[CCPH E-News] November 2015

November 2015 CCPH E-News             Table of Contents 1.    A Message from Al Richmond 2.    Time Sensitive Announcements 3.    Catch Up with CCPH 4.    News from CES4Health 5.    Kudos and Congratulations 6.    Become a Member 7.    Keep on Top of the Latest News Dear Colleague, Here are highlights for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) in the month of November. Please join or renew your membership and stay connected to our events, activities and opportunities for engagement. A Message from Al Richmond There’s more to say about my trip to the Deep South and it starts with highlighting my visit to Jackson State University to meet with Dorothy Browne, DrPh, MPH, MSW, the founding dean of the School of Public Health. Dean Browne will move the university forward in launching the state’s only School of Public Health. Jackson State University is known globally for their innovative and ‘trailblazing” work through the Jackson Heart Study. I fully expect that this work and the other academic programing and training provided by Jackson State University will have global impact on the most vulnerable around the world. My trip culminated with a visit to the University of Alabama – Birmingham for the 2nd Annual Community Engagement conference. The event captured the essence of building the capacity of community leaders and organization to respond to the opportunities to partner with academic and other institutions to address health issues. The upcoming weeks are filled with travel to Boston, Denver and Minneapolis for the Regional Partner Forum. I would love to meet you, our members and long-time supporters in one of the cities. Sign up today to participate in one of these amazing sessions. Hope to see you soon! In last month’s newsletters, we mistakenly identified Tougaloo College as being in Alabama. Please pardon our mistake – Tougaloo College is in the city of Tougaloo, Mississippi.  Time Sensitive Announcements Register now for the 2015 Regional Community Partner Forums in Denver, Minneapolis, and Boston! The Regional Community Partner Forums on Community-Engaged Health Disparities Research are offered as free learning and networking events for community partners who are interested or involved in research as a strategy for health equity. Like the forums that preceded them, the Regional Forums will feature diverse skill-building workshops topics including: Covering the Basics of Developing Community-Institution Partnerships, Moving from Knowledge to Action - Using Research to Impact Health Disparities, and Formulating Your Own Research Agenda and Research Questions, and more! Click on the specific regions for more details! Rocky Mountain Regional Forum - November 13, 2015, Denver, CO Upper Midwest Regional Forum – November 20, 2015, Minneapolis, MN Northeast Regional Forum - December 3, 2015, Boston, MA Learn more and register for a forum in your region here and follow #RCPF15 and @CCPH2010 on Twitter for more updates on the forums and CCPH's activities!   Last Call for Applications for the CES4Health Editor Position! CCPH is seeking an experienced professional to serve as Editor of www.CES4Health.info. The deadline to apply is November 9, 2015. Review the Request for Applications for more information. CES4Health: Community Engaged Scholarship for Health is a free online mechanism for peer-reviewing, publishing and disseminating products of health-related community-engaged scholarship that are in forms other than journal articles. Share your Thoughts on the Proposed Revisions to Regulations that Govern Research on Human Subjects. