Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) and the Community Partner Workgroups would like to invite you to participate in a three-part Community Partner Conference Call Series taking place in May and June 2008.
All calls take place from 12 - 1:30 pm PST / 3 - 4:30 pm EST and are free of charge for those dialing in from Canada and the US. We especially encourage participation from community members and their academic/institutional partners, but all who are interested in these issues may join in. Registration is limited, but audiofiles will be posted afterwards on the CCPH website. To sign up for one or more calls, please visit:
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/ccphuw/54723
Call 1: May 27, 2008:
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) as a Strategy for Social Change: Perspectives from a Community-Academic Partnership
*What is CBPR? Why is it increasingly being used as a strategy for social change?
*How have community partners used CBPR to benefit their communities?
*What are the challenges, and lessons learned in working with institutional partners on CBPR partnerships?
*What needs to happen so that community partners can truly engage in authentic CBPR partnerships?
*What are the responsibilities of academic partners to their community partners in these types of partnerships?
Speakers
Omega Wilson, West End Revitalization Association, Mebane, North Carolina
Sacoby Wilson, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Chris Heaney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Moderator: Ann-Gel Palermo, Harlem Community and Academic Partnership (HCAP), New York, NY
Call 2: June 13, 2008:
An Environmental Scan of Community Engagement in Health Research
* What's the current climate for community engagement in research?
* As health research funding agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, increase their emphasis on clinical and translational research and CBPR, the question arises: what do we mean by community engagement in research?
* How are community leaders organizing at local and national levels to impact research priorities, funding and conduct?
Speakers and Moderator: To be announced.
Call 3: June 24, 2008:
Engaging in CBPR: Tips & Strategies for Community Leaders
* How do community leaders concerned about the health of their communities get connected with researchers who share their interests? Why would they even want to?
* What resources are out there to help support community leaders to develop and sustain effective CBPR partnerships with researchers?
* What infrastructure needs to be in place in community-based organizations to engage in research partnerships and conduct research?
Speakers: Ann-Gel Palermo, HCAP; Speaker 2 - To be announced.
Moderator: CCPH Board Member and Community Partner/Activist Susan Gust, Minneapolis, MN
For more information, please contact Kristine Wong, CCPH Program Director (kristine@u.washington.edu), or Lisa Moy, CCPH Graduate Research Assistant (lmmoy@u.washington.edu).
For more information on the Community Partner Peer Mentoring and Advocacy Program, please visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html
