Saturday, May 25, 2013

Lessons in Community Recovery

This report, "draws on the experiences of FEMA's Emergency Support Function #14 Long-Term Community Recovery to give examples and practical lessons for all audiences seeking to better prepare for disasters and to implement a "Whole Community" disaster recovery process.

Public, private and nonprofit entities will find useful lessons that can be material they can apply as our country implements the National Disaster Recovery Framework. This report also documents the progression of ESF #14 LTCR support to communities over the past seven years, noting the elements of successful recovery, challenges encountered and lessons learned.

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Why Faculty Promotion & Tenure Matters to Community Partners

By Elmer Freeman, Susan Gust, and Deborah Aloshen. Read Article

Elmer Freeman is Executive Director of the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc. (CCHERS) and Director of Urban Health Programs and
Policy at Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences.

Susan Ann Gust is a community activist and small business owner of a thirty-two-year old construction management, consulting and community development company.

Deborah Aloshen, RN, is school nurse of twenty-two years and a manager for six years with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District in Cleveland Ohio.

CCPH National Community Partner Summit Proceedings

In 2006, twenty-three experienced community partners from across the U.S. convened for Achieving the Promise of Authentic Community-Higher Education Partnerships: A Community Partner Summit.  The overall purpose of the Summit was to advance authentic community-higher education partnerships by mobilizing a network of experienced community partners. Highlights of Summit outcomes appear below. Click here for the Summit Executive Summary.  Still relevant today, the Summit produced many valuable resources for community partners and their higher education colleagues.

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  1. Connections
  2. Products and Resources
  3. Work groups

Achieving the Promise of Community–Higher Education Partnerships: Community Partners Get Organized

Authored by the Community Partner Summit Group for the Handbook of Engaged Scholarship, published by Michigan State University in 2010.

Partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions as a strategy for social change are gaining recognition and momentum. Despite being formed with the best of intentions, however, authentic partnerships are very difficult to achieve. Although academic partners have extensively documented their experiences and lessons learned, the voices of community partners are largely missing. We believe that if true partnerships are to be achieved, community partners must harness their own experiences, lessons learned, and collective wisdom into a national, organized effort to address this issue.

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