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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

E. Hill DeLoney¹, Elmer Freeman, MSW², Ella Greene-Moton¹, Chris Hanssmann³, E. Yvonne Lewis⁴, Gerry Roll⁵, Monte Roulier⁶, Sarena D. Seifer, MD⁷, Lucille Webb⁸, Kristine Wong, MPH³, and Vickie Ybarra, RN, MPH⁹. (1) Flint Odyssey House Health Awareness Center, 1225 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., Flint, MI 48503, 206-616-4306, EllaGreMo@aol.com, (2) Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, 716 Columbus Avenue, Suite 398, Boston, MA 02120, (3) Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, UW Box 354809, Seattle, WA 98195-4809, (4) Faith Access to Community Economic Development, 310 East Third Street, 5th Floor, Flint, MI 48503, (5) Hazard Perry Counties Community Ministries, Inc., P.O. Box 1506, Hazard, KY P.O. Box 150, (6) Community Initiatives, 2119 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, CO 80304, (7) Community Campus Partnerships for Health, UW Box 354809, Seattle, WA 98195-4809, (8) Strengthening the Black Family, Inc, P.O. Box 28716, Raleigh, NC 27601-2408, (9) Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, 402 N. 4th St., Suite 202, Yakima, WA 98901

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 2006 with funding from the WK Kellogg Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies and Johnson Foundation and support from the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of APHA, the National Community-Based Organization Network and the National Community Committee of the CDC Prevention Research Centers. A diverse group of 25 community leaders, each with over 5 years of 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. We report on major Summit outcomes, including community perspectives on key ingredients and benefits of authentic partnerships, case studies of what has worked and has not worked in these partnerships and recommendations for communities, higher educational institutions, funding agencies and policy makers. We also invite participation in post-Summit activities, including disseminating and implementing Summit recommendations.

Learning Objectives:

1.Describe the characteristics of an authentic community-higher education partnership 2.Articulate the risks and benefits to communities of partnering with higher educational institutions
• Articulate the risks and benefits to higher educational institutions of partnering with communities 4.List at least three recommendations for advancing authentic community-higher education partnerships
• List at least three ways to get involved in post-Summit activities.

Keywords: Community-Based Public Health, Partnerships

Related Web page: www.ccph.info

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