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CISAT Outreach Programs and Partnerships
The College of Integrated Science and Technology places a high value on partnerships with the community. We believe we have a responsibility to participate in efforts to enhance the well being of our community and appreciate the impact of experiential activities on student learning. The outreach programs of the college listed below are interdisciplinary in nature, reflect our commitment, and support the mission of the college.
Applied Spatial Research Center
The Applied Spatial Research Center (ASRC) as James Madison University is a multi-disciplinary research and technical outreach facility. With the assistance of the JMU faculty and students, the ASRC provides the Shenandoah Valleycommunity with a mechanism for addressing critical research problems that require the integration of cartometrics, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and mathematical modeling for spatial data analysis and regional synthesis. Recent projects have included classifying and mapping the watershed and landcover of the Shenandoah Valley river basin for The Shenandoah Valley Water 2000 Forum, agricultural mapping in Rockingham and Augusta Counties for the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, and work on the National Park Services preliminary planning of the now-funded Shenandoah National Battlefields Historic District (a new National Park).
Center for Environment, Health and Safety (CEH&S)
The Center for Environment, Health & Safety (CEH&S) was created to acknowledge and facilitate the many industrial environmental and occupational safety and health management endeavors with which JMU faculty, staff, and students have been involved. CEH&S is not an administrative unit; rather, it serves as a conduit to the faculty involved and/or interested in EH&S functions and projects. It is hoped that this presence will allow us to better serve the industrial community while providing practical experience for students and faculty.
Center for High Performance Manufacturing
The Center for High Performance Manufacturing helps manufacturing firms become high-performance manufacturers via research and development of enabling tools and technologies and the successful transfer and implementation of these items. The center provides assistance to manufacturing firms striving to maintain competitiveness in the continually evolving global manufacturing and distribution environment. The CHPM labs at JMU focus on rapid prototyping and tooling, materials development, and injection molding. Research at JMU emphasizes synergistically combining these technologies into a flexible molding capability for limited-run production of plastic parts.
Center for Materials Science
The Center for Materials Science offers a minor and concentration in materials science that enhance students' preparation for employment and advanced study in the rapidly growing materials industry. In these programs, students develop broad interdisciplinary skills and in-depth knowledge in materials science that integrates undergraduate education with basic and applied research.
CISAT International
The CISAT International Center promotes international and interdisciplinary collaboration, education, scholarship, and cultural exchange with other countries. Areas of focus include agriculture and water management, information technology, energy, health and nutrition, mental and physical well-being, science and social policy, telecommunications, and transportation.
CISAT Creative Services
CISAT Creative Services is a resource for the faculty, staff and students of the College of Integrated Science and Technology. The facility offers a variety of resources and services including web programming and design, print design, photography, and video production.
Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance
The Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance (IIIA) at James Madison University helps integrate and support the university's efforts in the increasingly vital area of infrastructure protection. Currently, these efforts span the Commonwealth Information Security Center (CISC) and the Critical Infrastructure Protection Project (CIPP) to assure our infrastructure, whose integrity is high on our national agenda. The IIIA was established to provide the integrative force needed to encompass and coordinate these university efforts. Conversations with federal and state officials reinforced the need for a coordinated effort that "connects the dots" by looking broadly at the information assurance problem.
Commonwealth Information Security Center (CISC)
The mission of the CISC is to enhance information security responsibly by conducting technology and policy research; educating the public, policy makers, and a new generation of professionals; and facilitating technology transfer among governments, businesses, and universities.
Critical Infrastructure Protection Project (CIPP)
The Critical Infrastructure Protection Project (CIP Project) is a joint effort of James Madison University and George Mason University to develop a nationally recognized program that fully integrates the disciplines of law, policy, and technology for enhancing the security of cyber networks and economic processes supporting the nation's critical infrastructures. The CIP Project is funded by a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services
The mission of the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services at James Madison University (IIHHS) is the creation and facilitation of excellence in health and human services. This will be accomplished through innovation and collaboration in cross-disciplinary education, training, scholarship, grantsmanship, research, service, practice, and outreach programs, projects, and initiatives.
