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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, we are a growing network of over 1,800 communities and campuses across North America and increasingly the world that are collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies. These partnerships are powerful tools for improving higher education, civic engagement and the overall health of communities.

We are working toward a number of shared goals, including:

Click here for answers to Frequently Asked Questions about CCPH.

 

                   
                 
             

 
 

Click here to read CCPH's E-news. To subscribe to CCPH's monthly e-news, sign up here!

Journal Issue Advances the Ethics of Community-Based Participatory Research! The June 2008 issue of the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics contains 8 articles that expore ethical issues in CBPR. Click here to read the introduction to the issue.

Audiofiles and handouts available from the Community Partner Educational Conference Call Series on Community-Based Participatory Research! Click here for more information

Teams from 20 campuses convened from May 28-30 for a charrette to design innovative, competency-based, campus-wide approaches to developing community-engaged faculty members. Click here to read an article about the charrette. Click here for more information about the Faculty for the Engaged Campus initiative that sponsored the charrette.

Just released: The Community-Engaged Scholarship Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT) Package! This new resource describes 8 characteristics of quality community-engaged scholarship, and includes a sample dossier that shows how a community-engaged scholar may present his or her work to RPT committees. A group exercise simulating an RPT committee process can be used as an educational tool with RPT committees. For more resources, visit the Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit.

The latest issue of Partnership Matters newsletter is chock full of timely grant, conference and publication announcements. Click here to check it out.

To read past news, please click here.

     

Collaborating and Networking for Positive Change

CCPH Member Renee Veksler shares in her interview her experiences with the community-based collaborative organization Get Healthy Guam Coalition. Renee discusses how, with collaboration and networking, she has been able to grow and develop the Coalition and achieve the organization's goals of disseminating information to communities across the islands of Guam on improving health through active lifestyles.

To read more about Renee's work in Guam and ideas on collaboration and networking, click here to read the full interview. To read about previous Featured Members, click here.

If you would like to be a Featured Member, or would like to refer a colleague, please email CCPH Membership Coordinator Cate Clegg at cleggc@u.washington.edu.

     

Join CCPH at these upcoming conferences!

CCPH 11th Summer Service-Learning Institute, July 25-28 in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Please click here for more information.

Save the Date! CCPH 11th Conference, April 29-May 2, 2009, Milwaukee, WI. Click here for details!

Click here for information on other upcoming events

 
                     
         
     
 
                     
 

 
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