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Dear CANCHID colleagues,

We invite you to share your knowledge, wisdom and experience!  Submit a 
proposal for a session or poster presentation at the next Community-Campus 
Partnerships for Health (CCPH) conference, May 12-15, 2010 in Portland, Oregon! 
The conference, "Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through 
Partnerships" promises to be CCPH's best yet as hundreds of community and 
campus partners convene for 4 days of skill-building, networking and 
agenda-setting!

Proposals are due Friday October 16, 2009. Download the call for proposals at 
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf10-cfp.html

Whether you are new to community-based participatory research, service-learning 
or community-campus partnerships and looking for basics to get started, or 
you've been involved for years and seeking more advanced knowledge and 
connections, this is one conference you will not want to miss!

CCPH conferences consistently get rave reviews for time and money well spent 
for a number of reasons:

*The CCPH conference draws diverse participants who share a commitment to 
social justice and a passion for the power of partnerships to transform 
communities and academe.  Whether a grassroots community activist, a student, a 
Dean of a medical school, a faculty member, a community health center CEO or a 
foundation program officer, all CCPH conference participants are embraced for 
the knowledge, wisdom and experience they bring.

*The CCPH conference features inspiring keynote presentations, skill-building 
workshops, discussions by peer group and interest area, educational exhibits, 
community site visits, local arts programming and many opportunities for 
informal networking.  We emphasize sessions that go beyond describing a 
particular partnership, project or issue to analyzing what worked, didn't work 
and why, and offering practical ways to apply the information back home.

*The CCPH conference is always located in cities with ready access to exemplary 
community-campus partnerships that participants can see and learn from. 
Portland is home to 10 higher educational institutions, including one (Portland 
State University) that has received the coveted Carnegie elective 
classification as a community-engaged institution. Portland is also home to the 
Northwest Health Foundation, our major conference partner, which identifies 
community-based participatory research (CBPR) as a significant interest area 
and is building CBPR capacity in the region.

*The benefits of attending continue well beyond the conference.  As noted by 
CCPH member Peter Levesque, of Knowledge Mobilization Works in Ottawa,
"CCPH puts on a great conference...informative, well-run, well-attended, and a 
great resource for continued contacts and resources.  In fact, I am currently 
using some materials for a photovoice project in my community that I collected 
from the 2004 conference in Atlanta!"

Concerned about the cost of attending?  We are committed to keeping conference 
costs to a minimum and raising funds to support the full participation of 
community members, students and individuals from countries with emerging and 
developing economies.

We look forward to reviewing your proposal and seeing you at the CCPH 
conference in Portland next May!

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health (broadly defined)
through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.
Become a member today at www.ccph.info

Join us for CCPH's 11th Conference, "Creating the Future We Want to Be:
Transformation through Partnerships," May 12-15, 2010 in Portland, Oregon!
Proposals are due October 16, 2009 - visit www.ccph.info for details
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