We are looking for teams of three to five experienced health care providers, representing different disciplines, who want to sharpen their leadership skills and collaborate to tackle complex health problems in their community.

If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply!

Our fellows are skilled health care providers who come together across health care settings and disciplines to advance a Culture of Health—one that enables everyone in America to live longer, healthier lives.

The program includes intensive learning, mentoring and networking that helps fellows become more effective leaders of transformational change. Working in collaboration throughout the three-year program, they take these important skills and apply them in their jobs and through a project in their community that directly addresses the root causes of inequity in health.

Learn more and apply today: https://clinical-scholars.org/

UNC Center for Health Equity Research is hosting the first annual Health Equity Summer Intensive, a two-day training on innovative methods and approaches to conducting health equity research. This year, the intensive will include interactive training on concept mapping as a stakeholder-engaged, participatory method to conduct health equity research. Participants will learn how to conduct concept mapping activities from both a facilitator and participant perspective, using online and in-person approaches. See our infosheet for more details.

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The Health Equity Summer Intensive keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Lori Carter-Edwards. While registration is required for the two-day training, this keynote is open to the public, and registration is not required. Find more information here.

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This intensive is co-sponsored by the UNC Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, UNC Health Sciences Library, Community Campus Partnerships for Health, NC TraCS Institute, and UNC Department of Social Medicine.

Register: https://apps.research.unc.edu/events/index.cfm?event=events.eventDetails&event_key=22FE6C97F81AB8F355A550FE9D61F5C0138C97DE

Call for Proposals

Priority Deadline: May 29, 2015

SUBMIT Your Proposal Today
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IWEeKo3KW39BFGwVyxlsTGjGYPFmQSdnBhfO5vuoF-M/viewform

Each year, SCALE hosts the Read.Write.Act. Virtual Conference to connect college students, community members, program administrators and non-profit professionals around issues of literacy and social justice.

We are seeking proposals for 1-hour webinar-based workshops with the following outcomes:

1- Develop participants’ skills in addressing and navigating difficult conversations and experiences surrounding issues of race, class, power and privilege in literacy or community service settings

2- Provide models of civic/community engagement projects or programs. We are especially interested in models that include a social justice training or focus

3- Provide specific teaching techniques based on best practices for student-led and community-based literacy groups and organizations

4- Describe systemic issues that lead to barriers in access and what can be done to effect change

Submit a proposal
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The Read.Write.Act. Conference is now in its 23rd year! While originally the conference took place in Chapel Hill, NC, it has since become virtual to be able to better include literacy advocates, like you, across the country and the globe. This will be our 8th year of the virtual conference!

This recently completed report presents activities that the 39 participating housing authorities have adopted using MTW flexibility. While this report does not address the extent to which each new initiative has fulfilled its objectives, it does provide valuable insight into the range of innovations that have been adopted under the MTW program. This report thoroughly documents the history of the MTW program and catalogues the program’s initiatives by its three statutory goals, achieving cost savings, moving families to self-sufficiency, and expanding housing options.

As MTW Agreements are nearing completion and expansion of the program is being considered, we hope that this report can serve as a resource to both agencies and policymakers alike to provide insight into the various MTW initiatives. I am excited to share this report with you and hope that you will find it useful in your work.

https://curs.unc.edu/files/2015/01/The-Moving-to-Work-Demonstration-Center-for-Urban-and-Regional-Studies-Report.pdf

1) Tutoring K-12 learners

2) Tutoring adult or ESL learners

3) Program management*

4) Social justice topics*

*Does not need to be literacy specific, as long as it is transferable.

This is a great presentation opportunity for programs who are looking to promote their work, college students and community partners who have stories to share about how to run a quality program, and faculty members who would like to disseminate efforts to implement quality research to impact education.

The presentations are virtual, so no need to travel! All proposals must be submitted by July 1st. Our audience includes program administrators, AmeriCorps volunteers, and college-aged students.

Learn more, including how to submit a proposal, at http://readwriteact.org/events/read-write-act-conference/.