Regional Networks

Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex CCPH Regional Network

Community-campus partnership strategies are beginning to take hold in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex region. Through targeted efforts, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW) CCPH Regional Network plans to work closely with community-based organizations and health professional schools throughout the region to identify mutual needs. Students will be involved during all phases of the Network's development and activities, including involving student leaders on the Network's leadership team.

Specific Activities of the Regional Network

Infrastructure
In addition to a diverse leadership team (see below), the Regional Network will establish a Regional Advisory Committee and identify service-learning champions from academic institutions and from community-based organizations to advise the Network.

Professional Development
In August 2003, the Regional Network will conduct a workshop to promote concepts of service-learning, community-based participatory research and other community-campus strategies. Workshop content will be shaped by a regional needs assessment and include a background presentation describing the full-scope of community partnership strategies, coalition building and community capacity building. The workshop will incorporate an assessment tool to evaluate the workshop and measure the familiarity and acceptance of service-learning concepts by community-based organizations.

Outreach & Dissemination
The Regional Network plans to incorporate its activities into the Masters in Public Health capstone class at the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center. To facilitate this and its overall efforts, they will utilize a website and a listserv of community and academic partners to disseminate information and link organizations throughout the region. They will further extend their reach by developing a brochure focusing on service-learning that will be distributed throughout the region.

Region
The region covers the Dallas-Forth Worth and Denton area. This is a three county region with a population of 4.1 million people and 20 institutions of higher education. Residents from outlying areas tend to seek services from providers in the Metroplex and, as a result, the reach of higher educational institutions and healthcare often affects an even greater population.

Organizational Home & Leadership Team

Faculty and student leaders from the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center's School of Public Health and Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing, as well as representatives from local city and county health departments, and community based organizations will spearhead the Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex CCPH Regional Network.

Claudia Coggin, Instructor and Public Health Practice Coordinator, University of North Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health
Carol Stehly, Instructor, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Carol Cason, Associate Dean for Research, University of Texas Arlington, School of Nursing
Glenda Thompson, Associate Director of Community Health and Public Health Nursing, Tarrant County Health Department
Rowena Wooters, Director of Information, Assessment, Outreach, City of Forth Worth Health Department
Bea Nealy, Executive Director, Do It for Me, Mom Cervical and Breast Cancer Education Program
Sally Hopper, Executive Director, Dental Health for Arlington, Inc.
Matt Richardson, Director of the Prairie Area Health Education Center Betina Fisher, President of the Public Health Student Association
Clayton Roberts, President of the Student Chapter of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians
Fernando Trevino, Dean of the School of Public Health Mark Hahn, Dean of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Tim Coleridge, Chairman of Department of Family Medicine of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Hector Balcazar, Chairman of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health

To learn more about Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, visit www.ccph.info. For more specific information about this CCPH Regional Network please contact:

Claudia S. Coggin
Instructor and Public Health Practice Coordinator
University of North Texas Health Science Center
School of Public Health
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76107
Phone: (817) 735-2360
Fax: (817) 735-0255
Email: cogginc@hsc.unt.edu

Carol Stehly
Director Service Learning/Community Partnerships
University of North Texas Health Science Center
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd., ME 4-280
Fort Worth, TX 76107
Phone: (817) 735-0225
Fax: (817) 735-5089
Email: cstehly@hsc.unt.edu

The CCPH Regional Networks are supported in part by a grant from the federal Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve America: Higher Education.