Adult Health and Development Program (ADHP)
The Adult Health and Development Program (ADHP) is an intergenerational program designed to promote health in older adults (those 55+). College students work one-on-one with older adults from the local community. An individualized program is designed to meet each program participant's unique needs. The outcome of the program is the development of a sense of positive health and well being in the older adult while promoting a sense of community on a broader scale.
Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED)
Alpha Epsilon Delta,the largest honor society exclusively serving pre-professional health students has its national headquarters at JMU. It has 186 chapters and a membership of more than 145,000. The Scalpel, the AED journal, is published twice a year. AED is a member society of the Association of College Honor Societies. Visit the Virginia Epsilon Chapter Site.
Attention and Learning Disabilities Center
The Alvin V. Baird Attention and Learning Disabilities Center (ALDC) is a center dedicated to service, training, and research focused on individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and learning disabilities. There are many services provided including the Challenging Horizons Program, Learning Leaders, and Center for Learning Strategies. The Challenging Horizons Program is a school based treatment program for middle school youth with ADHD and is a treatment outcome research project. Learning Leaders is a mentoring and remedial education program for children with ADHD and learning disabilities. The Center for Learning Strategies provides evaluation and consultation services for young adults enrolled in a college or university.
Bio and Health Informatics Center
The Center is designed to provide an infrastructure for promoting, coordinating and facilitating learning opportunities, initiatives and projects in the area of Bio and Health Informatics.
Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center (AHEC) At James Madison University
The Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center (AHEC) at JMU strives to improve the health of communities through education, collaboration, and cooperation. The Blue Ridge AHEC focuses on the health care needs of "vulnerable" populations. The AHEC fosters partnerships that utilize academic and community resources and directs these resources to health and human service gaps that exist within communities. The AHEC program has been a traditional link between academic health and human service professions programs and communities where the community benefits from student, faculty, and other academic resources to the benefit of the community.
Community Caregivers Network
CCN provides services, companionship, and support for those who care for frail older family members. CCN also provides services for those with memory loss or Alzheimer’s disease. CCN can help to give caregivers a break and provide valuable time to care for themselves, as well as their loved ones.
Community Health Interpreter Service
For hundreds of Shenandoah Valleyresidents, linguistic and cultural barriers seriously compromise the quality of health care that they receive. To address this challenge, the Blue Ridge AHEC at JMU provides training to bilingual persons who then interpret for limited English proficient persons during health and medical care encounters. The schedules interpreters upon request from area health care providers.
Counseling and Psychological Services Center
Counseling and Psychological Services offers friendly, affordable care to persons of all ages. Graduate students in JMU's Department of Psychology work professional Care Team, to provide quality counseling services for you and your family.
Generations Together at JMU
Generations Together is a multi-generational program combining the interests and activities of children, college students, and older adults. College students and adults are paired together to be co-mentors to a grade-school aged child. The underlying purpose of the program is to build relationships that bridge the generations.
This program meets at the Community Activities Center at Westover Park and involves sharing knowledge, ideas and history. Each week the students, adults and children participate in planned activities that will allow each individual to benefit from the intergenerational experience.
Healthy Families Page County
Healthy Families Page County is a new program that provides home-visiting for low-income, first-time parents. A family support worker provides education, mentoring support, and referrals to appropriate community resources.
Holistic Health Resource Center (HHRC)
The HHRC is the direct service arm of the Nursing Research And Outreach Center and focuses on developing services in partnership with the community to meet community needs and provide cross-disciplinary service learning experiences for students.
Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI)
The Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI), a partnership between JMU and adults over the age of 50 from the region, offers participants college level courses on a non-credit basis. Undergraduate students can assist in the classroom by enrolling in a one-credit workshop course.
Office on Children and Youth (OCY)
The Office on Children and Youth, a partnership program, provides information and referral services to children and youth with the goal of promoting positive development. OCY is a central contact point for services in the Shenandoah Valleyto support, coordinate, and examine the needs of our children and youth. OCY administers the Youth Data Survey bi-annually in the Harrisonburg City and Rockigham County Schools Current grant funded outreach programs within OCY are: Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Tobacco Free Youth, and The Reading Road Show.
