[PNWHEALTH] Dec 6 Seminar in Seattle: Advancing Authentic Community-Higher Education Partnerships

[Sarena Seifer]

*please excuse cross-postings

Dear colleagues,

Please join Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) for a brown bag 
lunch seminar sponsored by the Department of Health Services, University of 
Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine:

Date/Time: Wednesday December 6 from 12-1:30 pm

Title: Advancing Authentic Community-Higher Education Partnerships by 
Mobilizing a National Network of Experienced Community Partners

Speakers:

Sarena D. Seifer, Executive Director, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 
and Research Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, University of 
Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine

Kristine Wong, Program Director, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, 
Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health 
and Community Medicine

Location: Health Sciences Center, 1959 Pacific Avenue NE, Room H670

Directions: http://sphcm.washington.edu/visit.asp
http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?Magnuson+Health+Sciences+Center

Topic: Partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions
as a strategy for social change are gaining recognition and momentum. 
Community-based participatory research partnerships, for example, are 
increasingly viewed as key to understanding and eliminating health disparities. 
Despite being formed with the best of intentions, however, authentic 
partnerships are very difficult to achieve. While academic partners have 
extensively documented their experiences and lessons learned, the voices of 
community partners are largely missing. If true partnerships are to be 
achieved, community partners must harness their own experiences, lessons 
learned, and collective wisdom into a national, organized effort.

With guidance from a planning committee of community leaders, Community-Campus 
Partnerships for Health convened a Community Partner Summit in April 2006 with 
funding from the WK Kellogg Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies and Johnson 
Foundation and support from 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.  A diverse group of community leaders with extensive experience in 
community-higher education partnerships, engaged in a purposeful national 
dialogue that emphasized lessons learned and generated recommendations and 
action steps that participants are taking individually and collectively.

This seminar will report on major Summit outcomes, including community 
perspectives on key ingredients and benefits of authentic partnerships, what 
has worked and has not worked in these partnerships, and recommendations for 
communities, higher educational institutions, funding agencies and policy 
makers.  The speakers will solicit audience perspectives and facilitate a 
discussion of possible implications for local policies and practices.

For more information about the seminar, please contact Alice Gronski at (206) 
543-7952 or agronski at u.washington.edu

For more information about the Community Partner Summit, please contact 
Kristine Wong at (206) 543-7954 or kristine at u.washington.edu

For more information on Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, please visit 
www.ccph.info