CCPH - Partnership Matters Newsletter

Manifestation: Journal of Community Engaged Research and Learning Partnerships Seeks Contributions for Inaugural Issue; CCPH a Supporting Organization

The last decade has seen a substantial increase in the number of opportunities to engage in collaborative research and implementation of evidence in community settings. Indicators of this include the revitalization of the Science Shop movement in Europe, the growth and strengthening of the movement towards community-campus partnerships in health and healthcare, the growth in the funding from government and private sources for community-based research, service learning, and participatory research activities, as well as an increase in the implementation of structural supports on University campuses and the development of research mandates within community-based organizations.

This surge of activity has led to some very positive outcomes, which include better ways of coping with issues at the local level and solving conflicts between competing interests. However, given the local nature of much collaborative work, promising practices that could be models for others are often not easily shared across environments. One of the consistent gaps in the literature on collaborative work is on the theory and practice of building and sustaining community partnerships.

The inaugural issue of Manifestation is a call for contributions on the theory, practice, art, governance, management, and spirit that supports strong and resilient community partnerships. The journal is not only seeking “success stories” but also for examples of conflict and where plans did not quite happen as intended.

Manifestation (ISSN 1913-651X) is an open-access, electronic, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the conversations about how to most beneficially support and engage in community-based research, community-campus partnerships, service-learning, action research, and other inclusive methods and practices that build and empower our communities. CCPH's Executive Director Sarena Seifer is a member of the editorial board.

The journal accepts contributions from a range of sources and in several formats, in English and in French. For details, visit www.manifestationjournal.org or contact Peter Levesque, Editor-in-Chief, by e-mail at editor@manifestationjournal.org, phone at +1 613 841 0858, or fax at +1 613 841 1750.

Ten community colleges lead effort to prepare baby boomers for post-retirement careers in education, health care, social services

San Francisco-based Civic Ventures has announced the ten community colleges that will lead a national effort to help prepare baby boomers for post-retirement careers in education, health care, and social services.

With support from the MetLife Foundation in New York City, Civic Ventures will award $25,000 to each community college to develop initiatives that will match participants' experience, skills, and interests to "encore" careers in critical service fields. Grantees will provide training for those older than fifty who want to teach, become nursing instructors, or work in gerontology or the nonprofit sector after a career in the for-profit sector. After a year of implementing their projects, the colleges will collaborate with Civic Ventures to report publicly on how to prepare boomers for careers that benefit society.

In addition, Civic Ventures announced its publication of a white paper, Encore Colleges, which describes the opportunity community colleges face in helping boomers transition to encore careers. Available at:
http://www.civicventures.org/communitycolleges/Encore_Colleges.pdf

For more information, visit
http://www.civicventures.org/news/releases/index.cfm?date=2007_08_13

NIH PLANS TO FUND NEW PROGRAM TO FOSTER SCIENTIST-COMMUNITY COLLABORATION

The National Institutes of Health intends to publish a request for applicatios this month for a new NIH Partners in Research Program.

The purpose of the program is to support two-year pilot and/or feasibility studies of innovative activities designed to improve public understanding of biomedical and behavioral research, develop strategies for promoting collaboration between scientists and the community to improve the health of the public, and to identify the conditions (e.g., settings and approaches) that will enhance the effectiveness of such activities. The long-term objectives of this initiative are: (1) to raise the level of public awareness and understanding of biomedical and behavioral research related to health, the role of the NIH, the role the public can play in the research enterprise, and the value of public funding; (2) to increase scientists' awareness of the importance of public engagement; and (3) to provide a menu of techniques for researchers and communities to implement to facilitate the participation of lay communities in the health research endeavor.

The Partners in Research Program will call for partnerships between a science/research institution and a community organization. Eligibility will be limited to domestic institutions.

For more information, visit
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-089.html

To stay on top of the latest community-based participatory research (CBPR) funding announcements (including this one), subscribe to the free CBPR listserv today at http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr

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Sarena Seifer

MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

This month we introduce a new CCPH member benefit:  Member Interest Groups (MIGs)!  
Initiated during small group discussions that took place at the CCPH 10th Anniversary Conference 
this past April, MIGs are designed to mobilize CCPH members for collaborative problem-solving and 
collective action around priority topics of shared interest.  Each MIG has a listserv to facilitate 
communication, moderated by one or more CCPH members who volunteer to serve in this role.

