Rick Brooks

Outreach Program Manager

E-mail Rick Brooks at rbrooks@dcs.wisc.edu

Not everyone who teaches at the University of Wisconsin is a member of the faculty. In fact, many of the outreach programs of the Department of Professional Development and Applied Studies are taught by academic staff and community-based partners. Under the supervision of Professor Raymond Kessel, Rick Brooks and his colleagues at the Health Promotion Project teach and facilitate more than 50 events a year throughout the state.

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Teaching Interests

• Communication for health and social change especially maternal, child and adolescent health; health promotion
• Youth development and community building
• Cross-cultural and intergenerational communication
• People with developmental disabilities
• Quality of work life in human services
• The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka
• Community service

Programs at PDAS

• Consultation and Technical Assistance
  • Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities
  • Safe and Healthy Homes and Communities
  • Communication in Plain English and other languages to "hard to reach" audiences
• Seminars, Workshops and Projects
  • How to Reach, Inform, Motivate and Persuade for Health and Social Change
  • Connections for Good: Networking, Partnerships and Community-Building
  • The "Madison Idea" Tour: Community Involvement and Participation
  • "Apple Pie on the Road:" Rural Development
  • "Where We Live:" Neighborhoods, Villages and Communities Around the World
  • Travel-study-Service Tours to Sri Lanka
  • Community Food and Gardening Networks

Background/Education

• See a full curriculum vitae (112kb pdf)