Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Summer Service-Learning Institute

Posted by on March 24, 2006

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is accepting applications for our 9th Summer Service-Learning Institute, July 21-24, 2006, in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State.

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html

Applications are due April 7.

The institute has tracks for both novice and experienced service-learning practitioners. Applications, due April 7, 2006, are available at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html. Apply early! To facilitate meaningful learning, the institute is limited to 22 participants.

The institute curriculum combines experiential and didactic approaches to teaching and learning. A unique and effective aspect of the institute’s approach is inclusion of a mentoring model in which participants work in small groups and as individuals with mentors to further shape their own action plans for developing and sustaining service-learning courses and programs. Read a peer-reviewed paper on the institute’s proven success in fostering curricular change at http://www.academicmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/75/5/533

During intensive interactive workshops and small group sessions, participants learn about these topics and more:

*Curricular models of service-learning in a variety of health professions disciplines, including interdisciplinary models
*Strategies for developing service-learning courses and programs, promoting reflection, building community-campus partnerships and assessing service-learning outcomes
*Strategies for institutionalizing service-learning into the health professions curriculum
*Core leadership skills and competencies needed to sustain service-learning partnerships
*Methods and models for supporting faculty, staff and community partner development in service-learning
*Effective methods for assessing service-learning outcomes for faculty, student, community, and institutional stakeholders
*Strategies for developing service-learning scholarship, and documenting that scholarship for promotion and tenure

Can’t wait until July? Host a customized version of the institute. For details, email ccphuw@u.washington.edu or visit

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/mentor.html