Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships

Milwaukee, WI USA

Who should Attend

The conference is expected to draw a diverse group of over 500 participants from across the U.S., Canada and other countries, reflecting key stakeholders in community-campus partnerships, including leaders from grassroots, community-based and non-profit organizations, government agencies, philanthropies, professional associations, schools, higher educational institutions and student service organizations.

Conference participants will include both those who are new to community-campus partnerships and looking for the basics to get started, and those who have been involved for many years and are looking for more advanced knowledge, skills and connections. A special invitation is extended to youth, students, junior faculty and community leaders who are just beginning their involvement in service-learning and community-based participatory research.

Conference Goals & Objectives

The conference aims to:

• Mobilize and inspire community-campus partnerships to address the root causes of health, social and economic inequalities
• Demonstrate and celebrate the power and potential of community-campus partnerships to transform at all levels
• Build the capacity of communities and institutions to engage in authentic partnerships
• Provide an inclusive and dynamic forum to network, share information and build skills
• Foster peer networks around shared roles, interests and goals
• Facilitate participants' commitment to specific actions they can take to advance social justice
• Shape the program and policy agendas of CCPH and co-sponsoring organizations
• Transform the community-campus partnerships movement by connecting people, partnerships and networks from around the world

Conference Sub-Themes

Connference sessions will address one or more of the 8 major sub-themes listed below.

• Journeys of Transformation
• Sustaining partnerships and the outcomes they achieve
• Building capacity
• Community-campus partnerships as a global movement
• Innovative and promising partnership practices
• Community-based participatory research as a tool for social justice
• Interprofessional, interdisciplinary and/or intersectoral collaborations
• Youth and student leadership

For more information on the conference please visit: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf09-cfp.html