MIGs are focused on a wide range of topics that reflect the diverse interests of CCPH members:

Aboriginal & Indigenous Peoples' Health MIG: CCPH members who seek to improve the health 
(broadly defined) of Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples.

Community-Academic Partnerships in HIV/AIDS MIG: CCPH members who seek to improve the 
health (broadly defined) of people living with HIV/AIDS and address the social determinants of HIV/AIDS.

Community-Engaged Scholarship MIG: CCPH members who seek to recognize and reward community-
engaged scholarship, such as through promotion and tenure guidelines, faculty and staff development, 
institutional support structures and opportunities for peer review and dissemination.

Emerging Leaders MIG: CCPH member students, post-doctoral fellows and others who seek to support 
and develop future leaders of community-academic partnerships and social change.

Ethical Issues in Partnerships MIG: CCPH members who seek to address ethical issues that arise in 
community-academic partnerships, such as establishing community advisory boards, obtaining community 
consent and navigating institutional review boards/ethics review boards.

Homelessness & Health MIG: CCPH members who seek to improve the health (broadly defined) of people 
experiencing homelessness and to address the root causes of homelessness.

International Partnerships MIG: CCPH members who seek to strengthen and support partnerships that 
are working across multiple countries or nations, such as international community-based research 
collaborations and international service-learning exchange programs.

Partnerships for Policy Change MIG: CCPH members who seek to elevate the policy relevance and impact 
of the work being done through community-academic partnerships.

Refugee & Immigrant Health MIG: CCPH members who seek to improve the health (broadly defined) of 
immigrants and refugees.

Rural Health Partnerships MIG: CCPH members who seek to improve the health (broadly defined) of people 
in rural communities.

Since MIGs are open only to CCPH members, we have set up a password protected page on the CCPH website.  
CCPH members received the password in an email dated September 4, 2007. New and renewing members will 
receive the password by mail in letters confirming their membership. If you are a CCPH member and need the 
password, send an email to cleggc@u.washington.edu.

If you are not yet a member of CCPH, join today by completing a printed membership application (available at 
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/Brochure%20Final.pdf) or online form at 
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=8776.  Learn more about the benefits of CCPH 
membership at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/members.html

We hope that MIGs help to enrich the CCPH member experience by connecting members in meaningful ways.   
Don't see a MIG that addresses your interests? Volunteer to moderate a new MIG!  Just contact CCPH 
membership coordinator Cate Clegg at cleggc@u.washington.edu with your idea.

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NEWS FROM CCPH

CCPH Celebrates Another Successful Service-Learning Institute!

This July marked the 10^th anniversary of the CCPH Summer Service-Learning Institute. 26 participants, 8 mentors, and 1 CCPH staff member traveled to the Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat Center in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State for 4 days of personal and professional development. The CCPH Summer Service-Learning Institute has a strong history of supporting and nurturing health professional faculty and community partners who are engaging in community-campus partnerships in order to improve the health of communities and transform health professions education.

During the Institute, participants attended a variety of plenary sessions on topics such as:

· An overview of service-learning

· Principles of community-campus partnerships

· Curriculum development and revision

· Reflection

· Assessing student learning and

· Evaluating programmatic objectives

In addition to plenary sessions, small group mentoring sessions allowed participants the opportunity to integrate plenary session concepts into an action plan for their return. The final session featured presentations of participant action plans, with the opportunity for feedback and discussion from peers and Institute mentors.

The Cascade Mountains of Washington State are an ideal retreat setting for reflective learning

In between the intense sessions, participants enjoyed gourmet meals in the 
Kingfisher Dining Lounge, dips in the heated saltwater swimming pool, and laughter 
around the fire pit at the Grotto (Sleeping Lady’s small bar for guests). An Institute 
highlight was the final day presentation of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Fringed 
Myoti,” a short skit written by participant Annette Campbell where Harry and his friends 
battle those who believe service-learning is “dumb” using the tools and resources they 
have developed at the conference.

