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To help you manage the vast amount of information
on the Web, we have provided these resources. Our purpose is to support your search
for knowledge and encourage the further exploration of information available.
These links are provided for your convenience and do not represent an endorsement
by CCPH or the Center for the Health Professions. Aboriginal
and Indigenous Peoples' Health - Click
here for CCPH's webpage on community-based participatory
research, including principles and policies used by research partnerships involving
Native Americans.
- Center
for American Indian Health, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health - works
with tribes to promote strategies that will provide American Indians with the
highest possible level of health and well-being.
- National
Indian Women's Health Resource Center - is a national non-profit organization
whose mission is "to assist American Indian and Alaska Native women achieve
optimal health and wellbeing throughout their lifetime."
- Native
Americans and Environmental Health Bibliography
- Native
American Health Website addresses the special health concerns of the 4 million
Americans who claim American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. Sponsored by the
National Library Medicine, the site includes pertinent health and medical resources,
including consumer health information, research results, traditional healing resources,
and links to other Web sites.
- Native
Health History Database - provides bibliographic information and abstracts
on medical and health reports of the American Indian and Alaskan Native populations.
- Native
Health Research Database - allows users to search through a database containing
information on medical and health reports of the American Indian and Alaskan Native
populations.
- Native
Research Network (NRN) is a leadership community of American Indian, Alaska
Native, Kanaka Maoli, and Canadian Aboriginal persons promoting integrity and
excellence in research. NRN provides networking and mentoring opportunities, a
forum to share research expertise, sponsorship of research events, assistance
to communities and tribes, and enhanced research communication. The NRN places
a special emphasis on ensuring that research with Indigenous people is conducted
in a culturally sensitive and respectful manner.
- Pimatisiwin:
A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health promotes the sharing
of knowledge and research experience between researchers, health professionals,
and Aboriginal leaders and community members. The December
2007 issue focuses on community-based participatory research and includes
papers from CCPH's
10th anniversary conference
- Policy
Principles to Guide Tribal and Non-Tribal Collaboration - developed by the
Turning Point Program, this
set of policy principles is designed to advance collaborative activity among and
between tribal communities/entities and non-tribal communities/entities.
- Starting
an Institutional Review Board: Suggestion for Tribes, Tribal Colleges and Communities
ADVOCACY
- How
and Why to Influence Public Policy: An Action Guide for Community
Organizations
- this action guide shows you how to do effective advocacy, select issues, how
much and what kind of lobbying and voter work your group can do, what more power
for the states will mean for community groups, and more! Published by the Center
for Community Change - Academy
for Health Services Research and Health Policy - serves as a professional
home and technical assistance resource for researchers and health policy professionals.
- Ad
Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding - is a coalition in support
of increased funding for the National Institutes of Health.
- Advocacy
101 - is presented on the Center for Community Change Web site provides
some helpful articles on how to advocate, how to pick winning issues, and what
you can and cannot do legally.
- Advocacy
and Lobbying without Fear: What Is Allowed within a 501 (c) (3) Charitable Organization
- is an article by Thomas Raffa, Nonprofit Quarterly that helps readers to understand
the distinction between lobbying and advocacy as an important first step in knowing
what is permissible in efforts to affect public policy.
- Advocacy,
Oh, Yes You Can - is a whole issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly that
focuses on advocacy as a core competency for nonprofits.
- Advocacy
Toolkit - offers tools including the basics for planning an advocacy
campaign, tips for communicating with policymakers, and the nitty-gritty on communicating
with the media.
- Alliance
for Better Campaigns - promotes political campaigns so that the most
useful information reaches the greatest number of citizens in the most engaging
ways. Website offers information on top news stories, as well as publications,
resources, and more.
- Alliance
for Health Policy and Systems Research - aims to contribute to health
development and the efficiency and equity of health systems through research on
and for policy.
- Alliance
for Health Reform - provides unbiased information on health care to
elected officials, journalists, advocates, and policy analysts.
- The
Alliance for Justice offers advocacy and lobbying information and services
for nonprofits whose work brings them into the public policy and advocacy arena.
One of the guides you may want to check out is "Worry-free Advocacy for Nonprofits."
- American
Health Decisions - is a national network of grassroots citizens groups
that aims to empower citizens in the public process of health policy. Its 16 state
member groups engage in a variety of activities to facilitate community dialogue
on health values, inform and collaborate with policy makers and health providers,
and activate a sense of community responsibility around specific issues.
- American
Public Health Association Legislative Website - including advocacy
and lobbying tips, basics of communicating with legislators and links to sites
to identify whom to contact in Washington on particular policy.
- Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities - a non-profit research organization
and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government
policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income
people.
- Center for
Health Care Strategies - promotes high quality health care services
for low-income populations and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities
through awarding grants and providing "real world" training and technical
assistance to state purchasers of publicly financed health care, health plans,
and consumer groups.
- Charity
Lobbying in Public Interest - offers resources on lobbying that charitable
organizations can use to help them achieve their missions.
- CitizenSpeak
- is a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations. Grassroots organizations
can launch web-based email campaigns (also known as "action alerts"),
track participation and invite supporters to make a donation, volunteer or become
a member.
- Communities Joined in Action
- is working to revolutionize health care by helping communities ensure health
care access for all.
- Community
Catalyst - is a national advocacy organization that helps consumers
and communities participate in decisions that shape their health care systems.
- Congress
at Your Fingertips - information by zip code on congress and the media.
Guide to issues before Congress
- Congresslink
- provides comprehensive information on the U.S. Congress and is divided into
four major parts, an information center, features, classroom resources, and endorsements.
- Congressional
Black Caucus Health Brainstrust - transcripts, speeches and other resources
on urban health.
- Congressional
Black Caucus Foundation - home to a wealth of information on legislation
and health initiatives, public policy issues, and local events that relate to
the health of African Americans around the world.
- Congressional
Budget Office - analyses of health-related legislation and documents
describing CBO's mandate and budget analysis process.
- Coalition
for Health Funding - a nonprofit alliance of 40 national health organizations
that works in a nonpartisan fashion to ensure that health discretionary spending
remains highly visible as Congress and the Administration set federal budget priorities.
Its members include 40 million health care professionals, researchers, lay volunteers,
patients and their families.
- Council
for Responsible Public Investment - The Council's Tobacco Divestment
Project assists tobacco control coalitions, unions, educational institutions and
policymakers in their efforts to make public funds tobacco free.
- Covering
the Uninsured - a national campaign of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
and twelve major national organizations to raise awareness of the challenges facing
the 39 million Americans with no health insurance. Site includes fact issue fact
sheets and legisative tracking.
- Electronic
Advocacy - contains many resources on social
work, including a list of links to a variety of technology sites, online advocacy
sites, and more.
- Express
Lane Eligibility - is designed to provide advocates, community leaders,
and policymakers with the tools they need to provide health insurance to more
than 4 million uninsured children enrolled in such public programs as Food Stamps
and School Lunch.
- Families
USA - a non-profit organization that is committed to helping provide
high quality, affordable long-term healthcare to all Americans. The website provides
information and resources on health issues such as children's health, Medicare
and
Medicaid, the uninsured, prescription drugs, and more. - Federal
Election Commission - created in 1975 to disclose campaign finance
information, enforce limits and prohibitions on contributions, and oversee public
funding of Presidential elections.
- Foundations
& Public Policymaking: Leveraging Philanthropic Dollars, Knowledge, and Networks
- discusses the benefits, costs, and risks to grant makers in trying to influence
public policy.
- Give Voice-
provides information on nonprofit advocacy on the Federal level.
- Government
Affairs and Advocacy - this Association of American Medical Colleges
website is organized around legislative and regulatory information "hubs,"
including: Education, Graduate Medical Education and Indirect Medical Education
Payments, health information privacy, Labor-Health and Human Services Appropriations,
Research, Teaching Hospitals, Teaching Physicians, Veterans Administration-Housing
and Urban Development Appropriations, and Workforce.
- Health
Education Advocate - provides a central source of timely advocacy information
so that health professionals can take a more proactive role in shaping public
policy that supports healthier individuals, communities, and environments. The
site enables users to search the status of specific bills, send emails to their
Congresspersons, access health resolutions and policy statements of sponsoring
organizations, identify advocacy training opportunities, and provides tips for
working with the media.
- Health
Professions and Nursing Education Coalition - an informal alliance
of over 50 organizations representing a variety of schools, programs, and individuals
dedicated to educating professional health personnel.
- Improving
Public Health through Policy Advocacy - is a briefing paper from the Partnership
for the Public's Health.
- Institute
of Medicine - advances and disseminates scientific knowledge to improve
human health, providing information concerning health and science policy to government,
the corporate sector, the professions, and the public.
- Jumping
into the Political Fray: Academics and Policy-Making, - authored by Daniel
Cohn of Simon Fraser University, this report concludes that academics have substantial
opportunities to influence public policy and looks at the ways in which state
actors can best make use of scholarly advice.
- League
of Women Voters - gives the most up-to-date information on how to get
involved in the democratic process at the federal, state, and local levels.
- Lobbying
and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations - available from
the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, provides some very practical approaches to influencing
policy at the local, state, and national levels and includes help on creating
a planning process.
- National
Conference of State Legislators - gives legislators, as well as the
public, access to NCSL reports, meetings, schedules, publications, and more.
- National
Conference of State Legislators - Health - link to NCSL's health site,
which offers news, publications, information on meetings, and much more.
- National
Health Law Program - a national public interest law firm that seeks
to improve health care for America's working and unemployed poor, minorities,
the elderly and people with disabilities.
- National
Older Women's League - a non-profit organization that works to provide
a voice for and improve the status of older women.
- National
Association of Community Health Centers Policy Guide - provides basics
of how Capitol Hill works, how to contact your representative, and how to be effective
in communicating with legislators and staff
- Nonprofit
Advocacy Alliance offers information and technical assistance about national
policies under consideration that affect nonprofits.
- Nonprofit
Advocacy Project - works to strengthen the voice of the nonprofit sector
in important public policy debates by giving tax-exempt organizations a better
understanding of the laws that govern their participation in the policy process.
- Nonprofit
Lobbying Guide - an essential resource for any nonprofit wanting to
take on more of a role in lobbying. It includes background on the lobbying laws,
on grassroots coalitions, and on using electronic media and other topics.
- OMB
Watch - monitors concerns about the federal government's institutional
responsiveness to public needs in five issue areas: Budget and government performance;
Regulatory and government accountability; Information for democracy and community;
Nonprofit advocacy and other cross-cutting nonprofit issues; and Nonprofit policy
and technology.
- Poverty
& Race Research Action Council - is a non-partisan, national, not-for-profit
organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty
groups. Their purpose is to link social science research to advocacy work in order
to successfully address problems at the intersection of race and poverty.
- Primary
Care Advocacy Tool Kit - this educational toolkit is designed to promote
access and utilization of primary health care services. For the health care provider,
this toolkit provides guidance on collaborating with other stakeholders in the
health care systems in primary care models and engaging in health care policy
change. For the health care consumer, it facilitates understanding of the value
of primary care and how to access quality primary care.
- Race,
Healthcare, and the Law - dedicated to improving the health status
of persons who are discriminated against based on race and/or ethnicity. They
approach this goal by helping legislators, policy makers, lawyers, health care
professionals and consumers examine race, health and human rights.
- Race,
Racism, and the Law - includes statutes, cases, excerpts of law review
articles, annotated bibliographies and other documents related to race and racism.
- Robert
Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care -
brings a family practice and primary care perspective to health policy deliberations
in Washington. The site contains numerous policy statements, articles, and presentations
of issues related to primary care policy.
- Rock
the Vote - committed to protecting the freedom of expression and encouraging
young people to vote.
- Roll
Call - a leading source for news and information on Congress.
- State
Health Facts - provides state-by-state information on health and health
care, courtesy of the Kaiser Family Foundation
- Student
Action with Farmworkers - a non-profit organization that works to build
a partnership between campus projects and farmworker issues. The website contains
links to publications, resources, and information on how to get involved with
farmworker projects.
- THOMAS
- the official U.S. Congressional website for legislative information.
- Toolkit
for Communications and Advocacy is designed to help people who care about
low-wage workers and their families and the conditions, issues and policy solutions
that affect them.
- Toolkit
on Budget Cuts - the Praxis Project has just released a web resource
to support groups doing advocacy on budget cuts and their impact on health programs
and funding. The "kit" features 'how to' info on doing your own budget research
and analysis of state budgets, understanding state and local budget processes,
developing alternative budget, media messaging, organizing and more.
- Understanding
Research: Top Ten Tips for Advocates and Policymakers - this monograph
is a useful tool for translating research into policy and action.
- United
States General Accounting Office - the investigative arm for Congress.
- Urban
Institute - is a policy research and educational organization, providing
information and analysis to public and private decision-makers to help them address
U.S. social, economic, and governance problems.
- U.S.
House of Representatives - information about members, Committees, and
bills, as well as legislative news and important links to congressional information.
- U.S.
Senate - information about Senators, Committees, as well as Senate
bills.
- The
Virtual Activist 2.0 - teaches activists how to use email and the Web
as effective, inexpensive, and efficient tools for organizing, outreach, and advocacy.
It covers multiple areas including mailing lists; tips for effective Online media;
membership and fundraising; and privacy, copyright, and censorship.
- Vote
Smart - a source for political information.
- Washington
Advocacy Pages - a project of the Statewide Poverty Action Network
(SPAN) Washington, an alliance of community organizations and individuals advocating
for policies that provide equal access to the American Dream for all individuals
to live free from poverty.
ART
AND HEALTH ASSESSMENT
AND EVALUATION - Assessing
the Health of Communities: Indicator Projects & Their Impacts - from
the Canadian Population Health Initiative at the Canadian Institute for Health
Information, this report reviews the use of community-level indicators of health
and quality of life. To learn more, click
here.
- Behaviors
of Professionalism - the National Board of Medical Examiners is spearheading
this project to look at the behaviors that comprise professionalism in the health
professions.
- CDC
Framework for Program Evaluation of Public Health - developed by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Compendium
of Assessment and Research Tools - includes descriptions of research
instruments, tools, rubrics, and guides and is intended to assist those who have
an interest in studying the effectiveness of service-learning, safe and drug-free
schools and communities, and other school-based youth development activities."
- Evaluating
Capacity Building Efforts for Nonprofit Organizations - this article
explains how funders, management support organizations, evaluators, and nonprofits
can evaluate efforts to enhance the management and governance of nonprofit organizations.
It describes the process for determining who will conduct and participate in the
evaluation, stating evaluation questions and potential success indicators, implementing
evaluation methods, and using and sharing results.
- Evaluation
Tools- provided by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
- Evidence-Based
Medicine - sponsored by the New York Academy
of Medicine, this site includes links to various resources for evidence-based
medicine.
- Evidence-Based
Medicine Tool Kit - developed by the University of Alberta, Canada.
- The Healthy Development Measurement
Tool provides San Francisco residents, community organizations, and public
agencies with a source of data on neighborhood and city conditions that are important
to healthy living. The tool is organized around seven elements that comprise
a healthy city: environmental stewardship; sustainable and safe transportation;
public safety; public infrastructure; adequate and healthy housing; health economy;
and, community participation
- InnoNet
- offers The Workstation, a set of tools that guides nonprofits through a program
planning and evaluation process.
- Marguerite
Casey Foundation Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool - is a self-assessment
instrument that helps nonprofits identify capacity strengths and challenges and
establish capacity building goals. It is primarily a diagnostic and learning tool.
Click here
for an article in the Summer 2005 issue of The Evaluation Exchange that describes
the tool.
- McKinsey Capacity
Assessment Grid - Click here
for an article on three foundations' experiences using this grid.
- Netting
the Evidence - is a UK-based website for finding a wide variety of evidence-based
medicine resources.
- Outcome
Measurement Resource Network - is a resource library that contains
excerpts from the United Way's manual, Measuring Program Outcomes: A Practical
Approach.
- Pathways
To Outcomes - provides an extensive collection of information about
"what works" to improve targeted outcomes for children and families.
Each Pathway displays actions that lead to measurable progress. The initial Pathway
contains information about effective community efforts to ensure that all children
are ready for school at the time of school entry.
- What
Works Clearinghouse - is a project of the U.S. Department of Education's
Institute of Education Sciences, established to provide educators, policymakers,
and the public with a central, independent, and trusted source of scientific evidence
of what works in education.
AWARDS
- The Frank Newman
Leadership Award recognizes undergraduate students with financial need and
civic leadership potential and provides both financial support and mentorship
to help them achieve their academic and civic goals. Winning students receive
a cash award to support community work as well as national recognition for their
efforts.
- Sloan Awards for
Excellence in Online Teaching & Learning
- The Howard
R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award recognizes undergraduate students for
their innovative strategies in addressing community issues and needs, and their
efforts to build and sustain this work among their peers and within their institution.
Winning students
receive a cash award to support community work as well as
national recognition for their efforts. CENTERS
AND CLEARINGHOUSES - Click here
for a directory of federal health information centers and clearinghouses listed
by keyword. Many of them provide toll-free numbers.
- American
Self-Help Group Clearinghouse - provides a keyword-searchable database
of over one thousand member-run "self-help" support groups for a broad
range of illnesses and situations. It also contains suggestions for starting both
community and online groups.
- CDC
Spanish Language Web Site - provides health-related
information to the Hispanic/Latino professional and to the Spanish-speaking community.
- Center to Advance Palliative
Care - is dedicated to increasing the availability of quality palliative care
services in hospitals and other health care settings for people with life-threatening
illnesses, their families, and caregivers.
- Center
for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health - information
for partnerships, researchers, policy makers, and funders interested in using
collaborative approaches to improve community health and well-being.
- Center
for the Advancement of Health - provides useful information on a wide
range of health issues, such as disease prevention, personal exercise, and more.
- Center for the
Advancement of Interprofessional Education - a charitable organization
that promotes interprofessional education for health, social care and the related
professions. The website contains links to information on conferences, publications,
other sites of interest, an online bibliography and more.
- Center
for Advancing Community Health - assists clients from the public and
private sectors who are interested in establishing partnerships to improve health
care in communities.
- Center
for American Indian Health, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
- works with tribes to promote strategies that will provide American Indians with
the highest possible level of health and well-being.
- Compassion
Capital Fund National Resource Center - was established as President
Bush's faith-based initiative to increase the scale and effectiveness of faith-based
and community organizations through research and other supportive means. The Center
serves as an expert resource regarding faith-based and community-based initiatives
and best practices, serves as a developer of and repository and distribution center
for information, and tools and resources needed by faith-based and community organizations
and organizations that work with them to improve their capacity, knowledge, and
skills.
- Electronic
Resource Centre for Human Rights Education is an on-line repository
of human rights education and training materials, listings of training courses,
databases and links to other organizations and resources.
- Epicenter
- database that can help you find ways to more effectively serve communities and
support members, volunteers, and students.
- Health
Educational Assets Library - is a multi-institutional, collaborative
project funded by the National Science Foundation since the Fall of 2000. The
primary goals of HEAL are to improve access to teaching resources for health sciences
educators, promote the sharing of teaching resources, and foster the interoperability
of resources.
- Join
Together, Boston University School of Public Health - a group sponsored
by Boston University's School of Public Health that is committed to the prevention
of substance abuse and gun violence.
- Medicine
and Public Health Initiative - offers resources and information on
the Medicine and Public Health Initiative, which works to integrate medicine and
public health education.
- National
Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health - dedicated to improving
the health and well-being of families by providing leadership and support to the
maternal and child health community.
- National
Commission on Correctional Healthcare - works to improve the healthcare
system in prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers and offers a wide variety
of information on issues dealing with healthcare in correctional facilities.
- Nursing,
Consultant, Educational and Health Services Home Page - provides resources
related to nursing and healthcare.
- University
of Alberta Health Information Page - provides information and software
on health issues relating to young adults, including AIDS, alcohol, birth control,
stress and nutrition.
- VegWeb
- is a vibrant Internet vegetarian community, VegWeb was born at Indiana University
in 1994. The site includes over 5,000 vegetarian recipes, busy discussion boards
as well as orginal articles on nutrition, news, events, gardening and other veg-related
content.
- Volunteers
in Health Care - serves as a resource for health care providers who
are committed to providing medical and dental care to uninsured individuals in
their communities.
- HandsNet's
WebClipper Digest - The WebClipper Digest is HandsNet's weekly overview
of cross-cutting human services news from throughout the World Wide Web. Offers
daily news summaries, policy analyses, legislative alerts, professional level
discussions on public policy, and much more.
CHILD
AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH - Action
for Healthy Kids - was launched at the Healthy Schools Summit in October
2002 to help school districts create healthy school environments that support
sound nutrition and physical activity programs.
- Advocacy
and Research Resources - compiled by the Foundation Center
- Children's
Health Fund - is committed to providing health care to the nation's
most medically underserved children through the development and support of innovative
primary care medical programs and the promotion of guaranteed access to appropriate
health care for all children.
- CLIKS:
County, City, Community-Level Information on Kids - this database provides
detailed state- and community-level data on children and families in thirty states,
including information on demographics, education, health, safety, and family economics.
Developed by the KIDS COUNT initiative at the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
- The
Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health, eliminates barriers
and reduces time and resources needed to obtain key findings on the health and
health care of children, youth, and families. It includes over 100 standardized
measures.
- First
Book - is a national non-profit organization that gives children from
low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. First
Book primarily works with community-based volunteer chapters to provide existing
local literacy programs with grants of brand-new books.
- General
Health and Early Intervention Resources - compiled by the Foundation
Center
- Healthy
Families America - an initiative of Prevent Child Abuse America, is intended
for use by policymakers, educators, families, and others interested in promoting
positive parenting, enhancing child health and development, and preventing child
abuse and neglect.
- Healthy
Youth Funding Database formerly known as the Adolescent and School
Health Funding Database, this resource contains information on federal, foundation,
and state-specific funding sources for school health programs.
