FSU-OMA Featured on WTXL Tallahassee News
Published: | 11:29 am | Posted in: In the News, OMA News and Events
Watch the broadcast here: https://www.wtxl.com/college-town/watch-florida-state-opening-minds-through-art-combats-dementia-with-weekly-art-classes
Tip Sheets
The following tip sheets have been prepared by the Claude Pepper Elder Law Clinic, a holistic, interdisciplinary clinic focused on boosting the wellbeing and resilience of low-income older adults through legal representation and community education. Students enrolled in the clinic learn the basics of elder law while also working directly on cases and policy issues. Click […]
OMA at FSU: Spring 2024!
Published: | 12:24 pm | Posted in: OMA News and Events
Our Spring 2024 semester has begun with an exciting start. We kicked off the semester with a series of events and workshops held in collaboration with the Scripps OMA team from Oxford, Ohio. Now, the Claude Pepper Center has launched our Spring 2024 OMA program! This Spring, thirteen Sociology student interns are paired with people […]
Aging and health-related resources in Florida 2023
Published: | 4:28 pm | Posted in: Translational Data Platform
This map explores aging and health-related resources (e.g., healthcare, homemaker services) in Florida. These resources can be filtered by industry, county, or city and include the name and address of each resource.
Opening Minds through Art: Jan. 18th & 19th Workshops
Published: | 12:04 pm | Posted in: Events, OMA News and Events, Uncategorized
Two OMA workshops were held at The Claude Pepper Center with the Scripps Opening Minds through Art (OMA) team from Oxford, Ohio. Guests created abstract art while learning about the evidence-based and research-backed OMA process. It was wonderful seeing how the “no-fail OMA art recipe” allowed everyone to express their inner artist. Guests had the […]
Opening Minds through Art: Connecting Generations through Art Making (Jan. 18th Lecture)
Published: | 1:49 pm | Posted in: Events, OMA News and Events, Uncategorized
Dr. Elizabeth Lokon (founder of Opening Minds through Art/OMA), Meghan Young (Associate Director, OMA) and Krysta Peterson (Assistant Director, OMA) join us at the Claude Pepper Center for a lecture titled “Opening Minds through Art: Connecting generations through art making.” For 16 years, Scripps Gerontology Center’s Opening Minds through Art (OMA) program has connected younger […]
2023 Current Population Survey – Annual Social and Economic Supplement
Published: | 4:33 pm | Posted in: Translational Data Platform
These maps and figures show some variables of the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS). CPS and ASEC are conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau to estimate employment statistics for the population of the United States.
Opening Minds through Art: Workshops
Published: | 2:44 pm | Posted in: Events
Opening Minds through Art (OMA) is an award-winning, failure-free, intergenerational art-making program for people living with dementia. OMA promotes autonomy and dignity, through opportunities for creative self-expression and social engagement for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Want to create abstract art with us? Dr. Elizabeth Lokon (the founder and creator […]
Opening Minds through Art: Connecting generations through art making.
Published: | 2:39 pm | Posted in: Events
For 16 years, Scripps Gerontology Center’s Opening Minds through Art (OMA) program has connected younger and older adults using the arts to build a society accepting of all ages. An award-winning, evidence-based program, OMA pairs students with people living with dementia to form friendships and create art. A new virtual program, ScrippsAVID (Arts-based, Virtual, Intergenerational, and Dementia-Friendly), also connects older adults with students via video chat. Dr. Elizabeth […]
Reserving a Room
If you are looking to reserve a room at the Claude Pepper Center Building, please see below for our list of available rooms and our calendar of meetings and events. Room reservations should be done two business days in advance so our staff can process reservation requests. If you do not hear back within this […]
2017-2021 American Community Survey
Published: | 9:51 pm | Posted in: Translational Data Platform
The American Community Survey helps understand changes in demographic, economic, educational, and other aspects of people in the United States.
Fall 2023 Art Show
Published: | 11:41 am | Posted in: OMA News and Events, Uncategorized
The OMA Art Show marks the end of the semester-long program. The art show celebrates the accomplishments of the artists (people living with dementia), honors the student interns, and raises awareness about dementia in the community.
The OMA Mission
The OMA mission is to build bridges across age and cognitive limitations through art, through providing meaningful social engagement between people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia and college student interns or volunteers. OMA’s overarching goal is to promote the well-being of people living with dementia by providing and facilitating art activities that […]
Student Interns
The Opening Minds through Art Internship program at FSU engages students from a variety of colleges to develop one-on-one relationships with our OMA artists (people living with dementia). Upon completion of the internship, students earn either credit hours or volunteer hours. Students begin OMA by completing a four hour, in-person training session led by an […]
2023 Cottrell Award presented to Dawn Carr ’09
Published: | 9:44 am | Posted in: In the News
The W. Fred Cottrell Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes Miami University gerontology graduate student alumni for outstanding leadership in the field of aging. Dawn Carr, who holds a doctorate in social gerontology from Miami University came back to Ohio to accept the Cottrell Award on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. She was kind enough to answer the […]
Fabio Correa
Fabio Andres Correa Duran – Research Engineer Email: fac23d@fsu.edu Website: nool.info CV: nool.info/cv Fabio is a physicist and data scientist who joined the Claude Pepper Center in 2023. His mission is disseminating knowledge and raising awareness of the challenges and opportunities of aging and health in social science and public policy. He is the lead […]
