HR Professionals will be available to provide:
Job Search Coaching
Resume Writing & Critique
Interview Prep/Mock Interviews

Learn the inside tips to finding your next job!

Wednesday, November 18, 4pm

Project H.O.M.E.
Honickman Learning Center & Comcast Technology Labs
1936 North Judson Street
(215) 235-2900, Ext. 6116

*Registration Required* — Please submit your full contact information (Name, Address, Phone, and email) to the Honickman Learning Center.

In a packed room at the Center for America Progress (CAP), former Prime Minister Tony Blair called for community schools. Schools should be “the center for the support and nurture for the future generation – not simply education in the narrow sense…and they [schools] need to be a resource and a source of strength not just for the children in the school, but for the whole of the community.” Access the video (http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/11/community_schools_event.html) and transcript (http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2009/10/inf/CommunitySchoolstran.pdf).

The Center for American Progress is regarded as the nation’s foremost progressive think tank. In their report A Look at Community Schools they note “…a growing number of community schools have bridged the gap between the provision of antipoverty services and an excellent academic program.” The report provides an overview of community schools across the United States as well as in England. The Coalition for Community Schools is mentioned prominently in this report. Visit http://www.communityschools.org for further news, policy, and research on community schools.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/10/community_schools.html

During the panel discussion, Secretary Arne Duncan stressed that schools need to be open longer – not just 6 hours a day, 5 days a week. “When children and families learn together great things happen for the community. We have to move with a huge sense of urgency.” Blair and Duncan agreed that the challenges our youth face are the reason we need community schools. In fact, the challenges are a result of their life circumstances -not just a matter of insufficient time in school.

CAP CEO John Podesta pressed Duncan on whether community schools were in conflict with other reforms [e.g., teacher quality, standards and assessment]. Secretary Duncan replied, community schools are “Not in conflict AND central to reform.”

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer who recently reintroduced the Full Service Community School Act called the flurry of community schools activity across the country a “movement… because what we are engaged in is nothing less than a project to re-imagine what a school can be”. Hoyer echoed Blair and Duncan, remarking, “… more than a century ago, faced with the demands of urbanization, immigration, and universal education, the first community schools reformers came to realize that schools can be—and often must be—more than just places for instruction. They can be the center of their communities.” Access his full speech.

http://democraticleader.house.gov/in_the_news/statements_and_speeches/index.cfm?pressReleaseID=3512

In a following panel discussion, Cindy Brown (Vice President for Education Policy, Center for American Progress ) chatted with Randi Weingarten (President of the AFT), Jane Quinn (Children’s Aid Society, Assistant Executive Director for Community Schools), and Roberto Rodriguez (Special Assistant to the President for Education Policy, White House Domestic Policy Council). They discussed the importance of community schools as a support to teachers and as a necessity for children and their families to achieve positive outcomes. Rodriguez stressed that “the promise of community schools is central to the charge that the President has put before us of providing complete and competitive education to all students.”

College Awareness Events

Event:               Philadelphia National College Fair
Date:                            Sunday, November 15, 2009
Location:                      Pennsylvania Convention Center, Hall B
1101 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA. 19107
Time:                            11:00am-3:00pm
More Information:         215-418-4700

Event:               Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fair
Date:                            Thursday, November 19, 2009
Location:                      Ben Franklin High School
550 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA. 19130
Time:                            3:30pm-7:00pm
More Information:         215-400-4130

Event:               Financial Aid Workshop and Scholarship Raffle
Date:                            Thursday, November 19, 2009
Location:                      Ben Franklin High School
550 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA. 19130
Time:                            3:30pm-4:15pm
5:15pm-6:00pm
More Information:         215-400-4130

Event:                           Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE)-Joint Recruitment Fair
Date:                            Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Location:                      School District of Philadelphia 440 North Broad Street (Atrium)
Philadelphia, PA. 19130
Time:                            4:30pm-7:00pm
More Information:         215-400-4130

Learn how you can join our tremendous city-wide effort to:

Ø save families hundreds of dollars in tax preparation fees,
Ø ensure that they receive important tax credits worth thousands of dollars and
Ø connect them to valuable public benefits such as food stamps and heating assistance

Join us for a short informational session and hear from returning volunteers why they find this high impact volunteer opportunity rewarding.

Join us Nov. 17th and Dec. 3rd   from 5:30-6:30
United Way, 17th and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

No experience necessary; all training provided.  There are many ways that you can help at the tax sites: greeting customers, organizing paperwork and folders, completing tax forms, filling out applications for benefits such as Food Stamps, and other administrative tasks.

To RSVP call 215-851-1759 or email taxvolunteer@gpuac.org

Visit our website http://www.phillyfreetaxes.org for more information and to sign up to volunteer today!

Montgomery County Tax Coalition (MCTC)
Project Coordinator/Facilitator

Project Description:  Responsible for strengthening relationships and coalition building of member agencies interested in expanding VITA services and promoting greater self-sufficiency.

