The 11th CCPH Summer Service-Learning Institute will be held July 25-28, 2008. Apply Now! A few spaces are remaining. Click here for instructions on how to apply.

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Participants in CCPH's 10th Summer Service-Learning Institute, July 2007

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is pleased to announce our 11th Summer Service-Learning Institute. Service-learning is a structured learning experience that combines community service with preparation and reflection. Students engaged in service-learning provide community service in response to community-identified concerns and learn about the context in which service is provided, the connection between their service and their academic coursework, and their civic roles. Service-learning helps to equip future health professionals with the community-oriented competencies and commitment to civic engagement they will need to be effective as practitioners and community leaders.

The institute is taught by national experts in service-learning, including health professional faculty and community leaders who have developed successful service-learning partnerships. A unique and effective component of the institute's is a mentoring model in which participants work in small groups and as individuals with mentors (the term we use for institute instructors) to further shape their own action plans for service-learning.

The institute features content and sessions for both novice and experienced service-learning practitioners (faculty, staff and community partners). Novice and experienced practitioners will spend beginning and closing sessions together, as well as all meals and at least one plenary session. The remainder of the 3+ day institute will feature separate sessions designed to focus on issues particular to each group’s unique experience level and situation. Mentors will assist participants to deepen their understanding of service-learning, develop a plan for service-learning sustainability, and form a peer support network that continues long after the institute ends.

During intensive interactive workshops and small group sessions, participants learn about these topics and more:

• The concept of service-learning -- theoretical foundations and current practices, similarities and differences with other forms of community-based learning
• Effective curricular models of service-learning in a variety of health professions disciplines, including interdisciplinary models
• Strategies for developing service-learning courses and programs, promoting reflection, building community-campus partnerships and assessing service-learning outcomes
• The core leadership skills and competencies needed to sustain service-learning partnerships
• Strategies for institutionalizing service-learning into the health professions curriculum
• Methods and models for supporting faculty and staff development in service-learning
• Strategies for developing service-learning scholarship, and documenting that scholarship for promotion and tenure
• Effective methods for assessing service-learning outcomes for faculty, student, community, and institutional stakeholders

Confirmed Mentors for the CCPH 11th Summer Service Learning Institute are:

Suzanne B. Cashman, Associate Professor and Director, Community Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

Magda De La Torre, Assistant Professor and Director, Building Oral Health Care Access Educational Service-Learning Program, School of Allied Health Sciences, Department of Dental Hygiene, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Barbara Gottlieb, Primary Care Internist, Brookside Community Health Center and Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA

Catherine Jarvis, Assistant Dean, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO

Maralynne Mitcham, Professor and Program Director, Occupational Therapy Educational Program, Rehabilitation Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Julie Nigon, Manager, Rochester Adult and Family Literacy Program, Rochester, MN

Richard Redman, Director, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Programs, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Rachel L. Vaughn, Assistant Director for Community-Based Learning, Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center, University of Washington, and Senior Consultant, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, Seattle, WA

Click here for more information about service-learning.

Click here for an article that reports on the outcomes of the CCPH service-learning institute (scroll to page 533).

Click here for proceedings and materials from past CCPH service-learning institutes.

Click here for presentations and handouts from CCPH's 8th Summer Service-Learning Institute held in June 17-20, 2005.

Click here for presentations and handouts from CCPH's 10th Summer Service-Learning Institute held in July 20-23, 2007. Click here for an article about the institute.

Click here for the article "A Framework for Service-Learning in Dental Education" published by CCPH member and Service-Learning Institute mentor Karen Yoder in the February 2006 issue of the Journal of Dental Education.  The article grew out of Karen's presentation at the 2005 Service-Learning Institute.