The UNMC Outreach Database is an important tool for documenting UNMC’s impact across the state of Nebraska.
The database is used to create Legislative District Impact Sheets (LDIS), charting UNMC’s impact in a district-by-district report that can be shared with state senators who want to gauge UNMC’s efforts within their districts. The sheets are updated every two years, with the next update due in January.
The activities to be reported are broad and flexible; any service or programs a department or unit does that benefits the community, locally or statewide, can be entered, including:
- lectures given to the community.
- outreach clinics.
- mobile nursing units.
- tours for students, specifying the students’ schools.
- lab coordination.
- preceptors.
- booths at health fair, expos, educational fairs.
- free screenings.
- support group organizations.
Any outreach efforts from Jan. 1, 2013 to Dec. 31 of this year must be entered by Dec. 1 of this year. All impact or outreach programs must be entered into the Outreach Database.
UNMC Brand Manager Dawn Nevarez suggests that one person in each department or unit should be responsible for entering information.
“The Outreach Database and the Legislative District Impact Sheets are critically important,” Nevarez said. “They provide the state senators, who appropriate funds for UNMC and the rest of the university system, a complete picture of all the things UNMC does to positively impact their districts and the state as a whole.”
Link to the database here. For step-by-step instructions on using the database, click here.