Profile for Jennifer Taylor

Tara Delong, Jennifer Taylor and W. Thomas Means, all Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, presented "Pedagogy to Practitioner: Developing an Open-Access Evidence Based Recreational Therapy Curriculum Website" at The Academy of Leisure Science Conference; Theme: Leisure and Rights on Feb. 9 in New Orleans. This presentation provided a brief overview of the lack of evidence-based curriculum within the literature of therapeutic recreation and how this serves as a threat to the field as an allied healthcare profession. It further described the integrated curriculum for our therapeutic recreation dual degree students and the benchmarks for completion of an evidenced-based curriculum capstone, and provided a demo of the open-access website designed to share evidence-based work with practitioners in the field.

Submitted on: Feb. 13

Tara Delong and Jennifer Taylor, both Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, presented "Self-Care Beyond the Bubble Bath" at ActivitiesStrong: Supporting Senior Living Activity & Life Enrichment Professionals Webinar on Jan. 17 online. About 600 people attended this engaging live interactive webinar and emerged with a cadre of self-care strategies.

Submitted on: Jan. 19

Tara Delong and Jennifer Taylor, both Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, presented "Reimagining Recreation Therapy staff development: Self-care beyond the bubble bath" at the Southeast Recreation Therapy Association Conference on April 14 in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Submitted on: April 15, 2022

Tara Delong, Lindsey Kirschbaum, Lisa Savarese, Jennifer Taylor and W. Thomas Means, all Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, were awarded a Curriculum Redesign Grant from UWL. This team of Therapeutic Recreation faculty will engage in a series of active workshops, curricular analysis, and assessment to redesign the TR curriculum over the course of the upcoming academic year.

Submitted on: April 4, 2022

Jennifer Taylor, Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, received the award for Course Improvement from UWL's Research & Sponsored Programs. Her award will be used in developing new course content specific to Community Collaboration Activities (CCA).

Submitted on: Jan. 25, 2022