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Our Community Partner: Portland Research and Education Network
The mission of the Portland Research and Education Network (PREN) is to promote collaboration and the development of innovative network services and advanced applications to further regional leadership in research, education and health care.
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Our Community Partner: Axis Performance
AXIS Performance Advisors is a management consulting firm specializing in the implementation of sustainable business practices. This partnership is a joint collaboration between PSU and Axis Performance to offer a professional certificate in implementing sustainability practices.
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Our Community Partner: Upward Bound
This partnership pairs PSU seniors with 9th-12th grade students from four Portland high schools. PSU students serve as mentors and tutors to groups of first generation high school students in an attempt to facilitate the completion of their high school studies and introduce them to college life.
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Our Community Partner: Ethos, Inc.
Ethos, Inc. seeks to introduce a whole new generation of youth to the magic of music. PSU Capstone students partnered with Ethos to design and deliver an arts education curriculum that used jazz to enhance student learning outcomes in mathematics and reading.
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Our Community Partner: Multnomah ESD Outdoor School
The ESD Outdoor School is designed to teach field-based science concepts as they relate to natural resources, to extend science instruction beyond the classroom and to implement activities that provide opportunities for participation in cooperative living experiences, performing arts, recreation, and structured events.
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Our Community Partner: PCC Native Literacy Program
Spanish-speaking adults who have had little opportunity to recieve formal education come to the Adult Native Literacy Program for basic literacy classes. PSU students volunteer as tutors for the Native Literacy Project.
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Our Community Partner: Nike Child Development Center
Child and Family Studies students meet goals and objectives of practicum experience in early childhood education by serving at the Nike Child Development Center in a variety of capacities.
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Our Community Partner: National College of Naturopathic Medicine
NCNM provides an academic experience focusing on natural medicine, both eastern and western, and integrated medical education, research, and patient care. PSU Students research, develop and write grant proposals to assist the NCNM in its pursuit of funding for program support.
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Our Community Partner: Rotary Club - Camp Enterprise
Camp Enterprise provides high school juniors with experiences in leadership, business principles, and dealing with challenges of life & business. The objective of the Camp Enterprise Program is to explore, expose, challenge and awaken interest in the concepts of "business" and "private enterprise".
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Our Community Partner: Native American Youth Association (NAYA)
NAYA works to increase opportunities for healthy activities by promoting family stability, youth camps, support groups, cultural activities, tutoring classes, and special events. PSU students assist in helping the agency grow from a small recreation program staffed by volunteers to a fully sustainable youth community center.
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Our Community Partner: Choices Domestic Violence Intervention
Child and Family Studies students meet goals and objectives for community-based practicum, focused on domestic violence intervention with children.
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Our Community Partner: Oregon Health Sciences University
Child and Family Studies students meet goals and objectives for community-based practicum through participating in Child Life Therapy programs with the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center at OHSU.
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Our Community Partner: Donald E. Long Correctional Facility
PSU students serve as mentors to address the needs of Spanish-speaking youth in the juvenile correctional facility.
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Our Community Partner: Department of Human Services
Child and Family Studies students meet goals and objectives of community-based practicum related to human services and child welfare.
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Our Community Partner: Youth Employment Institute
The Youth Employment Institute is a nonprofit organization that provides employment, education and training program for high risk youth. The YEI partners with Portland State to provide field learning experiences. All youth are taught life skills, basic employment readiness training, and receive job search assistance.
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Our Community Partner: Immigrant and Refugee Community Org
The mission of IRCO is assist refugees, immigrants and multi-ethnic communities to develop self-sufficiency and cultural awareness while affirming and preserving each culture within an ever-changing global environment.
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Our Community Partner: LISTOS Alternative Learning Center
LISTOS serves high-risk Hispanic and other high school students who have left the public school system. Last year, LISTOS educated over 150 young people in order to improve their skills in language, math, social studies and science.
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Our Community Partner: Early Head Start Family Center
The Early Head Start Family Center of Portland is a consortium of local service providers, clients, and other interested parties in the fields of social services, health, and education.
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Our Community Partner: Institute for Judaic Studies
The Institute for Judaic Studies collaborates with PSU to offer lectures and cultural events, including co-sponsorship of visiting scholars and writers and professors, to adults interesting in studying Judaic history and Judaism.
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Our Community Partner: Oregon Geographic Alliance
The Oregon Geographic Alliance provides professional development for geography teachers regarding course content and pedagogy methods.
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Our Community Partner: Archaeological Institute of America
The Archaeological Institute of America works to bring professional archaeologists to PSU and to spread knowledge of archaeology to the Portland community.
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Our Community Partner: Northwest Film Center
This partnership combines the practical filmmaking resources of the NWFC with PSU's academic expertise. Students can take classes at the NWFC for PSU credit, and vice versa. Students are able to concurrently register for individual classes, pursue a BA or BS in Film and/or a Minor in Film Studies in the School of Theatre & Film at PSU, and pursue a Certificate in Film Studies at NWFC.