Reports To:         Director of Asset Development

Purpose of Project:    Provide overall coordination and support to Montgomery County Tax Coalition (MCTC).  MCTC is a coalition of 10 community-based organizations, institutions of higher education, and financial institutions working to promote VITA/EITC services in low-income communities in Montgomery County.  Since its inception in 2008, the coalition has concentrated primarily on providing free income tax assistance through its network of partner sites and volunteers.

Duties and Responsibilities:
– Work with MCTC and site manager to ensure effective volunteer recruitment and placement
– Develop complete site list information for public and internal use
– Provide input in design of all outreach materials promoting VITA sites
– Develop and implement a strategic planning process to strengthen the coalition and broaden its VITA expansion efforts and increase serve options related to financial stability
– Obtain input and garner consensus to create and maintain member agreements for each coalition partner.
– Promote partnership growth with other colleges and universities and other public and privates entities.
– Monitor and guide implementation of policies and procedures at sites
– Develop strong relationships with individual site managers; provide mentoring by phone and through site visits throughout the tax season, with a special emphasis on intense coverage during the first month of the season
– Plan and run MCTC meetings, ensure minutes are taken and distributed, and members are reminded of meeting with sufficient notice
– Serve as a liaison between sites and other MCTC members
– Provide data and other reports as needed
– Organize meetings of appropriate committees and work groups as needed
– Working with MCTC, coordinate and support overall programmatic budget (i.e. approve and arrange disbursement, track overall spending consistent with approved plan)
– Coordinate and implement asset building strategy within scope of MCTC goals
– Network with the larger asset development field on behalf of MCTC
– Help identify funding opportunities and support grant-writing initiatives particularly through research and data collection, and provide other support as requested

Qualifications:
– Associate Degree required, Bachelor’s degree preferred
– Previous experience with VITA or computer tax preparation
– Strong basic computer skills such word processing, spreadsheets; knowledge of databases preferred
– Ability to travel locally to meetings and VITA sites as needed
– Strong communications skills, both written and oral
– Strong work ethic, good organizational skills
– Strong interpersonal skills; ability to be flexible, responsive and firm
– Commitment to the MCTC vision of expanded VITA services and to working with low-income populations
– Background Check and/or Clearances will be required

Compensation
Annual Salary of $30,000. This is a grant funded position with support for an additional two years.

Interested parties please email your cover letter and resume to:

Phyllis Mason
Director of Asset Development
CADCOM
113 E. Main Street
Norristown, PA 19401
pmason@cadcom.org

It is anticipated that interviews will be conducted during the week of November 16.  The ideal candidate will be able to begin work on the project the week of December 6.

PennSERVE: Governor Rendell’s Office of Citizen Service has issued a request for applications (RFA#-2010-ACS-01) for potential 2010-2011 AmeriCorps*State programs in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Consistent with PennSERVE’s mission, the funding is designed to help organizations strengthen Commonwealth communities by implementing innovative service programs that address a compelling community need through the use of volunteers.

To access the grant application information, please visit our website at http://www.pennserve.state.pa.us and click on the link for “PennSERVE RFA for 2010-2011 AmeriCorps Grants.”  The deadline for submission is December 3, 2009.

Are You Eligible?  Obtaining Health Care for Immigrants
Training for Providers, Advocates, Community Leaders

The training which is being cosponsored by the PA Immigration & Citizenship Coalition (PICC) and the Multicultural Community Family Services (MCFS) is open to health care providers, advocates, social workers, case managers, community educators, and anyone who assists the immigrant community access needed health care services.

The skill based and participatory training will focus on how to identify and determine eligibility for various health care services for the immigrant community.  Topics covered will include:

* Immigration status in determining eligibility for services
* Eligibility rules for major health programs including Medicaid, CHIP, and others
* Addressing barriers to care
* Effectively advocating for your clients

When: Friday November 13, 2009
8:30-12:30

Where:  Multicultural Community Family Services
21 Garrett Rd.
Upper Darby, PA 19082

Cost:  $35 for PICC members (who are current on their 2009 dues)
$40 for non PICC members

Two ways to register for the training:

1) Click on the link below which will take you to our online registration site:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2f33Q4IXDRs1OehMF_2fV7mxA_3d_3d

or

2) You can complete and send in the attached registration form by mail, fax or e-mail.

To: PICC
2100 Arch St, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Fax: 267-256-2119
E-mail: susankim@paimmigrant.org

The Immigrant Access Training Project is supported by the Patricia Kind Family and Claneil Foundations.

PLANNING FOR JUSTICE:  Civil Rights and The Future of Philadelphia

Thomas J. Sugrue, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
7:30 P.M. Wolfington Teletorium
Mandeville Hall
Saint Joseph’s University
5600 City Avenue
All are Welcome

Thomas J. Sugrue, Ph.D.
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Sugrue specializes in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, civil rights and race. His most recent book is entitled Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.

