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TUESDAY, MAY 24th 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. HOSTED RECEPTION, POSTERS, AND BOOK SIGNING (continued from page 13) Posters Developed by Students, Faculty, and Community Partners: The Process of Establishing and Sustaining a Partnership between Academia and Community Presenters: Angela Sun, Executive Director, Chinese Community Health Resource Center, San Francisco; Quynh Bui, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); Tung Nguyen, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); Janice Tsoh, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); Ky Lai, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); Joyce Cheng, Program Manager, Chinese Community Health Resource Center (CCHRC) This partnership was for a study on palliative care for Asian community, which begun through a previous project, and was solidified by the current study. Both partners saw the need and believed the study was a fit for the partnership, for expertise from both parties can be synergistic. A research team was formed. Both parties engaged in proposal development. Tasks were divided according to their expertise. Community partner will lead as the study PI while the academic personnel will provide guidance and expertise in research theory and methodology. The research plan, budget, human subject protection protocol were developed by both. Community was responsible for soliciting support from its network, draft sections of proposal related to the community’s skills, and grant submission process. Academic’s tasks were to draft sections on literature review, theory and methodology. The grant proposal is now approved and funded. Expertise from each party contributed to the study’s success. Rebuilding Trust and Community Partnerships: Lessons Learned from Research Mis-steps Presenter: Michelle Montgomery, Senior Fellow, Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality, University of Washington, Seattle Two cases have recently been publicized 14 as examples of research mis-steps: the Henrietta Lacks (HeLa) story, describing the origin of the widely used HeLa cells from a sample taken without permission or knowledge from a poor Black woman, and the Havasupai experience, in which samples collected for diabetes research were used for other purposes without permission or knowledge of the tribe. The reaction to these cases - in which sharing of de-identified samples was done in compliance with current research regulation indicate that there is still a need for research practices to nurture trustworthiness and respect for participants. A discourse analysis of these cases was conducted through the lens of Critical Race Theory to illuminate the social and historical experiences of Blacks and American Indian communities. These outcomes suggested mis-trust maybe more likely among disadvantaged people, and therefore threaten the potential for research to engage disadvantage populations. SouthCoast Serves: Building a Regional Infrastructure for Service Presenters: Matthew Roy, Assistant Provost and Director, Center for Civic Engagement, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; and Deirdre Healy, Community Service Coordinator, SouthCoast Serves Our presentation will examine how the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has entered into a collaborative partnership with over 40 community based organizations, called SouthCoast Serves (SCS), to build a culture of service in our region. The SouthCoast Serves collaborative believes that by encouraging service/volunteerism in schools, businesses, and communities, we can take responsibility for our region’s future and foster an ethos of service. The vision of SCS is to engage our region as a place where people integrate service into their everyday lives while building capacity for community based organizations - a vision that is replicable. It is through our collective resources that we approach the unmet needs of our community using an asset based community development model (McKnight, 1993). SCS promotes effective and efficient strategies, shares best practices and maximizes organizational strengths that assure true reciprocity in community-campus partnerships. University-Entrepreneur Partnership to Enhance High School Student Personal Financial Literacy Presenter: Kevin Corcoran, Professor of Psychology, Northern Kentucky University; and Stuart Crickmer, President, Omniology, LLC This presentation provides an overview of a collaboration—involving university, entrepreneur, high schools, and funding agencies—designed to enhance high school students’ understanding of personal decisions regarding financial planning. This focus is particularly relevant given state mandates for “personal finance” programs in high schools, a mandate teachers feel underprepared to deliver. This model features the Portfolios Investment simulation, an engaging, realistic (incorporating math models used in option pricing), relevant, and memorable learning experience that overcomes many hurdles to effective school-based finance education. Formal and informal assessment suggests an engaging experience, enhancing student (and teacher) understanding of personal financial. Program implementation--with over 70 high schools (inner city, suburban, and rural), as well as with corporations and organizations, the National Football League, Fidelity Investments--suggests transferability. Film Festivals as Classroom- Community Partnerships: Engaged Pedagogy through Media Presenter: Tami Blumenfield, Visiting Assistant Professor, Portland State University Film festivals are powerful tools for building community and developing shared identities. They can be particularly effective when combined with engaged teaching practices. This presentation discusses a course built around these events at UW Bothell and one noncourse related (research-related) film festival collaboration in China. On campus, students joined committees to help plan a campus film festival or engaged in community-based learning by helping with off-campus film festivals. The research-related film festival involved collaboration with a community museum in southwest China, applying critical and indigenous methodologies. Festivals may share rhythms with academic calendars and can complement classroom curricula with various themes; they can also be an excellent forum for campus-community dialog. Nonetheless, film festivals have been infrequently discussed within community-based learning literature. This presentation analyzes their use and gives suggestions for adapting them. From Issue to Impact – A model for deepening student leadership & community engagement Presenter: Debra Kiliru, Director of Community Leadership, Warren Wilson College How do we get students from all over the world to understand the issues surrounding their new campus and be able to make effective contributions to the over all wellbeing of the community? The Heart of the Issue Workshop is a 10 week student-led program that partners with area organizations in order to increase students’ breadth of engagement and depth of understanding within one pressing local issue. It challenges student to move beyond direct service, by incorporating policy work, advocacy, site visits, dialogue with community leaders and on-going reflection. After the program, students report an increased sense of belonging, responsibility and commitment to the local community. They also say they have gained an understanding of root causes, strategies to influence policy, as well as skills in team building, (continued on page 15)
