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Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples' Health	Cultural Competency	Healthy Campus	Oral Health
Advocacy Art and Health	Distance Learning	Healthy Communities	Primary Care
Assessment and Evaluation	Engaged Campus	Healthy Communities: Examples	Problem-Based Learning
Awards Centers & Clearinghouses	Environmental Health Faculty Development	Interdisciplinary Collaboration	Public Health Research Ethics
Child & Adolescent Health	Faith and Health	International Health	Rural Health
Civic Education & Engagement	Fellowships and Scholarships	International Service Organizations	Science - K-12 Education Partnerships
Community-Based Organizations	Funding	Internet and Health	September 11
Community-Based Participatory Research	Health Careers and Workforce Issues	Journals	Service Learning
Community-Based Participatory Research: Examples	Health & Health Care in K-12 Schools	Liability & Risk Management	Service Learning: Examples
Community Building	Health & Human Rights	Literacy	Student Service
Community-Campus Partnerships	Health Promotion & Disease Prevention	Media and Health	Substance Abuse Prevention
Community-Campus Partnerships: Examples	Health Professions Education: Diversity	Mental Health	Technology
Community-Campus Partnerships: Community Perspectives	Health Professions Education: National Organizations	Minority Health	Urban Health
Community Health Workers			Women's Health
Community Service & Volunteerism

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

Society for the Arts in Healthcare - provides helpful information on grants, research, conferences, and other organizations related to arts in healthcare.

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.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
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

Report of College and University Programs Awarding Credit, Certificates, and/or Degrees in the Community Health Worker Field - published by the Center for Sustainable Health Outreach in 2002, this report profiles 15 programs.

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 Ure�o, 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

John Dewey Project on Progressive Education - takes knowledge based on John Dewey's ideas of progressive education and applies it to concepts that can you applied to contemporary education today and in the future.
Project on the Effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning - describes the three-year research plan at Middlesex University to engage the teaching and learning community in issues dealing with 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

Science Education Partnership Award, National Center for Research Resources - works to promote an understanding of science and encourages scientists to work with educational institutions and community organizations to increase student interest in the sciences.

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.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
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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