Call for Proposals: Community-Campus Partnerships for Helath Annual Conference

Posted by on July 22, 2005

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
Conference website: 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.

*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 ccphuw@u.washington.edu.

For information about cosponsoring and exhibiting, please email Annika Robbins at annikalr@u.washington.edu

Stay tuned for more details on our homepage at http://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)!