Nominations due February 16 for the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Award

[Guest guest]

*please forward to others who may be interested

Dear migrant health research colleagues,

Nominations are due February 16 for the Community-Campus Partnerships for

Health (CCPH) Annual Award!

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/awards.html

The CCPH Award recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher

educational institutions that build on each other's strengths to improve higher

education, civic engagement, and the overall health of communities.

The intent of the CCPH Award is to highlight the power and potential of

community-campus partnerships. As a strategy, these partnerships can

contribute to achieving many significant outcomes, including but not limited

to: eliminating health disparities; producing community-responsive, culturally

competent health professionals; increasing the diversity of the health

workforce; expanding access to higher education, health care and technology;

and advancing economic, social and environmental justice.

The award recognizes work being done by community-campus partnerships to

achieve CCPH strategic goals, including:

* Combining the knowledge and wisdom in communities and in academic

institutions to solve major health, social and/or economic challenges.

* Building the capacity of communities and higher educational

institutions to engage each other in authentic partnerships.

* Supporting communities in their work with academic partners.

* Recognizing and rewarding faculty for community engagement and

community-engaged scholarship.

* Developing partnerships that balance power and share resources among

partners.

* Ensuring that community-driven social change is central to

service-learning and community-based participatory research.

Through the CCPH Award we seek to recognize community-campus partnerships that:

* Others can aspire to.

* Embody the CCPH principles (see

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/principles.html#principles).

* Pursue multiple community-campus partnership strategies.

* Involve a full range of partners.

* Achieve significant outcomes that go beyond a process or a single

event.

The CCPH Award recipient will receive:

1. Public recognition of the partnership's achievements at an award

presentation ceremony at the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 10th

anniversary conference, April 11-14, 2007 in Toronto, ON Canada (Two

partnership representatives will accept the award on behalf of the partnership

at CCPH's expense). For more information on the conference, visit

www.ccph.info.

2. Two commemorative plaques.

3. A press release and newsletter articles announcing the award and

describing the partnership.

4. A description of the partnership on the CCPH website, with links to the

partnership's website.

5. An opportunity to publish an article about the partnership in one of

the peer-reviewed publications affiliated with the CCPH 10th anniversary

conference (for list, see:

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-cfp.html#Publication).

6. Special opportunities to present at CCPH-sponsored forums that

highlight promising practices.

Any partnerships that are selected for an honorable mention will receive #3-#6

above.

To be eligible, the applicant must be an established partnership involving one

or more community partners and one or more higher education partners. By

" community partner " we mean an individual, organization or agency that

contributes to the partnership and is not a higher education partner. By

" higher education partner " we mean a community college, college, university or

residency program (including affiliated administrators, faculty, staff and

students) that contributes to the partnership.

Partnerships must nominate themselves and need not be members of CCPH.

Partnerships that have applied in the past but did not receive the award or

honorable mentions may re-submit. We welcome nominations from any country or

nation. CCPH can only accept nominations in English.

For details, please visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/awards.html

For information on past CCPH Award recipients and honorable mentions, please

visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/awards.html

Questions about the CCPH Award, including requests for consultation by

phone, should be sent to award06@...

To receive the monthly CCPH E-News (a monthly e-mail containing the latest

news about CCPH), sign up at

https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccph_news

******************************************************************************

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) promotes health (broadly

defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational

institutions. We are a growing network of over 1,300 communities and campuses

throughout the United States, Canada and increasingly the world that are

collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based

participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership

strategies. Become a member today at www.ccph.info

CCPH is the Higher Education Senior Program Advisor for the Learn and

Serve America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Visit the

Clearinghouse at www.servicelearning.org

Join CCPH for our 10th Anniversary Conference, April 11-14, 2007 in Toronto

Mobilizing Partnerships for Social Change

See www.ccph.info for details!

******************************************************************************