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It is the recommended alternative feeding strategy of the American Academy of Pediatrics and other health organizations despite the fact that slower growth has been observed in infants fed donor human milk. Pasteurized donor human milk improves health outcomes and reduces health care costs in preterm infants who do not have access to their mother’s own milk. Moreover, it has been a wonderful way for us to combine pedagogy with practice for our students: they get to apply what they have learned in our lab and in our classes "in the field." The community benefits from fun, free, child-friendly activities that we offer and information about development in general. This partnership has been highly successful, and is the ideal community-engaged collaboration because we benefit from it by "advertising" ourselves/UNCG research to the community (we have sign up sheets on hand for those who wish to come to our campus lab and participate in a study). Shaylene Nancekivell, are now also involved as key faculty who attend the events. Head) and I are on hand to talk about development with parents (who often want tips about things like language, social skills, or challenges that their kids are facing). As this takes place, my Lab Co-Director (Stuart Marcovitch, who is the Dept. Our team of dedicated graduate and undergraduate students helps to prepare the ideas for the crafts, with faculty supervision, and then execute them with the kids. I initiated a partnership with Greensboro Downtown Parks/LeBauer Park when it first opened to offer an event called "Crafts & Conversation." Every two weeks, on Saturday mornings throughout the year and including the summer, our research team prepares developmentally appropriate crafts that we make with kids/families in the park.