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed changes to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, often referred to as the “Common Rule.” The changes seek to enhance protections for individuals involved in research while modernizing rules and improving efficiency. We encourage you to submit your thoughts on their proposed rule changes on their website by December 7th. Catch Up with CCPH Join Al Richmond and CCPH Colleagues, Nancy Shore and Paige Castro-Reyes at the American Public Health Association Conference in Chicago. CCPH staff and board members will be involved in various events throughout the conference, October 31 – November 4. Community-Based Public Health (CBPH) Caucus will host a “Youth as Leaders in CBPR” workshop on Sunday, November 1st, 9 – 11:45 am. Contact Tricia Piechowski at kwikwi@umich.edu for more information. Join CCPH board and staff for a community reception: Sunday, November 1st, 6-8:30 pm. RSVP here. Nancy and Paige will present their research, “Research Ethics Reconsidered in the Context of Community-Engaged Research” on Wednesday, November 4th at 8:30 am. Visit Council of Linkages (COL) and their New Tools for Using the 2014 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals on Wednesday, November 4th from 1:10-1:30pm in the McCormick Place Convention Center, Room W179b. News from CES4Health                                 Disseminate Your Work through CES4Health! CES4Health peer-reviews and publishes products of community-engaged scholarship that are in forms other than journal articles. At CES4Health.info, you can search for high quality tools and resources, submit products for peer review, apply to be a peer reviewer, contribute to the field of community-engaged scholarship...and ultimately the health of communities. Review Instructions for Authors and answers to Author Frequently Asked Questions to learn more! Kudos & Congratulations! We are delighted to recognize the accomplishments of CCPH members and staff. If you have any news you wish to share, please let us know! Just Published in the October 2015 issue of the American Journal of Public Health! Tina Yuen, Alice Park, Sarena Seifer, and Devon Payne-Sturges systematically reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Research’s (NCER’s) requests for applications (RFAs) and identified strategies that NCER and other funders can take to bolster community engagement for their article, A Systematic Review of Community Engagement in US Environmental Protection Agency Extramural Research Solicitations: Implications for Research Funders which will appear in the American Journal of Public Health, available online on November 10 and in print in December. Become a Member This E-News is CCPH's Free E-Newsletter for Non-Members. We invite you to become a member of CCPH! Your modest investment allows us to continue to serve as a resource for service-learning, community-based participatory research, and community-campus partnerships more broadly that are working to achieve health equity and social justice. Why join CCPH? By becoming a paid member of CCPH, you… • Save on registration fees for upcoming CCPH conferences and events! • Enjoy steep discounts through our publishing partners, including 25% off Springer’s Community-based Participatory Health Research, Second Edition. • Tap into the CCPH Consultancy Network for training and technical assistance at substantial savings! • Receive one free hour of phone consultation on a topic of your choice (if you join as an organization). • Benefit from a tax deduction to the extent allowable by law. Join CCPH today. Questions about CCPH membership? Contact us at membership@ccph.info. Keep on Top of the Latest News You Can Use Don’t miss out on the latest opportunities for funding, presenting, publishing, professional development and advocacy! CCPH offers a number of tools to help you navigate the tremendous amount of information that pertains to community-campus partnerships. Visit our Homepage! Bookmark it and set it as your personal home page! This E-News is CCPH's free e-newsletter for non-members. Interested in learning more about CCPH? Visit our “answers to frequently asked questions” or email us at programs@ccph.info. Forward this email to friends and invite them to subscribe to CCPH E-News. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health UW Box 354809 Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: 206-666-3406 Email: info@ccph.info

