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June 3, 2005
Volume VII ● Issue 11
Message From Our Executive Director
News From CCPH
Membership Matters
Upcoming Events
2006 Conference Update
Announcements
Employment Opportunities
Grants Alert!
Calls for Submissions
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Bureau of Health Professions Announces Achievement Awards at 1st
All-Grantee Conference
CCPH Board Member
Emeritus Hilda Heady Recognized for Expanding Community-Based Training in
West Virginia
Ten
outstanding individuals were recognized on June 2 for their commitment to the
health professions and to helping improve access to quality health care for
all. The awards were announced at the
Bureau of Health Professions’ First All-Grantee Conference in Washington, D.C. Five award winners are profiled below and
the remaining five will be featured in our next newsletter issue.
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Hilda Heady
was given an Achievement Award for Expanding Community-Based Education. As
Executive Director of West Virginia Rural Health Education
Partnerships (WVRHEP) and Vice President for Rural Health at
the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University, Ms.
Heady works tirelessly on behalf of rural communities across the
state.
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Hilda
Heady
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WVRHEP has been nationally recognized as a
model partnership between communities, higher educational institutions and
government agencies by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the
Journal of Rural Health.
The Partnership’s outcomes are impressive: From
1999 to 2004, the number of rural physicians increased by 88 percent from
88 to 165. In 2002, WV health
professional students participating in community service activities
involving more than 158,000 rural residents. Health professional students have opportunities to serve and
learn in 28 community health centers, 30 small rural hospitals, 25 dental
offices, 37 pharmacies, 13 county health departments, 20 physical therapy
agencies or rehabilitation centers in underserved areas, and 16 county
boards of education. Nearly 700 rural field faculty are involved in health
professional education.
At the national level, Ms. Heady is the
current President of the Board of Trustees of the National Rural Health
Association and was recognized in 2001 with a national leadership award for
her service on the Board of Directors of Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health.
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The
Health Professions Distinguished Service Award was given to Dr. Louis Sullivan for his
exceptional and sustained contributions to advancing the health professional
workforce. Dr. Sullivan is the
founding Dean and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). With the exception of his tenure as
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1989-1993,
Dr. Sullivan was President of MSM for over two decades. He chairs the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the
Healthcare Workforce.
An
Achievement Award for Improving the Diversity of the Health Workforce was
given to Dr. Billy Ballard,
Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Meharry Medical College
(MMC). More than 15 percent of
African Americans who receive degrees in medicine and dentistry each year are
MMC graduates. Of over 3,700 living
MMC alumni, 78 percent practice in lower socioeconomic and disadvantaged
urban and rural communities, and more than 50 percent practice in primary
care fields. MMC alumni are faculty
members at 55 U.S. medical schools, and the college educates a majority of
African American medical school faculty.
An Achievement
Award for Improving the Diversity of the Health Workforce was given to Ms. Iral Porter, Assistant Dean of
the Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity at the University of Kansas
School of Medicine. She has more than
30 years’ experience in administering programs to motivate disadvantaged
students to choose health careers, including as Director of the University’s
Health Careers Pathways Program and Center of Excellence for Minority Medical
Education. The former has addressed
the needs of nearly 4,000 disadvantaged students seeking entry into the
health professions, the latter has retained and graduated 95 percent of its
minority students and increased its minority faculty from 24 in 1998 to 39 in
2003.
An
Achievement Award for Expanding Interdisciplinary Health Education was given
to Dr. Thomas Cavalieri, Professor
of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine. In 1989, under his leadership, the
School’s Center for Aging became the first osteopathic medical school to
receive a federal grant to support an interdisciplinary geriatric fellowship
program, involving geriatric medicine, dentistry and psychiatry. The Center was subsequently awarded a
grant to launch the New Jersey Geriatric Education Center, which has
established partnerships across the state to expand interdisciplinary geriatric
education opportunities for health professionals of all disciplines.
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MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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One
year from now, at the next CCPH conference,
hundreds of leaders from communities, campuses, government and philanthropy
will convene in Minneapolis, MN USA to share lessons learned, disseminate
promising practices and take bold actions to achieve authentic partnerships. As with all relationships,
community-campus partnerships begin
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Sarena Seifer
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with
the leadership and action of individuals.
There
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are a
number of tangible and practical ways that leaders from community-based
organizations and initiatives can engage campuses as partners:
Assess community capacity for
campus engagement. What has the history been of
relationships between the community and local campuses? Are there lessons learned from past
experiences that can help to inform the development of new or improved
relationships? What opportunities
exist for faculty, staff and students to contribute to the activities of
ongoing community-based organizations and initiatives? For example, are there opportunities
for community service, service-learning, community-based participatory
evaluation and research, training and technical assistance? What community goals and objectives
might be enhanced by relationships with local colleges and
universities? Identify those that
can serve as the basis of an action plan for building campus partnerships
around genuine community concerns.
