great growth and opportunity that has helped many people in our community everyday we get great feedback and thank you from people and lets us know the work we are doing is making a impact.
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Progress 09/15/23 to 09/14/24
Outputs
Target Audience:HINU extension provides outreach and educational opportunities to communitiy members in Douglas and surrounding Counties. We also work with various partners in these geographical areas to maximize our reach and opportunities to best serve out targeted community members. WE also work with the Prairie Band Potawomi Nation, Kickapoo Nation, Sac and Fox Nation, and Ioway Nation. Within this period we have grown our outreach to new hieghts through the use of Social media, advertising, and strategic partner with in the communities. Our Social media in six months gained over 900Followers and our posts have been shared over 2700times. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Sent students and program coordinator and faculty members to AISES conference, Falcon, SACNAS. The program coordinator also attended some of the USDA online webinars as well as 1 grants person and finance person attended the annualNEROAC conference. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Sharing our attendance and opportunities for new trainings through social media and our partnerships. We also provide updated reports to the HINU board of regents and leadership quarterly. We continue to collect surveys for trainings and ideas. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We are planning out our programming schedule for the year with all activities and budgetto meet our goals and objectives for this next year.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
1) students attended AISES, FALCON, NACSAS conferencewhich was targeted on leadership, Agricultural, STEM, CLimate change issues and research and exposed students to careeropportunities. We also held various workshops around topics that are related toGardening, food sustainability, food soveriegnty, Aqua ponics, alternative growing techniques, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Culture, and life skills. 2. Eco Art Workshops, plant identification, prairie restoration project partnership in partnership with the City of Lawrences Prairie Park Nature Center in the past year we signed a MOU for placement of interns to do research and help with summer camps for youth and prairie restoration. 3.Worked exculisvely with the four tribes in North East Kansas to proved educational opportunities in their communities on Climate change, nutrition, healthy cooking , wellness, community gardening, leadership. 4. We continuedpartnered for programming with e the EPA and the Boys and Girls Club here in LAwrence, Prairie Band Potawatomie, and IOWAY tribes. These partnerships will continue to impact our Extension program into the future grant cycle by providing opportunities to provide programming and other opportunities to our unique and diverse communities in the areas of youth leadership, agricutural, food sustainability, and cultural programming. 5. We also have created a partnership with Dougals county open spaces program to provide community gardening opportunites for citizens. This initiative is also part of the Douglas county climate change program, which focuses on food waste and productionin a organic way in communal accessible spaces.
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Progress 09/15/22 to 09/14/23
Outputs
Target Audience:The targeted audience for the Extension Program is the Haskell University students & faculty/staff, Tribal College students & faculty/staff (TCU), and the Federally recognized tribes in the US. Sensing The Earth: Tribal College Faculty Data Science Experience workshops and meetings held in June and November of 2022. This helped us connect and network with TCU faculty/staff and various Native Tribal Members. This included: faculty/staff from University of Colorado-Boulder, Dine College, American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), College of Muscogee Nation, College of Menominee Nation, United Tribes Technical College, Oglala Lakota College, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, CU Boulder, and Haskell Indian Nations University. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The Sensing the Earth Workshop in November at Haskell offeredhands on experience in TCU Faculty-Focused workshops which introduces opensource, openaccess, advanced tools for geospatial applications and climate modeling, such as: LiDAR, Google Earth Engine, Climate Futures Toolkit, Jupyter Notebook, Macrosystems EDDIE Modules, GitHub, and more. Participants also have access to detailed data with overviews from NEON, ESIIL, EarthLab, and connect to classroom resources such as open-access curated climate curriculum with the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN), the Native Food Energy & Water Systems (FEWS) Alliance and learn more about resources available and connect to Project Red Bus (an intertribalinstitutional resource-mapping initiative led by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)). Student Workers have been involved with the hosting of Sensing the Earth and creating the craft room. This has encouraged these students to work on skills such as communication, networking, planning, and leadership. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Videos from both Sensing the Earth workshops will be posted on the Haskell web page on a new Haskell USDA Extension page documenting and describing activities. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We will support and host a daylong TCU Climate Change meeting convened by the the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Workng Group at the AIHEC annual conference for TCU students and faculty. We will support a Haskell Hiawatha Center for Justice forum onthe arts and inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding climate change. Continue to reachout to tribes to strengthen Haskell extension services to tribal nations. Sponsor a Saturday symposium on critical thinkingskills and creativity to face climate change and the exercise of tribal sovereignty. Ask 2-4 USDA student interns to work with the USDA Extension Program Coordinator to empower Haskell students to develop experiential and informal learning opportunites for their fellow students. Offer anIndigenous Language Workshop on Indigenous Languages, Wisdom, and Climate Change. Open our student craftroom and present worshopson tradional and modern arts and crafts.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
During this project period, we helped put together the Sensing the Earth: Tribal College Faculty Data Science Experience workshop on November 17 -18, 2022. Thisworkshop was ovffered as a flow-up to the June 2022 Sensing the Earth Workshop. I was designed to help continue building relationships and foster partnerships with TCU students, faculty/staff, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), the Carpentries, Colorado University Boulder: EarthLab, The Environmental Data Science Inno vation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL), Haskell Indian Nations University Cooperative Extension, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, Native Tribal Members, and others. A craft room is in the process of being put together for Haskell University students to access for various needs. A space was already put together in one of the dorms on campus but needed existing materials (sewing machines) moved into the space and purchases for additional supplies. Students Workers (who attend Haskell University) will be heading this project in the hopes of connecting, networking, and expanding out to other students and the community.
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