Co-sponsored by:
Office of Institutional
Diversity Department of History
Department of Sociology
Office of Multicultural Life

For more information, contact 610-660-1766.

Strategies for Success with Literacy: A Learning Curriculum that Serves
Presented by Program Author Cathryn Berger  Kaye

An innovative curriculum designed to engage students for  academic excellence. This program combines research-based strategies from the  fields of literacy, service learning, civic development/citizenship, and  social/emotional learning. The acclaimed approach helps students become academically and civically engaged and increases their literacy skills. New components have added leadership and career exploration plus higher order skills that improve research and writing. While designed for every students aimed at  grades 5-10 (though the Institute is open and of value to all grades), the program has also been part of an approach to dropout prevention for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

This program has been implemented with over 50,000 students!

December 1 & 2, 2009
8:30 –  4:30
Register Today!
For Michigan Residents, register at http://www.ioniaisd.org

For Out of State Residents, a different fee applies; inquire with Deborah Wagner

For more information contact
Deborah Wagner
dawagner@ioniaisd.org
616-522-1405

For Program information, contact Cathryn Berger Kaye at cbkaye@aol.com

Thought you’d be interested in an updated edition of my civic engagement book Soul of a Citizen. It will be published March 30, but free electronic exam copies are available now by emailing forpaulloeb@gmail.com

Assigned on hundreds of campuses in every conceivable discipline and from first-year programs to graduate seminars, Soul has helped students of all backgrounds and perspectives learn to make a difference in their communities and in our country.  It has inspired them make their voices heard and actions count—and to begin journeys of involvement that could last their entire lives.

I’ve been working since January on a thoroughly updated edition. It keeps all the strengths of the decade-old original, but speaks as powerfully as possible to the very different challenges of our current time. I would love to send you an advance electronic exam copy if that would help you to consider assigning it.

Academic Exam Copies

If you’d like to get a free advance electronic academic exam copy, please email my assistant, Dr Erica Kay, at forpaulloeb@gmail.com  and she’ll be delighted to send you one. The book will be published and available in college bookstores March 30.

If you’d also like St Martin’s to send a physical exam copy when they’re printed a few weeks earlier, please include your mailing address, your position at the school, and the relevant course you teach or program you supervise. Erica will then pass on the information to St Martin’s, and they’ll send the books when they’re available.

Core Curriculum Adoptions

Soul’s original edition continues to teach wonderfully. I’ve gotten rave responses this past year in first year and other core curriculum year adoptions at University of Alabama, Florida Gulf Coast University, and other schools throughout the country.  At Georgia’s Kennesaw State, 2500 first-year students have just finished reading it, and faculty are excited about the discussions they anticipate. The book’s drawn rave responses from students in every conceivable discipline, of all political perspectives, and every academic level.

But it has been a decade and 100,000 copies since Soul’s 1999 release, so I’ve now created a wholly revised new edition for a new and different world. It keeps favorite stories like Virginia Ramirez, Rosa Parks, Pete Knutson, David Lewis, and Hazel Wolf. It keeps the core analytical material that’s worked so well–from the perfect standard to America’s historical amnesia. But it adds wonderful new characters, as described below, and wonderful new stories, including many of students and (as students have consistently requested), more on my own history of involvement. I’ve literally gone through every sentence, paragraph, and section to make sure the book speaks as powerfully as possible to the hope and challenges of our new time, and to the new interest of the student generation in civic engagement.

Pass It On

Below are a description and some advance comments. I’ll also update the online study questions at http://www.soulofacitizen.org/studyquestions.htm. So if you’ve assigned Soul with success before, or would like a powerful new book to inspire your students to get involved, I hope you’ll consider it, including for the all-campus adoptions where it’s engaged students so wonderfully. And please pass on this email to colleagues who might be interested.

Thanks
Paul Loeb

SOUL OF A CITIZEN: A NEW EDITION FOR A NEW WORLD

“Soul of a Citizen has inspired countless students, faculty, and other readers since its publication a decade ago.  Amazing as that book was, this new version is even wiser, deeper, and more inspiring.  Loeb has given even more soul to his wonderful work.”

—Thomas Ehrlich, senior scholar, Carnegie Foundation for Education, former dean of Stanford Law School and former president of Indiana University

“Soul of a Citizen has been a powerful resource to get thousands of students involved in their communities, giving them the opportunity to apply their learning in meaningful ways.  This updated edition is both timely and exceptionally useful to campuses that want to reclaim higher education’s central role in educating responsible, democratic citizens.”

—Carol Geary Schneider, President, American Association of Colleges & Universities

Here’s a bit more info:

Assigned on hundreds of campuses in every conceivable discipline and from first-year programs to graduate seminars, Paul Loeb’s Soul of a Citizen has become a classic of civic engagement. An antidote to powerlessness, the book has helped students of all backgrounds and perspectives learn to make a difference from immediate local issues to the largest global challenges.  It has inspired them to make their voices heard and actions count—and to begin journeys of involvement that may last their entire lives.

