One week left to apply for Introductory Service-Learning Institute

Applications due no later than May 21!

Dear Colleagues,

WHAT: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's 6th annual 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

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

You may also contact program director Piper Krauel at 415-502-7933 or
piperk@itsa.ucsf.edu

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 community-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 and SL coordinators from medicine,
dentistry, nursing, health education, pharmacy, public health, physician
assistant, pre-health professions and social work programs, among others.

This year's mentors include:
Annette Canfield, Center for Healthy Communities, Wright State University
Janet Eyler, Vanderbilt University
Karen Yoder, Indiana University School of Dentistry
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 nonprofit organization that
fosters 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.  Learn more about us on our website at
http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html