Mentors and participants at the Institute, listed below, demonstrate the diversity of academic institutions, professions and community organizations involved in service-learning.

To bring a customized institute to your campus or community, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/mentor.html or email ccphuw@u.washington.edu.

The 11^th CCPH Summer Service-Learning Institute will be held July 25-28, 2008 at Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat Center in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. More information (including application materials) will be posted in early October at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html

MENTORS

Debbie Aloshen, Manager, Nursing Services, Health Services @ MLK High School, Cleveland Municipal School District, 
Cleveland, OH

Suzanne B. Cashman, Associate Professor and Director of Community Health in the Department of Family Medicine and 
Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

Barbara Gottlieb, Primary Care Internist at Brookside Community Health Center and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical 
School, Boston MA

Georgia L Narsavage, Dean and Professor, West Virginia University, School of Nursing, Morgantown, WV

Ruth E Nemire, Associate Dean and Professor, Touro College of Pharmacy, New York, NY

Julie Nigon, Manager, Rochester Adult and Family Literacy Program, Rochester, MN

Rachel L. Vaughn, Assistant Director for Community-Based Learning, Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center, University of 
Washington, and Senior Consultant, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, Seattle, WA

Karen Yoder, Director, Division of Community Dentistry, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN

PARTICIPANTS

Anita Belgard, Central Louisiana AIDS Support Services, Alexandria, LA

Annette Campbell, Score 1 for Health, Kansas City University of Medicine and BioSciences, Kansas City, MO

Timothy Carlson, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Comprehensive Care Clinic, Indianapolis, IN

Magda de la Torre, Building Oral Health Care Access (BOHCA) Educational Service-Learning Program, School of Allied Health 
Sciences, Department of Dental Hygiene, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Pam Entorf, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Dental Hygiene/Dental Assisting, Eau Claire, WI

Deborah Fitch, Louisiana State University, School of Dentistry, Community Based Dental Partnership Program, Alexandria, LA

Janine Hadfield, Community and Health Studies, Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC. Canada

Robin Harvan, Colorado AHEC System, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO

Carol Jeffers, Westminster College, School of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT.

Suzanne Kotkin-Jaszi, California State University Fresno, Department of Health Science, Fresno, CA.

Martin MacDowell, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Rockford, Rockford, IL.

E. Angeles Martinez-Mier, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, 
Indianapolis, IN

Amy McFarland, University of Nevada, School of Medicine, Reno, NV.

Melissa Monner, Oregon Health & Science University, School of Dentistry, Portland, OR

Jessica Muilenberg, University of Georgia, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, Atlanta, GA

Maureen Ohland, Century College/University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Roseville, MN

Valerie Orlando, Community College of Denver, Dental Hygiene Program, Denver, CO

Kamini Persaud, University of Toronto Scarborough, Teaching & Learning Services, Toronto, ON, Canada

Yasenka Peterson, Indiana State University, Community Health Promotion, Terre Haute, IN

Susan Powell, Community and Health Studies, Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC, Canada

Cheryl Resnik, University of Southern California, Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Los Angeles, CA

Lorna A. Rodriquez, University of Puerto Rico , School of Dentistry, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

Sheila Stover, Marquette University School of Dentistry, Rural Outreach Programs, Milwaukee, WI

Linda Wells, Marquette University School of Dentistry, Department of Clinical Services, Milwaukee, WI

Michael F. Whitfield, University of British Columbia, Department of Pediatrics, Vancouver, BC Canada

Valerie Yontz, University of Hawaii, Office of Public Health Studies, Honolulu, HI

Participants, Mentors and CCPH staff at the 2007 CCPH Summer Service-Learning Institute

The Sleeping Lady Retreat Center is an ideal site for reflective learning.

Dates of CCPH 11^th Summer Service-Learning Institute Announced

July 25-28, 2008 in Cascade Mountains of Washington State

The CCPH Summer Service-Learning Institute will take place July 25-28, 2008 in the C