- Injury
Free Coalition for Kids: a Passion for Prevention - lessons and techniques
learned from eight Injury Prevention Program sites sponsored by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation.
- The
National Committee on Partnerships for Children's Health - seeks to
improve the health and wellbeing of children across the country. Working at the
state level, it connects local and state agencies of health, education or social
welfare with a virtually untapped resource: higher education.
- National
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition - provides information and
resources designed to improve the health and safety of mothers, babies, and families.
- Pediatrics
in Practice is a faculty development health promotion curriculum based on
the Bright Futures principles that prevention works, families matter, and health
promotion is everyone's business. This website supports child health educators
and clinicians with effective strategies to convey health promotion content using
core teaching methods.
- Protecting
Children from Substance Abuse: Lessons from Free to Grow Head
Start Partnerships
- is the evaluation report for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative that
targets Head Start children with the goal of creating change to protect them
from substance abuse and related problems in alter life. - Search
Institute - works with community and organizational
leaders, as well as state and national groups, to promote knowledge that will
help improve the well being of adolescents and children. Provides information
on current research, publications, training, and more.
- Teen
Pregnancy Resources - compiled by the Foundation Center
CIVIC
EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT - American
Democracy Project - seeks to increase the number of undergraduate students
who understand and are committed to engaging in meaning civic actions. All public
colleges and universities participating in this project are members of the American
Association of State Colleges and Universities.
- Center
for Civic Partnerships - provides intensive technical assistance and consultation
services to communities both within and outside of California to help groups develop,
implement and sustain community improvements.
- The
Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement
- promotes research on the civic and political engagement of Americans between
the ages of 15 and 25.
- Citizen
Science Toolbox - is a free resource of principles and strategies to enhance
meaningful stakeholder involvement in decision-making. It includes: (1) over 60
community involvement tools, from public meetings to consensus conferences; (2)
case studies of the uses of various tools and the reflections of stakeholders
who participated; (3) an annotated bibliography of over 500 citizen science references
and (4) theoretical discussions of citizen science issues.
- The
Civic and Political Health of the Nation: A Generational Portrait -
describes the civic and political behavior of the American public, with a special
focus on youth ages 15 to 25. Using an extensive national telephone survey
- Civic
Practices Network - is a collaborative and nonpartisan project bringing
together a diverse array of organizations and perspectives that share a commitment
to bring practical methods for public problem solving into every community and
institutional setting in America. The site contains tools and guides for civic
participation and also lists a number of affiliates available at the state, local
and regional levels.
- CollegeValues.Org
- devoted exclusively to information and scholarship about moral and civic education
in college. Features include public diaries by college and university presidents,
student essays, feature articles by leading scholars and educators, and information
on exemplary programs.
- Community
College National Center for Community Engagement - advances programs and innovations
that stimulate active participation of community colleges in community engagement
for the attainment of a vital citizenry.
- Dialogue
Resources - assembled by the Department of Psychology at the University of
Massachusetts Lowell.
- Effective
Citizens - is a position statement by The National Council for the
Social Studies has published on educating effective citizens, declaring that students
should have opportunities to apply civic knowledge to solve real problems in their
schools. The organization defines an effective citizen as "one who has the knowledge,
skills, and attitudes required to assume the office of citizen in our democratic
republic."
- National
Alliance for Civic Education - is a national membership organization
committed to advancing civic knowledge and engagement.
- National
Dialogue Project: Journey Towards Democracy: Power, Voice and the Public Good-
offers a means through which campuses can gain deeper institutional understanding
about how to educate students for democracy, how liberal education can foster
civic engagement, what stands in the way of these efforts, and what new directions
institutions might take in making civic learning a core component of every graduate's
education. Visit this website to learn more about the project and its participating
institutions.
- The
Pew Partnership for Civic Change - is a civic research organization
whose mission is to identify and document promising solutions crucial to strong
communities.
COMMUNITY-BASED
ORGANIZATIONS - The Community
Partner Listserv was established by CCPH to help build the capacity of community
partners through information-sharing, collaborative problem-solving and advocacy.
- Click
here for the Community Partner Summit webpage that contains
products and resources intended to support community partners in their community-higher
education partnership work.
- The
Alliance for Nonprofit Management is a professional association of
member organizations and individuals devoted to building the capacity of nonprofit
organizations in order to increase their effectiveness and impact.
- The
Aspen Institute - is a global forum for leveraging the power of leaders
to improve the human condition. Website features a list of recurring and upcoming
leadership policy programs and seminars.
- Association
of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations - is a source for information
that is relevant to improving the health status of Asian Americans and Pacific
Islander populations.
- Association
for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action - is a
community of people dedicated to fostering the creation, application and dissemination
of research on voluntary action, nonprofit organization and philanthropy.
- The
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) - is
the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families,
with over 120,000 member families organized into 600 neighborhood chapters in
45 cities across the country.
- Association
of Occupational and Environmental Clinics - is a non-profit organization
that is committed to improving the practice of occupational and environmental
health through information sharing and collaborative research.
- Community
Development Organization Search Engine - is a database maintained
by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston that allows users to search by keyword and
a city or state to find community development-related organizations nationwide
- Migrant
Clinician's Network - is a national clinical network of health care
providers who serve migrant farmworkers and other underserved mobile populations.
- National
Association of Community Health Centers - is the one stop source for
information about America's health center safety net of community and migrant
health centers.
- National
Center for Nonprofit Boards - improves the effectiveness of nonprofit
organizations by strengthening their board of directors.
- The
National Council of Nonprofit Associations is a network of 38 state
and regional associations of nonprofits representing more than 17,000 nonprofits
throughout the country.
- National People's
Action - is a coalition of hundreds of community organizations from across
the country that work on issues effecting their communities such as predatory
lending, community reinvestment, neighborhood safety, education and immigration.
- National Training
and Information Center provides training and technical assistance to
grassroots organizations around the country and publishes Disclosure "The
National Newspaper of the Neighborhoods."
- The
People Pages: Resources for Social Change - is a new national resource
directory for activists, community organizers, and grassroots nonprofit organizations.
The book includes contact information for 2500 social change organizations, 25
articles and 10 planning worksheets about organizational development and management,
lists of books and films, and a directory of educational programs in nonprofit
management. Free sample articles are on this website, including Fundraising Planning,
Volunteering, and Strategic Planning.
- The
Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management - provides educational
opportunities and resources to the leadership of social sector organizations.
COMMUNITY-BASED
PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH - Click here
for CCPH's webpage on community-based participatory research (CBPR), including
definitions, tools and resources, and CBPR course syllabi
- Click here
for the Community Partner Summit webpage that contains products and resources
intended to support community partners in their community-higher education partnership
work.
- Access
to Research initiative enables accredited universities, medical schools,
research centers, and other public institutions in the developing countries to
gain access to the wealth of scientific information contained in more than 1,000
biomedical journals published by the participating publishers.
- APHA
Policy on Community-Based Participatory Research in Public Health - The American
Public Health Association adopted this policy on CBPR in public health at its
2004 annual meeting. If you are unable to read the attachment, it is also available
online as policy 2004-12 at http://www.apha.org/legislative/policy/2004/.
- Bending The
Ivory Tower: Communities, Health Departments And Academia - a March
2003 policy brief prepared by the Partnership for the Public's Health, highlights
the rationale and strategies for community-campus partnerships in public health.
- Beyond
Scientific Publication: Strategies for Disseminating Research Findings
- published by CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement in New Haven,
CT, this document provides key strategies for dissemination, including practical
advice and specific templates you can adapt for your use.
- Building
a Truly Engaged Community Through Participatory Research - is an article by
William Tindall et. al. at Wright State University School of Medicine that defines
and describes participatory research and includes web-linked resources. - The
Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association
is guided by the belief that community lies at the heart of public health, andthat
interventions work best when they are rooted in the values, knowledge, expertise,
and interests of the community itself.
- CBPR
Listserv - launched by Community-Campus Partnerships
for Health and the Wellesley Institute
in June 2004 to serve the growing network of people involved and interested in
CBPR.
- Community-Based
Research Canada is a network of people and organizations in Canada that are
engaged in community-based research to meet the needs of people and communities.
- CDC Prevention
Research Centers (PRCs) - are a network of 28 academic centers, public
health agencies, and community partners conducting applied research and practice
in chronic disease prevention and control. Click here
to view a nine minute video, Community Connections, introducing the PRCs and their
philosophy of involving communities as partners in research.
- CDC
Urban Research Centers (URCs) were established in 1995 to identify
what works to promote the health and improve the quality of life of inner-city
disadvantaged populations. Each URC includes a coalition of representatives from
community organizations, academic centers, health departments, and other private
organizations.
- The Center for Information
and Study on Clinical Research Participation is a nonprofit group dedicated
to educating and informing the public, patients, medical/research communities,
the media, and policy makers about clinical research participation.
- Collaborative
Initiative for Research Ethics in Environmental Health - provides course
development, training, educational resources and case study development on improving
research ethics in environmental health.
- Community
Based Collaboratives Research Consortium - seeks to understand and
assess collaborative efforts involving natural resource issues and community development.
The consortium provides a venue for researchers, community groups, government
agencies, funders and individuals to share their research, find out about new
developments and studies concerning community based collaborative groups and work
in partnership with others on research projects.
- Community-Based
Participatory Research Bibliography
- Community
Health Scholars Program - Offers information on this post-doctoral
fellowship program in community-based participatory research in public health.
The program is offered at three Schools of Public Health: The University of Michigan,
the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins University.
- Community
Research Project - This project brings together colleges and universities
to develop campus-based, local and regional community research centers.
- Directory
of Funding Sources for Community-Based Participatory Research - published
by CCPH and the Northwest Health Foundation in
June 2004, this directory includes funding agency descriptions, deadlines, contact
information, examples of previously funded CBPR projects, and an annotated listing
of funding resource websites. We welcome your comments and suggestions for an
improved future edition of the directory! Please complete and return this reader
feedback form.
- Enhancing
Public Input and Transparency in the National Institutes of Health Research Priority-Setting
Process - an April 2004 report from the NIH
Council of Public Representative.
- Federal
Interagency Working Group on CBPR - works to strengthen communication
among federal agencies with an interest in supporting community-based participatory
research (CBPR) methodologies in the conduct of biomedical research, education,
health care delivery, or policy.
- The
Funding and Development of Community University Research Partnerships In Canada:
Evidence-Based Investment in Knowledge, Engaged Scholarship, Innovation and Action
for Canada's Future is based on research conducted by the Office of Community-Based
Research at University of Victoria
- Guidelines
and Categories for Classifying Participatory Research Projects in Health Promotion
- intended for use by grant application reviewers to appraise whether proposals
for funding as participatory research meet participatory research criteria. These
guidelines can also be used as a checklist by academic and community researchers
in planning their projects.
- HSRR
- is a searchable database containing information about research datasets and
instruments/indices employed in Health Services Research, and the Behavioral and
Social Sciences with links to PubMed and additional resources.
- INTERACTS
- Improving Interaction between NGO's, Science Shops and Universities: Experiences
and Expectations and ISSNET
- Improving Science Shop Networking - These are international organizations
of science shops. Science shops are organizations created as mediators between
citizen groups and research institutions.
- The
Just Connections Toolbox - contains essays on the nature and uses of
community-based research, stories about how partners have conducted CBR in the
past, reflections from community members and college faculty who have participated
in CBR projects, and tools for others interested in doing CBR in their classrooms
and/or communities. The tools in the Toolbox include sample grant proposals, workshop
outlines, consent form templates, sample community service applications, sample
information letters, reading lists, course syllabi and more.
- LINK
is a nonprofit organization that allows community-based organizations to post
research projects and enables researchers to find meaningful research topics.
- Living
Knowledge Database is a free, web-based database of organizations involved
in community-based research.
- Loka
Institute - dedicated to making science and technology more responsive
to social and environmental concerns. The website offers news, articles, publications,
and project information dealing with issues concerning science and technology.
- Measures
for Community Research - is a collection of measures used to evaluate
outcomes viewed as important by Comprehensive Community Initiatives, public policy
makers, program funders and experts in relevant research fields. This collection
of measures covers eight substantive areas: Community Building, Economic Development,
Employment, Education, Housing and Neighborhood Conditions, Neighborhood Safety,
Social Services, and Youth Development.
- The National
Community-Based Research Networking Initiative is a network of community-based
research practitioners funded by Learn & Serve America and spearheaded by
Princeton University and the Bonner Foundation.
- Native
Research Network (NRN) is a leadership community of American Indian, Alaska
Native, Kanaka Maoli, and Canadian Aboriginal persons promoting integrity and
excellence in research. NRN provides networking and mentoring opportunities, a
forum to share research expertise, sponsorship of research events, assistance
to communities and tribes, and enhanced research communication. The NRN places
a special emphasis on ensuring that research with Indigenous people is conducted
in a culturally sensitive and respectful manner.
- Negotiating
Research Relationships with Inuit Communities: A Guide for Researchers - published
by the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and Nunavut Research Institute, this guide was
written as a follow-up, and complement, to the 1998 joint Nunavut Research Institute/Inuit
Tapiriit Kanatami booklet entitled Negotiating
Research Relationships: A Guide for Communities that was written to help Inuit
community members understand their rights and responsibilities in negotiating
research relationships.
- North
American Primary Care Research Group - formed in 1972 as a multidisciplinary
organization with a mission to develop and disseminate new knowledge regarding
primary medical care.
- Nursing
Partnership Centers on Health Disparities - are funded by the National Institute
of Nursing Research to foster the development of nursing partnerships between
researchers, faculty, and students at Minority Serving Institutions and institutions
with established health disparity research programs. They seeks to 1) expand the
cadre of nurse researchers involved in minority health or health disparities research;
2) increase the number of research projects aimed at eliminating health disparities,
and 3) enhance the career development of potential minority nurse investigators.
- Office
for Human Research Protections - together with the Food and Drug Administration,
the Office oversees programs for the protection of human subjects at more than
4,000 HHS-funded universities, hospitals and other medical and behavioral research
institutions and private research sites in the United States and abroad.
- Pfizer
Faculty Scholar Award in Public Health - is a nationally competitive career
development award intended to support junior faculty in schools and programs in
public health who are interested in pursuing community-based, public health practice
research.
- The
Role of Community-Based Participatory Research: Creating Partnerships, Improving
Health - is intended to provide leaders of community-faith-based organizations
with an overview of the issues involved in community-based participatory research.
For more information, click here
- Society
for Community Research and Action - is affiliated with the American
Psychological Association as is devoted to the many different disciplines that
focus on community research and action.
- Sociological
Initiatives Foundation - provides grants to support community-based research
and social action projects.
- University
+ Community Research Partnerships: A New Approach - is a report from
The Pew Partnership for Civic Change that summarizes the findings from a 19-site
participatory research initiative that partnered community-based organizations
with academics from area colleges and universities. It also highlights the conversation
and general themes that arose during a roundtable discussion with representatives
from higher education, the philanthropic sector, and the nonprofit community.
CCPH was among the organizations represented at the roundtable.
- University-Community
Partnership: Global Networking Platform for Social Action Research - hosted
by Arizona State University, the network is devoted to sharing knowledge, ideas
and best practices of university-community partnerships. Its mission is to encourage
involvement in community and promote participatory social action research.
COMMUNITY-BASED
PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH: EXAMPLES - Click
here for CCPH's webpage
on community-based participatory research (CBPR), including definitions, tools
and resources, and CBPR course syllabi
- Appalachia
Cancer Network - addresses cancer issues in Appalachia through a consortium
of regional, state, and local partners.
- Center
for Urban Epidemiologic Studies - was established by The New York Academy
of Medicine in partnership with the The New York City Department of Health, and
in cooperation with multiple collaborating institutions. The Center's purpose
is to study social determinants of health using a community-based participatory
research approach, with an emphasis on investigating the role of social support
and social cohesion. The geographical communities of focus are East and Central
Harlem; areas where a substantial proportion of the residents are poor people
of color.
- Center
for Urban Research and Learning - promotes cooperation between Loyola
University researchers-- faculty and students-- and community based organizations,
citywide organizations, social service agencies, health care providers and government.
By establishing collaborative relationships with organizations outside the university,
the Center recognizes the importance of working with communities and organizations
in seeking new solutions to pressing urban problems.
- Citizen
Participation in Health Decision-Making- a study of regional health
authorities in British Columbia
- Colorado
Community-Based Research Network is a network of university and college faculty,
staff, and students; non-profit and community-based organizations; and foundations
interested in conducting community-based research that benefits the metro-Denver
area. They provide research support and training; library access and information
gathering services; and coordination of fundraising efforts.
- Community
Linked Interdisciplinary Research - the mission of this initiative
is to link together community research needs in the public and private sectors
with research expertise among University of Buffalo faculty to provide additional
opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research that is of use to
Western New York industry, government, community groups, schools, and social service
agencies.
- Community
Research and Learning Network - links up university faculty and students
in the DC metro area with community-based organizations. The CoRAL Network website
provides opportunities for researchers and CBOs to list their interests in CBR
and find ways to work together.
- Detroit
Community: Academic Urban Research Center -
works to establish partnerships between the University of Michigan School of Public
Health, Detroit Health Department, and six community-based organizations, so that
they may work together to improve the quality of life of the communities on the
east and southwest sides of Detroit. Click here
for a fact sheet on the Center.
- East
St. Louis Action Research Project establishes and nurtures mutually enhancing
partnerships between community-based organizations in distressed urban areas,
and students, staff, and faculty at the University of Illinois and on other campuses.
Through these innovative partnerships, ESLARP promotes the revitalization of distressed
areas as well as advances the University's research, teaching, and service missions.
- Eliminating
Ethnic Health Disparities Through Community-Based Research and Action - a
brochure about resources available through Puentes & Associates, a Washington-DC
based organization.
- Environmental
Scan of Research by Community-Based Organizations in Toronto - prepared by
the Toronto Community Based Research Network,
this report documents the community-based research activities being conducted
by community organizations within the Toronto Central Local Health Integration
Network catchment area.
- Healthy
Aging Research Network - the Network's mission is to understand the
determinants of healthy aging in older adult populations; to identify interventions
that promote healthy aging; and to assist in the translation of such reserch into
sustainable community-based programs throughout the nation.
- Improving
Science Shop Networking - is a European Community-funded project to
establish a network of science shops.
- The
Institute for Community Research - is an independent, nonprofit research
organization in Hartford, CT dedicated to using research to promote equal access
to health, education, and cultural resources in a diverse society. It collaborates
with community and institutional partners in research and development to improve
services,
foster individual and community strengths, influence public policy,
and contribute to social science theory and practice. - INTERACTS
is a study on science shops funded by the The European Commission to strengthen
the interaction between research institutions and society. INTERACTS aims to improve
cooperation in science, research and development of small to medium non-governmental
organizations with universities through intermediaries such as science shops.
- Johns
Hopkins University Center for Adolescent Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- addresses the health and health care needs of urban youth through applied research,
communication, and education and training. The Center's theme, Promoting the Health
of Adolescents through Families and Communities, reflects its collaborative approach
to prevention research.
- Just
Connections invigorates grassroots democracy among residents of distressed
mountain communities by creating and using models for participatory research and
service.
- Markey
Cancer Center Cancer Control Program - the Center's mission is to reduce
the cancer burden in Appalachian Kentucky by identifying problems and proposing
community-based solutions.
- Morehouse
School of Medicine Prevention Research Center - the Center's mission
is to advance scientific knowledge in the field of prevention in African American
and other minority communities and to disseminate new information and strategies
of prevention.
- The Office of
Community-Based Research at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
is part of the University's strategic vision of increasing civic engagement. They
are about democratizing knowledge, supporting community-driven research initiatives,
and supporting students and faculty who are doing or who wish to do community-based
research.
- Partners
in Health and Housing Prevention Research Center Boston University
- the Center's theme is Health and Public Housing - From "Projects"
to Community.
- Prevention
Research Center of Michigan - the Center's mission is to expand and
share knowledge to strengthen the capacity of the community, the public health
system, and the university to improve the public's health.
- Promises
and Dilemmas of Participation: Action Research, Search Conference Methodology
and Community Development - a paper authored by Kai A. Schafft and
Davyd J. Greenwood that presents a case study assessment of two socially and organizationally
distinct communities and their use of action research strategies as participatory-based
approaches to community strategic planning and action.
- Seattle
Partners for Healthy Communities - dedicated to improving urban health
through the collaboration of community agencies, activists, public health professionals,
academics, and health providers. The goal of Seattle Partners is to prevent disease
and promote healthy behaviors and environments.
- Southeast
Community Research Center - was established to promote, facilitate,
and conduct participatory and community-based research throughout the Southeastern
United States.
- University
of New Mexico Prevention Research Center - the Center's goal is to
work in partnership with American Indian communities to improve health and well
being through participatory research, evaluation, education, training and practice.
- University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
is committed to improving the health of the people of North Carolina and the southeast
through interdisciplinary research, teaching and public service. Particular emphasis
is paid to the needs of vulnerable and disadvantaged populations,
- University
of South Florida Center for Community-Based Prevention Marketing -
the Center's mission is to develop and evaluate an evidence-based model for applying
community-based prevention marketing to strengthen local capacity for sustained
disease prevention and health promotion, while advancing scientific research in
CBPM on a national level.
- West
Virginia University Prevention Research Center - provides leadership
and training in multidisciplinary research that addresses the needs of West Virginia
and Appalachia, with special emphasis on disadvantaged populations; improves health
and quality of life through the reduction of preventable risk factors and morbidity;
advances the science of health promotion and disease prevention; and enhances
through collaboration the effectiveness of community.