Promotoras de Salud
Through a forty-hour curriculum in basic health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanic women are empowered to take greater control of their health and assist members of their community by providing health information and directing them to appropriate community resources.
Shenandoah Valley Child Development Clinic (CDC)
The CDC provides individualized, interdisciplinary, evaluations that may include medical, social work, nursing, educational, psychological, speech/language and audiology components depending upon the specialized needs of the child/adolescent. Children/adolescents evaluated may have developmental, educational, emotional or behavioral concerns. By partnering with families and community service providers care coordination services are provided to assist children/adolescents and families in accessing medical, educational, social and mental health services. Services are provided on a sliding fee scale and Medicaid/FAMIS are accepted. The CDC serves as a resource to the community by providing consultation, training and advocacy for children, adolescents, families and service providers. Training opportunities are available in the CDC for students from a variety of disciplines.
Shenandoah Valley Migrant Education Program (MEP)
The Migrant Education Program provides free, supplemental education services to children and youth aged 3-21 of migrant and highly mobile agricultural workers. Services include tutoring/mentoring, school readiness initiatives, dropout prevention activities, educational interpretations (Spanish/English) and facilitation of families stabilization in the community. The SVMEP serves as a point of contact for the Hispanic Services Council, a networking organization of agencies interested in the Latino population.
Speech-Language-Hearing Applied Laboratory
The JMU Speech-Language-Hearing Applied Laboratory, formerly referred to as the JMU Speech and Hearing Center, provides communication evaluation and treatment services to individuals with known or suspected speech and/or hearing impairments. For over 25 years this center has provided assistance to residents of the Shenandoah Valley, including clients ranging in age from infants to senior citizens. Hearing testing and aid advising is available for those with concerns over hearing. Evaluation and treatment of communication impairments, including speech, sound disorders, language impairments, voice disorders, and stuttering problems are additional services offered in the applied laboratory. Graduate students supervised by faculty who are licensed audiologists or speech-language pathologists serve as clinicians in this lab.
The Health Place
The Health Place (THP) is an initiative of the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services and serves as a resource that promotes the provision of interdisciplinary health and human services that are affordable, accessible, responsive to, and advance the physical, mental and developmental health of Page County residents. Programs and services provided through or supported by THP are characterized by their responsiveness to identified community needs, quality, dignity and respect accorded each individual.
Valley Health Exchange Network
The Valley Health Exchange Network (VHEN) is a federally funded initiative that assists health and human service providers in the Shenandoah Valley respond more effectively to the health care needs of the growing limited English proficient population. VHEN provides linguistic, cultural diversity, and health promotion – disease prevention resources within the region’s health and human service delivery system and within LEP communities.
Virginia Center for Health Outreach
The Virginia Center for Health Outreach (VCHO) is developing an infrastructure to strengthen the practice, policy, and research of the Community Health Worker (CHW) field in Virginia. CHWs are trained laypersons that serve as health resource persons in the communities where they live and work. The Center works to acknowledge and help CHWs capitalize upon the key roles they play in improving public health through the provision of preventive services and facilitating access to primary care.
JMU-RMH Collaborative
Mine Action Information Center (MAIC)
Largely underwritten by the Department of Defense and the Department of State, the MAIC serves as an information clearinghouse for the global humanitarian landmine remediation community. The center uses the expertise of faculty from virtually all disciplines throughout the University to fashion solutions to landmine information challenges. The MAIC also draws on the enthusiasm and capabilities of a large staff of undergraduate students. It has achieved an international reputation for hosting topical conferences, publishing a world-class journal and maintaining the pre-eminent mine action web site.
Virginia's Manufacturing Innovation Center (VMIC)
VMIC helps enhance the competitiveness of Virginia's smaller manufacturers through a high-quality, well-trained workforce, accessible technology and modern business practices. Center participants include many faculty and students from Integrated Science and Technology, Computer Science, and Computer Information Systems/Operations Management in the College of Business. The center partners with many Virginia economic development agencies, companies, and community colleges. Current projects target e-business and information systems tools in manufacturing, biomanufacturing, microelectronics, fabrication and production management.
