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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!

CCPH Annual Award & Honorable Mentions Announced! The Partnership between the University of Pennsylvia and the Decatur Community Association is the 7th recipient of the CCPH Annual Award. Click here for the press release. Click here to learn more.

CCPH Announces New Executive Director & Home! The CCPH Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Cheryl A. Maurana, Senior Associate Dean for Public and Community Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee, will become CCPH's next Executive Director, effective August 1, 2008. CCPH will also begin operating out of its new organizational home at MCW at that time under Cheryl's leadership. To read the press release, click here.

Campuses Selected to Build Cadre of Community-Engaged Faculty! Faculty for the Engaged Campus has selected 20 colleges and universities to build a cadre of community-engaged faculty members through innovative models of campus-wide, competency-based faculty development. Click here for details!

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!

Register for a 3-part Community Partner Educational Conference Call Series (May 27, June 13, June 24). We especially encourage participation from community members and their academic/institutional
partners, but all who are interested in these issues may join in. CCPH and the Community Partner Workgroups are sponsoring the calls. For more information on how to sign up, please click here.

CCPH 11th Summer Service-Learning Institute, July 25-28 in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Apply Now! A few spaces are remaining. Please click here for more information.

Save the Date! CCPH 11th Conference, April 29-May 2, 2009, Milwaukee, WI. Details coming soon!

Click here for information on other upcoming events

 
                     
         
     
 
                     
 

 
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