Achieving the Promise of Authentic Community-Higher Education Partnerships: Community Partners Speak Out!

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From:  Sarena Seifer <sarena at u.washington.edu>


*Please forward this announcement widely to others who may be interested!

Dear comm-org colleagues,

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is excited to release 
Achieving the Promise of Authentic Community-Higher Academic 
Partnerships: Community Partners Speak Out!, a new report about 
community partner perspectives on community-higher education 
partnerships. The report is one of many outcomes of the Community 
Partner Summit that brought together experienced community partners from 
across the U.S. at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin 
in April 2006.   In addition to offering key ingredients and a framework 
for authentic community-higher education partnerships, the report 
details a vision for these partnerships articulated by the Summit's 
community partner participants, along with strategies and 
recommendations on how to achieve this vision. The report also describes 
the work that has been done by these community partners and CCPH since 
the Summit in the areas of peer mentoring, policy development and advocacy.

The report is available as a PDF document on the Community Partner 
Summit webpage at 
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps-summit.html#Products (while you're 
on the site, check out the other Summit publications and resources)

Learn more about the work that's continued since the Summit, including 
opportunities to get involved, at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html.

We invite community members, community partners and community-academic 
liaisons to connect with their peers through the Community Partner 
Listserv at 
https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/communitypartnerlistserv

The Community Partner Summit was co-sponsored by Community-Campus 
Partnerships for Health, the WK Kellogg Foundation, the Johnson 
Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies.  Summit supporting 
organizations included the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the 
American Public Health Association, the National Community-Based 
Organization Network and the National Community Committee of the CDC 
Prevention Research Centers Program.

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