Faculty, staff partner with L.A. community groups
by cynthia lee
today staff writer
Tapping into the power of partnership, faculty and staff members are collaborating with community organizations over the coming year on projects ranging from innovations in adolescent suicide prevention to a media project involving homeless immigrant children.
UCLA’s Center for Community Partnerships has awarded seven faculty and staff projects with funds of up to $50,000 to support partnership work in projects or research with nonprofit community-based groups. The 2005 funded partnership winners are:
• Joan Asarnow, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, will partner with the Pasadena Children’s Training Society (The Sycamores) on suicide prevention.
• Timothy Fong, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, will work with the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council on the impact of gambling on L.A.’s Asian communities.
• Yuen Huo, assistant professor of psychology, together with the Greater Long Beach Region National Conference for Community and Justice, will study youth violence and racial conflicts in Long Beach.
• Tim Kittleson, director of the Film and Television Archive, and the Outfest Legacy Project will make available for study the largest publicly accessible collection of LGBT films in the world.
• Victoria Marks, professor of world arts and cultures, and Kenneth Chuang, assistant clinical professor in psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, will work with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking. They will offer a new seminar to educate graduate students on human trafficking issues and then utilize their skills in a community service project that will benefit trafficking survivors.
• Chon Noriega, director of the Chicano Studies Research Center, will team up with the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Inc. Working with residents of Casa Libre, a Pico-Union shelter for homeless immigrant minors, they plan to involve youths in a media project on the issues facing this population.
• Kenneth Wells, professor in residence in psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and director of the Health Services Research Center, will partner with Healthy African American Families II to evaluate a Web-based toolkit. The kit will assist community caseworkers in recognizing depression, making referrals and using educational resources.
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