Experiential Learning Community Engaged Learning at MacEwan University is a project-based teaching-learning strategy that connects classroom theory to challenges experienced in the “real world” by our Community Partners. Free Partnership Opportunity- Research and innovative communication project focused on Priority Populations (Example: Indigenous Peoples, LGBTQ+ Communities, Immigrants and Refugees, Homeless, Women and Children, etc.) and Public Health Priorities such as Food Security, Gender equality, Climate change, Gender-based violence, Human trafficking, Opioid crisis, Safe and clean water, Mental health, Emergency preparedness, etc. We’re looking for community partners interested in working with our senior nursing students (4th year) to evaluate existing interventions and services pertaining to a priority population, ultimately aiming to create innovative and evidence-based communication strategies, programs, or services that are sustainable and socially, and ecologically oriented and aim to promote health equity and equality in priority populations. The projects will promote the UN Sustainable Development Goals. https://sdgs.un.org/goals What you get:

Challenge statement 

Students will apply resilience using a socioecological approach and systems thinking (concepts and theory) during this project while also developing and engaging in Evaluating public policy, public health policy, and public health interventions and programs relevant to priority populations.

The major learning outcomes of this project include(course learning outcomes translated to plain/business language) :

• Explain the links between sustainable development, emerging public and global health challenges, and resilience in priority populations, 
• Analyze the roles of the Registered Nurse within interprofessional and intersectoral collaborative practice,
• Create innovative, evidence-informed social media and communication strategies that target multidisciplinary stakeholders and promote health equity and equality in priority populations.