On March 30, 2010, eleven years and over 100,000 copies after Soul’s original publication, St Martin’s will publish a new edition for a new world, designed to address the challenges and opportunities of a very different time. Developed in consultation with faculty who’ve taught the book in every imaginable context, Soul’s new edition keeps the stories and lessons that have most inspired students to act. These include how Maine homemaker Alison Smith helped lead a path-breaking initiative for campaign finance reform “so my kids won’t grow up in a cynical world.” How, after an elderly neighbor died of the cold, Virginia Ramirez, a middle-aged Latina with an eighth-grade education, got involved in a San Antonio community or­ganization—and eventually testified before the U.S. Senate. And how David Lewis, an African American man who had served seventeen years in the California prison system launched a pioneering drug rehabilitation effort based on trying to give people, as he said, “the support they need, in a language they can understand.” It keeps the core analytical material that’s worked so well—like Loeb’s explorations of the perfect standard, the cynical smirk, and America’s chronic amnesia about social change. Loeb examines, for instance, how the myths surrounding the Rosa Parks story blur the reality that those who change history do so intentionally, by working together with others, and by persevering until they succeed.

Paul Loeb has mixed these classic stories with powerful new profiles and explorations of contemporary citizen involvement, on issues from the economy to global climate change. A few examples:

* How Rich Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was converted on global climate change by a prominent British climate scientist who is also a leading evangelical. Cizik said his shift “shook my theology to its core.” He went on to enlist other key evangelical leaders, like Rick Warren.

* How Virginia Tech student Angie De Soto began so apathetic she spent the night of the 2004 election playing a drinking game after not voting. Once a professor got Angie interested in global climate change, she created and ran a pioneering environmental sustainability plan for her once-disengaged campus.

* How a young Barack Obama began his involvement by speaking out during the student anti-apartheid movement—through a campaign at Occidental College launched by a former Green Beret. Whether students agree or disagree with Obama’s stands, the story underscores the power of citizen activism, since we never know where the person sitting in a classroom beside us will end up.

* How Maine college student Meredith Segal used Facebook to build a national volunteer effort that became the core of Obama’s initial campaign and then played a key role in his victory—all while continuing as a full-time student.

* How Michelle Combs, communications director of the highly conservative Christian Coalition, became friends with Joan Blades, founder of the leading liberal group MoveOn. Their friendship led to a joint campaign that saved the Internet as an open-access commons, instead of a medium to be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Soul’s new edition also includes more on Paul’s personal journey, from his own student activism to a 15-state campus election engagement project, which he created and ran in 2008 through Campus Compact’s state networks, to help faculty and administrators involve their students. It includes a new exploration of political burnout, including how to prevent students from becoming cynical about democracy from possible disappointment with Obama. It includes an updated look at the world of “virtual activism”—and how new technologies can either increase face-to-face engagement and become traps to displace it. Loeb takes a classic of citizen involvement and brings it up to the present, so it can engage a student generation with more potential interest in public life than any in years.

“Soul of a Citizen has inspired thousands of young people to take a stand. It teaches them how to get past the barriers to act, and why their actions matter. It’s a powerful personal guide to get students involved, and the new edition is great.”

—Hans Riemer, Youth Vote Director, Barack Obama campaign, and former political director, Rock the Vote

“Soul of a Citizen was a valuable part of our 2009 program for several hundred first-year students. Many also participated in service projects, and the book gave them a hopeful vision of what they could accomplish. Soul is inspiring for any student eager to play a more active role in shaping their campus, their community, and their world. The new edition is even stronger.”
—Kevin Waltman, Co-coordinator, Freshman Learning Communities, University of Alabama.

“Since 2007, we’ve assigned Soul of a Citizen as the core text for our Foundations of Civic Engagement course, enrolling 700 students per year. We assign The Impossible Will Take a Little While to 250 students in our core senior seminars.  Our students love these books and tell me they are among the only ones they won’t sell back.  You are a household name on our campus, and the new version of Soul is even more powerful than the original.”
—Maria Roca, Department of Communication, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers FL

For an advance electronic academic exam copy, please email Dr Erica Kay, at forpaulloeb@gmail.com

These grants support environmental education projects that promote environmental stewardship and help develop knowledgeable and responsible students, teachers and citizens. Eligible applicants include: local education agencies, state education or environmental agencies, colleges or universities, 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, noncommercial educational broadcasting entities, and tribal education agencies. The EPA will distribute $3 million through 95 grants.

http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/grants_apply.html

Peer Review Process Helps to Ensure Products “Count” in Promotion and Tenure Decisions & Make a Difference in Communities

For more information, email info@CES4Health.info or visit http://www.CES4Health.info.   The text below is available as a PDF at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/PressRelease-CES4Healthf.pdf

November 3, 2009 – Today marks the public launch of CES4Health.info, a free online resource for publishing diverse products of community-engaged scholarship.  The first twelve products accepted by CES4Health.info – including a film about health impacts of the built environment in post-Katrina New Orleans and a cultural competency curriculum for health professionals – reflect the depth and breadth of knowledge made possible through community-academic partnerships.  And yet regrettably, such products rarely “count” in the faculty promotion and tenure process nor are they routinely disseminated beyond the communities with which the work was conducted. CES4Health.info aims to change this situation by tackling
these challenges head-on.