- Yale-Griffin
Prevention Research Center - is committed to establishing Community
Action Teams composed of Yale faculty; staff of Griffin Hospital, health promotion
agencies, and the Lower Naugatuck Valley Health District; community members; and
Yale students in medicine and public health to develop innovative public health
interventions in response to community priorities. The efforts of the Yale-Griffin
PRC are intended to measurably raise the standard of health and quality of life
in the Lower Naugatuck Valley.
COMMUNITY
BUILDING - The Community
Partner Listserv was established by CCPH to help build the capacity of community
partners through information-sharing, collaborative problem-solving and advocacy.
- Click
here for the Community Partner Summit webpage that contains
products and resources intended to support community partners in their community-higher
education partnership work.
- Access
Project - works to strengthen community action, promote social change,
and improve health, especially for those who are most vulnerable. By supporting
local initiatives and community leaders, The Access Project is dedicated to strengthening
the voice of underserved communities in the public and private policy discussions
that directly affect them.
- ACORN
- The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest
community organization of low- and moderate-income families, with over 100,000
member families organized into 500 neighborhood chapters in 40 cities across the
country
- Aspen
Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives - was established
in 1992 as a forum in which people engaged in the field of comprehensive community
initiatives could meet to discuss the lessons that are being learned by initiatives
across the country and to work on common problems they are facing. Comprehensive
Community Initiatives are neighborhood-based efforts that seek improved outcomes
for individuals and families as well as improvements in neighborhood conditions
by working comprehensively across social, economic and physical sectors. Additionally,
CCIs operate on the principle that community building -- that is, strengthening
institutional capacity at the neighborhood level, enhancing social capital and
personal networks, and developing leadership -- is a necessary aspect of the process
of transforming distressed neighborhoods.
- Asset-Based
Community Development Institute - a group that
participates in community development research and spreads its knowledge by interacting
with and providing useful information to community builders.
- Association
of Community Organizing and Social Administration - members in a variety
of disciplines and professional fields whom are devoted to strengthening community
organization and social administration.
- Center
for Assessment and Policy Development - is a non-profit research, planning
and policy organization based that works to improve the quality of life for children,
adolescents, families and neighborhoods by helping to build the capacity of organizations,
collaborations, government, schools and others who do the day-to-day work on their
behalf. Through their evaluation, CAPD helps people use the tools of democracy
- leadership, civic engagement, anti-racism work, system reform, public will,
outcome tracking - to build stronger communities, particularly for children, adolescents
and families.
- Center for
Civic Partnerships - provides intensive technical assistance and consultation
services to communities both within and outside of California to help groups develop,
implement and sustain community improvements.
- Center
for Community Change - is committed to rebuilding low income communities
by helping people to develop the skills and resources they need to improve their
communities as well as change olicies and institutions that adversely affect their
lives.
- Citizen's
Guide - is hosted by the Vancouver CommunityNet and contains an on-line
how-to guide to community organizing, links to other tools and library.
- COMM-ORG
- an online seminar on the history of community organizing, containing syllabi,
research resources, and more.
- Community
Building Resource Exchange - provides a forum for exchanging resources
and information by providing links to a wide range of materials covering the theoretical
bases and practical applications of comprehensive, community building approaches
to neighborhood revitalization.
- Community
Development Organization Search Engine - is a database maintained
by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston that allows users to search by keyword and
a city or state to find community development-related organizations nationwide
- Community
Organizing: A Populist Base for Social Equity and Smart Growth - is
a paper that describes the efforts of low-income community organizations to understand
and address the regional inequities of sprawl, published by the Funders' Network
for Smart Growth and Livable Communities.
- Community
Teamwork, Inc. - an organization that is committed to assisting low-income
people by helping them deal with the effects of poverty and providing resources
that support them in becoming self-sufficient.
- Community
Toolbox- promotes community health and development by connecting people,
ideas, and resources.
- Family
Economic Success - was developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to
provide a more comprehensive way to address the difficulties low-income working
families face in trying to move up the economic ladder. FES uses a three-pronged
approach, incorporating strategies for workforce development, family economic
support and community investment.
- Freedom
Trainers - offers trainings on organizational change and development
with a focus on community organizing and growth.
- Funders'
Collaborative Fund for Racial Justice Innovation - is a partnership
of private and corporate foundations, family foundations, and individual donors,
was created to support a broad range of activities designed to promote and sustain
collaborations between lawyers and community activists in communities around the
country.
- Higher
Education Consortium for Urban Affairs - provides students, faculty,
and practitioners with necessary resources to help promote social transformation
and community building.
- Journalism
That Connects: Communities, Practices and Vision is a primer for broadcast
and print journalists wanting to incorporate the principles of community-based
journalism within their newsrooms.
- LISC
Online Resource Library - web-based resource for community development
practitioners, offering best practices and lessons learned, industry tools, links,
and interactive chats with industry experts.
- Making
Connections is a 10-year investment begun in 1999 by the Annie E. Casey
Foundation to improve the outcomes for families and children in tough or isolated
neighborhoods in 22 cities.
- Mid-South
Delta Initiative - is a partnership among Delta communities, regionally focused
organizations, Delta residents engaged in leading change at all levels, the W.
K. Kellogg Foundation and many other foundations, public agencies and investors.
It focuses on community, enterprise and leadership development in the 55 contiguous
counties and parishes along the Mississippi River in Arkansas, Louisiana, and
Mississippi.
- National
Community Building Network - is an alliance of locally-driven urban
initiatives working to reduce poverty and create social and economic opportunity
through comprehensive community-building strategies.
- National
Neighborhood Indicators Partnership - offers information on NNIP, a
group that encourages partnerships between local governments, community leaders,
and NNIP local partners. Local partners are involved in setting up neighborhood
indicator systems that are used to influence policy making and neighborhood building.
- National People's Action - is a coalition
of hundreds of community organizations from across the country that work on issues
effecting their communities such as predatory lending, community reinvestment,
neighborhood safety, education and immigration.
- Neighborhoods
Online - a network of political activists, volunteers, and government
workers that provides information and resources on neighborhood improvement. Addresses
many of the problems that neighborhoods are facing, such as crime, poverty and
inadequate housing.
- The
People Pages: Resources for Social Change - is a new national resource
directory for activists, community organizers, and grassroots nonprofit organizations.
The book includes contact information for 2500 social change organizations, 25
articles and 10 planning worksheets about organizational development and management,
lists of books and films, and a directory of educational programs in nonprofit
management. Free sample articles are on this website, including Fundraising Planning,
Volunteering, and Strategic Planning.
- Philanthropic
Capacity Building Resource Database - offers information on nearly
200 capacity-building programs (including their structure, funding, evaluation,
and type of work) offered by various U.S. foundations.
- The
Project Change Anti-Racism Initiative - was established in 1991 as
an initiative of Levi Strauss & Company through its corporate foundation. The
project addresses racial prejudice and institutional racism in four communities
throughout the United States: Albuquerque, New Mexico; El Paso, Texas; Knoxville,
Tennessee; and Valdosta, Georgia. Project Change unites community leaders serving
diverse constituencies and assists them in developing leadership capacities that
both complement and transcend their racial and ethnic interests.
- The
Praxis Project - supports and partners with communities to achieve
health justice by providing resources and capacity for policy development, advocacy
and leadership.
- Promising
Practices Network on Children, Families and Communities - offers easy-to-understand
descriptions and reliable evaluations of services, activities, approaches and
policies that have been shown to achieve positive results for children and their
families.
- Technical
Assistance Resource Center - is an information exchange website developed
by the Annie E. Casey that provides a wealth of resources, including best practices
for community change and leadership development, and using strategic communications
to meet community needs.
- Teens
as Community Builders - profiles individual projects, lists a host
of organizations that help teens accomplish their visions, and provides tip sheets
on how both adults and youth can work to build positive environments for young
people.
- Using
Public Schools as Community-Development Tools: Strategies for Community-Based
Developers - published by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
and Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, examines ways in which community developers
can learn from and contribute to efforts that link public schools and neighborhoods.
- We're Hired by the Hospital
But We Work for the Community: Examining Hospital Involvement in Community Action
- article by Blake Poland and colleagues from the Spring 2001 issue of Hospital
Quarterly.
COMMUNITY-CAMPUS
PARTNERSHIPS - Click here
for CCPH's resources page on community-campus partnerships, including definitions,
reports and tools.
- Click here for the Community
Partner Summit webpage that contains products and resources intended to support
community partners in their community-higher education partnership work.
- Academic
Health Departments, Practice-based Teaching and Academic-Practice
Partnerships
- The January/February 2006 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and
Practice highlights academic-practice linkages, the importance of academic health
departments, the significance of practice-based teaching in strengthening schools
of public health training, and research partnerships with local and state health
departments. - A
Compilation of Major Foundations That Sponsor Activities Relevant to College-Community
Partnerships - was compiled by HUD's Office of University Partnerships.
For a searchable database version, click here
- The
Association for Community and Higher Education
Partnerships is a national membership organization that promotes, enhances
and sustains community-higher education partnerships aimed at improving the quality
of life and opportunities available to residents of economically distressed communities.
- Bibliography
of literature on University-Community Engagement prepared by the University
of Wisconsin.
- Building
Partnerships for Neighborhood Change: Promising Practices of the University Community
Partnership Initiative - is a 2001 reports on the results of the Fannie
Mae Foundation's investments in university community partnerships.
- Campus
Compact - national organization, with links
to state affiliates, that promotes the community involvement of colleges and universities.
Website resources include service-learning syllabi, publications, conference announcements
and more.
- CEOs
for Cities is a national bipartisan alliance of mayors, corporate executives,
university presidents and nonprofit leaders created to advance the economic competitiveness
of cities. Click here
for their report on Leveraging Colleges and Universities for Urban Economic Revitalization:
An Action Agenda.
- Communities
and Banking - is a quarterly newsletter of the Federal Reserve Bank
of Boston that is geared for lenders and community development practitioners.
A number of recent articles that focused on community-university partnerships,
including: The role of funders in university-community
partnerships, Town
Meets Gown: The Massachusetts University-Community Partnership, and
A Case
Study in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
- Community
Outreach Partnership Centers: Connecting Communities and Institutions of Higher
Education - this issue of Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development
and Research is entirely devoted to HUD-funded community-university partnerships
and their lessons learned.
- Community
Standards for Service-Learning - developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison
faculty member Randy Stoecker and his community partners, these standards are
based on research conducted to understand community partner perspectives on service-learning.
- Community-University
Partnerships for Affordable Housing - authored by Wim Wiewel, University
of Illinois at Chicago; Frank Gaffikin, University of Ulster; and Michael Morrissey
in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research
- Community-University
Partnerships: Translating Evidence into Action - proceedings from a
national symposium cosponsored by CCPH and HUD's Office of University Partnerships
in April 2003.
- Community-University
Partnerships: What Do We Know? - discussion document prepared for a
national symposium cosponsored by CCPH and HUD's Office of University Partnerships
in April 2003.
- Community-University
Research Alliances, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- helps other organizations within communities and university institutions combine
forces to research ways to improve the quality of life in Canada and beyond.
- The
Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice - helps
bridge the gap between academia and public health in the practice sector by making
improvements in public health education that will better meet the demands of public
health practice. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a member.
- Fannie
Mae Foundation's University-Community Partnership Initiative - is a
multi-site, multi-year pilot grant program designed to promote the development
of successful partnerships between universities and community organizations to
expand affordable housing opportunities in distressed communities.
- Higher
Education Consortium for Urban Affairs - provides students, faculty,
and practitioners with necessary resources to help promote social transformation
and community building.
- Marga Incorporated
- helps to facilitate the development and improvement of partnerships, particularly
those that are designed to improve social conditions and forge unprecedented alliances.
For example, Marga advises institutions of higher education on how they can be
as strategic as possible in simultaneously improving communities and advancing
their missions.
- National
Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Network - consists of two complementary
programs. AHECs and Health Education Training Centers (HETC) are multi-institutional,
multi-disciplinary, community-based programs that work with community and academic
partners to address the primary health care workforce needs and health promotion
and disease prevention information needs of medically underserved communities.
- The
National Committee on Partnerships for Children's Health - seeks to
improve the health and wellbeing of children across the country. Working at the
state level, it connects local and state agencies of health, education or social
welfare with a virtually untapped resource: higher education.
- New
England Resource Center for Higher Education - dedicated to improving
colleges and universities as workplaces, communities, and organizations.
- Opening
the Door: Technology and the Development of University Community Partnerships
- highlights the critical role that academic institutions can play in mobilizing
technology resources to improve conditions in their host neighborhoods. The report
is a product of Seedco's Community Development Technology Initiative.
- Partnership
Agreement Checklist - a checklist that lays out the functions organizations
should address when preparing contractual partnership agreements.
- Universities
and Community Schools - this 2002 journal issue focuses on Community-Higher
Education-School Partnerships. Articles include Linking Intellectual Resources
and Community Needs at the University of Pennsylvania; To Change a University,
Start with the Community; Organizing the Campus to be in Partnership with Schools
and the Community; and Beyond Community Involvement and Service Learning to Engaged
Universities.
- Universities
& Their Cities - in February, 2003, Case Western Reserve University
hosted this colloquium on the innovative partnerships that university presidents
forge with their cities and regions. The event corresponded with the inauguration
of CWRU's new
president. Click here
for proceedings.
- Universities
in Solidarity for the Health of the Disadvantaged - a global network
of collaborating universities that is dedicated to improving the health of the
disadvantaged.
- University-Community
Partnerships -Link to the publication titled University-Community Partnerships:
Current Practices Volume III, which celebrates the growing number of commitments
that colleges and universities are making to their communities.
- University-Community
Partnership: Global Networking Platform for Social Action Research - hosted
by Arizona State University, the network is devoted to sharing knowledge, ideas
and best practices of university-community partnerships. Its mission is to encourage
involvement in community and promote participatory social action research.
- U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of University Partnerships
- offers information on grants, conferences, publications, and research that are
related to building partnerships between communities and universities.
COMMUNITY-CAMPUS
PARTNERSHIPS: COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES - Click here
for CCPH's resources page on community-campus partnerships, including definitions,
reports and tools.
- Click here
for CCPH's Community Partner Peer Mentoring & Advocacy Webpage
- The
Community Partner Listserv was established by CCPH to help build the capacity
of community partners through information-sharing, collaborative problem-solving
and advocacy
- Achieving
the Promise of Authentic Community-Higher Education Partnerships: Community Partners
Speak Out is among the products available from the Community
Partner Summit convened by CCPH in April 2006.
- Community-Higher
Education Partnerships: Community Perspectives - this annotated bibliography,
primarily developed with community partners in mind, contains citations and abstracts
for over 100 articles and reports.
- Click here
for a slide presentation on "Community Views on Community-Higher Education
Partnerships" that cites several studies on the topic.
- A
Meeting of Minds: A Handbook for Community-Campus Engagement - authored by
CCPH Fellow and community partner Nola Freeman
is designed for community organizations, agencies or schools, and by associations
of these groups, who are new to service-learning.
- Community
Involvement in Partnerships with Educational Institutions, Medical Mentors, and
Utility Companies - a 2001 paper prepared by the Aspen Institute Roundtable
on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
- Engaging
Communities and Campuses - In September 2002, the Consortium for the Advancement
of Private Higher Education convened 21 leaders of community organizations from
around the country to share their knowledge of working in partnerships with higher
education institutions. Click here
for a brochure of findings.
- A
Collective Voice for Well-Being: The Story of the National Community Committee
chronicles how members of Prevention Research
Center communities have developed a national committee to support community-based
prevention research. Read about the history and mission of the committee, the
outcomes of committee members' combined action, and the resources the members
have brought home to improve health and well-being in their neighborhoods.
- The
Challenges of Agenda Conflict in Higher Education-Community Research Partnerships:
Views from the Community Side - published by Barbara Furman and TL Hill in
the Volume 26, Number 2, 2004 issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs, this article
reports on interviews with community leaders to learn about their motivations
for and experiences of participating in higher-education-community research partnerships.
- A Guide to Reciprocal
Community-Campus Partnerships is the proceedings of a Partnership Forum convened
by Portland State University (PSU) in March 2008. The Forum is one component of
a Partnership Initiative
at PSU that is intends to contribute to the knowledge base about community-campus
partnerships on a national level.
- The Community
Side of Service-Learning is a webpage that presents findings and recommendations
from ongoing work in Madison, WI to understand and disseminate community partner
perspectives on service-learning. One product posted on the site is a brochure
full of practical suggestions for service-learning relationships developed in
a series of meetings with representatives of community-based organizations.
COMMUNITY-CAMPUS
PARTNERSHIPS: EXAMPLES - Click here
for CCPH's resources page on community-campus partnerships, including definitions,
reports and tools.
- A Guide to
Community-Campus Partnerships for the Health of People
Experiencing Homelessness
- published in July 2004 CCPH and the National
Health Care for the Homeless Council, the guide reviews literature on HCH-academic
partnerships; provides descriptions of service-learning, clinical service and
research partnerships; and includes a variety of resource materials. - Alaska
Health Education Consortium - an organization
comprised of individuals from diverse areas ranging from community health promotion
to HIV education, who are committed to promoting healthy choices.
- Australian
Catholic University's Ageing Research and Education website demonstrates how
research, teaching and learning programs are increasingly balanced with community
engagement. Researchers share a commitment to social justice and an interest in
promoting quality of life.
- Carolina
Center for Public Service - organization whose mission is to "support
UNC students, faculty and staff as they perform public service".
- Case
Studies in Community-University Partnerships, University of Washington - four
case studies focus on engaged departments (Scandinavian Studies, Computer Science
& Engineering, Pediatric Dentistry and Landscape Architecture) and one focuses
on a geographic region (the Yakima Valley).
- Center
for the City, University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC) - focuses
UMKC's resources on metropolitan Kansas City's center-city; makes visible UMKC/Community
partnerships; acts as a responsive portal that connects UMKC and the community;
and promotes the civic engagement of students and community-based participatory
research.
- Center for Food and Justice
- engages in collaborative action strategies, community capacity-building,
and research and education to realize its vision of a sustainable and socially
just food system. The Center, based at Occidental College, seeks to improve access
to fresh and healthy foods in all communities, particularly those where access
is most limited, and to facilitate environmental, health promotion, community
development, social justice, and land use strategies that empower local communities
and strengthen the capacity of small family farmers.
- Center
for Urban Initiatives and Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- joins faculty and staff together with community partners to work towards a goal
of revitalizing neighborhoods within Milwaukee's inner city.
- Community
Higher Education Service Partnerships aims to support South African Higher
Education Institutions to engage in the development of historically disadvantaged
communities through the development of appropriate institutional policies, strategies,
organisational structures, and accredited mainstream academic programmes. Central
to the CHESP approach is the development of partnerships between communities,
higher education, institutions and the service sector.
- COPC
Central - is a newsletter published by HUD's Office of University Partnerships
that highlights the contributions of universities and colleges to local community
revitalization efforts.
- Geriatric
Social Work Education Consortium - is the nation's first major regional
consortium offering an integrated field and academic graduate social work education
experience for students interested in the field of aging.
- HBCU
Central - is a newsletter published by HUD's Office of University Partnerships
that highlights the contributions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
to local community revitalization efforts.
- Healthy
South Carolina Initiative - provides information on the goals and objectives
of the Healthy South Carolina Initiative, a university-based project that funds
28 projects that address health concerns prevalent in vulnerable populations.
- HSIAC
Central - is a newsletter published by HUD's Office of University Partnerships
that highlights the contributions of Hispanic-serving universities and colleges
to local community revitalization efforts.
- INTERACTS
is a study on science shops funded by the The European Commission to strengthen
the interaction between research institutions and society. INTERACTS aims to improve
cooperation in science, research and development of small to medium non-governmental
organizations with universities through intermediaries such as science shops.
- Lasting
Engagement - The Milwaukee Idea - is the second in a series of institutional
case studies intended to provide guidance to institutions of higher education
that are beginning their quest for community engagement. Published by HUD's Office
of University Partnerships.
- Minority-Serving
Institutions of Higher Education: Developing Partnerships to Revitalize Communities
- celebrates the accomplishments of the minority-serving institutions that participate
in four programs of HUD's Office of University Partnerships.
- Mountain
AHEC Preceptor Development Program - an Area Health Education Center
whose mission is to "provide education, information, training, and services
to meet health needs in Western North Carolina."
- Ohio
State University Community Outreach Partnership Center - this Community
Outreach Partnership Center explores the community resources and needs of the
Weinland Park neighborhood in the University District at OSU.
- The
Pediatric Advocacy Program is a partnership between Stanford Medical Center
and local communities to improve the health and well being of children in the
Silicon Valley. Pediatric residents, medical students and undergraduates work
with community partners to address community needs through service-learning, community-based
participatory research and community service.
- Southern
Regional AHEC - Area Health Education Center that provides information
on continuing education, family medicine resident, student education, and family
medicine and specialty clinics in the southern region.
- Stanford
School of Medicine Office of Community Health represents the school's first
formal effort to coordinate and sustain community partnerships.
- Toronto
Community Based Research Network brings together community practitioners,
academics, funders and community members from across the Greater Toronto Area
who are or have been involved in community-based research projects. Its mission
is to increase and sustain the capacity of local health and social service organizations
and academic partners to conduct effective CBR leading to evidence-based action
and policy change.
- University
of California-San Francisco (UCSF) Community Partnership Resource Center (CPRC)
is a Department of Family & Community Medicine initiative to facilitate partnership
activities between UCSF and local communities with the overall goal of improving
health status and decreasing health disparities within San Francisco. It has agreed
to adopt in full the CCPH Principles of Partnership,
along with a few general principles
specific to the CPRC
- University
of Illinois-Chicago, UIC Neighborhoods Initiative - a partnership between
the university and surrounding organizations and neighborhoods that helps to strengthen
the quality of life of current residents, businesses, the university, and other
institutions.
- University
of Nebraska at Omaha Community Outreach Partnership Center - focuses
on Omaha's most critical urban issues through the use of a combination of research
and outreach activities.
