Campus and Community Engagement

Campus and Community Engagement

Services:

  • Poverty Simulations

The goal of a Poverty Simulation is to create awareness of the burdens faced by people who live in or on the borderline of poverty.  A Poverty Simulation exercise provides participants with scenarios that allow them to walk in the shoes of someone who is on the verge of a financial crisis. Participants are given an identity within a family dynamic and then spend a month (four 15-minute weeks) experiencing many of the obstacles that prevent people from accessing the help they need to feed, clothe, and house their families.  During each of the four weeks of the “lived” experience, participants are faced with various difficulties they must resolve by seeking help from participating non-profit or governmental agencies.  During the debrief session following the simulation, many participants mention the high levels of stress they experienced during the short time they were “living in” poverty. 

For more information about Poverty Simulations, please contact Ms. Rose Haddock at haddockr@ecu.edu. 

  • CPR Certifications, Basic Life Support Credentialing 

American Red Cross Licensed Training Provider Site (CPR, AED, BLS, First Aid course offerings)

An American Red Cross Licensed Training Provider Site, instructors offer a range of safety education courses to fit your personal or organizational needs. The goal is to ensure participants have the knowledge and skills to recognize and respond to cardiac, breathing, and first aid emergencies for adults, children, and infants. Course offerings include Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers, Adult and pediatric CPR, AED, first aid, and stop the bleed, and bloodborne pathogen training, and instructor courses. The courses are open to both ECU students/faculty/staff along and the Eastern NC region. Group trainings can be arranged for departments, organizations, or companies looking to certify multiple participants or even have one of your own trained as an instructor.

For more information about safety training courses or to set up a class, please contact Sue Raedeke at raedekes@ecu.edu

  • DOCC

The DOCC at Darden is designed to help ECU faculty, students, faculty, and staff parents by providing childcare during the evening times of their day. We serve ages 1-8 years of age. The center is open throughout the school year and summer, Monday-Thursday, from 6 PM to 9 PM and follows closely to ECU’s academic Calendar and closures. Program focuses on providing developmentally appropriate drop-off childcare to families within the ECU community. We prioritize teaching every child in our care respect, kindness, and self-control in an environment with fewer distractions, more movement, and relational learning. For more information please visit the DOCC’s website.

  • North Carolina School Health Training Center (NCSHTC)

The North Carolina School Health Training Center is committed to strengthening the quality of Health Education within a coordinated school health program.  The Center provides programs throughout the state for teachers, nurses, counselors, administrators, and public health educators to reduce health-risk behaviors in children and adolescents. The NCSHTC activities aims to inspire positive change, promote wellness, and reduce health disparities. The Center is housed within the Department of Health Education and Promotion and further strengthen the public health focus within ECU by providing services to school districts with the highest teen pregnancy rates, many of which are in eastern North Carolina, and by working collaboratively with the school districts demonstrating the highest level of health disparities and need. For more information please visit the NCSHTC website

Student Support:

  • COMPASS

Childcare on Campus: Maximizing Parents’ Academic Support and Success (COMPASS) is a program that provides discounted childcare at the Nancy Darden center and free childcare in the evenings (M-Th) from 6 to 9 through the Nancy Darden Childcare center (DOCC). Students need to fill out a FASFA form, be a Pell grant recipient, and have expected family contribution of less than $6,200 to be eligible. Apply for COMPASS here. For more information, please email us at compass@ecu.edu. Evening childcare is also available for all students (even if you don’t meet the described criteria) for $15 per day. More info here – https://hhp.ecu.edu/hdfs/DOCC/