As CES4Health.info editor Cathy Jordan, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Director of the Children, Youth and Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis explains, “Community-based participatory research, service-learning and other community-engaged forms of scholarship require diverse products that reach and benefit community members, practitioners and policy makers.  However, since these products are not typically peer-reviewed and published the way journal articles are, promotion and tenure committees are unable to determine their quality or impact and often discount them.  A product peer-reviewed and published through CES4Health.info is comparable to an article published through a peer-reviewed print or online journal.  Our editorial and peer review processes mirror those of most journals and are based on accepted standards of scholarship.”   Recognizing that the “peers” in community-engaged scholarship come from the community and the academy, all products posted on CES4Health.info have been reviewed and recommended by expert academic and community reviewers.

Faculty members who author products that are published through CES4Health.info can note them in the peer-reviewed publications section of their curriculum vitae and describe them as peer-reviewed scholarly products.  CES4Health.info also provides authors with a measure of impact by tracking how often each product is accessed and how it is used.

CES4Health.info is a component of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health’s Faculty for the Engaged Campus project.  The project aims to strengthen community-engaged career paths in the academy and is supported by a grant from the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The seed for CES4Health.info was planted by the WK Kellogg Foundation-funded Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions, which recommended in its 2005 report, “Linking Scholarship and Communities,” that such a mechanism be established.

CES4Health.info is led by an editorial team of four exemplary community-engaged scholars.  Editor Cathy Jordan is joined by Associate Editors Janice Bowie, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD; Suzanne Cashman, Professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA; and Jean Schensul, Senior Scientist and Founding Director of the Institute for
Community Research in Hartford, CT.

“This is an extremely important and timely initiative,” notes Eric Bass, Editor of the journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships and member of the CES4Health.info design team. “Universities across the country are showing increased interest in community-engaged scholarship.  In the fields of medicine and public health alone, the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards and the CDC Prevention Research Centers are developing innovative products ranging from health promotion program manuals to community-engaged research training modules. However, faculty members and their community partners need new venues for disseminating their work. CES4Health.info helps to address this need.”

Chuck Conner, Coordinator of the Winding Roads Health Consortium in West Virginia agrees.  “As a community-based peer reviewer for CES4Health.info, what excites me most about this new resource is its potential to widely disseminate high quality products that can improve the health of communities.”

Diverse products of health-related community-engaged scholarship in English from anywhere in the world can be submitted to CES4Health.info at any time – a two-step process that involves completing an online application form and submitting the actual product.  CES4Health.info defines ‘health-related’ broadly to include, for example, health care, public health, health policy and the social determinants of health – such as education, food security, housing, income and its distribution, and social support.  See pages below for information about the first 12 products to be peer-reviewed and published through CES4Health.info.

Visit http://www.CES4Health.info to submit products, search for products, and apply to be a peer reviewer.

Learn more about CES4Health.info during sessions at these upcoming conferences:

Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Annual Meeting in Washington DC, January 22, 2010 session on Unlocking the Reward System: Faculty for the Engaged Campus from 10:30 – 11:45 am
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm

AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal Conference, March 25-27, 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (session date and time TBD)
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/faculty/2010/index.cfm

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 11th Conference, Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships, May 12-15, 2010, Portland, Oregon (session date and time TBD)
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf10-overview.html

Subscribe to CCPH’s Community-Engaged Scholarship Listserv for regular updates on CES4Health.info:
https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/comm-engagedscholarship

INFORMATION ABOUT THE FIRST 12 PRODUCTS TO BE PEER-REVIEWED AND PUBLISHED THROUGH CES4HEALTH.INFO

In Harmony: Reflections, Thoughts, and Hopes of Central City, New Orleans
Caricia Catalani*, Anthony Veneziale, Larry Campbell, Shawna Herbst, Anthony Wilson, Craig McCullough, Darrel Barnes, Jackie Alexander, Jeremiah Sherman, Michele Burton-Oatis, Michael Oatis, Rev. Samson “Skip”
Alexander, Benjamin Springgate, Brittany Butler, Meredith Minkler
*Corresponding author affiliation: University of California, Berkeley

In Harmony is a community-based participatory film about health impacts of the built environment in post-Katrina New Orleans, including housing, education, and employment, produced using videovoice methodology, a health advocacy, education, and research methodology through which people get behind video cameras to research issues of concern, communicate knowledge, and advocate for change. This video was produced by the New Orleans VideoVoice Project, a community-academic-filmmaker partnership for health.

