Dear Service-Learning Colleagues,
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is pleased to announce the
request for proposals for Partners in Caring and Community:
Service-Learning in Nursing Education. This national initiative of CCPH,
sponsored by the Helene Fuld Health Trust, will select and work with ten
teams of nursing faculty--nursing students--community partners to:
*facilitate the integration of service-learning into the curriculum of
nursing education at the associate, undergraduate and graduate degree
levels;
*increase the understanding of and support for service-learning in nursing
education nationally; and
*disseminate new knowledge and information about best practices and models
of service-learning and nursing education
The complete request for proposals is available by dialing CCPH's
fax-on-demand service at 1-888-267-9183 and selecting document #204. (Be
sure to carefully follow the prompts leading you to Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health)
Proposals must be received by 5 pm pacific time on January 25, 1999.
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization that
fosters partnerships between communities and educational institutions that
build on each other's strengths and develops their roles as change agents
for improving health professions education, civic responsibility and the
overall health of communities. One of CCPH's major strategies for
fostering community-campus partnerships is to promote service-learning as
a core component of health professions education.
To learn more about CCPH, please contact Jennet Lee, program assistant, by
phone at 415/476-7081 or by email at ccph@itsa.ucsf.edu You may also wish
to visit our website at http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html
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