ABSTRACT
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization whose primary goal is the partnering of higher educational institutions with their communities in order to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, and broad-based coalitions (Witten, 2008). Context Journal shares this goal and has therefore partnered with CCPH in order to provide its readers with new and exciting research from the 2008 CCPH conference. The following are the abstracts of information that was presented at the conference that complement the vision of the For Example section, in that they profile innovative student-led programs.
Fireside chat on creating and testing an Academic NGO network to enhance health equity
Session Format: Story session
Intended Skill Level: Beginner
Sub-Theme(s): Understanding and Addressing the Social Determinants of Health; Developing the Science of Community-Based or Practice-Based Evidence
Authors (Presenters in bold): Vivian A. Robinson, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada; Wendy Muckle, Ottawa Inner City Health Initiative, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Caroline Kisia-Nyamai, AfriAfya, Nairobi, Kenya; Peter Tugwell, Centre for Global Health, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada; Aleida ter Kuile, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Vic Neufeld, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada
We will describe the creation and testing of an academic NGO (non-governmental organization) network focused on improving health equity by the production and ethical application of relevant knowledge for disadvantaged populations. This story session will focus on lessons learned and achievements of a partnership between the Ottawa Inner City Health Initiative, AfriAfya and the University of Ottawa. Achievements include outputs (eg grants and publications), outcomes (collaborative knowledge networks) and impact (changes in practice, policy and health outcomes) related to enhancing health of disadvantaged and socially excluded populations in Ottawa and Kenya. This responds to the theme on determinants of health and also relates to the theme on developing a science of practice-based evidence.
To share story of academic NGO model of creating practice-based evidence to enhance health equity through community-campus partnerships
To invite participants to explore lessons learned on what worked, what didn't and why and to contribute their own experiences
To develop an action plan to build on Acango model, evaluate practice and policy impact and increase membership
Session Learning Objectives:
To recognize opportunity and benefits of working with community partners to create practice-based evidence
To describe facilitators and barriers to building mutually beneficial partnerships between academe, community-based NGOs and other stakeholders (eg policy, press, public, private sector, practitioners)
To build skills in developing an evaluation framework to assess the outputs, outcomes and impact of community-campus partnerships
Dialogue- each of 3 presenters from AfriAfya, OICHI and University of Ottawa will be asked to respond to questions related to how the Acango network was created, lessons learned, perceived and measured value and benefit, perceived barriers to participation, priorities for the future.
Breakout sessions to discuss case studies and propose action plan to scale up and assess policy, community and practice impact
Develop action plan/next steps
Mobilizing Communities for Social Change Through Primary Prevention: The DELTA Experience
Session Format: Skill-building workshop
Intended Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Sub-Theme(s): From Grassroots Movements to Policy Change; Communities as Centers of Learning, Discovery and Engagement
Authors (Presenters in bold): Joshua B. Edward, Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Juneau, AK, USA; Rhonda Johnson, Health Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, USA; Shannon Major, Advocates for Victims of Violence, Valdez, AK, USA; Julia Smith, Sitkans Against Family Violence, Sitka, AK, USA
Four Alaska communities have been funded for coordinated community response based primary prevention efforts since 2003. Content will address how local, community-based knowledge and wisdom has succeeded in fostering locally developed “practice based evidence” related to community mobilization and primary prevention of intimate partner violence. Presenters will review activities, curriculums, and capacity development efforts that have proven successful in fostering community-level social change over the life of the project.
To provide participants with useful tools and strategies for community capacity development related to primary prevention of intimate partner violence
To review “lessons learned” in community mobilization and grass roots organization as a result of long-term funding for community based social change
To discuss efforts to make primary prevention and community mobilization efforts sustainable, including funding and state-level capacity development
Session Learning Objectives:
To gain specific strategies to use within local communities to increase individual and community capacity as social change agents
To increase knowledge related to existing resources and activities for working with youth in intimate partner violence prevention
To understand development and implementation of a coordinated community response model for prevention of intimate partner violence
Presenters will facilitate an activity designed to encourage conceptualization of primary prevention of intimate partner violence (15 min.);
Review the history of the DELTA project, and local, state, and national efforts related to coordinated community response development within the project (45 min);
Facilitate small group exercises related to community capacity development and primary prevention of intimate partner violence (15 min.); and
Close with participant questions (15 min.)