Training for Better Health: A Cultural Competency Curriculum for the Health Professions
Dodi Meyer*, Julia Michie, Milagros Batista, Hetty Cunningham, Patricia Hametz, Mary McCord.
*Corresponding author affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center’s Community Pediatrics Program

This manual provides a train-the-trainer guide for integrating a cultural competency curriculum into the education of health professionals. It provides a complete and complementary set of educational methodologies that are straightforward, easy to implement, simple to adapt, and can be scaled up or down to meet the needs of a particular training program.

Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) with Indigenous People
Fay Fletcher*, Cecelia Zoe-Martin, Jim Martin, Nancy Gibson, Rose James, Randy Elliott, La Belle V. Urbanec, Pamela L. James, Greg Miller
*Corresponding author affiliation: University of Alberta

Acknowledging the impact of history and resiliency while capturing the passion of emerging leaders in Indigenous health research, these two videos provide a starting point for discussion on the roles and
responsibilities of community and university partners in collaborative and community-based research. The potential change generated by CBPR in the interface between community partners and leaders and members of post secondary institutions is discussed.

Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum
The Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group*
*Corresponding author affiliation: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

This product is an evidence-based curriculum designed as a tool for use by community-institutional partnerships that are using or planning to use a CBPR approach to improving health. It can be used by partnerships that are just forming as well as existing partnerships. It is intended for use by health professions faculty and researchers, students and post-doctoral fellows, staff of community-based organizations, and staff of public health agencies at all skill levels.

Community Approaches to Mobilizing Partnerships and Service-Learning
Lorece Edwards*, Anita Hawkins
*Corresponding author affiliation: Morgan State University

The Practice Experience/Service Learning Guide is a tool that is used to assist students, faculty, and community health partners in implementing service-learning projects and public health community-based practice. The Practice Experience/Service Learning Guide provides a step-by-step process for community-based practice integrating service-learning from start to finish.

The Community Knowledge Project: Community is a Verb
Michael Montoya*
*Corresponding author affiliation: University of California-Irvine

The Youtube video “Community is a Verb” was inspired and co-developed by a team of students, professionals and lay health advocates to make the case that the social factors of inequity make people ill.

Toolkit to Establish and Sustain Year-Long Walking in Rural Communities
Anna Zendell*, Mary Riley-Jacome
*Corresponding author affiliation: UAlbany Prevention Research Center

A Toolkit has been created to provide guidance for rural communities in upstate New York to create year-long walking programs that address safety, motivation, and sustainment. The winter-based portion of the walking program occurs in the center of rural communities: the local schools, while the outdoors portion is located along local trails or community-identified streets and paths. The Toolkit consists of a Walking Program Guidebook, a Walking Club Leader Manual, and a Survey that was created to evaluate efficacy of the walking program.

The Professional Service Experience: Connecting Students and Communities
Patricia Darbishire*
*Corresponding author affiliation: Purdue University

This manual documents the Professional Service Experience, a one credit-hour, first year pharmacy course at Purdue University. The manual includes the Professional Service Experience course manual, an
introductory PowerPoint presentation and associated assignments and forms.

The CEAL-UNC Collaborative. A Manual for Community Based Participatory Research: Using Research to Improve Practice and Inform Policy in Assisted Living
Karen Love*, Sheryl Zimmerman, Lauren Cohen
*Corresponding author affiliation: Center for Excellence in Assisted Living

This manual is designed to promote and guide the use of CBPR in aging and long-term care research. This manual was informed by a two-year research grant funded by the U.S. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality that was aimed at better understanding medication management practices in long-term care. The manual details the CBPR principles and processes, and also offers specific examples of, and recommendations for, practically implementing CBPR in the field of long-term care.

Homeless Over 50: The Greying of Chicago’s Homeless Population
Christine George*, Marilyn Krogh, Dennis Watson, Judith Wittner, Nancy Radner, Christopher Walker, Christopher Wiens
*Corresponding author affiliation: Loyola University Chicago Center for Urban Research and Learning

This policy report was developed out of a 2-year collaborative study that aimed to obtain a demographic profile of people who are homeless in Chicago between the ages of 50 and 64; to understand how the various systems designed to serve this population do and do not meet their needs; and to begin to suggest a range of policy and programmatic responses to meet the needs of this population.

The Heredity Project: A Web-based Introduction to Genetics for the Purpose of Health Promotion
Vicki Park*, Robert Shreve
*Corresponding author affiliation: University of Tennessee Health Science Center

The Heredity Project is a genetic literacy program to enable responsible and effective use of genomic medicine as part of routine healthcare. Across different health topics, a central theme of the project is to
enable a better understanding of the nature and distribution of genetic variation as it pertains to health and disease. As part of the project’s dissemination efforts, this web-based introduction has been developed and
launched for full public access.

