PRESS RELEASE: Second Annual Community-Campus Partnerships for HealthAwa

Dear Service-Learning Colleagues, 
The award recipient announced below promotes service-learning as an integral 
part of 
their work.  See more details below and by checking out the websites.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

For more information, contact Stacy L. Holmes at 206-543-7954 or
slholmes@u.washington.edu, or visit
http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph/awards.html. 
 

RECIPIENT OF THE SECOND ANNUAL COMMUNITY-CAMPUS PARTNERSHIPS FOR 
HEALTH AWARD
ANNOUNCED AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE


Monday, April 28 2003
SAN DIEGO, CA -- The Center for Healthy Communities of Dayton, Ohio is the
recipient of the second annual Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award.
The award, which highlights the power and potential of partnerships between
communities and higher educational institutions, was announced today at
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's 7th annual conference in San Diego,
California. Selected from a competitive pool of nominations, the award
recipient is working to improve health professions education, civic
responsibility and the overall health of their communities. "Nearly a decade
since its founding, the Center for Healthy Communities has proven to be a 
facilitator of 
positive change in neighborhoods and in health professional schools," noted 
CCPH 
Executive Director  Sarena D. Seifer in announcing the award.  "The Center's 
approach 
to building and sustaining partnerships, with its emphasis on community 
capacity 
building, is a model we can all learn from."
 

2003 CCPH Award Recipient

The Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) is a community academic partnership
dedicated to improving access to and utilization of health care services for
the underserved, and improving health professions education.  Located in
Dayton, Ohio, CHC brings together allied health, medical, nursing, social work
and professional psychology higher education training programs with public
education, health and housing departments, social services and faith based
organizations, local and state government, hospitals and HMOs to better
integrate the public health safety net, to better coordinate and utilize
existing resources, and to develop additional services as needed.  

Contact person: Katherine Cauley, katherine.cauley@wright.edu, (937) 775-1114
For more information visit the CCPH website at: 
http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph/awards2003CHC.html


In addition, the following partnerships received an honorable mention for the
2003 CCPH Annual Award:

The Ottawa Inner City Health Project  is an innovative approach to meeting the
health needs of the chronically homeless in Ottawa. This pilot project was
developed through partnerships among the University of Ottawa, shelters for the
homeless, municipal government, the Ottawa Hospital, mental health providers,
community based health and social services and homeless persons. In addition,
the Inner City Health Project is involved in leading community research,
service learning, curriculum development, and is piloting a web-based health
record, accessible to health care providers wherever the homeless receive
assistance. 
Contact person: Wendy Muckle, wmuckle@uottawa.ca, (613) 562-4500
For more information: http://www.med.uottawa.ca/ichpsuo/

The St. Lawrence County Health Initiative, Inc. was formed through a
grass-roots effort to identify and address community health problems focusing
on access to care, nutrition and fitness, and substance abuse.  The structure
of the partnership includes member organizations, a board of directors, task
groups and paid staff.  The partners include the State University of New York
at Potsdam, county government, local businesses and hospitals, community
residents and several other higher education institutions and community
organizations.  
Contact person: Tedra Cobb, cobbtl@potsdam.edu, (315) 267-2740
For more information: http://www.slchiinc.org/
 

As a strategy for social change, community-campus partnerships can contribute
to a number of significant outcomes, such as producing community-responsive,
culturally competent health professionals; increasing the diversity of the
health professional workforce; expanding access to health care and technology;
and supporting economic, social and environmental justice. 


For more information on the 2003 CCPH Award recipients, please visit the CCPH
website: http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph/awards.html

The 2004 CCPH Award Call for Nominations will be released in Fall 2003.  The
3rd annual CCPH award will be announced during the international conference
cosponsored by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and The Network: Toward
Unity for Health, October 6-10, 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia USA.   Please mark
your calendars and plan to join us for this unprecedented event.  For more
information about The Network, visit www.the-network.org 
 
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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization that
promotes health through partnerships between communities and educational
institutions.  In just five years, we have grown to a network of over 1000
communities and campuses that are collaborating to promote health through
service-learning, community-based research, community service and other
partnership strategies. These partnerships are powerful tools for improving
health professional education, civic responsibility and the overall health of
communities. Learn more about CCPH at http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html.