Flint Youth at the Intersection of University-Community Partnerships
Session Format: Skill-building workshop
Track: Community-Academic Partnerships for HIV/AIDS
Intended Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Sub-Theme(s): Communities as Centers of Learning, Discovery and Engagement
Authors (Presenters in bold): Ebony Sandusky, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Dana Thomas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; E. Hill De Loney, Flint Odyssey House: Health Awareness Center, Flint, MI, USA; Yvonne Lewis, Faith Access to Community Economic Development, Flint, MI, USA; Lee Bell, Youth Violence Prevention Center, Flint, MI, USA; Renee Bayer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Ella Green Moton, Community Academic Consultant, Flint, MI, USA
The Ruth Mott Community Health Careers Program is a partnership between the school of public health, the local health department, and community-based organizations (CBOs) in Flint, Michigan. Since 2002, African-American high school students have worked with public health graduate students and CBO staff to carry out projects addressing CBO-identified priority health issues, such as tobacco advertising to teens, HIV/AIDS awareness, and youth violence. Youth participate as true partners in addressing these issues by engaging in public heath research,
education and advocacy, and in disseminating their knowledge to their families, community leaders, funders, and policymakers. Youth can provide a unique voice in framing what and how questions are asked.
To describe Ruth Mott Community Health Careers pipeline program
To gain perspectives on how youth view themselves in the community as collaborators
To learn how collaborative relationships between a university, community-based organizations and high school students can be successful in generating, disseminating and using knowledge in the community
Session Learning Objectives:
To describe how universities and CBOs partner to create programming to empower youth while they explore public health careers and prepare for higher education
To formulate a basic strategic plan that uses community assets, culture, mentoring, whole learning, and technology to engage youth in contributing to community solutions to public health problems
To illustrate how youth can be effective advocates in disseminating knowledge back to their families, community leaders, funders, and policymakers
Presentation: Program Overview from Different Partner Perspectives
Presentation: The HIV 'Zine: A Model for Engaging Youth in Research, Advocacy and Practice
Discussion: The Challenge of Engaging Youth in Community-Academic Collaborations
Concluding Remarks and Evaluation
Collaboration in Action - The Bedlam Longitudinal Clinic: Meeting A Need in the Community
Session: Thematic Poster Session
Sub-Theme(s): Communities as Centers of Learning, Discovery and Engagement
Authors (Presenters in bold): Emma J. Kientz, College of Nursing, The University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, USA; Ron Saizow, Benjamin I. Panter & Elizabeth Klenda, College of Medicine, The University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, USA; Jennifer Skaistis & Brenda Brooks, College of Nursing, The University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, USA
Tulsa, OK has a high rate of uninsured/underinsured populations, many living below poverty level. Strategies to follow-up care and management of the population with chronic disease and illness, combined with student learning needs, provided the impetus to the Bedlam Longitudinal Clinic. Goals include: 1. Greater student understanding of patient population and impact on care 2. Participation in a creative application of innovative community oriented systems of care and 3. Enhanced communication.
Medical students bridging the gap in a community campus partnership to improve health in an over-burdened urban neighborhood
Sub-Theme(s): Understanding and Addressing the Social Determinants of Health; Communities as Centers of Learning, Discovery and Engagement
Authors (Presenters in bold): Sharon L. Younkin, Travelle Franklin-Ford, Oluyemisi Adeyemi & Odinakachukw Ehie, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA; Jessica Connor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
This presentation will describe the development over the past three years of a partnership between an academic health center and a neighborhood wellness center. Medical students gathered information from community members and area service agencies in order to develop health education programming designed to meet the needs and address the barriers of an urban underserved community. The objective of the partnership is to address the broad determinants of health and improve community well being.
SPARCing Change: Adventures of a Student Advocacy Group at Johns hopkins school of public health
Session Format: Story session
Intended Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Sub-Theme(s): From Grassroots Movements to Policy Change
Authors (Presenters in bold): Caroline Fichtenberg, Baltimore City Health Department; Becky Genberg, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Jay Graham, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Susan Ghanbarpour, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Clara Goldberg Freeman, Department of Health Policy and Management , Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Mindi B. Levin, Student Outreach Resource Center (SOURCE), Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing & Public Health;
Kamila Mistry, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Helaine Rutkowl, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Emma Tsui, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Amanda L. Vogel, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
SPARC (Students for a Positive Academic paRtnership with the East Baltimore Community) is a student advocacy group at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health promoting a greater institutional commitment to our community. We will: 1) describe how SPARC created an organized student advocacy group; 2) highlight major SPARC activities; 3) discuss the strategic thinking behind these activities; and 4) describe how SPARC has contributed to change at JHSPH.
