From sarena@u.washington.edu Tue Dec 2 11:36:20 1997 Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id LAA58906 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:36:18 -0800 Received: from homer10.u.washington.edu (sarena@homer10.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.11]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id LAA50094 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:36:17 -0800 Received: from localhost (sarena@localhost) by homer10.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id LAA14794 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:36:16 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:36:16 -0800 (PST) From: Allen Cheadle To: ccp@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: follow-up to 11/19 CCP meeting Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sounds like a good plan. A statement of purpose (vision/mission/goals) may help give the group more structure. Allen On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Sarena Seifer wrote: > > Dear CCP'ers, > > I am writing to share with you the outcomes of our 11/19 meeting. As you > will recall, the meeting was intended to focus on the planning of a spring > conference on the role of higher education in the health and well-being of > children and youth. This conference is being planned in collaboration > with Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the National Committee > on Partnerships for Children's Health. Meeting partipants included Jack > Hilovsky from the NW Center for Public Health Practice, Joan Kelday from > the Area Health Education Center program, Guillermo Carvajal from the > Seattle Urban Health Alliance, Floyd Brown from the Graduate School of > Public Affairs and Katharine Sanders from the Washington Health > Foundation, in addition to myself. > > Early on in the course of the meeting, the following observations became > apparent (some of these have been raised during prior meetings, but seemed > more urgent this time): > > (1) although we have been meeting monthly, the specific individuals who > attend tend to be quite different each month and we tend to spend > significant time just introducing each other. This isn't necessarily a bad > thing -- it seems to have led to some productive relationships -- but it > does perpetuate the sense that we are not really moving ahead and going > somewhere as a group. > > (2) although the conference is a good idea and is a tangible project for > us to work on together, it should not be viewed as the "be all and end > all" of our group. It should support and strengthen our overall goals and > objectives, which of course have yet to be specifically defined. > > (3) we got off to a good start in May, when many of us met to discuss the > university's role in the urban community and to consider applying for a > HUD grant. We need to move forward to develop a thoughful strategic plan > for the group and to enlarge the group of people involved to more fully > include individuals from the community, other sectors of the university, > and perhaps from other academic institutions if that is the direction we > wish to take. > > The action steps that came out of our discussion were the following: > > (1) Floyd Brown and I agreed to work together to draft an initial > statement of purpose for the Community-Campus Partnerships Group and to > develop a workplan and timeline for developing a strategic plan for the > group. We hope to get this to you in the next week or so. > > (2) We agreed to move ahead in planning the conference as a specific > project. I will follow-up with you later this week with an email about > forming the actual conference planning committee so we can fully move > ahead as we had intended to do at this meeting! As the CCP strategic plan > is developed, it should feed into the conference planning committee so > that opportunities for furthering our overall goals and objectives might > be possible through the conference. > > What do you think of this plan? I am excited about the energy and > enthusiasm expressed for developing a strategic plan and action agenda for > the Community-Campus Partnerships Group. Up until now, we have been a > loose network of individuals who are interested in sharing information > about our programs and exploring opportunities to work together. We have > the potential to be a collective force for change in our communities and > within the university and a "learning community" on community-campus > partnerships. > > Please share your comments and ideas on the listserv, > > Sarena > UW School of Medicine > Community-Campus Partnerships for Health > > > > > > > > > .