Restoring Rundberg: A Community-Research Partnership
Springer, Lauderdale, Fitzgerald & Baker
View Article
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work and
the Austin Police Department (APD) have partnered with community leaders and
stakeholders to Restore Rundberg, which aims to “improve the quality of life,
health, safety, education, and well-being of individuals living and working in
the Rundberg neighborhood.” Sustainable and innovative community engagement is
at the core of this effort.
Resident Feedback on the Restore Rundberg Community Survey
Castro, Casstevens, Garcia & Springer
View Article
A major goal of the Restore Rundberg project is to increase collective
efficacy and community engagement, and community-level interventions are
currently being implemented in this vein. In order to assess the effect of these
interventions on collective efficacy and community engagement of Rundberg
residents, researchers complied a community survey that measures residents’ of
perceptions of these factors before and after implementation of interventions.
Restore Rundberg: Targeting Hot Spots
Whitt
View Article
Crime is, typically, tightly clustered around specific locations in urban
neighborhoods. The disproportionate aggregation of neighborhood disorder into
‘hot spots’ was a conspicuous point of agreement among the many perspectives
shared within the Restore Rundberg team of neighbors, law enforcement officials,
social science researchers, social workers, and community engagement
professionals from the inception. The more challenging compromise between
stakeholders of the notoriously disadvantaged Austin, TX neighborhood has been
developing the best intervention to reduce violations in the most problematic
areas while also limiting the displacement of crime into others.
University and Community Engagement-Classes to Promote Youth
Leadership
Davis
View Article
There are over 300 colleges and universities that compete in the top division
of the NCAA, and over 120 the mirror the size of The University of Texas’s
athletic program as members of the upper echelon of football at the collegiate
level. Similarly, the impact of those schools AND their respective student
athletes on the local community can be as significant. The leadership developed
among those student athletes cannot and does not happen in a vacuum: their
potential impact on local communities, particularly those in socio-economic
disadvantaged neighborhoods and schools can be immense.
Restore Rundberg: Developing an Asset Inventory
Pitzer
View Article
The Restore Rundberg Project was designed to address crime and revitalize the
neighborhoods within the Rundberg area. As a component of this project, an asset
inventory was created to document the resources, services, programs, and
initiatives currently present in the community.
LaunchPad Photovoice Project: Rundberg Through the Eyes of
Middle School Students
Streeter
View Article
Photovoice is a community-based participatory action research method that
combines photography with grassroots mobilization to help members of the
community gain a greater understanding of their environment and experiences and
to share them with others. The pictures, along with captions or narration by the
photographers, can be used to document the reality of life in the community
through the eyes of the photographer and can drive home that reality to the
public and to policy makers to help spur change and improve conditions in the
community.
Aspects of Organized Drug Trade Affecting Austin
Taraba, Lauderdale & Inman
View Article