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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
workshops (May 12) are three hours
in length, allowing for in-depth examination of a topic.
*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. 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 compete with other conference programming. Here's your chance to get out of the hotel and visit innovative community-campus partnerships in Portland! 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.
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.
Meet Our Closing Keynote Speaker!
Camara
Jones is Research Director on Social Determinants of Health and Equity in the
Division of Adult and Community Health
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Trained as a family physician and epidemiologist, her body of work focuses on
the impact of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. Click here
for a transcript of a recent interview with Dr. Jones.
Meet Our Plenary Speakers!
Thomas
Aschenbrener is president of the Northwest Health
Foundation, which was organized under his leadership in 1997. Thomas brings
more than 30 years of experience in philanthropy to his role as a public health
leader in Oregon, as well as a deep commitment to helping create healthy communities
in which all people can reach their full potential.
Sherril
Gelmon is Professor of Public Health at Portland
State University and Senior Consultant
with CCPH. Her current research on engagement addresses institutional strategy
and establishment of models of faculty roles and recognition for community-engaged
scholarship.
Wim
Wiewel assumed the presidency of Portland State University in August, 2008. Prior
to coming to PSU, Wiewel was the provost and senior vice president of Academic
Affairs at the University of Baltimore. From 1979-2004, Wiewel was with the University
of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he served as dean of the College of Business
Administration and directed UIC's Center for Urban Economic Development. His most
recent books are "Global Universities and Urban Development," "The
University as Urban Developer" and "Suburban Sprawl."
Coming Soon!
If
you are interested in serving as a student volunteer, please email us at clegg.ccph@gmail.com
and let us know. Whatever day you are willing to come and volunteer, you'll be
able to attend the conference for free that day. You can choose to volunteer on
multiple days, as well. We are looking for volunteers for May 12 - 15. Typical
volunteer assignments will be to serve as room monitors or notetakers during sessions,
preparing conference bags, or collecting evaluations.
Film Screening & Discussion. Immediately after the conference opening reception on Wed evening May 12, we will be screening the film "Money-Driven Medicine." Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron:The Smartest Guys in the Room) and inspired by Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book of the same name, it offers the only systemic look on film at the economics underlying and often undermining our $2.6 trillion healthcare system. Sponsored by California Newsreel, the film can be used as a community engagement tool to examine the dysfunction in the US healthcare system and devise solutions.
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!
Improv Performance. On May 14 from 6-7:30 pm, we will be featuring the
performance, "Improvisational Portrayals of Researcher-Community
Collaborations - Challenges & Solutions." This highly interactive,
enjoyable, and informative session will reveal practical solutions to
real world issues in community-based research. Sponsored by the Office of
Research Integrity in the US Department of Health and Human Services, the
performance involves experienced improvisational actors who will bring to
life participant-identified challenges and engage the audience in
addressing them.
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 info@ccph.info.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grantees & Affiliates to Meet at CCPH Conference: Over the past several years, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has funded a number of innovative programs that move beyond the typical approaches used in communities to prevent deaths from breast cancer such as low-cost mammography programs, outreach, education, and treatment support. While each grant is unique, all involve partnerships and aim to create systemic changes that will make an impact on the community beyond the life of the grant. This pre-conference meeting for select Komen for the Cure grantees and Affiliates will allow for information-sharing and group problem-solving between the people on the forefront of creating systemic change to improve breast cancer care. For more information, please email Mollie Williams or call her at 972-701-2001.
Kellogg
Health Scholars Program Scholars, Alums & Mentors to Meet During CCPH Conference:
The Kellogg Health Scholars Program
is a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to develop future leaders committed to achieving
health equity and eliminating health disparities. Scholars, alums and mentors
who are attending the CCPH Conference are invited to attend a dinner on Thursday
evening May 13 for networking and catching up. Please contact Barb
Watson, KHSP Community Track Program Administrator, for additional details.
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