Build upon current campus
involvement. Identify the faculty from local campuses
who are already involved in community partnerships, teaching courses or
conducting research in areas that might naturally lend themselves to community
efforts (e.g., urban planning, community-based public health, non profit
management, policy analysis). Identify
faculty, students and staff who are involved in community service and
service-learning. Explore options
for their greater involvement as individuals and as links to others within
their institutions.
Assess local campus assets and
resources. Identify
nearby colleges and universities that could be potential partners. Contact their offices of community
service, service-learning or outreach, degree programs in key disciplines
and professions, their student service organizations, and their deans of
academic and student affairs to learn about potential opportunities for
faculty, staff and student involvement in communities. Contact the senior administrators (e.g.,
vice presidents and provosts) who are responsible for community relations,
urban and regional affairs, educational partnerships and related areas to
explore the possibilities for institution-wide engagement.
Develop relationships with
local campuses. Invite institutional leaders, faculty
and students to community meetings and use the opportunity to present the
community’s goals and accomplishments, highlighting opportunities that
could tap into the strengths of higher education and could further the
institution’s traditional missions of teaching, research and service.
Host an orientation for new
students faculty at the start of each academic year. New students and faculty
members are often unfamiliar with the local community, the rich resources
available and the opportunities for involvement. An annual orientation can serve to introduce students and
faculty to the community and plant seeds early for how they might apply
their enthusiasm, knowledge and expertise to community efforts.
Get connected with networks of
community-campus partnerships. Connect with community-based organizations that have developed
partnerships with local colleges and universities, through such
organizations as Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health, the Association
of Community-Higher Education Partnerships, the Community-Based Public
Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association and PolicyLink.
References:
Seifer
SD. (2000). Engaging colleges and universities as partners in healthy
communities initiatives. Public Health Rep 115:
234-237.
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NEWS FROM CCPH
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Community-Based
Participatory Research Listserv Surpasses 1,750 Subscribers
as it Marks First
Year of Operation
The
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) listserv
was launched in June, 2004, by CCPH and the Wellesley Central
Health Corporation to serve the growing network of people involved
and interested in CBPR and other types of community-academic research
partnerships. Now over 1,750 subscribers strong, the listserv is recognized
as a resource for sharing CBPR knowledge and experience, strengthening the
CBPR field, and ultimately improving the health of communities. Tap
into other CBPR resources
Community-Engaged
Scholarship for Health Collaborative Holds Teleconference on Community
Engagement and Community-Engaged Scholarship
The
Community-Engaged
Scholarship for Health Collaborative held a teleconference entitled
"Community Engagement and Community-Engaged Scholarship:
Clarifying our Meanings when Using These Terms" on May 18,
2005. On this call, speakers Barbara Holland, Director of the National Service
Learning Clearinghouse, and Collaborative team member Robert
Bringle, Director of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Center for Service
and Learning, discussed what defines and differentiates community
engagement and community-engaged scholarship, examples of both, and
implications for review, promotion, and tenure policies and practices.
Answers to
Frequently Asked Questions about
Community-Engaged
Scholarship
Answers
to frequently asked questions about community-engaged
scholarship are now available on the CCPH website; find the FAQ under “What’s New.”
This document was developed by CCPH staff in response to questions raised
by members of the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative. It
provides standard definitions of community engagement and community-engaged
scholarship based on the report of the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship
in the Health Professions, and also highlights other relevant
articles, initiatives, and resources related to the efforts of academic
institutions to promote and reward community-engaged scholarship.
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MEMBERSHIP MATTERS
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June Book Sale!
CCPH members receive a greater-than-usual discount on
two of our most popular publications!
Don't delay in ordering:
v Advancing the Healthy
People Objectives through Community-Based Education: A Curriculum Planning
Guide
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v
Toolkit
for Achieving the Nation's Health Objectives through Community-Campus
Partnerships
For details, see "What's
New" at www.ccph.info.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
For details on these new listings
and all previously listed upcoming events, visit CCPH’s
CONFERENCE PAGE
Join
CCPH at these upcoming events!
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CCPH 8th Summer
Service-Learning Institute
June 17-20, 2005
Cascade Mountains of Washington State
Application
Information
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CBPR Skill Building Institute
for Partnership Teams
August 5-8, 2005
Cascade
Mountains of
Washington
State
Additional Information
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CCPH 9th Conference
May 31-June 3, 2006
Minneapolis,
MN USA
Save the date!
Additional Information
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June 1-3, 2005
● Bureau of Health Professions
First All-Grantee Conference, Washington, DC.
