The 2012 LOSS (Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors) Conference will be held May 31 - June 1, 2012 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Dr. Frank Campbell, a leading expert in Suicidology along with other experts, will share the lessons learned in years of helping survivors of suicide, how sudden traumatic loss impacts survivors and grief through the different developmental stages.
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MOREThe Nebraska Energy Office’s Weatherization Program enables low-income families in Nebraska to reduce their energy bills by making their homes more energy efficient. For this project, the Public Policy Center will work with the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management and the Bureau of Sociological Research to examine the impacts of these improvements and investments by estimating their annual and cumulative energy savings, measured in dollars and energy use. These impacts are generated through a combination of job and output increases in improvement supported sectors and losses in energy production sectors. Estimations of the annual and cumulative environmental impacts associated with reductions in greenhouse gases and other emissions will be obtained.
Since energy use depends on weather, the first step in the analysis will be to break the state into weather zones. Once the zones are identified, initial samples of loans will be developed for each of the major improvement types and each of the customer classes. The University of Nebraska’s Bureau of Sociological Research (BOSR) will survey individuals from those samples to determine if their businesses, households and/or living conditions changed materially up to 12 months either before or after the improvements and if so, these structures will be filtered from the sample. Energy consumption for the filtered samples will be obtained from local utilities for the 12 months before and after each improvement and will be compared to expected energy use. The combined data will allow us to measure the energy savings associated with each investment, which will then be translated into dollar savings. A cost calculator will be developed to estimate energy savings in the future.
For additional information about the evaluation project, the survey that is being conducted as a part of this evaluation, or the weatherization program, please send an email to
mdekraai@nebraska.edu.
Key Partners
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Raikes School of Computer Science and Management Nebraska Energy Office University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bureau of Sociological Research (BOSR)
Funding
Federal Funding through the Nebraska Energy Office
Name: Mark DeKraai
E-mail: mdekraai@nebraska.edu
Phone: (402) 472-1496
Name: Alan Tomkins
E-mail: atomkins@nebraska.edu
Phone: (402) 472-5688
