[Cbrnet] Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award Announced

[Sarena Seifer]

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                              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 29, 2005

For more information on CCPH or the CCPH award, contact Jen Kauper-Brown
at 206-543-7954 or jenbr at u.washington.edu or visit www.ccph.info.

For more information on the CCPH annual award winner, contact: Liz Sterba
at 916-734-2156 or elizabeth.sterba at ucdmc.ucdavis.edu or visit
www.cpt-online.org

Communities & Physicians Together Receives Community-Campus Partnerships
for Health Annual Award

Partnership Noted for its Asset-Based Approach to Improving Child Health

Communities & Physicians Together is the recipient of the 4th annual
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award. The award highlights the
power and potential of partnerships between communities and higher
educational institutions as a strategy for improving health. Selected
from a competitive pool of nominations, Communities & Physicians Together
(CPT) is a partnership that draws upon the assets of communities and
physicians-in-training to improve child health and support families in
raising healthy children.  Employing the principles of asset-based
community development, CPT teaches pediatric residents how to identify
community assets and resources, build partnerships with community
collaboratives, and leverage these partnerships to enhance the capacity
to improve child health in each community.  The partnership is guided by
their vision: All children deserve the opportunity to achieve their
physical, mental and social potential. Pediatricians have a broad
responsibility to optimize child health and development by helping build
capacity in communities and supporting families. CPT strives to give
every child a healthy present and future by teaching pediatricians, both
in training and in practice, how to make a difference through active
community partnerships to support families in raising healthy children."

The partnership is comprised of five volunteer community collaboratives
in Sacramento & Yuba Counties; the University of California, Davis
Department of Pediatrics; the American Academy of Pediatrics Community
Access To Child Health (CATCH) program in California; and Sacramento
ENRICHES (Engaging Neighborhood Resources for Improving Childrens
Health, Education and Safety).

Since the establishment of CPT in 1999, 54 pediatric residents and
faculty have addressed an array of community-identified concerns,
including obesity prevention, safety education, and health education in
immigrant and minority communities.  Evaluations of CPT have shown that
community leaders value their participation in CPT and view the pediatric
residents as assets to the community, while at the same time pediatric
residents gain an understanding that working in partnership with
communities allows physicians to impact health and fitness in a much
broader manner.

"Communities & Physicians Together is developing sustainable partnerships
between future and practicing physicians and communities that unites them
around the shared goal of improving child health, noted CCPH Executive
Director, Sarena D. Seifer in announcing the award. CPTs asset-based,
values-driven and relationship-centered approach is a hallmark of this
model partnership.

Accepting the award on behalf of the partnership were Peggy Tapping,
Executive Director, Sacramento ENRICHES and Richard Pan, Associate
Residency Director, Department of Pediatrics, UC Davis Children's
Hospital.  We have worked hard over the last six years to make this
partnership work. At times we have struggled but all of us believe that
teaching advocacy to physicians in a grass roots setting benefits our
families as well as the physicians.  This award validates the time and
energy that we have put into making this partnership successful," said
Tapping. "We are proud to receive this year's award.  Building strong
communities is essential for a healthy America, and we look forward to
sharing and learning how to create community-campus partnerships to
achieve this goal," added Pan.

Communities & Physicians Together will share more information about their
winning partnership on a teleconference call to be held October 19, 2005
at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST.  To register for the call, visit
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/tools/webq3/?sid=5746&owner=jenbr.

Nomination guidelines for the 2006 CCPH Award will be released in
November 2005 and posted online at www.ccph.info

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit
organization that promotes health through partnerships between
communities and higher educational institutions.  Founded in 1996, CCPH
is a growing network of over 1000 communities and campuses that are
collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based
participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other
community-academic partnership strategies. These partnerships are
powerful tools for improving health professional education, civic
engagement and the overall health of communities. Become a member today
at www.ccph.info

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization
that promotes health through partnerships between communities and
higher educational institutions.  Become a member today at www.ccph.info

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