U OF U AND WEST SALT LAKE COMMUNITY IMPACT AFTER 5 YEARS OF PARTNERSHIP WORK

• An average of about 200 University of Utah students, faculty, and staff contribute at least 6,500 hours of community-based research a semester to UNP’s 13 existing partnerships. Over 150 students and about three dozen faculty help to build these reciprocal relationships between the University and west Salt Lake neighborhoods, creating pathways to higher education for west Salt Lake families. Almost every department (academic and non) on campus is involved in UNP partnership work.

• 11,732 residents have connected with UNP partnerships over the past five years. In 2007, nearly 5,000 residents participated in UNP programming.

• 1,191 youth been reached through UNP Partnerships. Programming in 2007 reached 661 west Salt Lake youth.
– Over 50 middle school students have served as book masters in the past five years.
– 333 students have participated in the Youth Book Exchange. 285 books have been distributed among them.

• At least 500 different partner groups or individuals have made UNP partnerships work over the past five years.
– 70 faculty (either U of U or SLCC) have engaged with UNP artnerships.
– 539 U of U students have shaped UNP partnerships.

• UNP community-wide festivals have drawn 7,163 attendees.
– 150 partners have coordinated four successful years of PIP, where 2,800 residents attended in past three years.
– 4,100 attendees have enjoyed over the past three Rose Park Community Festivals.

• 56 individuals have received Academic Consulting services. Six were accepted at the University of Utah, two went to Utah Valley State College, and another five have enrolled at Salt Lake Community College.
• 1,455 educational materials have been distributed in five years.
• 13 residents have served as Community Ambassadors.
• 60 Community Advocate parents (Spanish and English-speaking) have been trained to support their childrens’ educational success.
• 92 Westside Leadership Institute graduates (Spanish and English-speaking) are now involved in the community

• UNP has earned six awards in five years: Utah Dream Center’s 2005 award to UNP Hartland Center; Utah Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights Commission’s 2007 Drum Major Award in January 2007 to UNP; Practicum Field Agency Award from the U of U College of Social Work to UNP-Hartland Partnership Center; Mountain View Elementary awarded the 2006-2007 Partners in Education award to UNP; Salt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services 2005 Outstanding Community Service Award to UNP; Utah Association of Bilingual Education awarded the Adelante Partnership Community Member of the Year 2006.

• UNP received media recognition both on and off campus, with 16 news articles about UNP partnerships in U of U campus media and 24 published or broadcast off-campus in both English and Spanish radio, television, newspapers, or magazines. This year UNP produced its first video documenting three partnership stories. UNP also distributed their first semesterly newsletter.

IMPACT AT HARTLAND AFTER 5 YEARS OF PARTNERSHIP WORK

A Report to UNP:Conncting Past and Present: Field study along the Thailand Burma (Myanmar) Border

• 220 residents have gone through ELL training.

• 83 residents have learned financial fitness skills; six residents put down payments towards homes, with another three beginning IDA’s.

• 163 residents have received Life Skills instruction.

• Youth leadership participation grew 250% from 50 participants in 2004-2005 to 200 in 2006-2007. Nine different programs for youth exist, including a Girl Scout troop, Boys Tutoring and Mentoring Group, Somali Bantu Soccer program, Mountain View Elementary/College Education Program, and Young Men’s Group.

• Over a dozen residents have received legal consultation.

• The resident instructor at Hartland was accepted to the MSW program at the U of U.

• Six residents had home-country credentials recognized by U of U, resulting in a streamlined partnership between Hartland and U of U International Center created to facilitate this process.

• About 250 residents have accessed health programming.

• 1,140 residents received specialized information on higher education.

• Six residents who were enrolled in the citizenship class became U.S. citizens.

IMPACT ON U of U SCHOLARSHIP AFTER 5 YEARS OF PARTNERSHIP WORK

• A total of 12 faculty from the U have been involved in developing locally-based curriculum for two of UNP’s leadership partnerships.

• Five courses integrated or centered in UNP partnerships have been developed by University faculty.

• Four dissertations or master’s theses have been produced by UNP partners, with another four dissertations in progress.

• Six journal articles and three chapters have been published or accepted for publication.

• Faculty and students have facilitated 27 conference presentations.

• Fourteen research reports have been issued.

• Two documents were generated this year to help outline the protocols, models, and principles that create effective and reciprocally beneficial community-based research for U of U faculty and students. You can download them by clicking on the following links: Community Based Research Report and Guidelines for Community Based Research.

• A digital collection of 47 items produced by or associated with UNP partnerships have been made available through the Marriott Library website. Click on the following link to access the collection: UNP Digital Collection.

• Three new UNP scholarships have been established this year. Two of them are applicable towards higher educational goals and the third is geared towards providing pre-college experience to west Salt Lake residents.