Free bicycle helmets and a safety poster at Creighton at Highlander’s child safety center.
Creighton at Highlander, led by the university’s Institute for Population Health, is a space created in collaboration with Seventy-Five North, a nonprofit dedicated to bettering the Highlander neighborhood of North Omaha, to help the university engage with the Omaha community and promote health and well-being. Following a period of closure from July through October for renovations, the Highlander hosted an open house for Creighton University students, staff and faculty to learn more about the center’s community-oriented mission and new spaces.
“Creighton’s here in this space, and we’re here for the community,” April Dixon, the director of the Highlander, said. “I think that connection to the community is always missed and maybe even misunderstood, but [we’re] able to be here for families [and] to provide that connection with students, faculty and staff so that they get experience working with the community and then have those touch points, those community connections. … Anything that we do is basically community driven.”…