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TUESDAY, MAY 24th 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS FACILITATED BY COMMUNITY/HIGHER EDUCATION PARTNERS (continued from page 9) Smith 327 Smith 298 Smith 236 Smith 296 Five Points of Partnership: A Campus and Community Partnership Approach to Building Healthier Communities The Five Points of Partnership workshop will prepare participants to effectively participate in creating healthier communities and overcoming complex societal problems that require collaborative solutions. Participants will discuss what makes healthy communities, examine the decline in civic participation, define individual roles in active citizenship, engage in a five-step process of developing effective partnerships, discuss opportunities for incorporating engaged teaching, research and service into partnership activities, and process next steps and opportunities to engage respective campuses and communities in partnership endeavors. Five Points of Partnership and WKU’s Campus & Community Network provide replicable opportunities for engaged scholarship activities such as service-learning and community-based research. This session will provide steps in developing an applied learning experience aimed at building capacity for democratic engagement. Presenters: Leah Ashwill, Director, ALIVE Center for Community Partnerships, Western Kentucky University Terry Shoemaker, Program Coordinator, WKU Institute for Citizenship & Responsibility Courte Voorhees, Assistant Professor, WKU Institute for Citizenship & Social Responsibility The Battle between “Helping” and “Serving”: Creating Learning Environments that Model Reciprocity Utilizing Rachel Remen’s “Helping, Fixing or Serving” paradigm this interactive and reflective presentation will facilitate a discussion on how to promote meaningful learning and service outcomes while forging reciprocal campus-community partnerships. With the assumption that community engaged partnerships must challenge students’ notions of helping and fixing to prepare them to emerge as leaders for social change, the session will explore the roles of faculty, supporting staff and community partners in creating a learning environment that fosters equality and reciprocity in relationships, instills the desire to move beyond quickfixes into understanding the root causes of social issues, and encourages continued commitment to social change. Participants will work collaboratively to examine challenges and opportunities inherent in promoting this learning paradigm shift throughout the different phases of partnership building and sustainability. Presenters: Rosangela Boyd, Director, Community Involvement and Service Learning, Texas Christian University Mary Kathleen Baldwin, Associate Director, Texas Christian University Service Learning as Relational Learning: The Transformative Power of Partnerships Since 1995 over 2,000 college students at Portland State (PSU) have participated in this university’s largest partnership, Camp Kiwanis, a camp for children and adults with special needs. Researchers studied the impact that participation in this partnership had on PSU graduates (1-15 years post-graduation). The results of the study of PSU graduates were profound. Through a critical incident interview technique graduates reported that this Capstone course was one of the most significant learning experiences in their college career as they described the ways with which they deepened their appreciation of the diversity of the human experience, how they critically analyzed previously held stereotypes, and how these new attitudes transformed their lives post-graduation. This session provides a model that can be replicated to produce greater research on long-term impact of partnerships especially the effects that transformational relationships have on graduates. Presenters: Seanna Kerrigan, Capstone Program Director, Portland State University Ann Fullerton, Professor of Special Education, Portland State University Vicki Reitenauer, Instructor, Women’s Studies, Portland State University Transforming Partnerships for Change Literature positions reciprocity as a fundamental aspect of partnerships but universities and communities continue to grapple with the nature of partner relationships. At the same time that we create, maintain, and nurture our campus-community partnerships, our ultimate goals of mutual transformation and capacity building require that we also critique the nature of these partnerships in two fundamental ways. First we have to deconstruct the powerful structural and institutional forces that make such partnerships difficult in the first place. We need to examine the patterns and traditions of politics and elite interests that separate most colleges and universities from the communities that surround them. And we need to ask, “How can we work across both academic and community organizations to break down historic barriers and build new skills and values that facilitate reciprocity?” Second, we have to create a collective vision of what these relationships should become as we move from more traditional “partnership” with overlapping interests to a more collaborative model. In this presentation/ workshop/collaboration, Holland and Dolgon will look at the institutional and structural challenges both campus and community people face in developing and maintaining relationships. We will offer a brief case study or two to demonstrate these challenges and how some have succeeded and others failed in addressing the challenges. We’ll conclude by facilitating a discussion about the potential for transcending the traditional notions of partnerships and creating more collaborative and democratic relationships. Nadia DeLeon, Community Engagement Coordinator, WKU Center for Community Partnerships Presenters: Corey Dolgon, Professor Sociology, and Director, Office of Community-based Learning, Stonehill College Barbara Holland, Professor, University of Sydney 10
