Dear Colleague,
Call for Proposals!
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's 9th Conference
Walking the Talk: Achieving the Promise of Authentic Partnerships
May 31 - June 3, 2006
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-overview.html
Proposal deadline: October 7, 2005
Featured Keynote Speaker:
Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO, PolicyLink
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-program.html#KeynoteSpeakers
Partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions as a
strategy for change are gaining recognition and momentum. Service-learning,
community-based participatory research and broad-based coalitions are among the
methods these partnerships pursue to accomplish their goals. In the last decade
alone, funding agencies have invested over a billion dollars in such
partnerships, including more than a dozen multi-site initiatives that employ
community-campus partnerships as a change strategy. Increasingly, partnerships
are being recommended by national bodies and pursued by funding agencies for
achieving a wide range of significant outcomes, including:
* Eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities
* Increasing health workforce diversity
* Closing the achievement gap in K-12 education
* Increasing access to higher education
* Increasing access to health care
* Increasing youth civic engagement
* Establishing quality affordable housing
* Revitalizing cities
* Developing rural economies
* Preparing students in a wide range of disciplines & professions for practice
With the remarkable expansion of interest and investment in community-campus
partnerships, we believe the time is right to take a critical look at these
partnerships in all of their iterations and ask (and answer) key questions
about where we are now, where we are going and where we need to be. How do we
fully realize authentic partnerships between communities and higher educational
institutions? How do we balance power and share resources among partners? What
are the barriers and challenges getting in our way? How do we overcome these,
individually and collectively? How do we build community and campus capacity to
engage each other as partners? How do we translate "principles" and "best
practices" into widespread, expected practice?
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's 9th conference promises to address
these questions and more as we create a vision for the future of
community-campus partnerships as a strategy for social justice.
We invite you to share your knowledge, experience and lessons learned with
hundreds of colleagues who - like you - are passionate about the power of
partnerships to transform communities and academe. Gain knowledge and and
skills in service-learning, community-based participatory research, community
and economic development, partnership development and more!
It's not too early to start planning to participate!
*Start drafting a workshop or poster proposal NOW for presentation at the
conference. The call for session proposals is on the conference website and
proposals are due October 7, 2005.
*If you're not yet a member of CCPH, join NOW! CCPH members receive substantial
discounts on fees for the conference, training institutes, publications and
more! To become a member, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/members.html
*Budget for the conference NOW. The early-bird registration fee for CCPH
members will not exceed $400 ($150 for students). Rooms at the Hyatt Regency
Minneapolis, the conference hotel, will be $115 for a single or double.
*If applicable, start the visa application process NOW. Contact the U.S.
Embassy or Consulate in your home country to determine if you will need a visa
and/or a visa support letter to visit the U.S. For more information, visit
http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_1750.html
If you would like to be notified when registration opens, please email Anne
Moreau at [log in to unmask]
For information about cosponsoring and exhibiting, please email Annika Robbins
at [log in to unmask]
Stay tuned for more details on our homepage at www.ccph.info
or the conference website at
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-overview.html
We look forward to seeing you in Minneapolis in Spring 2006 (if not before)!
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that promotes health through partnerships between communities and
higher educational institutions. Become a member today at www.ccph.info
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