From sarena@u.washington.edu Fri Aug 27 16:52:56 1999 Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id QAA20028 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:52:55 -0700 Received: from homer13.u.washington.edu (sarena@homer13.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.14]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id QAA19298 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:52:54 -0700 Received: from localhost (sarena@localhost) by homer13.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id QAA101532 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:52:52 -0700 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:52:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Sarena Seifer To: ccp@u.washington.edu Subject: COPC conference next month in Portland Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear CCP'ers, Portland State University is hosting the annual meeting of the Community Outreach Partnership Centers on September 16-18. As many of you know, this is a national community-university partnerships grant program funded by HUD. UW has submitted proposals several times but has never been funded, and in the last two years did not submit a proposal at all. With the assistance of Sharon Doyle and Janet Looney from the Evans School, we've collected copies of some of the winning proposals, with the hope that UW could possibly submit a proposal next year (they're usually due in the summer). Because of my work with Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, I've been invited to present some of our national evaluation findings as a panelist during the meeting. So, I'm planning to go. But I am writing to see if any of you are interested in going to the meeting. I think it would be a good opportunity to learn first-hand from the HUD folks and the COPC grantees exactly what's involved, what they're looking for, what their expectations are. We could learn a lot about the process different universities have used to develop a COPC. Maybe it would help to propel a concerted effort on our collective parts to work together and make a COPC at UW a reality. Fortunately, the registration fee is only $17. Below is the agenda. More info is available on the HUD Office of University Partnerships website at http://www.oup.org/confer/copcinvite.html Please let me know if any of you plan on going. Sarena Seifer UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 9/16 Site visits Welcome - Nohad Toulan, dean, urban and public affairs, PSU Linking neighborhood revitalization to regional realities: the Portland story Reception 9/17 Presentations from HUD: Dr. Susan Wachter, nominee to be assistant secretary for policy development and research; Dr. Victor Rubin, director, office of university partnerships Concurrent workshops: working with community development corporations, overcoming institutional barriers/embedding community connections in the university; working with community schools Keynote: Dr. John Byrne, executive director of the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land Grant Universities - the engaged university in a learning society Lunch Concurrent workshops: developing community leadership, evaluating partnerships and programs, economic development and small business programs 9/18 Concurrent workshops: Support for community-university partnerships/beyond COPC; working with recent immigrant populations; community building through the academic curriculum Opportunity to provide feedback on the COPC program, regulations and policy issues Reports from Committees .