INSPIRE 2016: Just Act Now at Siena College

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

The Office of Academic Community Engagement at Siena College is co-sponsoring a social justice and leadership conference along with Montclair State University's Bonner Program March 11-13, 2016.  Below is some information that can be shared with students, faculty, and administrators from your college or university about the conference.  If you are interested, please feel free to reply to this email for more information.  We will be sending out formal registration links as we get closer.

INSPIRE 2016 is a student led community engagement conference held from March 11-13, 2016 at Siena College in Loudonville, NY. Students from all over the Northeast and across the country will participate in training and dialogue around community engagement and pedagogy through workshops, networking and presentations. This conference will feature elective workshops blocks and tracks that will explore topics such as race relations, gender, LGBTQ, and the environment. This event is cosponsored by Siena College Academic Community Engagement and Montclair State University's Bonner Program.

Want more information? Visit: INSPIRE 2016 or join our Facebook page!

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at kd10finn@siena.edu.  

Putting Community into Community Resilience

October 2015 Putting Community into Community Resilience Within past decades, there has been a shift toward understanding community resilience, which is characterized by a community's ability to rebound and adapt following disruptions, such as natural and human-caused disasters. Although some assert that the term community resilience is a buzzword, Community Science views it as a useful framework for conceptualizing how key actors, including local residents and organizations, can strengthen their community's ability to prevent, withstand, and mitigate such stressors. Recently, we developed a community resilience framework, expanding on other community resilience models related to disaster.  The Community Science's community resilience framework expanded upon existing frameworks in order to provide a more complete understanding of what is a strong community. Existing community resilience models heavily emphasized the service and delivery systems and did not fully take into account a more comprehensive view of community, which also includes informal institutions, the infrastructure of informal and formal institutions, social capital and sense of community, as well as access to services. Furthermore, the Community Science model emphasizes the importance of equal access and justice, which is integral, as times of disaster commonly exacerbate pre-existing inequities.   Read More SPOTLIGHT ON: The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program's Contribution to Community Resilience As one of the largest volunteer networks in the U.S., the Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS) Senior Corps Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) aims to engage volunteers aged 55 and over to support disaster preparedness, response, and recovery, and increase community resiliency. In 2013 and 2014, CNCS provided Disaster Services Augmentation Grants for several RSVPs. These grants focused on addressing the 2014 Hurricane Sandy recovery in New York and a range of disasters that happened in 2013, including floods in northern Colorado; a flash flood in Waynesville, Michigan; a tornado in Moore, Oklahoma; and a fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. In the aftermath of disaster, RSVPs deployed thousands of volunteers who played key roles in various activities such as developing disaster preparedness kits, operating volunteer reception centers and call centers, performing direct outreach to disaster victims, rebuilding homes, and managing donation centers.  Read More Staff Profile: Marcella Hurtado Gómez Marcella Hurtado Gómez, Ph.D., Associate, has expertise in social issues related to immigrant populations, the utilization of evidence-based programing with ethnic minority youth and families, and managing grant-funded programs in community-based organizations. Dr. Hurtado Gómez has 10 years of experience in conducting, analyzing, and disseminating research. She has expertise in program monitoring and evaluation, running statistical analysis, writing outcome reports, and presenting findings in pragmatic terms to a variety of audiences. She has worked on projects involving large data sets and building research studies from the ground up.  Read More Check us out at these upcoming conferences this fall! American Public Health Association's (APHA) Annual Meeting & Exposition (October 31 - November 4, 2015, Chicago, Illinois) Educating and Empowering Emerging Leaders under the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for Improvement (Tuesday, November 3) American Evaluation Association's (AEA) Annual Conference (November 9-14, 2015, Chicago, Illinois) Workshop: Advancing the Implementation Science of Community Systems Change: Complexity- and Community Capacity-Based Frameworks, Tools, and Techniques (Wednesday, November 11) Read More Community Science Participates in a Day of Service  Community Science participated in its biannual day of service at A Wider Circle on September 18, 2015. A Wider Circle is a nonprofit organization with a mission to end poverty. Through programs targeting job preparedness, health and wellness, and housing, A Wider Circle addresses the needs of the whole person. One of their programs, Neighbor-to-Neighbor, provides beds, dressers, tables, and other large and small home goods free of charge to individuals in need. Earlier in 2015, A Wider Circle opened a program office in Barry Farm, a neighborhood in Southeast Washington, DC.  Read More In This Issue Community Resilience RSVPs and Community Resilience Staff Profile CS Upcoming Presentations Upcoming Conferences and Call for Papers American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting & Exposition October 31-November 4, 2015 Chicago, Illinois   2015 Community Indicators Consortium Impact Summit November 9 -10, 2015 Austin, Texas  Exemplary Evaluations in a Multicultural World Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association November 9-14, 2015 Chicago, Illinois  Careers @ Community Science   We currently have several positions open for evaluation and capacity building professionals who have experience in producing community and systems change work of the highest quality and who want to see it make a difference in this world. Visit the Community Science CAREERS page to learn more about working at Community Science. About Community Science Community Science is an award winning research and development organization that works with governments, foundations, and non-profit organizations on solutions to social problems through community and other systems changes. To learn more, visit our PROJECTS page.  To discuss how Community Science can collaborate with your organization, contact us at 301-519-0722 or info@communityscience.com Community Science | 301-519-0722 | info@communityscience.com | http://www.communityscience.com 438 N. Frederick Ave. Suite 315 Gaithersburg, MD 20877

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New Issue of The Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice is Now Available

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Good Afternoon!

It is my great pleasure to announce the publication of our most recent issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice. The articles in this issue of GJCPP reflect a great enthusiasm for the practice of community psychology in a multitude of domains – from juvenile justice to community asset building; from anxiety in minority youth to challenges for workers trying to stop human trafficking. In addition to the peer reviewed articles, this issue highlights the great work of practitioners in videos (winners of the 2014 SCRA Video Contest), in programs receiving SCRA mini-grant funding, in a tool to evaluate collaborative partnerships, and in two THEory into ACTion bulletins. The Global Journal is overflowing with ideas, results, and ways to take the practice of community psychology forward.

Take a look at www.gjcpp.org and subscribe if you haven’t already.

Cheers,

Scott

Scott Wituk, PhD

Editor, Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
Executive Director, Center for Community Support & Research
Wichita State University
editor@gjcpp.org