Community Support and Collaboration

The Community Support and Collaboration Team

The Community Support and Collaboration Team manages our undergraduate preventive home visiting practicum for older adults in collaboration with stakeholders in the local community. The goal of the practicum is to develop community-oriented geriatric and community health nursing competencies among our students. The practicum provides students with multiple perspectives for understanding older adults, including a variety of individual and environmental aspects of wellness, prevention, and community life. Issues found through the visits are shared with stakeholders such as local governments and public health nurses and addressed as regional challenges. The team is also a liaison for the community and collaborates with local governments on surveys and research to promote community health, such as planning and analyzing a social survey on mental health and suicide prevention.