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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Jackie Pflaum, RN, DNSc, MPH, School of Nursing, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99501, 9077864574, afjsp@uaa.alaska.edu
A northwestern metroppolitan university embarked on a three-year project to assist residents of an at-risk neighborhood to revitalize that community. The goals of this project are to improve access to available human services, increase crime prevention actitivies among youth, and to expand the capacity for community organization. This is supported in part by a Communnity Outreach Partnership Centers Program grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Over the last three years groups of senior community health nursing students have worked collaboratively with local residents, agencies and other university students. The students along with their partners, conducted comprehensive health assessments, planned, implemented and evaluated projects designed to reduce the incidence of unsupervised children in the area. Additionally they designed interventions to improve access to health care and provided services focused on developing healthy lifestyles for school-age youth. This presentation will include a discussion of service-learning as a strategy to enhance academic and service partherships, challenges involved in conducting service-learning activities in community agencies with multiple partners, and finally, present strategies for evaluation.
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Keywords: Community-Based Partnership, Nursing Education
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.