- University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Community Collaborations - provides information
on Urban Connection, which is actively involved in partnerships with people, organizations,
and governments in the Milwaukee area and the state.
- Using
Strategic Partnerships to Expand Nursing Education Programs - explores
how nursing schools are using partnerships and other collaborative ventures to
build student capacity, fill faculty slots, and serve other needs. Nursing colleges
and universities across the country are searching for creative ways to increase
the number of registered nurses in response to the growing shortage, including
collaborating with clinical partners and other stakeholders. Published by the
American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
- Virginia
Commonwealth University, Office of Community Partnership - information
on programs and departments that are involved with community partnership at Virginia
Commonwealth University.
- West
Virginia Rural Health Education Partnerships - information on this
statewide community-campus partnership that works to ensure that rural communities
in West Virginia have access to high quality health care.
- Wisconsin
Nursing Redesign Consortium - is a community-campus partnership that
is supporting the development of new models of nursing work in Wisconsin as a
major remedy for the emerging nursing shortage.
- Center
for Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Minnesota has published
interviews with two individuals involved in a community-campus partnership that
highlight the vision and practical applications of an engaged campus:
Susan Gust owns a construction business and community
development business located in the Phillips Community in Minneapolis. She is
a founder of the Phillips Lead Collaborative, now the Phillips Neighborhood Healthy
Housing Collaborative that has brought many neighborhood residents and academics
from the University of Minnesota together each month for the last eight years.
Here,
Gust begins with her vision of what an engaged university might be Cathy
Jordan is on the faculty in the departments of Pediatrics and Neurology. She has
been a leader in the collaborative research between Phillips Neighborhood and
the University of Minnesota for the last eight years. Here,
Jordan shares her insights about community-campus partnerships, and the challenges
and rewards of community-based participatory research COMMUNITY
HEALTH WORKERS COMMUNITY
SERVICE AND VOLUNTEERISM - Click here
for links to international service organizations.
- Click here
for links to student service organizations.
- American
Friends Service Committee - a Quaker organization
that works to solve the problems of violence and injustice through peaceful, loving
methods.
- Association
of Volunteer Administration - is an international membership organization,
is to promote professionalism and strengthen leadership in volunteerism.
- Epicenter
- database that can help you find ways to more effectively serve communities and
support members, volunteers, and students.
- Helping.Org
- a searchable database to look up volunteer opportunities by zip code
- Idealist
- an online directory of over 10,000 nonprofit and community organizations working
in 120 countries, with detailed information on their services, volunteer opportunities,
materials, and job listings.
- Independent
Sector - a national forum to encourage giving, volunteering, not-for-profit
initiative and citizen action.
- The
Medical Reserve Corps - is a Citizen Corps program led by the Office
of the Surgeon General that provides communities with medical volunteers who can
assist health professionals during a large-scale local emergency. The website
contains "Medical Reserve Corps - A Guide for Local Leaders," information
on training resources, and the monthly MRC newsletter.
- Monetary
Value of Volunteer Time
- National
Civic Participation Week - in September 2002, America will come together
in celebration of our democracy and in tribute to those whose lives were lost
on September 11.
- Online
Mentoring Resources - helpful research and resources on mentoring.
- Remote
Area Medical Volunteer Corps is dedicated to providing free health
care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational
assistance to people in remote areas of the United States and the world. Volunteers
participate in expeditions (at their own expense) in some of the world's most
exciting places.
- SERVEnet
- provides information on volunteer opportunities based on skill, interest, and
location.
- Service
Project Planning Tool - can be used to plan any community service project.
- Student
Conservation Association - presents students and communities with opportunities
to volunteer in areas such as conservation, outdoor education, and career education
for youth.
- Unite For Sight -
is a student-run global humanitarian organization that works internationally to
improve health outcomes and prevent blindness. Unite For Sight has have numerous
volunteer projects and internships available for students.
- Volunteers
in Health Care - serves as a resource for health care providers who
are committed to providing medical and dental care to uninsured individuals in
their communities.
CULTURAL
COMPETENCY - African
Americans and Ethics Bibliography
- Bridging
Cultures and Enhancing Care: Approaches to Cultural and Linguistic Competency
in Managed Care is proceedings from a HRSA conference
held in May 2002. Includes summaries of presentations on the effects of race and
ethnicity on the delivery of quality health care, strategies for organizational
change, and clinical issues when delivering culturally and linguistically appropriate
health care services.
- Casa
Xelajú - offers classes and programs
that are designed to promote cross-cultural understanding.
- Center
for Anti-Oppressive Education - works to prepare resources for members
of educational communities interested in creating and engaging in forms of education
that challenge multiple oppressions.
- Click here
for a a 10/02 powerpoint presentation on "teaching cultural competency: a
review of the literature" developed by the UCSF Center for the Health Professions
- Community
Profiles - published by the Cross Cultural Health Care Program, these
profiles of health concerns are focused on Arab, Cambodian, Eritrean, Ethiopian,
Lao, Mien, Oromo, Samoan, Somali, South Asian, Soviet Jewish and Ukrainian communities.
- Compendium
of Cultural Competence Initiatives in Health Care - prepared by the Henry
J. Kaiser Family Foundation in response to the many requests from the media and
others to define cultural competency and identify efforts underway in this emerging
field. Included are brief definitions for major terms, organizational descriptions
of initiatives and a list of experts in the field.
- Cross
Cultural Health Care Program - serves as a bridge between communities
and health care institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that
is culturally and linguistically appropriate. The website contains definitions,
tools and other resources.
- Cultural
Competence Training Template - is a suggested outline for a half-day
training that teaches the basics about cultural competency to health professionals,
whether they are students or experienced clinicians, developed by the UCSF Center
for the Health Professions.
- Culturally
Competent Care: A Toolbox for Teaching Communication Strategies - is
a toolbox of materials for teaching culturally competent skills needed for practical
day-to-day encounters between clinicians and patients, developed by the UCSF Center
for the Health Professions
- Cultural
Diversity: A Guide for Health Professional - published by Queensland
Health, this guide features community profiles on Australian South Sea Islander,
Bosnian Muslims, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatians, Greeks, Hmong, Italian, Latin
Americans, Muslims from West Africa, Philippines, Samoans and Tongans, Serbians,
Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, Vietnamese, Child and Youth, Torture and Trauma
and Women
- Cultural
Profiles - provide generalized profiles on African Americans, Asians,
Hispanics, Middle Easterners and Russians.
- "El
Consultorio" - is a web directory that contains words and expressions
pertaining in Spanish pertaining to health and medicine.
- Ethnomed
- contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related
issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to the US, many of whom
are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world. Culture-specific resources address
such diverse cultures as Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Mexican, Somali and Vietnamese,
among others.
- Hablamos Juntos
- is an $18.5 million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded program committed
to improving health care access for Latinos with limited English proficiency.
- Health
Literacy: What Patients Know When They Leave Your Office or Clinic
- is based on dialogue excerpts from a documentary film from the AMA Foundation
about how physicians can help improve their patient's health literacy. It profiles
several patients and how their literacy level effects medication compliance as
well as access to health care.
- Health
Professions Education: Issues in Cultural Competence - is a list of
recommended readings from the National Center for Cultural Healing.
- Language
Services Action Kit - was developed by the Access Project and the National
Health Law Program as a resource to help health care providers and others ensure
that people with limited English proficiency receive appropriate language assistance
services in medical settings. The kit contains information on obtaining federal
funding for interpretation and other language services for patients covered by
Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program; explains federal laws
and policies that require providers to offer language services; describes models
that some states have adopted to reimburse providers for those services; and lists
resources for additional information.
- National
Center of Cultural Competency - has a wealth of resources on cultural
competency in health care and health professions education.
- National
Council on Interpreting in Health Care - is a multidisciplinary organization
whose mission is to promote culturally competent professional medical interpreting
as a means to support equal access to health care for individuals with limited
English proficiency.
- National
Institute for Literacy - created by the National Literacy Act of 1991,
the main function of the Institute is "to ensure that all Americans with
literacy needs have access to services that can help them gain the basic skills
necessary for success in the workplace, family, and community in the 21st century."
The website includes a directory of literacy programs.
- Overcoming
Language Barriers: A Volunteers in Health Care Guide - is designed
to give clinicians some guidance on serving limited English speakers, including
tips on working with an interpreter.
- Planning,
Implementing and Evaluating Cultural and Linguistic Competency for Comprehensive
Community Mental Health Services for Children and Families: Implications for Systems
of Care- provides guidance on the delivery of services and supports to children
and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, and mental disorders and their families.
Includes an activities checklist, definitions, references, and additional resources.
- Providers
Guide to Quality & Culture - this web site is designed to assist
health care organizations in providing high quality, culturally competent services
to multi-ethnic populations. It contains definitions, self-assessment tools and
other resources.
- Refugee
and Immigrant Health - includes cultural profiles on these communities:
Bosnian, Cambodian/Khmer, Cuban, Ethiopian/Eritrean, Gypsy/Roma, Haitian, Indian
(Asian, Iraqi, Korean, Kosovar, Kurdish, Laotian/Lao, Liberian, Mexican/Hispanic,
Nigerian, Somali, Sudanese and Vietnamese
- Southeast
Asian Communities: Health and Culture Bibliography
- Tolerance.org
- encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance"
by providing resources for parents, teachers, and kids.
- Understanding
Prejudice - has more than 2,000 prejudice-related links, searchable
databases of social justice organizations and prejudice researchers, teaching
resources, and interactive exercises.
- What
Is Cultural and Linguistic Competence? - this Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality website contains definitions and links to guides on Planning
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services and Providing Oral Linguistic
Services.
DISTANCE
LEARNING - The
Computer-assisted Learning in Pediatrics Project - is a comprehensive Internet-based
learning program for use by third-year medical students during their pediatric
clerkship. CLIPP's 31 interactive cases are designed to cover all of the core
content of the curriculum of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics.
- TrainingFinder.org
- A one-stop, online central repository of distance learning material.
ENGAGED
CAMPUS - Click here
for CCPH's resources page on community-campus partnerships, including definitions,
reports and tools.
- Click here
for CCPH's webpage on community scholarship including definitions, tools and resources,
and model faculty promotion and tenure policies
- Click here
for a flyer on community-engaged scholarship resources available through CCPH.
- Campus
Cares is a broad coalition of national higher education associations
created to identify, recognize, and encourage the involvement of those on America's
college campuses -- students, faculty, administration, and staff -- who serve
their community and contribute to its well-being.
- Click here
for a 9/02 presentation on the role of historically black colleges and universities
in addressing disparities in health status and health care in the U.S.
- The
August 2005 Report of the Executive Vice-Chancellor's
Task Force on Community Partnerships at the University of California-San Francisco
includes an inventory of UCSF partnerships in community-based programs within
California in which UCSF faculty and staff participate as part of their University
responsibilities; reviews what is known about the benefits to the community and
university of academic partnerships in community-based programs, and about the
key attributes of successful partnerships between communities and academic institutions;
and makes recommendations for improving the success and impact of UCSF's engagement
in community-based programs and partnerships.
- Coalition
of Urban and Metropolitan Universities brings together universities
that share the mission of striving for national excellence while contributing
to the economic development, social health, and cultural vitality of the urban
or metropolitan centers served. Through this website, users can find information
about the CUMU as well as dates on conferences and membership information.
- Colleges
and Universities as Economic Anchors: Profiles of Promising Practices
- was commissioned by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to encourage institutions
of higher education to begin to think about their economic anchor roles in a cohesive
and coordinated manner.
- Community Higher
Education Service Partnerships aims to support South African Higher Education
Institutions to engage in the development of historically disadvantaged communities
through the development of appropriate institutional policies, strategies, organisational
structures, and accredited mainstream academic programmes. Central to the CHESP
approach is the development of partnerships between communities, higher education,
institutions and the service sector.
- Compendium
of Good Practice University - Regional Development Engagement Initiatives
- Prepared for the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services, this
report provides details of a selection of 'good practice' regional development
initiatives being undertaken by universities in partnership with the regional
communities in which they are located. Categories include sustainable development,
cultural development, economic development, social development, health and well-being,
industry, and student access. Click here
for more information on Australia's Universities and Regional Development Forum.
- Creating
the Engaged University: Iowa's Model for Change - The purpose of this
report is to describe a concrete example of how one state land-grant university,
Iowa State University, went about trying to develop into a more engaged university.
- Engaged
Institutions: Impacting Vulnerable Youth Through Place-Based Learning - this
report examines connections between higher education institutions and vulnerable
youth in communities that have chosen place-based education as a framework for
student learning and community growth.
- Engaging
Resources in Higher Education - this guide published by the Annie E. Casey
Foundation describes new and existing partnerships between institutions of higher
education and communities and resources that can support these partnerships.
- The
Futures Project - works to ensure that America's colleges are more
responsive, innovative, accountable, and accessible by encouraging proactive,
strategic decision-making by lawmakers and academic leaders by providing research,
analysis, and policy solutions.
- Glossary
of Academic Terms - defines many common terms in higher education, and has
links to related online glossaries.
- Higher
Educational Institutions as Economic Anchors - this theme issue of the Journal
of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation,
analyzes the role of institutions of higher education as economic engines. The
issue includes a range of case examples and ideas about the number of ways in
which universities and colleges can contribute to economic revitalization.
- The Human Service Professions
in Engaged Universities - this is a syllabus for a course offered by the Department
of Educational Administration and Policy Studies at the University at Albany,
SUNY. The course emphasizes the analysis of innovative instructional programs,
research methodologies, and community partnerships in engaged universities with
special attention to the human service professions. Special topics include service
learning, community-based research, and interprofessional education. Barriers,
constraints, and facilitators for engagement are explored, along with the implications
for faculty careers and faculty evaluation systems.
- Kellogg
Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities - was
created in 1996 by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant
Colleges to help define the direction public universities should go in the future
and to recommend an action agenda to speed up the process of change. Click here
to view the report, "Returning to our Roots: The Engaged Institution."
Click here
to view the report "The Engaged Institution: Profiles and Data."
- Kellogg
Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good - aims to significantly
increase awareness, understanding, commitment, and action relative to the public
service role of higher education in the United States.
- Learning
Outside the Lines - is a publication from the Kellogg Foundation that
examines six programs funded through its New Options for Youth Through Engaged
Institutions initiative, which supports partnerships of communities and post-secondary
institutions
working to help vulnerable youth achieve higher levels of learning. - Leveraging
Colleges and Universities for Urban Economic Revitalization: An Action Agenda
- is the report of a national study of the impact of higher education on urban
economies. This study introduces a strategic impact framework, by which the various
aspects of that impact are organized and considered. It also features case studies
and best practices in university partnerships, with specific action steps for
urban leaders.
- Project
Pericles - encourages and facilitates commitments by colleges and universities
to include education for social responsibility and participatory citizenship as
an essential part of their educational programs, in the classroom, on the campus,
and in the community.
- Science
Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities - is a comprehensive,
national dissemination project sponsored by the Association of American Colleges
and Universities that aims to improve undergraduate science education and foster
civic engagement by teaching "to" basic science "through"
complex public policy issues.
- Seizing
the Moment: Creating a Changed Society and University Through Outreach
- a 10/02 speech given by Judith Ramaley of the National Science Foundation
- The
Society for Values in Higher Education - is committed to promoting
intellectual and professional excellence, with a genuine and active concern for
the ethical dimensions of higher education.
- Strengthening
Public Education, Public Health, and a Public University: Educational Entrepreneurship
at Stony Brook - article by Richard Keeling in the Winter 2002 issue
of Liberal Education
- A
Time for Boldness: A Story of Institutional Change - presents the story
of how an urban research university is redefining what it means to be an engaged
university. Through a challenging process that involved both campus and community,
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has launched major initiatives and set a
new direction for faculty, students, and staff. Includes 10 observations on what
it takes to implement university-wide change around engagement.
- Universities
& Their Cities - in February, 2003, Case Western Reserve University hosted
this colloquium on the innovative partnerships that university presidents forge
with their cities and regions. The event corresponded with the inauguration of
CWRU's new president.
Click here
for a newsletter devoted to the event. Click here
for the proceedings.
- Wingspread
Declaration on Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University
- is the result of collaboration by participants at a December 1998 Wingspread
conference involving university presidents, provosts, deans, and faculty members
with extensive experience in higher education as well as representatives of professional
associations, private foundations, and civic organizations. The purpose of the
conference was to formulate strategies for renewing the civic mission of the research
university, both by preparing students for responsible citizenship in a diverse
democracy, and also by engaging faculty members to develop and utilize knowledge
for the improvement of society.
- Center
for Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Minnesota has published
interviews with two individuals involved in a community-campus partnership that
highlight the vision and practical applications of an engaged campus:
Susan Gust owns a construction business and community
development business located in the Phillips Community in Minneapolis. She is
a founder of the Phillips Lead Collaborative, now the Phillips Neighborhood Healthy
Housing Collaborative that has brought many neighborhood residents and academics
from the University of Minnesota together each month for the last eight years.
Here,
Gust begins with her vision of what an engaged university might be Cathy
Jordan is on the faculty in the departments of Pediatrics and Neurology. She has
been a leader in the collaborative research between Phillips Neighborhood and
the University of Minnesota for the last eight years. Here,
Jordan shares her insights about community-campus partnerships, and the challenges
and rewards of community-based participatory research ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH - Association
of Environmental Health Academic Programs -
a consortium of programs, organized for the purpose of promoting and enhancing
the education of students in the art and science of environmental health practice.
- BrownfieldSource.org
is a comprehensive online resource for brownfields news and information created
by the International City/County Management Association. The site provides access
to news, events, and published materials related to fundamental topics in brownfields
cleanup and reuse, including: economics, community, environment, redevelopment,
government, law, and innovation.
- Canadian
Association of Physicians for the Environment - is a group of physicians,
allied health care practitioners and citizens committed to a healthy and sustainable
environment.
- Community-Based
Environmental Risk Assessment - an article in the journal Public Health
Reports 2002 by CCPH Member David T. Dyjack and colleagues
- Community
Outreach and Education Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- announces research results on the effects of environmental agents on human health
and translates it into knowledge that can be applied to public health.
- Compendium
of Good Practice University - Regional Development Engagement Initiatives
- Prepared for the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services, this
report provides details of a selection of 'good practice' regional development
initiatives being undertaken by universities in partnership with the regional
communities in which they are located. Categories include sustainable development,
cultural development, economic development, social development, health and well-being,
industry, and student access. Click here
for more information on Australia's Universities and Regional Development Forum.
- The
Environmental Health Coalition - is dedicated to achieving environmental
and social justice by acting together to make social change. They organize and
advocate to protect public health and the environment threatened by toxic pollution.
The website can be read in Spanish and English.
- Environmental
Health Resource Center - provides a portal for environmental health professionals
to access CME offerings in environmental health; updates on conferences, workshops,
and events; and links to publications, organizations, and other environmental
health education and training resources.
- Environmental
Justice Bibliography
- Environmental
News Network - offers a wide variety of information, news, and opportunities
relating to the environment and its protection.
- The
National Environmental Education & Training Foundation - is dedicated
to advancing environmental education in its many forms.
- National
Environmental Health Science & Protection Accreditation Council
- established in 1967 to improve the education of both undergraduate and graduate
students going into the field of environmental health science and protection.
- Native
Americans and Environmental Health Bibliography
- Nurses
and Environmental Health: Success Through Action, Illustrations From Across the
Nation - is a concise resource book intended to garner additional support
for advancing nursing involvement in environmental health.
- Ten
Principles for Just Climate Change Policies in the U.S. - the environmental
justice movement has demonstrated that pollution's effects often fall disproportionately
on the health of people of color, Indigenous Peoples and low-income communities.
The effects of global climate change, which is caused in large part by fossil
fuel emissions, are no exception.
FACULTY
DEVELOPMENT - Click here
for CCPH's webpage on community scholarship including definitions, tools and resources,
and model faculty promotion and tenure policies
- Click here
for a fact sheet prepared by CCPH on Opportunities for Service-Learning Research
and Scholarship in Higher Education
- Academic
Resources for Medical Students, Residents and Faculty - developed by the
University of Arizona. - Center
for Instructional Support - Support site for
educators in the health professions that provides resources and information designed
to enhance leadership, research, and instructional skills.
- Community-Based
Teaching, ACP-ASIM - provides information and resources for students,
administrators, and preceptors on Community-Based Teaching, a program offered
by the American College of Physicians- American Society of Internal Medicine.
- The
East/West Clearinghouses for the Scholarship of Engagement are designed
to provide external peer review and evaluation of faculty's scholarship of engagement
and provide consultation, training, and technical assistance to campuses who are
seeking to develop or strengthen systems in support of the scholarship of engagement.
- Faculty
Development Resources - developed by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Group on Faculty Development, 2nd Edition, April 2002.
- Faculty
Toolkit for Service-Learning in Higher Education - edited by CCPH and published
by Learn and Serve America's National
Service-Learning Clearinghouse, the toolkit is divided into 10 units designed
to aid faculty in every step of planning, designing, and implementing service-learning
programs into their curriculum and institutions as well as program evaluation
and assessment.
- Genetic
Interdisciplinary Faculty Training - is a collaborative effort between
Duke University and the Division of Medicine and Dentistry and the Division of
Nursing of the Health Resources and Services Administration that works to provide
new information and skills to interdisciplinary faculty teams who seek to advance
the inclusion of cutting edge genetics into the curriculum at their home institutions.
- Glossary
of Academic Terms - defines many common terms in higher education, and has
links to related online glossaries.
- Health
Educational Assets Library - is a multi-institutional, collaborative
project funded by the National Science Foundation since the Fall of 2000. The
primary goals of HEAL are to improve access to teaching resources for health sciences
educators, promote the sharing of teaching resources, and foster the interoperability
of resources.
- The Managed
Care Education Connection - is a resource for health professionals teaching
and learning about managed care, including teaching cases, curricula, articles
and web-based tools are available for download.