5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. HOSTED RECEPTION, POSTERS, AND BOOK SIGNING (continued from page TUESDAY 14) MAY TUESDAY, 24THMAY 24th Posters Developed by Students, Faculty, and Community Partners: networking and social media. In addition they enhanced a number of skills including critical thinking, goal setting, reflection, problem solving and communication. The presentation will outline this issue-based approach to community and campus collaboration with examples from various issue areas. The Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic – An interdisciplinary student run clinic with School’s of Medicine, Pharmacy, Law, Social Work, Dentistry, and Business Presenter: Gregory Martens, Medical Student, Indiana University School of Medicine The Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic (IU-SOC) is an academic-community partnership on the near-East side of Indianapolis that provides preventive screening, acute and chronic medical care, laboratory testing, STI testing, medications, legal aid, social work, and dental care to the underserved. The clinic provides students a setting to better appreciate social, cultural, and financial influences on healthcare delivery. It also offers the opportunity to expand clinical decision-making skills, explore healthcare administration, and understand resources available for patients within the community, as well as an opportunity for professional students across multiple disciplines. A Graduate Student’s Experience with Community Research Presenter: Krithika Malhotra, Doctoral Student, University of Miami. In the world of academia, traditional research methodologies have been emphasized and utilized for years, often at the cost of ignoring community-based methods. Working in the community, with the community, and for the community are essential pieces of the puzzle with regards to improving our community. The Partnership for Domestic Violence Prevention is one such example, wherein we are developing a teen dating violence prevention program primarily for Hispanic youth, based on the needs identified by the Hispanic community. Another such project is the Fathers’ and Children’s Initiative, a social movement to increase the involvement of fathers in their children’s lives. The abovementioned projects both use Community Based Participatory Research as their methodological framework. These partnerships highlight how the university can utilize its resources and talents by using research as a forum to address and benefit the needs of the community in which it exists. Community Based Research on Resiliency and Immigration Presenter: Amelia Swanson, Graduate Student, University of Miami As a graduate student, my research interests are centered on issues of resiliency, trauma and immigration using community based research. I am particularly interested in communitybased research as a way to facilitate direct benefit to communities impacted by issues being researched. A communitybased approach is used in implementing an intervention program to promote resiliency in immigrant youth in South Florida through a partnership with a community agency and middle school. Some of the goals of the project are to promote resiliency among youth, empirically evaluate a community-based program, and develop a partnership that promotes sustainable change. Another project that utilizes a similar approach is a partnership with a community agency that provides therapy for trauma survivors. By evaluating a program focused on immigrant women, the project hopes to increase community and academic knowledge of an effective treatment for a traditionally underresearched population. Toward a framework for understanding community-based partnerships as essential to social justice teacher education Presenter: Michael Bowman, Ph.D. student, University of Washington, Seattle Social justice teacher education programs aim to prepare teachers to provide high quality, equitable opportunities to learn to all students, to advocate for the transformation not only of individual classrooms but of whole schools, and to consider their work as connected to broader networks of people and organizations engaged in supporting children, youth, and families. While a number of approaches have been advocated over the past two decades to meet this aim, there is increasing interest in ‘immersion’ experiences in community or non-school settings. However, teacher education programs cannot afford to be romanced by the ideal of community engagement; they must work to build partnerships that advance teaching practice by making explicit the relational and pedagogical expertise found in both the University and community organizations. This poster outlines the findings of a three year research study on the partnership between the University of Washington’s Teacher Education Program and a set of community-based youth organizations in the Seattle area. It also suggests a restrictive-expansive framework for the development of future partnerships. Bringing Hope to Colombia in the Midst of Systematic Violence & Injustice: American University Students in Colombian Peace Communities Presenter: Maria Franco, Graduate Student, American University Since 2000 the US has provided over 7 billion dollars to Colombia in mostly counter narcotic and military aid. However Colombia’s 45-year internal conflict endures and the country remains one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. As such through American University’s Alternative Break Program students partnered with the NGO Witness for Peace to learn more about the conflict and our role in its continuation. Together we traveled to Colombia, trekked to targeted Peace Communities, witnessed the violence, and return to Washington DC to advocate for urgent policy reform. This session will discuss the experience of the student’s, their struggles and empowerment, as well as the potential for growing and advancing student, University, NGO, and community relations across borders. Let [Our] Knowledge Serve the City: Student Leaders for Service at Portland State University Presenter: Student Leaders for Service program, Portland State University Student Leaders for Service (SLS) was founded in 1999 to enhance student civic engagement and community-based learning experiences and to actively strengthen Portland State University’s community-higher education partnerships. What began ten years ago as four students has since evolved into a 25-student, award-winning, <strong>international</strong>ly-replicated program (by American University in Cairo, Egypt and University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). SLS’s mission is to cultivate a body of engaged student leaders who foster meaningful connections between the university and community, making manifest PSU’s motto, “Let Knowledge Serve the City.” Through a year-long placement with a community partner, a weekly leadership development meeting, and opportunities to engage fellow PSU students in communitybased work, SLS offers programming that directly contributes to student success and provides opportunities for students to: explore theoretical and practical approaches to service, democratic citizenship and community building; engage in critically self-reflective placements with local organizations; and develop effective communication skills, as well as teamwork, leadership, and diversity awareness skills. 15
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