Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is excited to release Achieving the Promise of Authentic Community-Higher Academic Partnerships: Community Partners Speak Out!, a new report about community partner perspectives on community-higher education partnerships.

The report is one of many outcomes of the Community Partner Summit that brought together experienced community partners from across the U.S. at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin in April 2006. In addition to offering key ingredients and a framework for authentic community-higher education partnerships, the report details a vision for these partnerships articulated by the Summit's community partner participants, along with strategies and recommendations on how to achieve this vision. The report also describes the work that has been done by these community partners and CCPH since the Summit in the areas of peer mentoring, policy development and advocacy.

The report is available as a PDF document on the Community Partner Summit webpage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps-summit.html#Products (while you're on the site, check out the other Summit publications and resources)

Learn more about the work that's continued since the Summit, including opportunities to get involved, at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html.

We invite community members, community partners and community-academic liaisons to connect with their peers through the Community Partner Listserv at https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/communitypartnerlistserv

The Community Partner Summit was co-sponsored by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, the WK Kellogg Foundation, the Johnson Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies. Summit supporting organizations included the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association, the National Community-Based Organization Network and the National Community Committee of the CDC Prevention Research Centers Program.