- Mountain
AHEC Preceptor Development Program - is designed for community-based
teachers of residents, medical students, and other health professions students.
- Online
Faculty Development Tools - developed by the Division of Educational Development,
Office of Teacher and Educational Development at the University of New Mexico
School of Medicine.
- A
Resource Guide of Faculty Development Websites - developed by Dartmouth Medical
School.
- Society
Based Professional Development Programs - compiled by the Association of American
Medical Colleges, this document is a compilation of professional development programs
for academic administrators and faculty.
FAITH
AND HEALTH - Center
for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives - provides information on
this federal initiative, funding opportunities and the compassion capital fund.
- Compassion
Capital Fund National Resource Center - was established as President
Bush's faith-based initiative to increase the scale and effectiveness of faith-based
and community organizations through research and other supportive means. The Center
serves as an expert resource regarding faith-based and community-based initiatives
and best practices, serves as a developer of and repository and distribution center
for information, and tools and resources needed by faith-based and community organizations
and organizations that work with them to improve their capacity, knowledge, and
skills.
- Interfaith
Health Program - works with Georgia's Division
of Public Health to facilitate dialogue and collaborative relationships between
faith and public health leaders in Georgia.
FELLOWSHIPS
AND SCHOLARSHIPS - Congressional
Hispanic Caucus Institute Fellowship - each year CHCI offers Latinos
from across the country the opportunity to gain hands-on experience at the policy
level in Washington, DC. This fellowship is an excellent opportunity for graduate
Latino public health students.
- Migrant
Health Care Fellowship - provides a four-month working and learning
experience in a migrant health center for new health care professionals. Website
contains information on fellowship eligibility, application guidelines, the selection
process and more.
- The Nationwide Hispanic
Scholarship Fund - encourages the educational and professional development
of Hispanic American students attending accredited colleges and universities throughout
the United States.
- Oxfam
America's CHANGE Initiative - is a fellowship program that aims to
develop capable and confident young leaders, who are informed and active voices
for positive social change, and who inspire greater global awareness in others.
- Peace
Corps Fellows/USA - is a fellowship program for returned Peace Corps
Volunteers that combines community service and graduate education. As Peace Corps
Fellows, returned Volunteers use the skills and experiences they gained overseas
to work with underserved communities in the United States while they pursue graduate
studies at reduced cost. Currently, Fellows/USA has partnerships with more than
30 universities nationwide but would like to expand.
- Resource
Guide of Summer Opportunities for Minority Undergraduate Students -
contains descriptions of 130 summer research programs, internships, and conferences
geared towards minority students/students of colour.
- Scholarships
for Hispanics - makes more than 1,000 sources of financial aid more
easily accessible to Hispanic students around the country and world. The site
includes application guidelines, an alumni section, and a database of scholarships
fully searchable by a variety of categories, including state, college, and field
of interest.
- Third Wave
Foundation Scholarship Program - is available to all full-time or part-time
students age 30 and under who are enrolled in, or have been accepted to, an accredited
university, college, vocational/technical school or community college. The primary
criteria to qualify for a Third Wave scholarship is vigorous engagement in activist
work and financial need.
- Thurgood
Marshall Scholarship Fund - awards scholarships to students who attend
Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
FUNDING
- Click here
for a presentation by Corinne H. Rieder, Executive Director of The John A. Hartford
Foundation on the topics "what do you need to know about foundations that
might increase the likelihood of your obtaining a grant from them, and how might
you better approach foundations for grant monies?"
- Click here
for a fact sheet on raising funds for service-learning in higher education, prepared
by CCPH for the National
Service-Learning Clearinghouse
- Click here
for an article on the role of funders in university-community partnerships
- A
Compilation of Major Foundations That Sponsor Activities Relevant to College-Community
Partnerships - was compiled by HUD's Office of University Partnerships.
For a searchable database version, click here
- Ad
Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding - is a coalition in support
of increased funding for the National Institutes of Health.
- Advances
- this newsletter published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation lists grants,
describes research in progress, publishes news items about programs and personnel,
and lists available resources. Contact directly for ordering information.
- Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality - federal
website offers research-based information on health care outcomes, quality, cost,
use, and access.
- American
Association of Fund-Raising Counsel - includes highlights of AAFRC's
annual "Giving USA" report, which provides an overall snapshot of U.S.
giving from all sources.
- American
Philanthropy Review - includes reviews of periodicals, books, and software
on fund-raising, written by volunteers from the fund-raising field.
- Annie
E. Casey Foundation - this foundation is dedicated to helping build
better futures for disadvantaged children. The website includes many publications
in pdf form.
- Bureau
of Health Professions - provides grants to support innovations and
targeted expansions in health professions education and training, including allied
health, as well as research grants related to the health professions.
- Catalog
of Federal Domestic Assistance - a government-wide compendium of Federal
programs, projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits
to the American public.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention - the lead federal agency for monitoring
disease, CDC maintains national health statistics and supports disease and injury
prevention research. The website offers a wealth of health data, including the
online edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
- CDC
Cooperative Agreement Funding Opportunities - is sponsored by the Association
of American Medical Colleges, the Association of Schools of Public Health and
the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine. These organizations each have
a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that
supports extramural research. Their members are eligible to participate in the
cooperative agreement funding cycle.
- Chronicle
of Philanthropy - biweekly newsletter that includes information on
fundraising, philanthropy and government, nonprofit management, grantmakers, and
job announcements.
- Coalition
for Health Funding - is a nonprofit alliance of 40 national health
organizations that works in a nonpartisan fashion to ensure that health discretionary
spending remains highly visible as Congress and the Administration set federal
budget priorities
- College
is Possible - gives information on financing a college education.
- Community
Health Funding Report - highlights funding sources for a wide range
of health care concerns, including substance abuse, teen pregnancies, minority
health care, maternal/child health, chronic illness, mental health, and AIDS programs.
- Commerce
Business Daily's CBDNet - an official free online listing of government
contracting and procurement opportunities which are published in the official
Commerce Business Daily.
- Community
Foundation Locator, from the Council on Foundations, allows users to
click a U.S. map in order to locate contact and Web site information on community
foundations nationwide.
- Community
Service Federal Work Study - is a Campus Compact report good practice
and challenges for using the Federal Work Study program to support student involvement
in community service.
- Community
Wealth - a centralized, online resource and discussion forum for "community
wealth." It highlights new approaches to building communities in ways that
blur the traditional lines between nonprofit and for-profit efforts.
- Corporation
for National and Community Service - federal agency that funds the
AmeriCorps program, Learn and Serve America K-12 and higher education service-learning
program, and other programs intended to engage Americans in their communities.
- Council
on Foundations - an association of foundations and corporations which
serves the public good by promoting and enhancing effective and responsible philanthropy.
- Department
of Education Forecast of Funding - lists virtually all programs and
competitions under which the U.S. Department of Education has invited or expects
to invite applications for new awards and provides actual or estimated deadline
dates.
- Directory of Funding
Sources for Community-Based Participatory Research - published by CCPH and
the Northwest Health Foundation in June 2004,
this directory includes funding agency descriptions, deadlines, contact information,
examples of previously funded CBPR projects, and an annotated listing of funding
resource websites. We welcome your comments and suggestions for an improved future
edition of the directory! Please complete and return this reader feedback
form.
- Directory
of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health Sciences - Published
by the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, this
directory is a comprehensive compilation of international opportunities in biomedical
research.
- Education
Grants Alert - comprehensive source of funding opportunities for K-12
grantseekers.
- Education
Update - Link to the Community of Science Funding News webpage, which
provides information on new and updated research grant information in more than
20 categories.
- eSchool
News School Funding Center - information on up-to-the-minute grant
programs, funding sources, and technology funding.
- FastWEB
is the largest online scholarship search available, with 600,000 scholarships
representing over one billion in scholarship dollars. It provides students with
free accurate, regularly updated information on scholarships, grants, and fellowships.
Note: FastWEB collects and sells student information (such as name, address, e-mail
address, date of birth, gender, and country of citizenship) collected through
their site.
- Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence - more than 30 Federal agencies
formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally supported teaching
and learning resources easier to find.
- Federal
Interagency Working Group on CBPR - works to strengthen communication
among federal agencies with an interest in supporting community-based participatory
research (CBPR) methodologies in the conduct of biomedical research, education,
health care delivery, or policy.
- Finding
Funding for Youth Programs - the Office of Youth Services at the US
Department of Labor has compiled a list of funding resources to help organizations
develop and sustain efforts providing services to youth. The free 100-page publication
also has tips on developing proposals.
- Forum
of Regional Associations of Grantmakers - includes links to grantmakers
in different regions of the U.S.
- The
Foundation Center - serves the information needs of grantseekers and
grantmakers.
- Foundation
News and Commentary - bimonthly publication
that serves as a vehicle
for information, ideas, analysis, and commentary relevant to effective grantmaking. - Fund
for Global Human Rights - works to facilitate the support of human
rights organizations in places where there is great need and access to funding
is minimal. Its primary goals are to identify, assess, and provide funding to
local, national, and regional human rights organizations addressing critical issues;
and to encourage the creation of forums and networks for exchange of ideas, strategies,
and mutual support among otherwise isolated human rights organizations.
- Fund
for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - unit within the U.S.
Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education that provides information
on grant programs designed to support innovative reforms in higher education.
- Funders'
Collaborative Fund for Racial Justice Innovation - is a partnership
of private and corporate foundations, family foundations, and individual donors,
was created to support a broad range of activities designed to promote and sustain
collaborations between lawyers and community activists in communities around the
country.
- Funding
Solutions for Small Nonprofit Organizations - a collection of resources
to help small nonprofit organizations fundraise including ways to motivate your
board, sample fundraising letters, phonathon advice, and tips to improve your
direct mail solicitation.
- Fundsnet
Online Services - a comprehensive website dedicated to providing nonprofit
organizations, colleges, and universities with information on financial resources
available on the Internet.
- Grantmakers
in Health - is a resource for grantmakers and others seeking expertise
and information on the field of health philanthropy.
- The
Grantmanship Center - lists new grant announcements daily from the
federal government's online Federal Register.
- Grants.gov
- is a government-wide website allows organizations to find and apply for
federal grants programs.
- GRANTSNET
- provides access to an Internet mechanism that can search and obtain information
about applying for and administering grants from the US Department of Health and
Human Services and other agencies.
- Grantionary
- is a list of grant-related terms and their definitions.
- Grant
Opportunities for Youth Programs - the Congressional Research Service has
organized federal grant opportunities for youth programs into a single report,
along with information about private and corporate grants.
- Guide
for Health-Related Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Non-Research Funding
- profiles more than 500 private and corporate health-related funders.
- GuideStar
- offers the largest-ever online posting of non-profits' informational tax returns,
in an easy-to-use searchable database.
- Health
and Environment Funder's Network - is a primarily virtual network for
funders working at the interface of human health and environmental or ecological
health. The site's public page assists organizations in identifying funders engaged
with these issues.
- Health
Grants and Contracts Weekly - reveals every health-related grant competition
issued each week from all federal agencies, as well as many agencies not normally
associated with funding in the health arena.
- Health
Resources and Services Administration - provides health resources for
medically underserved populations, supporting a nationwide network of community
and migrant health centers, and primary care programs for the homeless, as well
as assistance in the education and training of health professionals.
- Healthy
Youth Funding Database formerly known as the Adolescent and School
Health Funding Database, this resource contains information on federal, foundation,
and state-specific funding sources for school health programs.
- Helene
Fuld Health Trust - dedicated to promoting and funding nursing education
and student nurses.
- HRSA
Grants Preview - contains information about grants available from the
federal Health Resources and Services Administration. Grant cycles vary among
programs and, as a rule, only those grants currently in competition will be posted.
- Indigenous
Peoples Funding and Resource Guide - published by First Peoples Worldwide,
this guide includes information on grants, loans and resources available to indigenous
non-governmental organizations, individuals and communities.
- Internet
Prospector - a nonprofit service to the prospect research fund-raising
community.
- Jargon
Files - contains print and online resources for eliminating the use
of jargon in publications, grant proposals, presentations, and so forth.
- National
Grants Management Association - comprised of Federal and state granting
agencies, college and university grantee officials, and other private organization
representatives responsible for grants management. NGMA also publishes a quarterly
journal and monthly newsletter.
- National
Library of Medicine Extramural Grant Programs - powerpoint slides from a presentation
of funding opportunities at the CCPH April 2003 conference.
- National
Rural Funders Collaborative - is a partnership of national and regional funders
and investors, grass roots practitioners, policymakers, and public sector agencies
working together to expand resources for communities and families in rural areas
facing persistent poverty.
- National
Society of Fund Raising Executives - includes the Consultants' Directory,
an annual paid listing of NSFRE members and affiliates whose fund-raising services
are available on a consulting basis.
- National
Student Loan Clearinghouse - provides information on loans for pursuing
higher education.
- Pfizer
Faculty Scholar Award in Public Health - is a nationally competitive career
development award intended to support junior faculty in schools and programs in
public health who are interested in pursuing community-based, public health practice
research.
- Philanthropy
News Digest-K-12 Funding Opportunities - K-12 Funding opportunities
with links to grantseeking for teachers, learning technology, and more.
- Philanthropic
Capacity Building Resource Database - offers information on nearly
200 capacity-building programs (including their structure, funding, evaluation,
and type of work) offered by various U.S. foundations.
- Philanthropy
Search - bills itself as the Web's "first search engine serving
the nonprofit and philanthropic sector."
- RFP
Bulletin - is published weekly in conjunction with the posting of Philanthropy
News
Digest on the web. Each RFP listing provides a brief overview of a current
funding opportunity offered by a foundation or other grantmaking organization. - Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation - devoted to improving the health and health
care of all Americans.
- Safe
and Drug-Free Schools Program Listing of Grants - Provides information
on grants that have been awarded to causes that promote safety and drug-free atmospheres
in our schools.
- School
Grants - collection of resources and tips to help K-12 educators apply
for and obtain special grants for a variety of projects.
- Sociological
Initiatives Foundation - provides grants to support community-based research
and social action projects.
- W.K.
Kellogg Foundation - strives to provide individuals, communities, and
institutions with the means to solve their own problems through the use of financial
resources and knowledge.
- U.S.
Department of Education - ensures equal access to education and promotes
educational excellence for all Americans.
- U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services - provides resources for essential
human services, including Medicare and Medicaid, as well as for health and social
science research.
- U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of University Partnerships
- offers information on grants, conferences, publications, and research that are
related to building partnerships between communities and universities.
- U.S.
Department of Labor - promotes the welfare of job seekers, wage earners,
and retirees by improving their working conditions, advancing their employment
opportunities, and protecting their retirement and health care benefits; helping
employers find workers; and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other
national economic measurements.
HEALTH
AND HEALTH CARE IN K-12 SCHOOLS - American
School Health Association - unites the many
professionals working in schools who are committed to safeguarding the health
of school-aged children.
- Healthy
Schools, Healthy Communities, Bureau of Primary Health Care - provides
information on school health centers, critical to the effort to improve healthcare
for children and adolescents who may not have access to it otherwise.
- Healthy
Schools Summit - brings together the nation's leading education, children's
health and nutrition organizations in a groundbreaking effort to help improve
kids' health and educational performance through better nutrition and physical
activity in schools.
- Making
the Grade - site for the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools,
which works to develop more effective health care delivery systems to children
and adolescents by testing strategies and improving health programming in schools.
- National
Assembly on School-Based Health Care - strives to be a "powerful
public policy advocate, and a recognized public spokesperson, on inter-disciplinary
school based health care, as well as a primary resource for professional development,
knowledge exchange, and services".
- School-Based
Dental Health - contains a PowerPoint presentation provided by a Hahnemann
University School of Public Health student. The presentation brings together high
points from recent research that can contribute to effective school-based dental
health programs.
- School
Health Resource Services - provides resources and information on course
offerings for school health.
HEALTH
CAREERS AND WORKFORCE ISSUES - Click here
for a powerpoint presentation based on the Institute of Medicine 2002 report on
Health Professionals for the 21st Century: Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? The
full report is available on the Institute of Medicine website.
- American
Humanics - is a national alliance of colleges, universities and nonprofit
organizations preparing undergraduates for careers with youth and human service
agencies.
- Bureau
of Labor Statistics - is the fact-finding agency for the federal government
in the broad field of labor economics and statistics, including information about
employment trends for health occupations and professions.
- CampusRN
- is dedicated to serving the career planning needs of nursing students and potential
employers nationwide. A partnership between American Association of Colleges of
Nursing and CampusRN involves two components: a Scholarship
Progra, for currently enrolled nursing students; and an online Career Center
for new graduates looking to transition into the professional practice environment.
- Cooperative
Education and Internship Association - provides professional services
to its members who work in cooperative education and internship programs in colleges,
universities and business/industry.
- DeBakey
High School for the Health Professions - offers students interested in science
and health careers an alternative to the traditional high school experience. The
school provides a challenging, well-balanced college preparatory program which
focuses on educational experiences in science and the health professions and furthers
understanding of multicultural communities.
- Education
is Freedom - a new public charity dedicated to helping hard-working
young people reach their full potential through higher education. Its objective
is to remove the economic obstacles to higher education for young people ages
16-24.
- Health Occupations
Students of America - promotes career opportunities in health care
and provides leadership development for students enrolled in health occupations
education programs.
- Health
Professions Career and Education E-Letter - the American Medical Association's
monthly newsletter covers educational trends and career-related issues for various
healthcare professions.
- HRSA
Bureau of Health Professions' Publications - selected publications
on health professions, including allied health, and workforce analysis/research.
- National
Association of Colleges and Employers - is a source of information
for career services practitioners on college campuses and for human resources
professionals who recruit and hire college graduates.
- National
Career Academy Coalition - was created to create and support a national network
of existing and emerging high school career academies.
- National
Center for Health Workforce Information and Analysis - develops data
and determines how best to increase the diversity and improve the distribution
of the health care workforce. Information on health workforce resources, including
state profiles, analysis and forecasting tools, personnel factbook, and regional
centers.
- National
Consortium on Health Science and Technology Education - contributes
to effective and efficient delivery of health care and preparation of a qualified
workforce through fostering collaboration among education agencies, the health
care community, policy-making bodies, and labor.
- National
Society for Experiential Education - is a nonprofit membership association
of educators, businesses, and community leaders that also serves as a national
resource center for the development and improvement of experiential education
programs nationwide.
- National
Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine - introduces high school school
sophomores and juniors to the world of medicine. The program operates in Atlanta,
Chicago, Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington,
D.C
- Occupational
Outlook Handbook - provides career information, describing what workers
do on the job, working conditions, training and education needed, earnings, and
expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
- Paraprofessional
Healthcare Institute - facilitates the creation of quality jobs for
direct-care paraprofessional workers, and the provision of high-quality, cost-effective
care, by shaping provider practice and public policy.
- Pathways
to College Network - focuses research-based knowledge and resources
on improving college preparation, access, and success for under-served populations,
including low-income, underrepresented minority, and first-generation students.
- National
Career Academy Coalition- was created to create and support a national network
of existing and emerging high school career academies.
- Professional
Nursing Network - is a Web-based resource designed to match nurses
prepared at the baccalaureate and graduate levels with employers that value their
education.
- Regional
Centers for Health Workforce Policy - examine geographic distribution
and related health workforce issues across five health professions disciplines:
medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health and public health. The Centers conduct
research and develop analytic tools that help states resolve pressing issues in
health professions training.
- South
Texas High School for Health Professions - is a public, health professions
magnet school serving the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The school provides students
with rigorous academic instruction and advanced technical skills that will allow
for their successful transition into allied health careers and/or post-secondary
education.
- Sowing
the Seeds: A Curriculum for Promoting Higher Education among Hispanic Youth
- authored by Maricela Ureño, CCPH
Fellow, this 3-session curriculum is intended for Hispanic parents. The curriculum
was implemented in Washington Heights, New York City a predominantly Hispanic
immigrant community. The curriculum contains both local and national resources
and can easily be adapted for use in other communities. A Spanish language version
will be posted on this site soon.
- U.S.
Department of Commerce - promotes job creation, economic growth, sustainable
development, and improved living standards for all Americans by working in partnership
with business, universities, communities, andworkers.
- Using
Strategic Partnerships to Expand Nursing Education Programs - explores
how nursing schools are using partnerships and other collaborative ventures to
build student capacity, fill faculty slots, and serve other needs. Nursing colleges
and universities across the country are searching for creative ways to increase
the number of registered nurses in response to the growing shortage, including
collaborating with clinical partners and other stakeholders. Published by the
American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
- Workforce
WebBoard Digest - managed listserv of reports on healthcare workforce
issues. To subscribe, email listmanager@ahsrhp.org
HEALTH
& HUMAN RIGHTS - Click here
for the 1/02 paper "Teaching Human Rights in Graduate Health Education"
authored by Vincent Iacopino, Senior Medical Consultant, Physicians for Human
Rights
- Salud is a feature documentary
that tells the little-known story of Cuba, a poor country overcoming its lack
of resources to provide universal health care and help other developing nations
do the same.
HEALTH
PROFESSIONS EDUCATION - DIVERSITY - American
Institute for Managing Diversity - contains articles, research, education
information, internet resources, publications, and more on managing diversity.
- Civil
Rights Project at Harvard University - contains information related to civil
rights and diversity, especially in areas of education.
- The
Color of Medicine: Strategies for Increasing Diversity in the U.S.
Physician
Workforce - reports that one compelling reason the scarcity of physicians
of color is of national concern is that there is growing evidence it has an impact
on health care access and quality. The report examines all aspects of the medical
education process and some of its barriers, and it includes a section assessing
potential strategies to improve the current situation. - DiversityInc.
- offers a free newsletter, which provides news, resources, and commentary on
diversity activities throughout the world.
