Application deadline approaching for CCPH's service-learning institute

Dear SL Colleagues,

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health will be holding our 6th
annual Introductory Service-Learning Institute, June 23-26, 2001 in the
Cascade Mountains of Washington State.   The application deadline is
approaching quickly - April 20!   Please circulate the announcement
below to your colleagues involved in the health professions -
allied health, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, public health and so forth!

Thanks for your continued support of service-learning and of CCPH!

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WHAT: CCPH 2001 Introductory Service-Learning Institute
THEME: Advancing Educational Innovations for Improved Student Learning and
Community Health
DATE AND LOCATION: June 23-26, 2001 in Leavenworth, WA at the base of the
Cascade Mountains
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, April 20, 2001
FOR MORE INFORMATION: The institute application is now available on our
fax-on-demand service by dialing 1-888-267-9183 and requesting document
#206 or you can download it from our website at
http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph/projects.html

This institute is designed for faculty, staff and community partners who
are new to service-learning or have become involved in service-learning
only recently. If you would like to expand the community-based component of
your curriculum, develop or strengthen partnerships with community
organizations, or better equip future health professionals for
community-based practice, this institute is for you!  Service-learning is
an educational methodology based on a community-campus partnership which
combines student community service with explicit learning objectives.
Service-learning holds great promise for equipping future health
professionals with the comnunity-oriented competencies and civic
responsibilities they will need to be effective in our rapidly changing
health system. Participants work with mentors and colleagues from across
the country. National experts in service-learning pedagogy and health
professions faculty who have incorporated community service into their
courses share program models and reflect with institute participants on the
integration of community service, scholarship and teaching. A unique and
effective aspect of the Institute's approach is inclusion of the mentoring
model -- participants work in small groups and as individuals with mentors
to further shape their own action plans for developing service-learning
curricula. Past institutes drew faculty from medicine, dentistry, nursing,
pharmacy, public health, physician assistant, pre-health professions and
social work programs.

This year's mentors include:
Annette Canfield, Center for Healthy Communities, Wright State University
Janet Eyler, Vanderbilt University
Karen Yoder, Indiana University Dental School
Sarena Seifer, CCPH and University of Washington School of Public Health
Dodi Meyer, Clinical Pediatrics Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
Augusta Villanueva, MCP Hahnemann University School of Public Health
Milagros Batista, Columbia University/Alianza Dominica, Inc.
Carolyn Jenkins, Medical University of South Carolina, College of Nursing

ABOUT CCPH...
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a non-profit organization
committed to fostering partnerships between communities and educational
institutions that build on each other's strengths and develop their roles as
change agents for improving health professions education, civic
responsibility and the overall health of communities. To find out more about
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, our programs and membership
opportunities, please call 415/476-7081 or email ccph@itsa.ucsf.edu