To describe how students at JHSPH created SPARC, an advocacy group to promote greater institutional commitment to East Baltimore.
To describe SPARC activities to mobilize students, faculty, and administrators around the need for greater institutional commitment to the community.
To explain the strategic thinking behind this choice of activities, and to discuss how SPARC has contributed to change at the institution.
Session Learning Objectives:
To follow steps to develop a student advocacy group, such as creating an organizational structure, a communications system, and a strategic plan.
To think strategically about what advocacy goals and mobilization activities would be appropriate to their own institutional settings.
To understand how to develop a student body survey, a student assembly resolution, and a faculty-student discussion series similar to SPARC's.
Overview of SPARC: mission, vision
Origins: Uniting around shared interests
Mobilizing support: Student body survey; publicizing results to administrators, faculty, students
Creating a formal advocacy group: organization, communications, strategic planning
Actions: Student Assembly resolution, faculty discussion series, awareness raising events
Influencing organizational culture: Serving as student representatives on committees
How SPARC has contributed to change
Agency-based Courses for Students in Public Health: Stepping Stones to University-Community Partnerships
Session: Thematic Poster Session
Sub-Theme(s): Communities as Centers of Learning, Discovery and Engagement
Authors (Presenters in bold): Natasha A. Brown, Eric Hulsey, Yvette Wing, Anna Hall, Shruti Ramachandram, Mara DeLuca & Jessica Burke, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
The Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sci. at the University of Pittsburgh recently began a partnership with Hosanna House, Inc., a local community center. We used student journals, course evaluations and key informant interviews to describe attitudes and perspectives towards holding a departmental community development course at Hosanna House. Overall, the experience positively affected students' personal and professional development and was well-received by faculty and staff at both organizations.
Getting the Lead Out: From the classroom to the community
Sub-Theme(s): Communities as Centers of Learning, Discovery and Engagement; Developing the Science of Community-Based or Practice-Based Evidence
Authors (Presenters in bold): Jody S. Nicholson, Christine Janesheski, Mary Beckman, Jaelyn R. Farris & Kathryn K. Baron, Notre Dame Center for Children and Families, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA; Sue Taylor, Women, Infants, and Children, South Bend, IN, USA; Dennis Jacobs, Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA; Jay Caponigro, Robinson Community Learning Center, South Bend, IN, USA; Bob Hallmen & John Michael Hutchins, Greentree Environmental, Portage, IN, USA
This poster presents the “Get the Lead Out” project, an excellent example of community-campus partnerships for health. It discusses challenges and advantages of community/university partnerships.
The Last Straw: A Social Determinants of Health Board Game!
Session: Thematic Poster Session
Sub-Theme(s): Understanding and Addressing the Social Determinants of Health; From Grassroots Movements to Policy Change
Authors (Presenters in bold): Kate Rossiter, Department of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Kate Reeve, School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
This board game was created by two graduate students at University of Toronto as a tool for teaching the social determinants of health (SDOH). “The Last Straw” is designed to help players experience social roles other than their own in order to understand broad factors that influence health. The game reflects current research on the SDOH, including the importance of race, gender and SES. The game's underlying values stem from a position of social justice and equity. Over the last 2 years, The Last Straw has been played as an interactive workshop with many community health agencies across Toronto who aim to utilize an SDOH approach. In this poster, following the game itself, discussion will revolve around the incorporation of academic SDOH research into community work and the role of creativity in campus/community partnerships.
Examples of good practices on working with `vulnerable' populations in health research in Canada
Sub-Theme(s): Understanding and Addressing the Social Determinants of Health; Developing the Science of Community-Based or Practice-Based Evidence
Authors (Presenters in bold): Roxana Salehi, Student (PhD Candidate), Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
This poster presents examples of good practices on working with vulnerable populations in Canada. It will discuss health related CBR projects that had success incorporating innovative elements in various stages of the research - from study design to dissemination and evaluation. The poster portrays the point of view of academics working closely with community partners. Academic refereed journal articles are the primary source of information for this poster.
Witten, A. (2008). Community-campus partnerships for health. Retrieved October 21, 2008, from http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/.
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