- Diversity
Resources - offers books, multicultural calendars, customer relations
material, diversity training information, multicultural links on the Web, and
work and life resources.
- DiversityWeb
- is a comprehensive compendium of campus practices and resources about diversity
in higher education.
- Health
Disparities Research and Diversity Resource Center - run by the Association
of Schools of Public Health, this website has information on faculty recruitment
and retention resources, meeting announcements, funding opportunities, School
of Public Health activities in health disparities research, and more.
- Health
Professions Partnership Initiative - originally entitled Project 3000 by 2000,
was developed by the Association of American Medical Colleges to address the fundamental
cause of racial/ethnic minority underrepresentation in the health professions.
- Hispanic Association
of Colleges and Universities - promotes the development of member colleges
and universities; improve access to and the quality of post secondary educational
opportunities for Hispanic students; and meet the needs of business, industry
and goverment through the development and sharing of resources, information and
expertise.
- Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights - has up-to-date information on anti-affirmative-action activities
going on at state and national levels. The site also allows those who are interested
to sign up to receive daily news updates on issues related to civil rights, diversity,
and affirmative action.
- Scholarships
for Hispanics - makes more than 1,000 sources of financial aid more
easily accessible to Hispanic students around the country and world. The site
includes application guidelines, an alumni section, and a database of scholarships
fully searchable by a variety of categories, including state, college, and field
of interest.
- Sullivan Commission
on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce - chaired by former U.S. Secretary
of Health and Human Services, Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., the commission is made
up of 15 health, business, and legal professionals and other leaders. Administered
by Duke University School of Medicine and funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation,
the Commission publishes information about the its field hearings and other issues
about diversity in the healthcare workforce in a weekly news digest. Click here
to read Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's testimony at the Commission's
January 2004 hearing. Click here
for the executive summary of the Commission's September 2004 report. Click here
for the Commission's September 2004 report, "Missing Persons: Minorities
in the Health Professions."
- United
Negro College Fund - enhances the quality of education by raising operating
funds for member colleges and universities, providing financial assistance to
deserving students and supplying technical assistance to member institutions.
-
University
of Maryland, Diversity Database - offers an extensive database of multicultural
and diversity resources.
- University
of Michigan Admissions Lawsuits Web Site - contains summaries, amicus briefs,
the decisions, and legal analyses.
HEALTH
PROFESSIONS EDUCATION - NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Alpha
Epsilon Delta - is the national pre-medical honor society. Its mission
is to encourage and recognize excellence in premedical scholarship; to stimulate
an appreciation of the importance of premedical education; to promote communication
between medical and premedical students and educators; to provide a forum for
students with common interests; and to use its resources to benefit health organizations,
charities and the community.
- American Academy
of Family Physicians - is the national organization of family doctors. It
is one of the largest national medical organizations, with more than 93,100 members.
- American
Academy of Nurse Practitioners - is a full service organization for nurse
practitioners of all specialties that represents over 60,000 nurse practitioners
- American
Academy of Pediatrics - prepares its members with the tools, skills, and knowledge
to be the best qualified health professionals 1) to advocate for infants, children,
adolescents, and young adults and provide for their care; 2) to collaborate with
others to assure child health; and 3) to ensure that decision-making affecting
the health and well-being of children and their families is based upon the needs
of those children and families.
- American
Academy of Physician Assistants - is the only national organization that represents
physician assistants in all specialties and all employment settings.
- American
Academy on Physician and Patient is a multi-disciplinary group dedicated
to research, education, and professional standards in patient-doctor communication.
They provide teaching and research forums, faculty development courses, training
programs and teaching materials for an international audience.
- American
Association of Colleges of Nursing - is the national voice for university
and four-year-college education programs in nursing.
- American
Association of Colleges of Pharmacy - is the national organization representing
the interests of pharmaceutical education and educators. Comprising all 82 U.S.
pharmacy colleges and schools including more than 4,000 faculty, 36,000 students
enrolled in professional programs, and 3,600 individuals pursuing graduate study,
AACP is committed to excellence in pharmaceutical education.
- American
Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine - exists to serve the administration,
faculty, staff, and students of the 19 member osteopathic medical schools.
- American
Association of Public Health Dentistry - provides a focus for meeting the
challenge to improve oral health.
- American
College of Nurse-Midwives - the oldest women's health care organization in
the U.S. ACNM provides research, accredits midwifery education programs, administers
and promotes continuing education programs, establishes clinical practice standards,
creates liaisons with state and federal agencies and members of Congress.
- American
College of Nurse Practitioners - is a national non-profit membership organization
of nurse practitioners.
- American College
of Preventive Medicine - is the national professional society for physicians
committed to disease prevention and health promotion. ACPM's 2,000 members are
engaged in preventive medicine practice, teaching and research.
- American
Dental Association - is the professional association of dentists dedicated
to serving both the public and the profession of dentistry.
- American
Dental Education Association - the leading national
organization for dental education.
- American
Dental Hygienists' Association - representing registered dental hygienists,
ADHA's mission is to advance the art and science of dental hygiene by increasing
the awareness of, and ensuring access to, quality, cost-effective oral health
care.
- American Medical Student Association
- is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training
in the United States, with a membership of over
30,000 medical students, pre-medical
students, interns and residents from across the country. - American
Occupational Therapy Association - advances the quality, availability,
use, and support of occupational therapy through standard-setting, advocacy, education,
and research on behalf of its members and the public.
- American
Physical Therapy Association - fosters advancements in physical therapy
practice, research, and education.
- Association
of Academic Health Centers - membership organization of over 100 organizations
that share a common goal of improving health by advancing the leadership of academic
health centers in health professions education, biomedical and health services
research, and health care delivery. Click here
for the text of the workshop summary, "The Roles of Academic Health Centers
in the 21st Century"
- Association
for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education - is an alliance
of medical school faculty that exists to provide a forum for interdisciplinary
exchange.
- Association
of Catholic Colleges and Universities - has links to the websites of
the more than 200 Catholic colleges and universities across the country.
- Association
of Clinicians for the Underserved - is a nonprofit, interdisciplinary organization
whose mission is to improve the health of underserved populations by enhancing
the development and support of the health care clinicians serving these populations.
- Association
of Community Health Nursing Educators - an organization that is committed
to bringing excellence to community and public health nursing education, research,
and practice.
- Association
of Environmental Health Academic Programs - a consortium of Programs,
organized for the purpose of promoting and enhancing the education of students
in the art and science of environmental health practice.
- Association
of Schools of Allied Health Professions - is the national membership
organization representing schools of the allied health professions.
- Association
of Schools of Public Health - is the national membership organization
representing deans, faculty, and students of the accredited member schools of
public health and other programs seeking accreditation as schools of public health.
- Association
of Standardized Patient Education - promotes and supports the development
and advancement of Standardized Patient (SP) education and research in the Health
Sciences.
- Association of Teachers of Preventive
Medicine - is the national professional association dedicated to advancing
individual and community health promotion and disease prevention in the education
of physicians and other health professionals. ATPM individual members are teachers,
researchers, practitioners, administrators, residents and students. ATPM institutional
members include preventive medicine and related departments in medical schools,
and graduate programs in public health and preventive medicine, other health professions
schools and various health agencies.
- Coalition
for Allied Health Leadership - information on allied health associations
and professions.
- Coalition
of National Health Education Organizations - a non-profit organization
representing more than 25,000 health education professionals in nine major health
education organizations. The purpose of the coalition is to mobilize the resources
of the Health Education Profession to expand and improve health education in all
settings.
- Consortium
of Institutes of Higher Education in Health Care and Rehabilitation in Europe
- committed to bringing together institutes of higher education from all over
the world in order to foster cooperation and improve higher education, as well
as to eliminate barriers for internatioal mobility of students and staff.
- Consortium
for North American Higher Education Collaboration - is a partnership
among higher education institutions, national associations, foundations, government
agencies, and corporations that works to improve academic cooperation in the North
American region.
- Guide
To Healthcare Schools - a directory of accredited healthcare schools and medical
training programs. With an extensive list of healthcare degrees, holistic health
programs, nursing schools, certifications, and technician training, they are the
leading source for information on online and campus-based healthcare education.
- The
Health Professions Network- represents diverse aspects of allied health
including primarily provider organizations, but also educators, accreditors and
administrators, on issues relevant to health care.
- International
Health Medical Education Consortium - is a consortium of faculty and
health care educators dedicated to international health education in U.S. and
Canadian medical schools and residency programs.
- National
Academies of Practice - is an organization devoted to promoting quality
health care for all through interdisciplinary practice, education and research.
- National
Association of Geriatric Education Centers - an association that is
committed to improving the quality of healthcare of the elderly population by
raising awareness of age-related health issues.
- National
Environmental Health Science & Protection Accreditation Council
- established in 1967 to improve the education of both undergraduate and graduate
students going into the field of environmental health science and protection.
- National Network of Health Career Programs
in Two-Year Colleges - promotes and encourages innovation, collaboration,
and communication among two-year colleges sponsoring health career programs.
- National Organization of Nurse Practitioner
Faculties - provides leadership in promoting quality nurse practitioner education
at the national and international levels. NONPF represents over 1100 faculty members
from across the country.
- National
Training and Information Center provides training and technical assistance
to grassroots organizations around the country and publishes Disclosure "The
National Newspaper of the Neighborhoods."
- The
Network: Community Partnerships for Health through Innovative Education, Service,
and Research - is a global association of institutions for educating
health professionals to be committed to contribute, through innovative education,
research, and service, to the improvement and maintenance of health in the communities
they serve.
- Nurses
for a Healthier Tomorrow - coalition of 32 organizations that are committed
to attracting people to the nursing profession.
- Nursing
Organizations Alliance - is a coalition of nursing organizations united to
create a strong voice for nurses, to increase nursing's visibility and impact
on health through communication, collaboration and advocacy.
- Physicians
Committee for Responsible Medicine - is a nonprofit organization that
promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher
standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.
- Society
of Teachers of Family Medicine - serves the needs of family medicine educators.
Membership includes more than 5,000 teachers of family medicine.
- UME-21
- is a five-year, $7.6 million national, medical education demonstration project
directed at encouraging educational partnerships and curriculum innovations to
better prepare graduates to practice high quality, population-based, cost-effective
medicine while maintaining commitment to care of the individual.
HEALTH
PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION - Click
here for Healthy
People 2010 course syllabi
- Click here
to view and print the Tool Kit from the July 2002 National Leadership Summit on
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. The Tool Kit contains health
disparities data, information on federal health offices and clearinghouses and
a listing of funding and technical assistance resources. See related article on
page 2 of the July 19, 2002 issue of Partnership
Matters.
- Active Living Research
Program - is a $12.5 million national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
created to stimulate and support research that will identify environmental factors
and policies that influence physical activity. Findings are expected to inform
environmental and policy changes that will promote active living among Americans.
- Addressing
Health Disparities - profiles NIH efforts to
reduce gaps in racial and ethnic health disparities, includes a "frequently
asked question" section, background on health disparities issues, information
related events, and more.
- Advocating
For Folic Acid: A Guide For Health Professionals - is a free, web-based
course designed for current and emerging health professionals that provides information
such as the benefits of folic acid and strategies for counseling individuals regarding
folic acid intake.
- An
Ounce of Prevention - This publication provides the results of a standardized
evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of 19 prevention interventions ranging from
bicycle helmets, to cancer screening, to nutrition supplements.
- The
Center for Evidence in Ethnicity, Health and Diversity - is funded
by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of its new initiative
in evidence-based policy and practice. The main role of the Center is to identify,
assess and disseminate research evidence in the multidisciplinary field of ethnicity
and health.
- Community
Outreach for Prevention & Education - provides information on the
most recent preventative health services available to at-risk youth and families.
- Guide
to Clinical Preventative Services - summarizes the deliberations and
recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. This independent expert
panel systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations
for clinical preventative services.
- Guide
to Community Preventative Services - an independent panel of experts
convened by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that makes recommendations
on the most effective and cost-effective strategies, policies, and programs for
improving the health of communities.
- Healthy
People-Healthy Communities - is a national health initiative of the US Department
of Agriculture to promote the capacity of individuals, families, and communities
to increase healthy behaviors and lifestyle choices and make informed consumer
decisions.
- Join
Together, Boston University School of Public Health - a group that
is committed to the prevention of substance abuse and gun violence.
- Measuring
the Difference: Guide to Planning and Evaluating health Information Outreach
– developed by the National Library of Medicine to provide ideas and assistance
to the many types of institutions who share goals to bridge the health information
gap through outreach activities.
- National
Eye Health Education Program - is involved with three major ongoing
education/outreach programs: the Diabetic Eye Disease Education Program, the Glaucoma
Education Program, and the Low Vision Education Program.
- National
Health Observances - are days, weeks, or months devoted to promoting
particular health concerns. Health professionals, teachers, community groups,
and others can use these special times to sponsor health promotion events, stimulate
awareness of health risks, or focus on disease prevention. This site includes
a calendar with links to sponsoring organizations
- New
York Online Access to Health - provides health information in both
the English and Spanish languages.
- Partners
in Information Access for Public Health Professionals - makes information
and evidence-based strategies related to the Healthy People 2010 objectives easier
to find, including pre-formulated searches for selected Healthy People 2010 focus
areas.
- Partnership
for Prevention - is a membership association of corporations, non-profits,
and state health departments that works to emphasize disease prevention and health
promotion in national policy and practice.
- Paul
Ambrose Health Promotion Student Leadership Symposium - is sponsored
annually by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and the Office
of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the Department of Health and Human
Services, in collaboration with the American Medical Student Association and Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health. Its objectives are to provide leadership training and
prevention education to health professional students and to cultivate a cohort
of student leaders capable of expanding the focus of health professions education,
and ultimately, improving the nation's health.
- Prescription
for Health is a joint initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to develop strategies primary
care providers can use to help patients become more physically active, eat healthier
foods, avoid or quit smoking, and use alcohol in moderation.
- Prevention
Works Through Community Partnerships - includes a monograph, a question
and answer booklet and several fact sheets about the 48 Community Study of the
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's Partnerships. Lessons learned from the
partnerships as well as eight steps to an effective community partnership are
explained.
- Promoting
Healthy Eating and Activity in Communities - Poor eating practices and sedentary
habits are leading causes of preventable deaths in the U.S. The Center for Civic
Partnerships has published a policy brief containing ideas for policies and actions
to combat these problems on a community level.
- The
Right to Equal Treatment: An Action Plan to End Racial and Ethnic Disparities
in Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment in the United States - briefly reviews
the evidence and social context of racial/ethnic disparities in care and examines
them from the perspective of civil rights and international human rights law.
The report is accompanied by an annotated bibliography of key articles from the
peer-reviewed literature on racial/ethnic disparities in care, organized into
17 disease categories. Published by Physicians for Human Rights.
- Rural
Healthy People 2010 - is a project that aims to tackle rural health problems
and concerns. Volume 1 includes a brief overview of the top rural health priorities
and
descriptions of model programs, and Volume 2 presents literature reviews
of the top rural health priorities. - State
and Community Health Profiles -offers information on community health
and promotes the use of community health indicators to measure its health profile.
HEALTHY
CAMPUS - Click here
for CCPH's resources page on community-campus partnerships, including definitions,
reports and tools.
- Click here
for the report, "Community Colleges Tackle Student Health and HIV/AIDS",
prepared by the American Association of Community Colleges.
- Action
Guide for Starting a Food Systems Project at Your School
- Advertising,
Drinking, and College Students - Heavy drinking on college campuses is a major
problem in the U.S., affecting the health, well-being, and education of students.
This report from Harvard's College Alcohol Study concludes that regulating marketing
practices such as sale prices, special promotions, and ads may help alleviate
the problem.
- Buy
Local Food and Farm Toolkit - developed by Oxfam America for students
who want to pursue Buy Local Campaigns on their campus. These actions support
the work of small farmers as well as providing an opportunity for students, staff
and faculty to sample fresh, local produce in their communities.
- Campus
Alcohol Policies - this website has alcohol policies for each campus
of California State University.
- Campus
Assessment Tool for Tobacco Use and Prevention on Campus
- Campus
Action On Sexual Violence - college students are making it clear that
violence will not be tolerated by working to create needed resources for survivors
and prevention efforts.
- Campus
Safety: Protecting Against Terrorism - the Office for Domestic Preparedness,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, offers suggestions to inform planning efforts
to prevent, deter, or respond to a weapons-of-mass-destruction terrorist attack
on college campuses.
- College Campus Policies
on Gun Possession - a new pamphlet from the Alliance for Justice.
- The
Health Promoting University initiative at the University of Central Lancashire
- promotes the health and well-being of staff and students and to make health
promotion an integral part of all the University's structures and policies.
- National
College Health Assessment - a national research
to assist institutions of higher education in collecting data about the health
of their students. The NCHA allows you to generate data and incidence rates for
a variety of health issues at your institution, such as alcohol and tobacco use,
sexual behavior, body weight, and mental health.
- National
Farm to College Program - farm to college projects offer opportunities
for increasing farmer income, supporting the local economy and the environment,
and improving students' eating habits.
- The
Power of College Students to Accomplish Goals for Campus and Community Health
- is a summary of the 2002 Sumner Symposium of the Program for Health and Higher
Education
- Universities
Combat Climate Change - Grist Magazine article by Shelly Smithson on
green building and sustainable energy practices at American colleges and universities.
- USDA
Report on Farm-to-Cafeteria Marketing Initiatives- to promote healthy
eating in school cafeterias and to promote local agriculture
HEALTHY
COMMUNITIES - Click here
for the table of contents for the Public Health Reports issue on Healthy Communities,
published in 2000.
- Click here
for the United Way's May 2002 "Staff Report of Lessons Learned: Mobilizing Your
Community Toward 100% Access, 0 Health Disparities"
- The
Advantage Initiative - is helping communities around the country measure and
improve their elder friendliness and, in the process, make their communities good
places to live for people of all ages. The website includes profiles of ten pilot
communities participating in the project and tools used to frame and measure their
elder friendliness.
- Association
for Community Health Improvement is a program of the Health Research
and Educational Trust (HRET) dedicated to strengthening community health through
education, peer networking and practical tools delivered to people in hospitals,
public health and community organizations.
- Coalition
for Healthier Cities and Communities - is where individuals committed
to seeking solutions to urban and community issues network together to share their
stories and find resources to assist them in their diverse efforts.
- Community
Care Networks - are a framework for delivering health care in the context
of the local community. CCNs are partnerships focused on achieving better accountability,
aligning resources with social needs, and improving the health of the population.
- The
Healthy Development Measurement Tool provides
San Francisco residents, community organizations, and public agencies with a source
of data on neighborhood and city conditions that are important to healthy living.Â
The tool is organized around seven elements that comprise a healthy city: environmental
stewardship; sustainable and safe transportation; public safety; public infrastructure;
adequate and healthy housing; health economy; and, community participation
- Health
Research and Educational Trust (HRET) Online - has national and statewide
trends in employer-sponsored health insurance, models and tools for improving
patient and medication safety, research and articles on health disparities and
improving health outcomes, and other useful resources for responding to community
and population health needs
- Healthy
Communities Program - the National Civic League provides a primer on the Healthy
Communities movement, skills linked to this movement, and additional resources
on community organizing and action.
- Institute
for Community Health ToolBox has links to a number of community health tools,
such as Healthy People 2010, community benefits reporting, and using geographic
information systems.
- Rallying
Points - assists community-based coalitions in improving care and caring for
those nearing the end of life.
HEALTHY
COMMUNITIES: EXAMPLES - Inland
Empire Healthy Cities, Healthy Communities -
dedicated to improving the health and quality of life in San Bernardino and Riverside
counties in California.
- Strengthening
the Social Determinants of Health: The Toronto Charter for a Healthy Canada
- is a product of a 2002 conference of over 400 Canadian social and health policy
experts, community representatives, and health researchers who met to a) consider
the state of ten key social or societal determinants of health across Canada;
b) explore the implications of these conditions for the health of Canadians; and
c) outline policy directions to improve the health of Canadians by influencing
the quality of these determinants of health.
- We're
Hired by the Hospital But We Work for the Community: Examining Hospital Involvement
in Community Action - article by Blake Poland and colleagues from the Spring
2001 issue of Hospital Quarterly.
INTERDISCIPLINARY
COLLABORATION - A
critical review of evaluations of interprofessional education - published
in October 2002 as an occupational paper by the Centre for Health Sciences and
Practice.
- The
Human Early Learning Partnership is an interdisciplinary network of
faculty and graduate students at British Columbia's four major universities who
take a life-course perspective on the development of health, well-being, and competence.
It links university, government and community programs concerned with early childhood
experiences, health, development, education and family well-being across British
Columbia.
- The
Office of Interdisciplinary Health Science Education at East Carolina
University has developed a community based health professional education program
for health science learners. The program also offers consulting services to others
interested in the development of interdisciplinary models of education.
INTERNATIONAL
HEALTH - Directory
of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health Sciences - Published
by the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, this
directory is a comprehensive compilation of international opportunities in biomedical
research.
- Global Equity Gauge Alliance
- was created to participate in and support an active approach to monitoring health
inequalities and promoting equity within and between societies.
- Global
Forum for Health Research - is designed to help correct the 10/90 gap
by focusing research efforts on diseases representing the heaviest burden on the
world's health, and facilitating collaboration between partners in both the public
and private sectors.
- Global
Health Education Consortium - is a consortium of faculty and health
care educators dedicated to international health education in U.S. and Canadian
medical schools and residency programs.
- Medical
Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) is a non-profit organization working
to enhance cooperation among the US, Cuban and global health communities aimed
at better health outcomes.
INTERNATIONAL
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS - Click here
for links to community service and volunteer organizations.
- Click here
for links to student service organizations.
- Amerispan
Unlimited - a unique hybrid of a language school
and a travel agency that works as a liaison between students of all ages and qualified
language institutes throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
- Amigos
de las Americas - provides leadership training for young people interested
in promoting public health, education and community development.
