School of Human Ecology

Projects

• Wisconsin Food Security Project

  The Wisconsin Food Security Project is a cutting-edge interactive food security data and mapping portal developed in collaboration with UW-Extension a...

• Parenting Education Project

  Every year, about 35,000 families in 60 Wisconsin counties - including about one-third of all new parents - receive monthly parenting newsletters prod...

• Wisconsin Child Welfare Training System

  The Wisconsin Child Welfare Training System includes the Department of Children and Families (DCF), county child welfare agencies, tribal child welfar...

• Promising Practices from the Early Childhood Excellence Initiative

  This online resource provides brief observations and interpretations of child behavior from early care and education programs in Wisconsin, in more th...

• Child Development Lab

  The Child Development Lab is a high quality early care and education program for community children 6 weeks to 5 years and is also an integral part of...

• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Fact Sheets

  Grandparents Raising Grandchildren is a series of nine fact sheets developed by specialists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of W...

• UW Center for Nonprofits

  The Center for Non-profit Leadership was established at UW-Madison in 2008 through the School of Human Ecology. The center coordinates faculty intere...

• Family Voices Community-University Partnership Project

  Family Voices is a partnership program of several University of Wisconsin-Madison units with the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County. The partnership p...

• The Role of Organizations and Interorganizational Relationships in Reducing Disparities in Infant Mortality

  The United States has one of the highest rates of infant mortality of any industrialized nation, and also demonstrates markedly persistent racial and...

• Family Impact Analysis of Early Child Care and Education Project

  A campus-based state Extension Specialist is working with two county-based Family Living Educators in Dodge and Columbia Counties to conduct family im...

• REACH BC+: Retention and Enrollment to Achieve Children’s Health and Build Capacity

  This project will expand on the work of the program Covering Kids & Families, which informs Wisconsin residents about BadgerCare Plus (BC+), a state-f...

• Wisconsin CARES: Creating A Responsive and Effective System for Protecting and Promoting our Children’s Well-Being

  The Wisconsin CARES initiative represents a collaborative effort between the UW-Madison, UW Cooperative Extension, county child and family serving age...

• Slow Food UW History

  Since 2007, Dr. Zepeda has provided leadership and supervision to the Slow Food UW student organization. The organization promotes good clean fair foo...

• EMPOWER – Program for Depression in Adults with Intellectual Disability

  Through partnerships built via the Waisman Center, Dr. Hartley connected with stakeholders who have identified a lack of psychosocial interventions fo...

• Family Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder - Family Newsletters

  The overarching goal of this study is to examine family outcomes in families of children with autism spectrum disorder. In this study, Dr. Hartley inv...

• “Healthy Hmong Women (Poj Niam Hmoob Kev Noj Qab Haus Huv)”: Training Lay Health Educators to Address Hmong Cancer Health Disparities

  The goal of Healthy Hmong Women is to increase rates of breast and cervical cancer screening and reduce cancer morbidity and mortality among Milwaukee...

• Parenthetical

  Parenthetical is an online learning community for parents of 10-16 year old tweens and teens designed to improve the quality of parenting through educ...

• Healthy farm-to-school meals: Empowering lunch ladies as change-agents

  The primary goal of this project is to cultivate lunch ladies as community-based leaders who are inspired and committed to making healthy, farm-to-sch...

• Family Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorders

  Sigan Hartley is the principal investigator of a study on family outcomes in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) through the Waisman Center. The study exa...

• Caring Connections: Supporting families by improving residential care visits

  Over 53,000 older adults are residents of nursing home or long-term care facilities in Wisconsin. Caring Connections is a 2-hour workshop designed to...

• Covering Caregiving: How-to sheets to connect Wisconsin caregivers with support

  There are an estimated 1,000,000 caregivers in Wisconsin providing help and support to family members or friends with illnesses or disabilities. Altho...

• Sesame Street Incarceration Materials

  About 1 in 14 children has experienced the incarceration of a co-resident parent. The incarceration of a loved one can be overwhelming for both childr...

• Kids with Incarcerated Parents Blog

  In this blog, I bring up issues that I encounter in my professional role as a scientist and an advocate for children whose parents are incarcerated. I...

• Helping Infants and Toddlers Cope with Parental Incarceration

  Many children of incarcerated parents are young (44-57% are 0-5 years) and few resources are available to help young children and their caregivers cop...

• Supporting feminist, trauma-informed practice in decarceration community organizing

  The FREE Campaign, supported by the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, is focused on women who have experienced incarceration, a critical health equity...

• Developing Participatory Evaluation Tools with Centro Hispano of Dane County’s Youth Programs

  During the summer of 2020, Centro Hispano of Dane County, the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and UW's School of Human Ecology worked togethe...

• Supporting Fathers and Families - Sharing Lessons Learned from Wisconsin Dads

  A statewide needs assessment of Wisconsin-based fathers that provided information about: 1) the specific needs of fathers across the state of Wisconsi...