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Our Community Partner: Friends of the Children
Friends of the Children provides field instruction for an advanced Masters in Social Work student in community-based practice. Social work faculty and doctoral students serve on committees and taskforces, providing research and social service expertise.
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Our Community Partner: Barnes Elementary School
PSU students serve as tutors/classroom aides in a bilingual Spanish/English dual immersion program. The partnership provides PSU students with a vehicle for using their language skills in a real-world setting while filling a critical need for Spanish-speaking volunteers.
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Our Community Partner: David Douglas School District
PSU students involved with counseling and social work collaborate to provide services to at-risk students within the David Douglas School District.
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Our Community Partner: PPS Courage to Teach
The Courage to Teach program offers a series of seasonal retreats for the personal and professional renewal of educators, particularly K-12 teachers.
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Our Community Partner: Franklin High School
This partnership between Portland Public Schools and PSU uses choral music to share literature, concerts, and expose high school students to a collegiate music experience while enhancing their music program at Franklin High School.
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Our Community Partner: Leaders Roundtable
Students in Applied Linguistics teach English as a Second Language (ESL) evening classes for adult refugees and immigrants in local public schools. PSU students get teaching practice under supervision; adult ESL students get free classes in survival English.
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Our Community Partner: Lent School
PSU students explore literary themes with students using creative media such as art, music, sign language, and poetry.
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Our Community Partner: Wolftree, Inc.
Wolftree and PSU Capstone students attempt to improve science literacy in the schools, with a focus on schools in low-income communities and schools with large populations of at-risk students.
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Our Community Partner: p:ear
Students in the Strategic Management for Non-profits University Studies Capstone course assist with the sustainability and growth needs of p:ear, an organization which uses education, art, and recreation to address homeless youth needs.
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Our Community Partner: Challenge Program
The Challenge Program is an opportunity for high school seniors to take college courses and earn college credit while still in high school.
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Our Community Partner: Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington
Young Audiences (YA)works to bring artists into the Graduate Teacher Education Program at PSU and emphasizes the use of the arts as a tool for reflective thought and other teaching practices.
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Our Community Partner: Pacific University
The Pacific University School of Professional Psychology serves as a practica site for students from Pacific University and Portland State University specializing in psychotherapy and psychological assessmsent.
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Our Community Partner: Oregon Mathematics & Science Achievement
MESA serves as a practicum site for students pursuing teaching degrees in science-related fields, emphasizing the updating of science curriculum in Oregon high schools.
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Our Community Partner: US Fish and Wildlife Service
This partnership involves the cooperation of the USFWS, the Chinook Tribe and Portland State University and is aimed at archaeological and environmental research, public education and student training.
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Our Community Partner: Multnomah County Health Department
Poder es Salud/Power for Health is a collaborative research project designed to increase the capacity of members of the African-American and Latino communities to identify health issues and address health promotion and disease and injury prevention.
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Our Community Partner: Portland State University Stroke Camp
Students write grant proposals to solicit funding for programmatic support as part of the Grantwriting for Non-profits course curriculum under the Institute for Non-profit Management.
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Our Community Partner: Winners on Wheels of Oregon
Students work with Winners on Wheels of Oregon in order to learn about the needs of people in wheelchairs and what life is like for both the children and their families. Students interact directly with children and also perform fundraising.
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Our Community Partner: King Elementary School
PSU Capstone students work in King Elementary classrooms or as one-on-one tutors to enhance the reading and math skills of at-risk students. The goal is to enable more students to reach state benchmarks and meet the guidelines of the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Our Community Partner: Pacific University CPEP
The Collaborative Professional Education Project provides interdisciplinary preparation of graduate students preparing for careers in early intervention, special education, speech-language pathology, physical therapy, and occupational therapy.
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Our Community Partner: Glenfair Elementary School
Students participate in a Native Literacy program, enabling them to witness firsthand the challenges faced by schools with large populations of children for whom English is not the main language spoken.
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Our Community Partner: Campfire USA, Mt. Hood Council
Campfire USA serves as a practicum site for students pursuing a degree in Child and Family Studies, allowing students to meet practicum objectives through working with teen parents.
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Our Community Partner: Kenton Elementary School
The Jazz Outreach Forum Senior Capstone - PSU Capstone students design and deliver an arts education curriculum that incorporates jazz to enhance student learning outcomes in mathematics and reading.
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Our Community Partner: Portland Parks and Recreation
Oaks Bottom Signage Project - Students studied the Oaks Bottom Refuge and created interpretive signs for the public's benefit on proper use and care of the sensitive wetland area.
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Our Community Partner: Center for Outcomes Research & Education
CORE measures and assesses health care outcomes, quality and satisfaction through the application of research and systematic evaluation. CORE's current programmatic focus is on improving health care services, clinical informatics, and quality and satisfaction reporting.
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Our Community Partner: Oregon Post-Adoption Resource Center
This partnership between the PSU Graduate School of Social Work, PSU Continuing Education, the Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center (ORPARC) and the State of Oregon Department of Human Services provides post-graduate education for mental health professionals regarding specialized theories and practices for treating adopted children.
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Native Knowledge - Challenging students to think critically about history and cultural identity