Signature Initiatives

CCEDIR's signature initiatives translate community priorities into action. Through programs like Get Onboard Active Living (GOAL), Hoosier Health Check (HHC), and Immersive Community–Academic Partnerships (ICAP), we work alongside community and academic partners to address local health needs, strengthen community capacity, and create meaningful opportunities for engagement. Grounded in authentic partnership and guided by community voices, these initiatives advance health and well-being while building sustainable solutions that reflect local strengths and shared goals.

Interested in partnering with GOAL or Hoosier Health Check? Complete our interest form to get started!

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Get Onboard Active Living

GOAL is a family-focused physical activity and nutrition initiative delivered in partnership with schools, parks and recreation departments, health systems, and community organizations. It supports children and caregivers in building healthy, active lifestyles through after-school programming, Family Nights, and community-based activities.

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Hoosier Health Check

Hoosier Health Check (HHC) is a collaborative mobile screening initiative that brings preventive health services to trusted community spaces across Indiana. The initiative fosters supportive, strengths-based conversations around health and connects individuals to local resources. IU students are provided with hands-on opportunities to serve communities through the state, reflecting the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington's mission to improve health through teaching, research, and community engagement.

Not only does HHC participate in pre-existing events such as health fairs, we also deliver recurring, community-embedded health screening events across three rural Indiana counties: Greene, Scott, and Brown. Our community partners help shape the structure, setting, and outreach to ensure screenings are welcoming, empowering, and culturally responsive. The program strengthens access to care and advances early detection in areas with limited health infrastructure, and contributes to ongoing research on scalable, community-based prevention models.

Community-Embedded HHC Events

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Partnering with the Greene County Mobile Food Pantry and nearly 15 community organizations, including IU Health's Community Health Department, Hoosier Health Check provides health screenings at a monthly drive-thru distribution that reaches more than 160 individuals in Linton, Indiana.

Our partnership is dedicated to increasing awareness of preventive health screenings and building a culture of proactive health management within the community.

In Scott County, Hoosier Health Check partners with the Coalition to Eliminate the Abuse of Substances (CEASe) to offer monthly screenings. Connected through the Center for Rural Engagement, CEASe and HHC work together to expand access to preventive services and strengthen pathways to care.

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Immersive Community–Academic Partnerships (ICAP)

ICAP (Immersive Community–Academic Partnerships) is a community-requested, community-driven model where CCEDIR faculty, staff, and students become embedded partners within local organizations to co-explore opportunities across research, teaching, service, program development, and capacity-building. ICAP sites emerge only at the invitation of community organizations and follow priorities defined by the community itself.

ICAP creates a shared space where communities and academic partners imagine, develop, and strengthen collaborative ideas that respond directly to local needs while providing rich experiential learning for students.

Working collaboratively to support youth, family, and community health initiatives, including GOAL and other community-engaged projects.

"Working with CCEDIR through our Immersive Community Academic Partnership (ICAP) has allowed the City of Bloomington, Parks and Recreation, to be a leader in providing community-based health and wellness programming. The City of Bloomington, Parks and Recreation looks forward to future opportunities with CCEDIR as we move forward in making Bloomington the best place to explore, play, and connect!" -Shelby Drake

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Have a project you'd like to highlight across CCEDIR's community? Tell us more about it at the form below or email: ccedir@iu.edu.

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Signature Initiatives