Partnerships
The Office of Community Service Programs at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health strives to increase the capacity of students and local communities to address societal issues by facilitating the establishment of community-campus partnerships.
The goal of these partnerships is to:
Public Health strive to realize the Principles of Good Community-Campus Partnerships as defined by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health:
The goal of these partnerships is to:
- Link students with community agencies in underserved communities
- Facilitate community based participatory research
- Promote the use of effective health promotion strategies
- Engage medical students in meaningful learning experiences incorporating service and civic engagement
- Provide useful contributions to community partners, addressing a need identified as meaningful by the community
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| A medical student shows a participant how to plant a seed at the Latino gardening program. |
- Partners have agreed upon mission, values, goals, and measurable outcomes for the partnership
- The relationship between partners is characterized by mutual trust, respect, genuineness and commitment
- The partnership builds upon identified strengths and assets, but also addresses areas that need improvement
- The partnership balances power among partners and enables resources among partners to be shared
- There is clear, open and accessible communication between partners, making it an ongoing priority to listen to each need, develop a common language and validate/clarify the meaning of terms
- Roles, norms and processes for the partnership are established with the input and agreement of all partners
- There is feedback to, among and from all stakeholders in the partnership, with the goal of continuously improving the partnership and its outcomes
- Partners share the credit for the partnership's accomplishments
- Partnerships take time to develop and evolve over time