CCPH executive
director Sarena Seifer will be presenting the findings and recommendations of the Commission
on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions on Friday
June 3 from 10-11:30am. CCPH will also be exhibiting. Stop by and see us at
Booth #18. Additional information about the conference. To
learn more about the Commission and its report on Linking
Scholarship and Communities, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/kellogg3.html
June 22-23, 2005 ● CCPH Consultant
Margot Stein
will facilitate a Service-Learning Workshop for faculty, students and
community partners of the University of Puerto Rico School of Dentistry in
San Juan. Margot is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry and has served as
Curriculum Director for the school’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded
Pipeline, Profession and Practice Project for the past three years. This
project has developed community partnerships for educating dental students in
community-based settings, and for recruiting a more diverse applicant pool
into dentistry. Contact CCPH
to arrange a customized workshop or consultation through the CCPH
Consultancy Network. Learn more about service-learning in dental education.
June 27-July 1, 2005 ● CCPH Executive
Director Sarena Seifer will be leading a workshop during the National
Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Organization Leadership Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The
workshop, "Becoming an Engaged Institution: A Strategic Approach to
Community-Campus Partnerships," will take place on Thursday, June 30,
from 8:30 to 11:45 AM. Learn more about engaged
institutions.
September 19-21, 2005 ● Community
Based Collaborative Research Conference, Portland, OR. CCPH is
a co-sponsor. The Call for Proposals is due July 1. Call for Proposals
New
Event Listings
For details on
these new listings and all previously listed upcoming events, visit CCPH’s CONFERENCE PAGE
June 14, 2005 ● 12:00
p.m. Eastern
● Interview and Live Webcast
with NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni
June 16, 2005 ● 12:00
p.m. Eastern
● ACHI Education Audio Conference: Outcomes from a Logic Model: A
Collaborative Success with Kathy Tiernan, 2004 CCPH Award Recipient
June 21, 2005 ● 8:00
p.m. Eastern
● Showtime for Education: Tune in to Service-Learning
August 4-6, 2005 ● National Conference on Volunteering and Service, Washington,
DC
October 28-29, 2005 ● Optimizing Global Health through
Nursing Science in Chicago, IL
December 4-6, 2005 ● Second Annual International
Conference on Social Science Research, Orlando, FL
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2006 CCPH CONFERENCE UPDATE
Walking the Talk:
Achieving the Promise of Authentic Partnerships
May 31-June 3, 2006 ● Minneapolis, MN USA
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/savethedate.html
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Announcing CCPH Conference
Keynote Speaker:
Angela Glover
Blackwell
We
are delighted to announce that Angela Glover Blackwell has accepted our invitation to be a keynote speaker for the CCPH 2006
conference. Ms. Blackwell is founder and chief executive officer of PolicyLink, a
national nonprofit research,
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communications,
capacity-building, and advocacy organization. She describes its mission as “advancing
a new generation of policies to achieve economic and social equity, based
on the wisdom, voice, and experience of local leaders who are shaping
successful solutions to national problems.” PolicyLink is committed to “Lifting
Up What Works.” Since its inception in 1999, PolicyLink has been a leading
advocate in the nation’s growing community-building movement. PolicyLink
has partnered with a cross-section of stakeholders to ensure that questions
of equity receive the highest priority in addressing major policy issues,
including: urban sprawl and smart growth, reinvestment in low-income
communities, bridging the digital divide, responsible policing, and
eliminating racial health disparities.
Ms.
Blackwell founded PolicyLink after serving as senior vice president for the
Rockefeller Foundation for three-and-a-half years. She directed the
Foundation’s domestic and cultural divisions and developed the Next
Generation Leadership and Building Democracy program, centered on issues of
inclusion, race, and policy. She is also co-author of Searching for the
Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America. She is a
frequent guest in the media and her appearances include ABC’s Nightline
and National Public Radio. She has been published in the opinion pages of The
New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco
Chronicle.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The May 2005 issue
of Physical Therapy Magazine features an article on service-learning in
physical therapy education that highlights many CCPH member programs. The article
is posted on CCPH's service-learning resources page along with
examples of service-learning programs and course syllabi in physical therapy
and other health professional fields.
The European Forum
for Primary Care was initiated in early 2005 by a group of interested parties from
Belgium, the UK and the Netherlands. It quickly expanded to include
representatives from France, Estonia, Italy and Denmark. Among which
are practitioners and management, policymakers and researchers. The
Forum seeks to expand its membership and thereby to become a leading
force for in Primary Care in Europe. If you would like to find out more
about the European Forum for Primary Care please
have a look on our website: www.euprimarycare.org. Via the
website you can register as member of the Forum. If you would need further
information, please to not hesitate to contact them: info@euprimarycare
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