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Creating
the Future We Want to Be:
Transformation through Partnerships
PROGRAM | |
The
conference is expected to draw a diverse group of over 500 participants from across
the U.S., Canada and other countries, reflecting key stakeholders in community-campus
partnerships, including leaders from grassroots, community-based and non-profit
organizations, government agencies, philanthropies, professional associations,
schools, higher educational institutions and student service organizations.
Conference participants will include both those who are new to community-campus partnerships and looking for the basics to get started, and those who have been involved for many years and are looking for more advanced knowledge, skills and connections. We extend a special invitation to youth, students, junior faculty and community leaders who are just beginning their involvement in service-learning and community-based participatory research.
The community-campus partnership
movement is indeed a global one. We also extend a special invitation to the leaders
and members of national and international networks of community-campus partnerships
from around the globe to participate.
With its focus on Creating the Future We Want to Be, the conference seeks to empower individuals and partnerships to create a just and sustainable future, so that we need not be passive participants in the status quo or mere witnesses to the change determined by others.
With its focus on Transformation through Partnerships, the conference seeks to highlight the power of partnerships to lead and inspire transformation at all levels:
Societal transformation - Creating social justice by changing inequitable systems, policies, culture and values, and by fundamentally redefining how we understand community, health, science, knowledge and evidence.
Institutional and organizational transformation - Creating institutional justice by challenging and changing assumptions, systems, policies, culture, and values of the everyday organizations in which we work as well as the major institutions that shape and govern us.
Personal transformation - Creating interpersonal
justice by encouraging self-reflection and challenging personal assumptions and
values in ways that strengthen capacity and commitment to work for social justice.
The conference aims to:
- Mobilize and inspire community-campus partnerships to address the root causes of health, social and economic inequalities
- Demonstrate and celebrate the power and potential of community-campus partnerships to transform at all levels
- Build the capacity of communities and institutions to engage in authentic partnerships
- Provide an inclusive and dynamic forum to network, share information and build skills
- Foster peer networks around shared roles, interests and goals
- Facilitate participants' commitment to specific actions they can take to advance social justice
- Shape the program and policy agendas of CCPH and co-sponsoring organizations
- Transform the community-campus partnerships movement by connecting people, partnerships and networks from around the world
Through their active involvement in the conference, participants will:
- Deepen their understanding of how partnerships can transform at all levels
- Reflect on how they have been transformed through their involvement in community-campus partnerships
- Achieve their most important objective in coming to the conference
- Commit to concrete and specific actions they will take upon returning home
- Establish a peer group for continued learning
- Leave
the conference energized and motivated!
Sessions will address one or more of the sub-themes listed below.
- Journeys of transformation
- Sustaining partnerships and the outcomes they achieve
- Building capacity
- Innovative and promising partnership practices
- Community-based participatory research as a tool for social justice
- Advancing health equity
- Interprofessional, interdisciplinary and/or intersectoral collaborations:
- Youth and student
leadership
CCPH conferences are noted for their emphasis on inclusion, experiential learning and subsequent action. The conference is designed to encourage active participation by all Conference attendees through a variety of session formats and activities, described below:
*Pre-conference
intensive workshops (May 12) are three
hours in length, allowing for in-depth examination of a topic. They can be designed
and structured a number of ways. They can be instructional sessions, for example,
in which presenters teach and discuss particular skills and techniques that accomplish
specific learning objectives. They can also be designed as working sessions in
which participants work together to achieve a shared goal, such as developing
a research agenda, devising a set of principles, or drafting a policy statement.
*Skill-building workshops (May 13, 14, 15) are instructional sessions in which presenters teach and discuss particular skills and techniques. Workshops accomplish specific learning objectives designed to provide participants with increased competence in an area of importance to the conference theme and goals. They include time to explore how the covered skills and techniques can be applied in the participants' settings. Skill-building workshops are 90 minutes in length.