TUESDAY, MAY 24th 4:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. BREAK 4:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. INFORMATIONAL PRESENTATIONS BY COMMUNITY/HIGHER EDUCATION PARTNERS Select one of the eight sessions outlined below (continued next page). Smith 236 Smith 296 *Cramer 335 Smith 327 Community Engagement in Overseas Studies: A Partnership Model Deepening Levels of Partnership: Models of Community-based Research Diversity in Faculty and Community Partner Perspectives about Achieving Reciprocity in Partnerships How Can We Enhance Collaboration between Researchers and Practitioners in the Psychosocial Field Stanford University’s Community Health in Oaxaca Program, begun in 2007, incorporates sustained community-campus partnerships that offer students the opportunity to make meaningful contributions towards meeting local health needs. Once trust is established, projects are developed and implemented to meet partners’ self-identified needs. Collaborations are built and sustained over time based on partnership principles developed by Centers for Disease Control, Community- Campus Partnerships for Health and others. The ongoing investment and engagement of Stanford faculty and staff has played a particularly critical role. This presentation will illustrate a replicable model for substantive community engagement and service within <strong>international</strong> study programs, and will highlight a multi-year research collaboration between Stanford medical students and a not-for-profit supporting nutrition and agriculture initiatives in rural Oaxacan communities. Presenters: Ann Banchoff, Program Director, Office of Community Health, Stanford University Elizabeth Goldsmith, Medical Student, Stanford University School of Medicine Campuses respond to communities with the capacity to provide community-based research as a valued resource and partnership. The opportunity and challenge facing campus-community partnerships is that there is no one recipe for how to make them work or how to design projects in a way that works for everyone. Four projects at a small liberal arts college are presented as models of CBR with degrees of partnership and success and compared with a university setting. Projects demonstrate different depths of community engagement, student learning, and faculty and administrative involvement. Implications for best practice and meaningful partnerships impact each project’s value to the community and to students, and include ethical considerations or tensions in current research. Discussion focuses on the unique structure and resources. Presenter: Judith Owens-Manley, Director, Center for Civic Engagement and Learning, University of Alaska Anchorage Challenges inherent in building and sustaining productive academiccommunity partnerships may deter researchers from engaging communities in their research. In a study of one institution’s research partnerships, we interviewed faculty members and their community partners to assess experiences with and attitudes toward community engagement. Our results reveal dramatic differences in faculty and community partner perspectives and underscore areas where academic researchers may fall short of “walking the talk” of community-based research. We will discuss the implications of these findings in terms of strategies for preparing graduate students and faculty members to engage effectively in community-based intervention research and infrastructure supports that may improve academic institutions’ capacity to respond to community needs. Presenter: Melinda Forthofer, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina *NOTE: This session is in Cramer Hall, not in SMSU. Please see map. Research shows that collaboration between researchers and practitioners improve receptivity toward researchbased evidences, and thus increase the quality of psychosocial services. However, there is a need to better understand what determinants and strategies have to be adopted in order to enhance collaboration between research and practice. A critical review of articles that examine strategies and determinants associated with research-practice collaboration was conducted with key databases. A conceptual framework was then developed in order to represent the principal determinants and strategies retrieved from the literature review. To illustrate how those determinants and strategies can be applied, a case study will be discussed. This case illustrates an intervention that was implemented in a Youth center in order to increase collaboration between researchers and practitioners and to assist the organization in shifting to an evidence-based approach to monitor its programs. Presenters: Marie-Joelle Gervais, Ph.D. Candidate, and Francois Chagnon, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada Nico Trocme and Lise Milne, McGill University Gabriel Garcia, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine Claude Laurendeau, Director of Professional Services, Batshaw Youth and Family Centres 11
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