The AgrAbility Project: Rehabilitating Farmers and Ranchers
Millee Jorge*, Carla Wilhite
*Corresponding author affiliation: Langston University, School of Physical Therapy

Rehabilitating Farmers and Ranchers, offers the rehabilitation professional the perspective of an occupational therapist and a physical therapist who advocate for farmers and ranchers remaining in agriculture and participating in agrarian life with assistive technology that can safely assure their continued engagement. The aims of the video are to describe opportunities physical rehabilitation professionals have to maximize the clinical interventions with individuals working in agriculture and to illustrate the clinical case management of farmers and ranchers with disabilities who have resumed their lives in agriculture
after injury.

REQUEST FOR PROGRAMMING PROPOSALS
The Campus Kitchens Project (CKP), through funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), is proud to provide funding opportunities for schools to develop campus and community projects that will honor Dr. King’s legacy of service.  CKP has been selected to bring college students and the community together to address issues surrounding hunger by engaging youth, the elderly and underserved populations in volunteerism with their local Campus Kitchen.

Grants will be awarded for up to $2,000 for Campus Kitchens and partners to host a MLK Day of Service program on Monday, January 18, 2010 with an emphasis placed on recruiting volunteers from community-based organizations and disadvantaged youth.  Funds may also be used to develop a semester of service program, kick-off of a new Campus Kitchen and/or build the Campus Kitchen volunteer base through one-time service events.  All schools within the CKP network, schools developing a Campus Kitchen and partner agencies are eligible for funding.

GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
We are pleased to offer a number of grants, ranging from $500 to $2,000 to our affiliates and out-of-network partners. These grants are made possible by the generous support of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Please note that the grants are subject to availability of federal funds appropriated for CNCS and awarded to CKP.

To get a copy of the full RFP and application, email mroche@campuskitchens.org (Subject: “MLK 2010 Grants”) or call 202.789.5979.

[Note: the original deadline was listed as September 10, however, Campus Kitchens Project emailed me this announcement for inclusion in the PHENND Update on 11/4/09 and said they “are looking to have all of our awards done by the end of the month.”  So if you are interested, contact them ASAP.]

To demonstrate just how easy it is to plant and supervise other volunteers in the planting of bare root trees, PHS’s Tree Tenders Program is offering a short and painless demonstration and workshop. This is for anyone who wants to learn how to supervise other volunteers in preparation for the large scale bare root community volunteer tree plantings taking place across the city. You need not be a Tree Tender graduate to attend.

6:30 – 8 pm, Monday, November 16, PHS Auditorium, 5th floor, 100 N. 20th Street (20th and Arch)

Please RSVP to Mike Hardy, PHS Tree Tenders, (215) 988-8843 or mhardy@pennhort.org

[Ed note: this is perfect timing to help you plan to volunteer at a large community tree planting in West Philly on Sat, Nov. 21.  Read more at: http://updates.phennd.org/2009/10/big-tree-planting-in-university-city/]

Peter Brown (Haverford College class of ’61), Professor of Geography and Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, School of Environment, will give a talk titled, “Economics without Ecocide: Building a Whole Earth
Economy”.  Peter is a co-author of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, and is actively involved in conservation efforts in the James Bay and Southern regions of Quebec and in Maryland.  He is a member of the Religious Society of Friends.

http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/98882

Rapid globalization, international collaborations, massification, corporate partnerships, increasing number of franchises, regime change, and other conditions of duress are reshaping universities around the world. What are the benefits and what are the risks to academic freedom and free inquiry as universities navigate these trends? This special issue looks backward at the role of academic freedom and free inquiry in research universities and forward to what the future may have in store.

This is the follow-up to our Summer 2009 issue, Free Inquiry At Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part II, the published proceedings of the conference held at The New School for Social Research, October 29-31, 2008 (see http://socres.org/vol76/issue762.html).

Take advantage of our Free Inquiry prepublication sale by November 15, 2009 and receive a special rate of $15/issue or $25 for both (regular price $18/issue or $30 for both). To receive this special rate, please visit our order page (http://www.newschool.edu/centers/socres/order.html), and type “Prepublication Sale” into the comments field.

We all know it gets very cold in the Greater Philadelphia region during the winter months. A warm coat is a necessity that is often taken for granted. However, not by the many men, women and children who do not have one.

Join Greater Philadelphia Cares in our 14th Annual Winter Coat Drive as we spread warmth around the city. Last year over 250 businesses, civic groups, and individuals collected 10,000 new and gently used coats that were distributed throughout the region.

Start a drive at your church, school or office, or visit one of our public drop-off sites between November 1st and Martin Luther King Day, January 18. Call 215-564-4544 for more information.

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Download the Constitutional Rights Foundation’s most popular standards-based lessons and units for middle school. Each affordably priced, exciting e-lesson or e-unit provides balanced readings as well as teacher instructions, focus activities, discussion questions, and interactive group activities that engage and enrich students’ critical thinking skills and historical understanding. Priced from $5.95 to $8.95 ea.

U.S. HISTORY:

The Federalist Papers: Explore the Federalist Papers and the historic roles of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay in laying out the arguments for the U.S. Constitution.