*Story
sessions (May 13, 14, 15) reflect
the genuine and authentic experiences of the presenters. They emphasize the telling
of stories that have valuable lessons to share. We especially encourage stories
of "what didn't work and why," lessons learned from mistakes and strategies
for addressing the challenges discussed. Story sessions are 90 minutes in length.
*Challenges consultation sessions (May 13, 14, 15) provide an opportunity for presenters to share challenges they are facing and strategies they have used to address them, and engage participants as consultants in devising a broader range of possible solutions. The challenges posed should be likely to be shared by other participants. For example: “How can we leverage the economic assets of our university to create jobs in our local community?”, “How can we successfully prepare students and faculty for community engagement?” or “How can we ensure that community capacity building is central to CBPR?” Challenges consultation sessions are 90 minutes in length.
*Creative
arts-based discussion sessions (May 13, 14, 15) feature one or more
arts-based presentations (e.g., photo voice exhibit, theatre, video) on topics
related to the conference theme, followed by opportunities for questions, answers
and group discussion. These sessions are 90 minutes in length.
*Posters (May 13, 14, 15) are designed to visually display information and can include the presentation of conceptual frameworks, research or evaluation findings along with their implications for practice, policy or further study. All accepted posters will be displayed on 4 x 8 poster boards in the Poster Hall (no additional audiovisual aids are permitted). The Poster Hall will have regular hours for viewing, including specific times for presenters to stand by their posters and discuss them with participants.
*Thematic
poster sessions (May 13, 14, 15): Posters selected
for a thematic poster session will be grouped into a set of 4-6 posters that share
a common theme or focus. Each poster will be displayed on a 4 x 8 foot poster
board (no additional audiovisual aids are permitted). Thematic poster sessions
are 90 minutes in length. This timeframe includes 30 minutes for participants
to view the posters, 25 minutes for oral summaries by the poster presenters, and
35 minutes for group discussion. An invited moderator facilitates discussion and
encourages participants to raise questions and share experiences pertinent to
themes raised by the posters.
Community Site Visits are a unique aspect of the CCPH conference and do not complete with other conference programming. Here's your chance to get out of the hotel and visit innovative community-campus partnerships in Milwaukee! They provide an opportunity for conference participants to learn in-depth from local partnerships by spending about three hours touring and talking with the partnership's major stakeholders. The site visits represent a variety of definitions of "community," "campus" and "partnership." We encourage conference participants to ask questions and engage in constructive dialogue with their site visit hosts about the meaning of these terms and other issues. Site visits are scheduled for Friday, May 14.
Issue
Thrash is a 2-part series of sessions that provides participants an
opportunity to explore shared issues and challenges, come away with fresh ideas
and new strategies to help meet those challenges, and recommend ways that CCPH
and other organizations can be supportive. Each 2-part series will be led by prepared
facilitators.
Peer and Interest Group Meetings are informal discussions that occur over meals.
Informal Networking Opportunities occur throughout the conference. For example, participants with common interests are encouraged to meet over meals. Sign up sheets and table tents will be provided to help facilitate this.
Coming
Soon!
Meet Our Opening Keynote Speaker!
Elder
Atum Azzahir is Executive Director of the Powderhorn
Phillips Cultural Wellness Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which works to
"unleash the power of citizens to heal themselves and build community."
Click here
to learn more about Elder Atum and her work. Click here
to learn about the community-campus partnerships that she is involved in.
Coming Soon!
Exhibit Hall. The conference exhibit hall provides participants with an opportunity to learn about important state, national & international organizations and programs.
Poster
& Exhibit Hall Reception. During the poster & exhibit hall
reception, conference participants not only get to meet and talk informally with
poster presenters and exhibitors, but they also have the chance to enter into
a raffle for some very valuable prizes!
Presentation of the CCPH Annual Award. The CCPH Annual Award recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. The 9th CCPH Annual Award will be presented during the closing session of the conference.
If you are interested in holding a meeting
in conjunction with the CCPH 11th Conference, please contact the conference coordinator
at ccphuw@u.washington.edu.
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