- Amizade
Volunteer Programs - works to save the rainforest by helping the people
of the rainforest and provides volunteers with the opportunity to travel to different
regions and participate in the culture of that region.
- Child
Family Health International provides global service-learning opportunities
for medical residents, medical students, pre-medical, nursing, MPH, naturopathic
and physicians assistants students in several locations in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico,
Nicaragua, South Africa and India. Click here
for detailed program descriptions, resources and application information.
- Colorado
China Council - works to send people to teach English and other subjects
at secondary schools and universities across China.
- Cross
Cultural Solutions - sends volunteers abroad to provide humanitarian
assistance to China, Ghana, India, Peru and Russia.
- CIEE:
Council for International Educational Exchange - helps those who are
working, studying, or traveling abroad gain skills necessary for living in a globally
interdependent and culturally diverse world.
- Directory
of International Reproductive Health Opportunities for Medical Students -
published by the American Medical Women's Association, this resource is for medical
students interested in gaining international medical experience in reproductive
health, women's health, and family planning services
- Earthwatch
Institution - uses research, education, and conservation as means to
achieve their goal of promoting sustainable conservation of our natural resources
and cultural heritage.
- Explorations
in Travel - provides information on unique and adventurous travel opportunities
for women and volunteers.
- Genesis
II Cloudforest Preserve Volunteer Program - volunteers are chosen to
travel to a privately owned cloudforest in Central Costa Rica and be part of a
team that works to preserve this tropical forest.
- Global
Health Corps - was established by the University of Northern Iowa in
1996 to train health professionals to conduct preventive programming with diverse
and underserved populations. To date, hundreds of students in health promotion,
pre-medicine, anthropology, social work, foreign languages, and related fields
have conducted community health programs with tens of thousands of underserved
clients around the world. For more information, email Michele
Yehieli
- Global
Justice - is a non-profit organization committed to mobilizing students
and young adults in the United States, in partnership with youth worldwide, to
promote global justice and responsibility through education, leadership development,
advocacy, and better public policy.
- Global
Volunteer Network - offers volunteer opportunities in community projects throughout
the world. They provide volunteer programs through partner organizations in Alaska,
China, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Nepal, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Thailand,
Uganda and Vietnam.
- Global
Volunteers - helps to establish a foundation for peace through mutual
international understanding.
- Habitat
for Humanity International - provides decent and affordable housing
to those that need it, through partnerships between families, communities, and
volunteers.
- International
Schools Services - provides services to overseas schools and meets
the educational needs of companies abroad.
- LISLE,
Inc. - provides intercultural programs and information that encourage
individuals to act as global citizens.
- Mobility
International USA - provides people with disabilities the opportunities
to participate in international exchange and development programs.
- Odyssey
Expeditions - organization that matches goals and skill level with
a voyage that integrates tropical marine biology and adventure.
- Oxfam
America - is an international development agency dedicated to creating
lasting solutions to global poverty, hunger, and social injustice through long-term
partnerships with poor communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S.
- Peacework
- organizes volunteer projects around the globe for colleges, universities, and
service institutions.
- Peace
Corps - a globally recognized organization that promotes peace and
friendship by providing volunteers with opportunities to serve in over 135 nations.
- People to People International- cooperates with other
organizations to enrich international understanding through educational, cultural,
and humanitarian activities.
- Rainforest
Action Network - an organization that has made it their goal to protect
tropical rainforests and the human rights of people whom live in or around rainforests.
- Remote
Area Medical Volunteer Corps is dedicated to providing free health
care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational
assistance to people in remote areas of the United States and the world. Volunteers
participate in expeditions (at their own expense) in some of the world's most
exciting places.
- Studyabroad.com
- online source for study abroad information.
- Unite
For Sight - is a student-run global humanitarian organization that works internationally
to improve health outcomes and prevent blindness. Unite For Sight has have numerous
volunteer projects and internships available for students.
- Volunteers
for Peace International Workcamps - information on affordable volunteer
opportunities in over 70 countries.
- WorldTeach
- provides volunteers with the opportunity to live and teach in developing countries.
INTERNET
AND HEALTH - Click here
for resources on health literacy
- Click here
for a list of resources to help bridge the digital divide.
- AMA's
Guidelines for Medical and Health Information Sites on the Internet
- CataList
- CataList is a catalog of over 40,000 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet,
search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host
sites.
- Contentbank.org
- designed to spur the development of needed online content for and by low-income
communities, this site includes recommended Web sites for health, education, jobs
and housing; message boards; information and tools to develop local content; and
Web-based tools that will read the text aloud or translate it into Spanish to
ensure the content is accessible to many communities.
- DIRLINE
- DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) focuses primarily on health
and biomedicine information resources. Most fall into categories including federal,
state, and local government agencies; information centers; professional societies;
voluntary associations; academic and research institutions; information systems
and research facilities.
- Evaluating
Internet Research Sources - outlines a simple, easy-to-learn process for evaluating
web content.
- Evaluation
of English and Spanish Health Information on the Internet - This 2001 study
by RAND examines the quality of online health information, including how accessible
it is to those with limited-literacy skills.
- Medicine
and the Internet - a project that informs physicians
and healthcare professionals about how computer skills and the Internet can enhance
medicine and medical education.
- Medline
Plus - Evaluating Health Information - allows
the user to evaluate health information on the Internet through resources such
as: guidelines from the National Institutes of Health, research data, a directory
of "top ten most useful" websites, and links to different health related websites.
- Statinfo
- ontains an online catalog [data finder] including citations to more than 3400
URLs with statistical information about health and human services. It also has
information about state health statistics and detailed procedures for finding
information by the statistical project [or study], sponsoring organization, topic
and key word.
- The
Virtual Activist 2.0 - teaches activists how to use email and the Web
as effective, inexpensive, and efficient tools for organizing, outreach, and advocacy.
It covers multiple areas including mailing lists; tips for effective Online media;
membership and fundraising; and privacy, copyright, and censorship.
JOURNALS
CCPH members receive substantial discounts on many journals
and publications! Click here for
details. - Click
here for a
list of journals that publish public health practice-oriented articles. This list
has been compiled by The
Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice.
- Have
you disseminated findings of community-engaged scholarship through products other
than journal articles? If so, we invite you to submit them for peer review and
dissemination through CES4Health.info.
- Click
here
for the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse fact sheet on "Opportunities
for Service-Learning Research and Scholarship"
- Click here
for Campus Compact's listing of publishing outlets for service-learning and community-based
research
- Action
Research - is an international, interdisciplinary, refereed journal which
is a forum for the development of the theory and practice of action research.
- American
Journal of Health Promotion - narrows the gap between the art and the
science of health promotion and is a fusion of the best of science and the best
of practice in health.
- American
Journal of Preventative Medicine - a forum for
the communication of information, knowledge, and wisdom in prevention science,
education, practice, and policy.
Beyond
Scientific Publication: Strategies for Disseminating Research Findings - published
by CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement in New Haven, CT, this
document provides key strategies for dissemination, including practical advice
and specific templates you can adapt for your use.- CES4Health.info
is a peer-review and dissemination mechanism for innovative products of community-engaged
scholarship. It was developed by CCPH because so many products of community-engaged
scholarship don't "count" in the faculty promotion and tenure process
because they're not peer reviewed, and many of those products don't get seen or
used beyond the community in which the work was conducted. Products submitted
to CES4Health.info are reviewed by both academic and community peers.
- Cityscape:
A Journal of Policy Development and Research - strives to share HUD-funded
and other research on housing and urban policy issues with scholars, government
officials, and others involved in setting policy and determining the direction
of future research. Click here
for an issue entirely devoted to community-university partnerships.
- Education
for Health: Change in Learning and Practice - is the peer-reviewed international
journal of The Network: Toward Unity for
Health. Formerly Annals of Community-Oriented Education, the journal addresses
community-oriented education, research and service across the health professions.
- Health
Affairs - the Policy Journal of the Health Sphere. Website provides
subscription information, access to single articles and copies of the journal,
information for authors, and details on the staff and editorial board.
- Healthcare
Policy Links - links to Health Affairs, Journal of Health Services
Research and Policy, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, and other journals.
- Health
Services Research - a multidisciplinary journal that provides those
engaged in research, public policy formulation, and healthcare administration,
with information on new trends and the latest techniques of research and evaluation.
- International
Journal for Equity in Health - this open access, online journal publishes
papers on all aspects of equity in health.
- Internet
Journal of Allied Health Science and Practice - is a peer-reviewed, scholarly
on-line journal dedicated to the exploration of allied health professional practice
and education.
- Journal
for Civic Engagement - is dedicated to growing and strengthening the
discussion around service-learning, which connects the academic curriculum to
service and civic engagement in communities, both locally and globally. The Journal
offers research and theories, strategies, and tips and techniques.
- Journal
of Community Practice: Organizing, Planning, Development & Change is an
interdisciplinary journal designed to provide a forum for community practice,
including community organizing, planning, social administration, organizational
development, community development and social change.
- Journal
of Health Administration Education - is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal
which chronicles research, case studies, and essays by health administration educators
and professionals.
- Journal
of Health and Population in Developing Countries - is a peer-reviewed
journal published by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
- Journal
of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - publishes original research
concerning the health, health care, and access to health care of medically underserved
populations.
- Journal
of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement - formerly the Journal
of Public Service and Outreach, this peer-reviewed jounnal seeks to serve as a
forum to promote the continuing dialogue about the service and outreach mission
of the University and its relationship to the teaching and research missions and
to the needs of society.
- Journal
of Interprofessional Care - information about interprofessional education,
practice, and research.
- Living
Knowledge Journal of Community Based Research - contains articles that
highlight the current state of discussion on science shops and community-based
research.
- Manifestation
Journal of Community Engaged Research and Learning is an open-access, electronic,
peer-reviewed journal dedicated to 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 communities.
- Medical
Teacher - is a peer-reviewed journal published in collaboration with
the Association for Medical Education in Europe that addresses the needs of teachers
and administrators throughout the world involved in health professions education.
- Metropolitan
Universities - is published quarterly by the members of the Coalition
of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. Each issue reports in-depth
on both the theoretical and applied aspects of a current theme affecting colleges
and universities.
- Michigan
Journal of Community Service Learning is a peer-reviewed journal consisting
of articles written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory,
pedagogy, and issues pertinent to the service-learning community.
- National
Academy Press - publishes reports issued by its member organizations,
including the Institute of Medicine.
- National
Library of Medicine - library services, health and research programs
information. Access to MEDLINE/ PubMed, MEDLINEplus, NLM Gateway and other sources.
- Oxford
University Press - has set up a program wherein scholars from developing nations
are eligible for free or greatly discounted electronic access to a large number
of professional journals.
- Patient
Education and Counseling is an interdisciplinary, international journal for
patient education and health promotion researchers, managers, physicians, nurses
and other health care providers. The journal seeks to explore and elucidate educational,
counseling and communication models in health care. Its aim is to provide a forum
for fundamental as well as applied research, and to promote the study of the delivery
of patient education, counseling, and health promotion services, including training
models and organizational issues in improving communication between providers
and patients.
- Pimatisiwin: A Journal
of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health promotes the sharing of knowledge
and research experience between researchers, health professionals, and Aboriginal
leaders and community members. The December 2007 issue [link to http://www.pimatisiwin.com/Issues/AllIssues.html]
focuses on community-based participatory research and includes papers from CCPH's
10th anniversary conference
- Preventing
Chronic Disease - is an electronic peer-reviewed journal published
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Progress
in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action -
known to some of you as "the new journal of CBPR," this quarterly peer-reviewed
journal facilitates dissemination of programs that use community partnerships
to improve public health, promotes progress in the methods of research and education
involving community health partnerships, and stimulates action that will improve
the health of people in communities. CCPH members get a 20%
discount on subscriptions to this journal.
- World
Association of Medical Editors - a voluntary association of editors
from many countries who seek to foster international cooperation among editors
of peer-reviewed medical journals.
- Yale
Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics - is a biannual publication of the
Yale Schools of Law, Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, and Nursing that
strives to provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion on topics in health
policy, health law, and biomedical ethics.
LIABILITY
& RISK MANAGEMENT - Nonprofit
Risk Management Center - meets the risk management and insurance needs
of community-serving organizations through research, education and advocacy.
LITERACY
- Click here for resources on health
and the internet.
- 24
Languages Project - offers health education brochures in multiple languages.
- Family
Literacy: A Strategy for Educational Improvement - is an issue brief
prepared by the National Governors Association that contains definitions, strategies
and best practices for improving family literacy.
- National
Council on Interpreting in Health Care - is a multidisciplinary organization
whose mission is to promote culturally competent professional medical interpreting
as a means to support equal access to health care for individuals with limited
English proficiency.
- Plain Language
Action & Information Network - is a government-wide group of volunteers
working to improve communications from the federal government to the public.
MEDIA
AND HEALTH - Association
of Health Care Journalists - advances public understanding of health care
issues by improving the quality, accuracy and visibility of health care reporting,
writing and editing.
MENTAL
HEALTH - Changing
Minds - is a five year anti-stigma campaign organized by the Royal College
of Psychiatrists. Changing Minds is a campaign about how mental health problems
touch our lives.
- The National
Institute of Mental Health is one of 27 components of the National Institutes
of Health, the Federal government's principal biomedical and behavioral research
agency. Its mission is to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders
through research on mind, brain, and behavior. CCPH
is a partner in the NIMH's Outreach
Partnership Program.
- Screening
for Mental Health - is a nonprofit organization
developed to coordinate nationwide mental health screening programs and to ensure
cooperation, professionalism, and accountability in mental illness screenings.
MINORITY
HEALTH - African
Americans and Ethics Bibliography
- Asian
American Health - is part of the National Library of Medicine and features
census data on major Asian-American populations, links to health policy offices,
on-line medical databases, publications and other organizations.
- Asian
American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training - is the
first national cancer prevention and control research initiative funded by the
National Cancer Institute specifically targeting Asian Americans. Its goals are
to develop and implement mechanisms for increasing cancer awareness, research,
and training among Asian Americans throughout the nation.
- Asian
& Pacific Islander American Health Forum - is a national advocacy organization
dedicated to promoting policy, program, and research efforts for the improvement
of health status of all Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
- Closing
the Health Gap - launched in November 2001, this is a federal health
education and information campaign for communities of color.
- Click here
for a 9/02 presentation on the role of historically black colleges and universities
in addressing disparities in health status and health care in the U.S.
- Excellence
Centers To Eliminate Ethnic/Racial Disparities are funded by the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality to analyze underlying causes and contributing
factors for racial and ethnic disparities in health care and to identify and implement
strategies for reducing and eliminating them.
- Diverse
Communities, Common Concerns: Assessing Health Care for Minority Americans
- Findings from this report on the Commonwealth Fund 2001 Health Care Quality
Survey reveal that on a wide range of health care quality measures, minority Americans
do not fare as well as whites, experience difficulty communicating with their
physician, feel that they are treated with disrespect when receiving health care
services, and experience barriers to care. A substantial proportion of minorities
feel they would receive better care if they were of a different race or ethnicity.
- Excellence Centers
To Eliminate Ethnic/Racial Disparities are funded by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality to analyze underlying causes and contributing
factors for racial and ethnic disparities in health care and to identify and implement
strategies for reducing and eliminating them.
- Fact
Sheets About Farmworkers - published by the National Center for Farmworker
Health, these fact sheets cover such topics as basic health, HIV/AIDS, maternal
and child health, oral health and tuberculosis.
- Guide
to Ethnic Minority Neighborhood Outreach - is an on-line guide developed by
American Health Decisions to increasing ethnic minority participation in organized
community activities
- Health
and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families - uses data from the
1999 National Survey of America's Families to measure immigrant children in three
areas: family environment; physical and emotional health; and access to needed
services.
- Healthfinder
en Espanol - is a Spanish-language Web site that helps consumers track
down reliable information quickly and easily on the Internet. Healthfinder en
Espanol brings together health information on over 300 topics, including those
health issues of greatest concern to those of Hispanic heritage.
- HHS
Healthfinder web site - has added a new section that has multilingual
health information in Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Samoan, Thai,
Tongan, and Vietnamese.
- HHS
Office of Civil Rights - has written policy guidance to assist health
and social services providers in ensuring that persons with limited English skills
can effectively access critical health and social services.
- HHS'
Office of Minority Health - oversees the Department's Initiative to
Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. The OMH provides overall public
health guidance to the department on issues affecting African Americans, Hispanic
Americans, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders and American Indians/Alaska Natives.
- MEDLINEplus
- is the Spanish-language companion health Web site to the National Library of
Medicine's MEDLINE, which provides authoritative, full-text medical resources.
- National
Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities - is designed to promote
minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the National Institutes
of Health's effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. The
Center conducts and supports basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research,
promotes research infrastructure and training, fosters emerging programs, disseminates
information, and reaches out to minority and other health disparity communities.
- National
Minority Health Month - is a non-profit organization launched in April
2001 to raise awareness and to implement initiatives aimed at eliminating premature
deaths and preventable morbidity. Governors of eight states have signed proclamations
designating April as National Minority Health Month. During the 107th Congress,
the United States Senate and House or Representatives passed a resolution that
called upon the President to proclaim a National Minority Health Month.
- Racial
and Ethnic Adult Disparities in Immunization Initiative is an HHS-sponsored
adult immunization initiative to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in influenza
and pneumococcal vaccination coverage for adults 65 years of age and older, focusing
on African-American and Hispanic communities.
- Racial
and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Program - is a program of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that funds and evaluates locally
planned demonstration projects that have been developed to eliminate disparities
for African Americans, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Hispanic Americans, Asian
American/Pacific Islanders. Prevention activities focus on HIV/AIDS, infant mortality,
cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and immunizations.
- Redes
En Acción: The National Hispanic/Latino Cancer Network - is
a National Cancer Institute-funded initiative to combat cancer among Latinos.
Core activities include promoting training and research opportunities for Latino
students and researchers, generating research projects on key Latino cancer issues,
and supporting cancer awareness activities within the Latino community.
- Southeast
Asian Communities: Health and Culture Bibliography
- VERB:
It's What You Do is a national multicultural media campaign intended
to promote physical activity and community involvement among 9 to 13-year-olds
of all ethnicities.
ORAL HEALTH
- Addressing
Oral Health Needs: A How-To Guide - gives organizations and communities
ideas for addressing oral health needs by profiling the successes and challenges
of various programs developed to increase access to dental health services.
- American
Association of Public Health Dentistry - provides a focus for meeting the
challenge to improve oral health.
- American
Dental Association - is the professional association of dentists dedicated
to serving both the public and the profession of dentistry.
- American
Dental Education Association - the leading national
organization for dental education.
- Community-Based
Dental Partnership Program includes description of program, CCPH role
in providing technical assistance and training, and web resources focusing on
HIV/AIDS oral health.
- Healthy
Smiles for Wisconsin - Comprehensive website dedicated to the oral
health of children in Wisconsin.
- Knowledge
Path on Oral Health and Children/Adolescents - is an electronic resource
guide on current, high-quality resources and information tools.
- Safety
Net Dental Clinic Manual - is designed for organizations interested
in developing or expanding a safety net dental clinic. It contains information
on partnerships and planning, facilities and staffing, financing, clinic operations
and quality assurance/quality improvement.
- School-Based
Dental Health - contains a PowerPoint presentation provided by a Hahnemann
University School of Public Health student. The presentation brings together high
points from recent research that can contribute to effective school-based dental
health programs.
- Service-Learning
in Dental/Dental Hygiene contains workshop handouts and course syllabi
examples in service-learning.
- State
Efforts to Improve Children's Oral Health - is an issue brief published
by the National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices that presents
information on the problems, costs, and access and workforce issues confronting
children's oral health, and how specific states are addressing these issues.
PRIMARY
CARE - Big
Doctoring - Fitzhugh Mullan's book Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary
Care tells the story of 15 primary care practitioners from all walks of American
health care life and includes an essay about the past and future or primary care.
This website includes photos of the physicians, nurse practitioners and physician
assistants profiled in the book.
- National
Nursing Centers Consortium - improves community health through neighborhood-based
primary health care services that are accessible, acceptable and affordable. These
services include outreach, education, technical assistance, and direct services.
- National
Primary Care Week - established to help recognize
the importance of primary care providers and encourage health profession students
to consider it as a career. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health serves on
its advisory committee.
- PCAWeb
- is a resource to locate state and regional associations representing community
and migrant health centers
- Prescription
for Health is a joint initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to develop strategies primary
care providers can use to help patients become more physically active, eat healthier
foods, avoid or quit smoking, and use alcohol in moderation.
- Primary
Care Advocacy Tool Kit - this educational toolkit is designed to promote
access and utilization of primary health care services. For the health care provider,
this toolkit provides guidance on collaborating with other stakeholders in the
health care systems in primary care models and engaging in health care policy
change. For the health care consumer, it facilitates understanding of the value
of primary care and how to access quality primary care.
- Primary
Care: America's Health in a New Era - this Institute of Medicine 1996
report describing the state of primary care in the United States that calls for
the development of a national public and private consortium dedicated to increasing
the role of primary care in the United States
- State
or Regional Primary Care Associations - are private, nonprofit membership
associations representing federally supported programs and other community-based
providers of care to the underserved. The PCAs work to assist their members and
other safety net providers to meet the needs of the medically underserved throughout
their States or regions.
PROBLEM-BASED
LEARNING PUBLIC
HEALTH - Click here
for a powerpoint presentation based on the Institute of Medicine 2002 report on
Health Professionals for the 21st Century: Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? The
full report is available on the Institute of Medicine website.
- Association
of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education
- an organization that promotes the quality practice of health education and health
promotion, and advocates for quality programs and strategies that will address
the nation's leading health problems.
