Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's 11th Conference Call for Proposals - Deadline Approaching October 10, 2008

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Dear migrant health research colleagues,

The call for proposals for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's

11th Conference " Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation

Through Partnerships, " April 29-May 2, 2009 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is

now available under " coming up " at www.ccph.info.

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

defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational

institutions, including through service-learning and community-based

participatory research. Learn more about CCPH at www.ccph.info

The proposal deadline is October 10, 2008. Be sure to mark your

calendars for April 29-May 2, 2009 and plan now to join hundreds of your

colleagues for 4 days of skill-building, networking and agenda-setting

in CCPH's new home city! Proposals for pre-conference workshops, story

sessions, skill-building workshops, film screening and discussion

session, and posters are sought that relate to one or more of these

sub-themes (see the complete call for proposals for specific examples).

(1) Journeys of Transformation - proposals that demonstrate the

transformational power of community-campus partnerships.

(2) Sustaining partnerships and the outcomes they achieve - proposals

that demonstrate how partnerships and the outcomes they achieve can be

sustained over time.

(3) Building capacity - proposals that demonstrate strategies for

building capacity among all partners involved in a partnership.

(4) Community-campus partnerships as a global movement - proposals that

demonstrate community-campus partnerships from across the globe. We are

especially interested in sessions that are proposed and sponsored by

international networks of these partnerships.

(5) Innovative and promising partnership practices - proposals that

demonstrate innovative and promising practices in partnerships.

(6) Community-based participatory research as a tool for social justice

- proposals that demonstrate community-based participatory research

(CBPR) as a tool for social justice. We welcome proposals that use a

different term to describe work that has similar meaning (e.g., action

research, empowerment research, community owned and managed research).

(7) Interprofessional, interdisciplinary and/or intersectoral

collaborations - proposals that demonstrate these sorts of

collaborations.

(8) Youth and student leadership - proposals that demonstrate the

leadership roles played by youth and students in community-campus

partnerships.

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

through partnerships between communities and higher educational

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

Join us for CCPH's 11th Conference, April 29-May 2, 2009 in Milwaukee, WI!

Conference proposals are due October 10, 2008 - see www.ccph.info

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