238836 Building and Sustaining Partnerships

Saturday, October 29, 2011: 2:30 PM

Mae-Gilene Begay, MSW , Community Health Representative/Outreach Program, Navajo Nation Division of Health, Window Rock, AZ
The key contributors to building understanding and empowerment regarding health disparities are the community partners that work to develop service learning courses. Discussion will focus on the definition of roles of faculty and partners when developing a service learning course and sustaining the partnership beyond the actual service learning activities. Participants will be engaged in group discussion and role play to identify the barriers and obstacles in developing meaningful community partnerships. Discussion will include methods for integrating community members into the all steps of the planning and reflection activities.

Learning Areas:
Diversity and culture
Public health or related education
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
List 3 characteristics of effective service learning partnerships. Describe barriers to implementing service learning activities in the community. Demonstrate ways to sustain campus community partnerships.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have participated in the development and implementation of service learning courses on the Navajo Nation
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

See more of: Service Learning Models: Increasing our capacity to eliminate health disparities.
See more of: APHA-Learning Institute (APHA-LI)