Carolina Center for Public Service - Public Service and Engagement at Carolina

2009 Robert E. Bryan Fellows

Leighann Breeze

A Sophomore Psychology major, Leighann Breeze, will use her fellowship to create Project SPROUT - a 6 week garden-based, nutrition education program for TABLE, a local non-profit hunger-relief organization. Elementary school children at low-income Chapel Hill/Carrboro summer camps will attend weekly hands-on vegetable garden-based classes that promote sustainable healthy eating through increasing children's intake of fresh vegetables, expanding their nutrition knowledge and teaching healthy eating habits through fun gardening & snacking activities.

Area served: Orange County
Faculty Mentor: Penny Gordon-Larsen, Department of Nutrition
Community Partner: Joy MacVane, TABLE

 

Olivia Reid Linthavong

A Doctoral candidate, Olivia will partner with the Open Door Clinic in Burlington, NC to provide additional resources specifically targeted to serve the overwhelming number of patients who present at the Clinic with diabetes. Working with the coordinator of the Burlington Open Door Clinic, Susan Wilson, and Dr. John Buse, the Director of the Diabetes Care Center at UNC, Olivia will create a Diabetes Prevention and Maintenance Clinic to run in conjunction with the current clinic in Burlington.

Area served: Alamance County
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Buse, Director of the Diabetes Care Center
Community Partner: Susan Wilson, Burlington Open Door Clinic

Lindsay Moriarty

A Master of Public Health Candidate, Lindsay will evaluate the impact of the immediate and surrounding built environment on the health and wellbeing of the residents of Oldham and J.J. Henderson Towers, two senior public housing complexes located in downtown Durham. The primary aim of her project will be to advocate to establish a set of standards for senior public housing that addresses the intersection of the person, his/her environment and health.

Area served: Durham County
Faculty Mentor: Arjumand Siddiqi, School of Public Health
Community Partner: Duke Department of Community and Family Medicine, and Just for Us

Jesica Speed

A Doctoral candidate in Communication Studies, Jesica will create and implement a teacher training curriculum for Student U. This teacher training curriculum will focus specifically on providing experiential education and arts integration opportunities for middle school students by building teachers’ skills to imagine, create, and implement lessons that successfully bridge curriculum and experience in order to give students the cognitive skills and content mastery necessary to succeed in school. Jesica’s community partner is Student U and her faculty mentor is Madeleine Grumet.

Area served: Durham County
Faculty Mentor: Madeleine Grumet, Communication Studies
Community Partner: Daniel Kimberg, Student U

 

Katie Wehr

A Master of Public Health, Maternal Child Health student, Katie will create a sustainable evaluation system for the Addiction Recovery Program/Phoenix Strengthening Families Program in Buncombe County. The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a national and international evidence-based parenting and strengthening families program for high-risk families that promotes the development of life skills for parents, their children, and the family. Addiction Recovery Program/Phoenix (ARP/Phoenix) administers this program for parents who are enrolled in substance abuse treatment and their children ages 6-14 in Buncombe County, NC. Sherri Green from the School of Public Health is her faculty mentor and ARP/Phoenix Strengthening Families Program is her community partner.

Area served: Buncombe County
Faculty Mentor: Sherri Green, School of Public Health
Community Partner: Strengthening Families Program