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Opelika Community of Hope launches Mobile Health Clinic!
Casey Family Programs has partnered with the City of Opelika to strengthen families and reduce the number of children requiring the services of the foster care system. The project includes numerous community, university and civic partners, notably Mayor Gary Fuller’s Office, the Opelika City Council, East Alabama Medical Center, Auburn University Office of Student Outreach and the Auburn University School of Nursing.
On October 12th and 13th Paul DiLorenzo, Senior Director of Strategy for Casey Family Programs along with local Casey Family Programs Project Managers Jocelyn Zanzot and Daniel Neil of Mobile Studio conducted a two-day workshop featuring Dr. Nancy Hardt, M.D. University of Florida Medical School, Emeritus focusing on mobile health care strategies to reach under-served populations. Dr. Hart presented her successful model from the Gainesville area that provides free health care to low income communities and the impact of overall community health on successful families.
First Transit has donated a 40’long passenger bus to the Opelika Community of Hope and is dedicated to helping this project succeed.
Mobile Studio is very excited to advance Dr. Hardt’s model here in Opelika, situating the work within a comprehensive Community Health Equity Assessment. The next year presents exciting opportunities to design a state of the art mobile health clinic, listen and understand the community’s needs and desires, create an inter professional approach to staffing and outreach via the bus, learn about and create a training model based on trauma informed care and building resilience and chart a pathway for ending childhood trauma and enhancing family resilience in Opelika Alabama that will radiate out to the greater Central Alabama region. We hope you will get involved!
Check out some of the great local press below:
http://www.wltz.com/2017/10/25/mobile-health-clinic-coming-opelika/
OLD FEDERAL ROAD STORYTELLING FESTIVAL: October 29th in Warrior Stand, Alabama
A day-long storytelling festival on the Old Federal Road will celebrate South Macon County’s history and events encompassing the Creek Indian Nation to Alabama Fever to Reconstruction up to the 1950s. The slate of activities includes: stories told about community life, people, cultural traditions and folkways, music, artifact displays, and tours of The Ridge Interpretive Center. The great Dr. Lorenzo Pace will be this year’s featured storyteller. Family-friendly, children’s activities, and delicious “tastes of the ridge” will be a’ plenty.
PUBLISHED IN PUBLIC!
We are excited and proud to have just published our Video Common Ground in Alabama in Imagining America’s inaugural online journal PUBLIC.
THE FUTURE OF MACON COUNTY: co-imagined in the field!
Great afternoon at the CSX Select Site in Macon County discussing the landscape potentials this economic development initiative.
Mobile Studio was delighted to be joined not only by esteemed County Commissioner Lou Maxwell, but Nigel, ninja werewolf filmaker from the future!
MOBILE STUDIO FIELD DAY THIS SUNDAY 1-5pm.
We are sad to say that for health reasons, Kathryn Moore will not be visiting Alabama this weekend, but the workshop will go as planned, this Sunday 1-5pm on the CSX Select Site in Macon County. Come ready to draw and discuss the future of this large rail-based industrial development as a catalyst for positive economic development. The site is located at the intersection of I-85, highway 81 between Notasulga and Tuskegee and the Uphapee Creek, just oppostie Pleasant Grove Church on the former Becks Turf Farm. From I-85 South, it is exit 35. Hope to see you there!
Moore Presents Mobile Studio Workshop and Final Lecture in the Architecture Spring Lecture Series
Kathryn Moore, professor of landscape architecture at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University in the United Kingdom, will present the final lecture in School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture spring lecture series on Monday, April 8. Moore’s lecture, “Design: Philosophy and Theory into Practice,” is at 3:30 p.m. in Dudley Commons B6. Moore is the immediate past president of the Landscape Institute and the UK representative to the International Federation of Landscape Architects. Her lecture is free and open to the public. The public is also invited to join Moore and civic leaders from Macon County for a Mobile Studio workshop at the new CSX Select Site in Notasulga at exit 38 off I-85 South on Sunday, April 7th, 1-5 p.m. The Auburn Special Lecture’s Committee Fund provided support for Moore’s lecture, and the APLA lecture series is supported by practicing architects, planners, and landscape architects in the State of Alabama. For more information about Moore visit: CADC website info.
SHILOH THANKS MLA OUTREACH CREW!
A great afternoon of hard land-shaping work, temporary swing design/build, and field kareoke. Left to right the Outreach champs include: John Carswell, Seth Ristow, Fei Xiong, and Yang Wang.
We Slipped in like a Coyote to Becoming Alabama
Mobile Studio pop-up installation “Re-born from the soil: Historic Macon County Clays” on was on display at “This Goodly Earth, Auburn University Symposium as a part of “Becoming Alabama” [description: hand made wooden bench, photo collage of abandoned South Macon Junior ROTC High School, slip pour of historic Macon County Clay in honor of and dedicated to Auburn University Graduate and pioneering clay artist Margaret Boozer]
Check out Margaret’s work that inspired this piece:
SHILOH SHOW OPENING: a wonderful re-imagining schoolgrounds program and event!
The opening Saturday brought together a great mix of students, school collaborators, civic leaders and friends of Shiloh in the Shiloh Rosenwald School in Notasulga to enjoy the show. It was great to see the student’s sharpest work framed in the context of the remarkable history of Shiloh and the care for land-based education cultivated in Macon County. The mixed-media program featured posters, photos and prints, agricultural displays, models, a slide show, film and laptops set up in the resource room to inspire the next year of community programming. The afternoon inspired many exciting future collaborations and provided thoughtful feedback about the Re-Imagining Schoolyards project to date. Thank you so much for coming out and supporting the Mobile Studio’s first full-scale public exhibition!
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