- Association
of State and Territorial Health Officials - is the national non-profit organization
representing the state and territorial public health agencies of the United States,
the U.S. Territories, and the District of Columbia. ASTHO's members, the chief
health officials of these jurisdictions.
- The
Black Young Professional Public Health Network - is an independent
association with membership open to all students of color as well as public health
professionals who recognize the increased need for more deliberate and concerted
opportunities for professional development of African Americans in the public
health field.
- Cooperative
Actions for Health Program - builds, supports, and strengthens state
and local collaboration between medical and public health professionals to improve
the health of the public.
- The
Community Guide - The Community Guide strives to give answers to the
question, what works in public health? It addresses a variety of health topics
important to communities, public health agencies and health care systems.
- Health
of the Public - committed to finding solutions to some of healthcare's
biggest problems, such as high cost of care, unfavorable distribution of physicians,
and lack of access to care.
- National
Association of County and City Health Officials - is a nonprofit membership
organization serving all of the nearly 3,000 local health departments nationwidein
cities, counties, townships, and districts. NACCHO provides education, information,
research, and technical assistance to local health departments and facilitates
partnerships among local, state, and federal agencies in order to promote and
strengthen public health.
- National
Network of Public Health Institutes - brings together public health
institutes to improve health status and foster innovations in health systems.
- National
Public Health Partnership - strives to bridge the gap between the public health,
museum, and science center communities by engaging these groups in a dialogue
with the goal of advancing the quality of and capabilities to support public health
programming in museum settings.
- Partners
in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce - is a collaboration
of U.S government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries.
Through this website, users can find information about health promotion and education,
public health literature and guidelines, health data tools and statistics, grants
and funding, education and training, and national and state legislation.
- Partnership
for the Public's Health - is a grant-making initiative that is pioneering
efforts to bring about long-term, systemic changes in how community health issues
are identified, addressed and evaluated in California. Click here
to review a March 2003 policy brief on the rationale and strategies for community-campus
partnerships in public health.
- Patient
Assistance Program - the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures of America
launched this site to provide access to 140 industry and 185 government and privately
sponsored patient assistance programs.
- Pfizer
Faculty Scholar Award in Public Health - is a nationally competitive career
development award intended to support junior faculty in schools and programs in
public health who are interested in pursuing community-based, public health practice
research.
- Southeast
Public Health Leadership Institute - a program that is open to professionals
from 5 Southeast states who are committed to strengthening their leadership skills.
- State
Public Health Associations - links to each state's public health association
- Turning
Point - is an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and
the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, aims to transform and strengthen the public health
system of the United States by making it more community-based and collaborative.
- The
Uses (and Misuses) of Social Indicators: Implications for Public Policy
- discusses the use of social indicators as tools for policymakers, program developers,
and opinion shapers. The brief presents information on (1) how using social indicators
differs from other types of research methods in the social sciences, (2) five
purposes for which social indicators are best suited and (3) when using indicators
is inappropriate.
RESEARCH
ETHICS - Click here
for CCPH's program page on Community-Based Participatory Research and Research
Ethics
- Click here
to join the CBPR and Research Ethics Listserv
- Click here
for information on the 2007 Educational Conference Call Series on IRBs and Ethical
Issues in Research sponsored by CCPH and Tuskegee
University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care.
- Click
here for "Ensuring
Community-Level Research Protections," the proceedings from the above-mentioned
Educational Conference Call Series.
- Click here
for a resource listing prepared for the series.
- The Interagency
Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) is a body of Canadian external experts
established in November 2001 to support the development and evolution of their
joint research ethics policy the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct
for Research Involving Humans (TCPS).
- The "REB
Community Member Educational Needs: A PRE Pilot Project Report" provides
insights on community members' perspectives of their roles on Canadian research
ethics boards (REB) as defined in the TCPS and on their educational and other
resource needs.
- Canadian
Secretariat on Research Ethics Resource webpage provides a variety of related
materials and resources.
- Collaborative
Initiative for Research Ethics in Environmental Health - provides course development,
training, educational resources and case study development on improving research
ethics in environmental health.
- Community
IRB Website is maintained by the US Department of Energy for community members
of IRBs
- Kahnawake Schools Diabetes
Prevention Project (KSDPP) Code of Research Ethics - The purpose of the KSDPP
Code of Research Ethics is to establish a set of principles and procedures that
will guide the partners to achieve the goals and objectives of the KSDPP. The
KSDPP Code of Research Ethics outlines the obligations of the partners throughout
all phases of the research process.
- Principles
of Ethical and Effective Service - this set of principles was developed by
the Haas Center for Public Service because of breaches of community trust and
respect by students, faculty, and staff to raise campus awareness about the responsibility
to communities and organizations involved with public service activities at Stanford.
- The
Research Ethics Training Curriculum for Community Representatives helps community
representatives to understand the research process and their roles and responsibilities
as partners of the research team. Develoed by Family Health International, the
curriculum also explains the corresponding roles and responsibilities of ethics
committees/IRBs and researchers.
- Research
Ethics Training Curriculum for Community Representatives helps community representatives
to understand the research process and their roles and responsibilities as partners
of the research team. Developed by Family Health International, the curriculum
also explains the corresponding roles and responsibilities of ethics committees/IRBs
and researchers.
- Protecting
Human Subjects is a newsletter published by the US of Energy. Click here
for the Fall 2003 issue on community-based research.
- Proceedings
from a Conference on Research Ethics and Community-Based Participatory Research
- Research
Ethics Bibliographies
- Research
Ethics Tip Guide
- Starting
an Institutional Review Board: Suggestion for Tribes, Tribal Colleges and Communities
- Waianae Coast
Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC) Research and IRB Protocols - The unique
population residing on the Waianae Coast of Oahu has long been a popular focus
among researchers. Responding to the frequent requests by outside researchers,
the Waianae community established research guidelines for implementing community-based
research in the early 1990s. In 2005, WCCHC established a formal, federally recognized
research review board to further protect and provide oversight for community-based
research.
- Holiday
Message from IRB to Santa
CCPH and ENACCT Submit Comments on
Human Subjects Protection Training and Education Programs CCPH and the
Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT) responded to a recent
request for public comments
on the Implementation of Human Subjects Protection Training and Education Programs
in response to a request for public comments from the federal Office for Human
Research Protections on the topic of human subjects protection training and education
programs. CCPH and ENACCT are spearheading a national federally funded initiative,
Communities as Partners in Cancer Clinical Trials: Changing Research, Practice
and Policy, which is exploring the potential of employing community-based participatory
research (CBPR) principles and approaches to improve multi-site, phase III cancer
clinical trials. The initiative's forthcoming report, to be released in October
2008, makes a number of recommendations relevant to the issue of training and
education of clinical research teams and Institutional Review Board (IRB) members. CCPH
is also developing a CBPR curriculum for members of IRBs and Research Ethics Boards. To
read the comments submitted by CCPH and ENACCT, click here. For
more information on Communities as Partners in Cancer Clinical Trials, visit http://www.enacct.org/conference/conference.php. For
more information on CCPH's CBPR and research ethics program, including the forthcoming
CBPR curriculum for IRBs/REBs, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/irbhome.html Subscribe
to CCPH's CBPR and research ethics electronic discussion group at http://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccph-ethics RURAL
HEALTH - Center
for Rural Health - an organization located at the University of North
Dakota that works to identify and research rural health issues, analyze health
policy, strengthen local capabilities, develop community-based alternatives, and
advocate for rural concerns.
- National
Rural Health Association - is a nonprofit organization of individual and organizational
members who share a common interest in rural health.
- National
Rural Health Network - provides a communication network between rural
health clubs, for the sharing of ideas and information.
- Rural
Health Roundtable - an open forum for the exchange
of ideas for important rural health topics.
- Rural
Healthy People 2010 - is a project that aims to tackle rural health problems
and concerns. Volume 1 includes a brief overview of the top rural health priorities
and
descriptions of model programs, and Volume 2 presents literature reviews
of the top rural health priorities. - Rural
Information Center Health Service - gathers and distributes information
related to rural health issues.
- Rural
Residency Program - has listings for Rural Family Practice Residencies
in individual states across the nation. The residencies listed have either a rural
mission, rural emphasis, and/or rural curriculum.
- State
Offices of Rural Health - help their individual rural communities build
health care delivery systems by: collecting and disseminating information, providing
technical assistance, helping to coordinate rural health interests statewide,
and supporting efforts to improve recruitment and retention of health professionals.
- University
of Kentucky Center for Rural Health -created in 1990 to address the
rising problems related to health in rural areas.
- World
of Rural Medical Education - home of the Rural Medical Educator Group
of the National Rural Health Association, this site includes information for students,
parents, advisors, medical students and residents interested in rural practice.
SCIENCE
- K12 EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS SERVICE-LEARNING
- Click here
for CCPH's webpage on service-learning (SL), including definitions, tools and
resources, and SL course syllabi.
- Click here for
the Community Partner Summit webpage that contains products and resources intended
to support community partners in their community-higher education partnership
work.
- 101
Ideas for Combining Service & Learning -
Helpful and fun website that provides ideas and contact information for 101 service-learning
projects in higher education.
- American
Association for Higher Education Service-Learning Project - is dedicated to
the integration of service-learning across the disciplines. The project is anchored
by a multi-volume series of books designed to provide resources to faculty wishing
to explore community-based learning in and through the individual academic disciplines.
- Community
Colleges Broadening Horizons Project - is a project by the American
Association
of Community Colleges to increase the number, quality and sustainability of service
learning programs in community colleges through an information clearinghouse,
data collection and analysis, model programs, training and technical assistance,
publications, and referrals. - Community
Standards for Service-Learning - developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison
faculty member Randy Stoecker and his community partners, these standards are
based on research conducted to understand community partner perspectives on service-learning.
- Educators
for Community Engagement - devoted to increasing the practice of service
learning throughout the nation.
- Faculty
Toolkit for Service-Learning in Higher Education - edited by CCPH and published
by Learn and Serve America's National
Service-Learning Clearinghouse, the toolkit is divided into 10 units designed
to aid faculty in every step of planning, designing, and implementing service-learning
programs into their curriculum and institutions as well as program evaluation
and assessment.
- Guide
for Engaging Youth in Leadership and Decision-Making in Service-Learning Programs
- provides basic information on youth voice, how to engage youth in leadership
and decision-making, and models of youth voice that have been implemented by service-learning
practitioners.
- Health
Professions Schools in Service to the Nation Program - national service-learning
demonstration program in the health professions. Goals include strengthening the
partnerships of communities and health professions schools, installing an ethic
of community service and social responsibility, and equipping the next generation
of health professionals with the skills needed to practice in a changing healthcare
environment.
- Learning
in Deed: National Commission on Service Learning - comprehensive website
on service-learning in K-12 schools.
- National
Service-Learning Clearinghouse - features information on service-learning
for K-12, higher education, community-based organizations and tribal organizations.
- The
Preparation, Action, Reflection and Evaluation (PARE) model is a simple
way to plan community-responsive, effective, and successful service projects for
students.
- Scale
of Service-Learning Involvement - is a student assessment tool developed by
James Madison University.
- Service-Learning
and Civic Engagement in Psychology - is intended to introduce faculty,
teachers, students, researchers, clinicians, and community partners to the connections
between psychological work, the pedagogy of service-learning, and issues of civic
engagement.
- Service-Learning
on the Web - serves as a virtual guide to, and library of, service-learning,
primarily in higher education.
- Service
Reflection Toolkit - provides ideas and exercised for promoting critical
reflection in service-learning experiences.
- Survey
Tool for Service-Learning in Community Colleges - the 2003 version of an annual
survey conducted by the American Association of Community Colleges.
- UCLA
Service-Learning Clearinghouse - provides resources to the higher education
service learning field.
SERVICE-LEARNING:
EXAMPLES - Click here
for CCPH's webpage on service-learning (SL), including definitions, tools and
resources, and SL course syllabi
- Adult
Health & Development Program - is a 30+ year old intergenerational,
service-learning, health promotion academic course and program operating under
the Department of Public & Community Health, and fulfills the Diversity Course
Requirement of the University. There are over 14 similar programs running across
the country.
- Caring
for the Underserved: The Art and Science of Community-Based Medicine
- this article in the Association of American Medical Colleges' November 2002
newsletter The Reporter is all about teaching and learning "safety net medicine"
in community-based settings.
- Center for
Work and Learning at Northeastern University - conducts research on methods
of learning that integrate experience in the world with experience in the classroom.
- Community
Service Learning in the California State University - all 23 campuses
of the CSU system are committed to offering all students the opportunity to participate
in community service before graduation. This website contains information on CSU's
most updated community service learning events, resources, and programs.
- Emphasis
on Community Health and Health Outreach, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- is a unique mode of self-directed study that takes place during the first two
years of medical school.
- HIPHOP:
The Homeless and Indigent Population Health Outreach Project
- provides information on HIPHOP, an organization that promotes service-learning
programs at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
- The
Interdisciplinary Student Community-Oriented Prevention Enhancement Service (ISCOPES)
project - is a collaborative service-learning program involving the
George Washington University (GWU) and George Mason University (GMU). It includes
first and second year medical, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, health
services management and policy, physical therapy and graduate public health students.
These students participate in interdisciplinary teams to conduct service-learning
activities in the community.
- Office
for Service Learning and Volunteer Programs - dedicated to service
learning on the Colorado Sate University Campus.
- Office
of Medical Service-Learning - service-learning at the School of Medicine
at Indiana University.
- Public
Service Medical Scholars - is Stanford Medical School's emerging program
designed to develop physician leaders who understand the interconnections and
interdependence among personal values, communities, service, and medicine. Its
program provides opportunities for students to engage in community-based research,
service-learning, and emotional/cultural literacy training.
- Stanford
Medical School's Scholarly Concentration in Community Health and Public Service
uses service-learning and other pedagogies to empower future physicians to improve
the health of diverse communities and reduce health in equities through innovative
scholarship and community engagement.
- University
of Southern California's Joint Educational Project - is designed to
broker between academic courses and schools and service agencies in the university's
community. JEP annually places students from College courses into the neighborhood
as mentors, mini-course instructors, and assistants to teachers and other helping
professionals.
- Wisconsin
Area Health Education Center - Statewide Survey of Service-Learning
- report of a statewide service-learning survey of academic institutions in Wisconsin
STUDENT
SERVICE - Click here
for links to community service and volunteer organizations.
- Click here
for links to international service organizations.
- Albert
Schweitzer Fellowship of America - provides
service opportunities for aspiring health professionals.
- Break
Away: The Alternative Break Connection - is a national nonprofit organization
that trains students to become active citizens through their alternative break
programs. They offer site leader trainings at individual universities in the fall
and alternative break citizenship schools during the summer to train leaders of
alternative break programs.
- Buy
Local Food and Farm Toolkit - developed by Oxfam America for students
who want to pursue Buy Local Campaigns on their campus. These actions support
the work of small farmers as well as providing an opportunity for students, staff
and faculty to sample fresh, local produce in their communities.
- COOL:
Camps Outreach Opportunity League - provides information on how students
and campuses can maximize their service experiences by connecting their actions
with the actions of people across the nation who share similar goals.
- Directory
of International Reproductive Health Opportunities for Medical Students -
published by the American Medical Women's Association, this resource is for medical
students interested in gaining international medical experience in reproductive
health, women's health, and family planning services
- Medical
Student-Run Clinics of America - this association's goal is to have every
medical school associated with a student-run clinic as a means for students to
serve the community and to use as a learning environment. Here you will find links
to all of the student-run clinics around the country as well as resources to help
start and run student-run clinics.
- Medical
Students Making Impacts - provides a forum for medical students to connect
and collaborate on international or local volunteer projects in order to assist
under-served populations. It also is fostering the development of local chapters
at medical schools nationwide.
- The
Power of College Students to Accomplish Goals for Campus and Community Health
- is a summary of the 2002 Sumner Symposium of the Program for Health and Higher
Education
- Principles
of best practice in community service work-study - features examples
of how the federal work-study program can be a resource for student community
service and civic engagement.
- Resource
Guide of Summer Opportunities for Minority Undergraduate Students -
contains descriptions of 130 summer research programs, internships, and conferences
geared towards minority students/students of colour.
- Safety
Net Dental Clinic Manual - is designed for organizations interested
in developing or expanding a safety net dental clinic. It contains information
on partnerships and planning, facilities and staffing, financing, clinic operations
and quality assurance/quality improvement.
- The
Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education - is a national
network that supports campus-based literacy programs by providing training, consultation,
resources, technical assistance, and learning and networking opportunities.
- Students
in Service to America - engages students in a lifelong habit of service
to help them learn about their rich democratic traditions as Americans, help meet
vital community needs, and become responsible and engaged citizens.
- Unite
For Sight - is a student-run global humanitarian organization that works internationally
to improve health outcomes and prevent blindness. Unite For Sight has have numerous
volunteer projects and internships available for students.
SUBSTANCE
ABUSE PREVENTION - A
Matter of Degree - is a national effort supported by The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to confront the issues and problems associated
with youth and alcohol, and create solutions through environmental change.
- Advertising,
Drinking, and College Students - Heavy drinking on college campuses is a major
problem in the U.S., affecting the health, well-being, and education of students.
This report from Harvard's College Alcohol Study concludes that regulating marketing
practices such as sale prices, special promotions, and ads may help alleviate
the problem.
- The
Alcohol Industry: Partner or Foe - is an explication of internal and
external forces which drive the alcohol industry and should be understood by any
community considering partnership with its representatives.
- Ensuring
Solutions - seeks to increase access to treatment for individuals with
alcohol problems. They provide research-based information and tools to help curb
the avoidable health care and other costs associated with alcohol use and improve
access to treatment for Americans who need it.
- Evaluation
Tools - provided by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
- Inter-Association
Task Force on Alcohol and Other Substance Abuse Issues - is a coalition
of organizations who collaborate on issues relating to substance abuse prevention
efforts within the higher education community.
- National
Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention - is a national organization
dedicated to reducing the harm caused by alcohol and tobacco in the Latino community.
- Prevention
Pathways - was developed by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
to provide a centralized location for information needed by researchers, practitioners,
program developers or anyone with questions concerning alcohol or other drug use.
- Protecting
Children from Substance Abuse: Lessons from Free to Grow Head
Start Partnerships
- is the evaluation report for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative that
targets Head Start children with the goal of creating change to protect them from
substance abuse and related problems in alter life. - Reducing
Underage Drinking Through Coalitions is a national effort supported by The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that supports broad-based coalitions working
to reduce alcohol abuse among minors and create healthier communities.
- Society
for Prevention Research - is a non-profit organization that brings
multidisciplinary prevention researchers together to work against drug and alcohol
abuse.
- Tobacco
FactFile - is an online database sponsored by the British Medical Association
that contains worldwide facts and figures about smoking, including the death rate
from smoking per country, the medical-care and productivity costs related to smoking,
the profit the tobacco industry gains from every new smoker, and a multitude of
other facts.
TECHNOLOGY
- Community Technology
Center Start Up Manual - is a "how to" guide to starting a community
technology center, including such chapters as Mapping Community Resources, Determining
Program Focus, Staffing, Software Selection and Criteria, Space, Hardware, and
Security.
- Computer and Communications
Use in Low-Income Communities - this paper reports on a survey of five community
programs that offer low-income people opportunities to learn to use computers
and on line communications. Based in five different cities, the programs work
with children, youth, and adults who want to explore new technologies and acquire
specific skills, such as English literacy, office computer applications, and using
the Internet.
URBAN
HEALTH - CEOs
for Cities is a national bipartisan alliance of mayors, corporate executives,
university presidents and nonprofit leaders created to advance the economic competitiveness
of cities.
- Congressional
Black Caucus Health Brainstrust - transcripts, speeches and other resources
on urban health.
- The Healthy Development
Measurement Tool provides San Francisco residents, community organizations,
and public agencies with a source of data on neighborhood and city conditions
that are important to healthy living. The tool is organized around seven
elements that comprise a healthy city: environmental stewardship; sustainable
and safe transportation; public safety; public infrastructure; adequate and healthy
housing; health economy; and, community participation
- Smart
Library on Urban Poverty, National Institute of Social Science Information
- provides links to issues related to urban poverty.
WOMEN'S
HEALTH - National
Women's Health Information Center - National Women's Health Center
is a service of the Office on Women's Health in the Department of Health and Human
Services. It provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's
health information resources.
- Women's
Health Matters - a free, online women's health
community.
- National
Indian Women's Health Resource Center - is a national non-profit organization
whose mission is "to assist American Indian and Alaska Native women achieve
optimal health and wellbeing throughout their lifetime."
- National
Women's Health Resource Center - is a non-profit organization dedicated
to helping women make informed decisions about their health, encourages women
to embrace healthy lifestyles to promote wellness and prevent disease.
- Office
of Research on Women's Health - serves as a focal point for women's
health research at the National Institutes of Health, and promotes, stimulates,
and supports efforts to improve the health of women through biomedical and behavioral
research.
- A
Place for Women - is designed for the fast access to sound information
on decreasing the risk of breast cancer.
- Reproductive
Health Initiative - is a project of the American Medical Women's Association
that provides resources and services to strengthen reproductive health medical
education and help students and educators address topics commonly neglected in
medical school curricula.
- Society
for Women's Health Research - is the nation's only non-profit advocacy
group whose sole mission is to improve the health of women through research.
- The
White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is comprised of individuals and
organizations who are committed to raising the world's and their community's awareness
of safe motherhood and that women do not have to die during pregnancy and childbirth.
- The
Women and Infants Service Package on Needs in Emergencies presents a framework
for the minimum and initial actions needed to respond to the essential health
care needs of pregnant women, new mothers, fragile newborns, and infants in a
crisis or emergency, such as a natural disaster, an epidemic, or a terrorist event.
- Women
with Disabilities - offers comprehensive information on issues that
are important to women with disabilities, such as abuse, financial assistance,
sexuality, substance information, services and support.
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