Save the Date for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Conference, Apr 30 - May 3, 2014 in Chicago!

[Announcement from Comm-engagedscholarship listserv]

Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,

We are delighted to announce that Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's next conference will take place April 30 – May 3, 2014 in Chicago!  Founded in 1996, CCPH is a non-profit membership organization that promotes health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions. Whether you are directly involved in community-based participatory research, service-learning or other community-campus partnerships

- or are working to ensure the conditions are in place for such partnerships to thrive and have impact - CCPH conference are designed to challenge and inspire you! Regardless of the social justice issue you are passionate about - health equity, education, environmental justice, food security, sustainability, indigenous rights and so forth - together we will explore how to leverage partnerships to create change.

Early investors in the conference include core partners, Northwestern Medicine and the University of Chicago Medicine and and supporting partner, the Adler School of Professional Psychology.  Over 100 Chicago-area community organizations and academic institutions have already subscribed to a local planning listserv at http://bit.ly/OznkRb

If you are interested in getting involved in the planning process or signing on as a conference partner, please write us at ccph.conference@gmail.com. Follow the latest conference developments on our homepage at http://ccph.info and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CCPHconference

A "save the date" flyer for the CCPH conference is attached - please forward it with this message to colleagues who may be interested, distribute it at meetings and conferences, etc.

While you have your calendars out, plan to join us in Canada next year for CU Expo!  In lieu of our own conference in 2013, CCPH is supporting CU Expo, the Canadian-led international conference on community-university partnerships, June 12-15, 2013 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.  Session and poster proposal are due Nov 15.  Details are posted on the CU Expo website at http://cuexpo2013.ca  CCPH members receive a 20% discount on registration fees.

If you're not yet a CCPH member, join today at http://bit.ly/aNr0kC

Thanks!

Rahma Osman

CCPH Program Assistant

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions.

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