George Washington and Leadership: This two-day lesson sequence focuses on the nation’s first president and the qualities that make a good leader. Students are introduced to “ABCs. . . and Ds of Leadership” (actions, beliefs, contributions, and decisions).

Night Forever: Slavery in the American South: Students learn about the economic, cultural, and social characteristics of slavery in the American South before the Civil War.

How the Women’s Rights Movement Began: Students learn about the beginnings of the women’s rights movement and the leadership role women played in antebellum reform movements.

African Americans and the Civil War: A look at how African Americans struggled to be allowed to fight for the Union Army in the Civil War and the effect that black soldiers had on the war and the American people.

Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Monopoly: This lesson focuses on John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil Company that he created, and the growth of industrialism.

Immigrants and Education: This four-lesson unit focuses on immigration to America at the turn of the 20th century and issues of public education in the Progressive era.

WORLD HISTORY:

Ancient Egypt: In this three-lesson unit, students study the social and political order of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, the ways that the Nile river shaped Egyptian civilization through the three kingdoms, and the relationship between religion and Egypt’s social and political order.

Ancient China: In this four-lesson unit, students explore the geography of China and the development of ancient Chinese civilization; the social, legal, and political impact of Qin Dynasty Emperor Shi Huangdi; Confucianism and Daoism; and the opening of the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty.

Ancient Greece: In this three-lesson unit, students explore the rise of Greek city-states and Athenian democracy under Pericles; compare ancient Athens and Sparta; and explore ideas about what makes a good society from three of the Western world’s greatest philosophers—Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

Ancient Rome: In this three-lesson unit, students explore the history of Rome from its founding myths through the Roman Republic; the political and social institutions of the republic; the leadership of Augustus when Rome made its transition from republic became an empire; and religious toleration and persecution in the Roman Empire.

GENERAL SOCIAL STUDIES:

Does It Pay to Go to School?: This lesson provides an interactive way for students to integrate basic mathematical skills into social studies while looking at the economics of going to college.

The River: This two-day lesson sequence introduces students to natural and human impact on the environment by examining changes over time in a hypothetical river community.

For more detail on each lesson and to buy them, click here:
http://www.crf-usa.org/materials-catalog/middle-school-e-lessons.html

8th Annual BALLE Business Conference
Lighting the Way to a New Economy

Join us in Charleston, South Carolina – May 21-23, 2010

Charleston is world renowned for its warm hospitality, historic architecture, outstanding local food, and beautiful waterways. But did you know that the lowcountry of South Carolina and the Southeastern U.S. is also a hotbed of innovation for community economic development?

Forgotten mill towns are rising anew, tobacco farmers are converting their fields to sustainable local foods, local commodities like cotton are finding fair prices among socially minded consumers, family farms are being reclaimed, local businesses are learning sustainable practices to improve their bottom line – and the ties that bind communities and citizens together are being restored in the process.

Join us as we explore opportunities for your community to step forward as a leader in the new economy.

See you in Charleston!
The BALLE Team

Registration is now open!

Program Topics:
Building Community Wealth
Local economic development policies and entrepreneurship strategies that build resilient, diversified economies and foster long-term economic prosperity

Harnessing Local Capital
New models for investing your money in your local economy and re-connecting lenders with their investments

New Business Models for Local Self-Reliance
Successful examples of new economy business models in sustainable food, energy efficiency and renewables, community capital, independent retail, local manufacturing, green building, and local arts and culture

Re-inventing Growth
How do we measure success and re-define progress in the new economy?  New models and metrics of prosperity that value sustainable business solutions, increased knowledge sharing, and local self-reliance

The Power of Business Cooperation
How business networks facilitate collaboration among local businesses that improve business performance and promote healthy local economies

Improving Your Triple Bottom Line
Proven tools for strengthening your business’ performance measured by people, planet and profit

Building a Local Living Economy Network
Specific advice on how to form and grow a local business network to build a sustainable local economy in your community

Plus…
Pre-Conference Activities:
4th Annual Manufacturing Summit
Community Tours of Charleston’s Local Living Economy
BALLE Network Leaders Meeting
and the Workshop “BALLE 101: How to Build a Network”

https://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Register/IdentityConfirmation.aspx?e=290f58f1-d074-4a5d-b2ff-17d9baff930c

Health Care Reform 2009: Can it Provide Health Care for All?
Will Race/Ethnic Disparities be a Thing of the Past?

Monday, November 16, 2009  6:30 – 7:30pm

DENNIS ANDRULIS, PHD, MPH
Director, Center for Health Equality, Associate Dean of Research, Drexel University School of Public Health
Dr. Andrulis will discuss current health care reform and its ability to address inequalities in the delivery of health care. A Question and Answer session will follow.
light refreshments following lecture

rsvp at phillyhealthinfo.org,
or call Sophie Sereda at 215-563-3737, ext. 232

THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
19 SOUTH TWENTY-SECOND STREET | PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-3097 | 215-563-3737