From sarena@u.washington.edu Wed Aug 6 10:18:40 1997 Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id KAA19018; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:18:38 -0700 Received: from homer24.u.washington.edu (sarena@homer24.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.14]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id KAA54718; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:18:37 -0700 Received: from localhost (sarena@localhost) by homer24.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id KAA14368; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:18:35 -0700 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Sarena Seifer To: ccph@u.washington.edu, ccp@u.washington.edu, coalition@u.washington.edu Subject: Principles of partnership: your response requested Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear CCPH Members, Colleagues and Friends: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is embarking on an ambitious effort to develop guiding principles of community-campus partnerships. During our April 1997 annual conference, a group of participants began to identify meaningful principles of partnership between communities and educational institutions. CCPH would like to involve you -- our members and colleagues -- in shaping these principles. We are writing to invite you to review our first draft and answer specific questions about the direction this document should take. Please also share this document with your friends and colleagues in the community and in academia, to ensure the broadest input possible. We suggest that you print out this email and read it thoroughly before responding. With your input, CCPH aims to have a refined set of principles to guide the "call for workshops, posters and stories" for our next annual conference, "Principles and Best Practices for Healthier Communities", April 25-28, 1998 in Pittsburgh. A final set of principles emerging from the conference will be considered by the CCPH board for approval. We plan to disseminate these principles widely and to use them to guide future CCPH programs and activities. Drafting the principles of partnership will be an iterative and inclusive process, and we will share successive drafts with you for comment. Although there is no strict deadline for responding, the CCPH board of directors is having a board retreat and business meeting from August 15-17 and will be discussing all comments received by August 14. Please send your comments directly to me at sarena@u.washington.edu (NOT to the entire listserv) or by phone: 206/616-4305; or fax: 206/616-3175. When you respond, please indicate if you identify yourself primarily as being from the community perspective, the campus perspective or another perspective. Why Principles of Community-Campus Partnerships? We believe that the health of communities and the relevance of higher education rests in part on the development of meaningful partnerships between communities and educational institutions. However, the term "partnership" is in vogue these days, and unless it is clearly defined and understood, efforts claimed to be partnerships may not only be doomed to failure but may undermine the very goals we have in mind in the first place. Community and educational leaders have few models on which to guide and evaluate their efforts. We believe that a refined set of principles accompanied by a preamble and recommendations for implementation will help all stakeholders to design, implement and evaluate their partnership efforts. At this point, we are focusing on defining a set of principles. Although others have developed "principles of partnerships" in a generic sense, we believe it is important to create a specific list of principles which reflect the challenges and circumstances inherent in forming relationships between communities and higher educational institutions. Rather than incorporate these other principles into this document, we have chosen to begin with the principles developed at our April 1997 conference and build from there. As you review the draft set of principles below, please consider the following questions. We hope you will share your answers to these questions as well as your specific comments on the principles themselves. 1. how do you define "partnership?" what are the key components of a partnership? 2. in your own experience, what have been the most successful components of your community-campus partnership(s)? how did the partnership(s) start and evolve? what do you believe were key ingredients to your success? 3. in your own experience, what have been the challenges and frustrations to developing community-campus partnerships? if you could do it all over again, what would you do differently? 4. how are the culture and values of community similar to the culture and values of higher education? How are they different? 5. is one set of principles for community-campus partnerships sufficient, or are separate sets needed depending on the specific focus of the partnership (ie, for community-based research, for service-learning, for community health improvement)? 6. Do or should the principles vary depending on whether one is coming from the community perspective or the campus perspective? 7. Do you consider yourself as being primarily from the community perspective, the campus perspective or another perspective? A Draft Set of Principles of Partnership Between Communities and Higher Educational Institutions 1. The relationship between partners should be characterized by trust, respect and genuineness. 2. There should be clear communication between partners, with each taking the initial time to listen to each need, develop a common language, and validate/clarify the meaning of terms. 3. Rules, norms and processes for the partnership should be established with the input of all partners. The focus should be on the positives and the strengths that each partner brings to the effort; on adaptability and flexibility; on "different ways of knowing", and on celebrating successes. 4. There should be continual negotiation and re-evaluation of the partnership, with feedback to all partners having the goal of continuously improving the partnership and its outcomes. 5. The partners need to acknowledge and understand that there are stages in the development of their relationships. 6. There needs to be a shared mission and goals among the partners, with jointly agreed upon attainable and measurable objectives. (remember the concept of "different ways of knowing" when thinking about what the term "measurable" might mean). 7. There needs to be commitment on the part of all partners. Thank you - we look forward to hearing from you soon. The Board and Staff of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health ****************************************************************************** Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization committed to fostering partnerships between communities and educational institutions that build on each other's strengths and develop their roles as change agents for improving health professions education, civic responsibility and the overall health of communities. For more information about CCPH, our programs and membership opportunities, contact Alisa Holmes by email: ccph@itsa.ucsf.edu or by phone: 415/502-7979. ****************************************************************************** .