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.  Proposals are sought for these

*Sharing power and resources in community-campus partnerships.
*Ethical issues raised by community-campus partnerships.
*Community-campus partnerships that address major determinants of health and 
social justice.
*Sustaining community-campus partnerships.
*Assessing, documenting & realizing the benefits of community-campus 
partnerships to all partners.
*Student leadership and activism in community-campus partnerships.
*Community strategies for campus engagement.
*Campus strategies for community engagement.

*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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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization
that promotes health through partnerships between communities and
higher educational institutions.  Become a member today at www.ccph.info
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