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Arts Outreach: Mentoring
through Photography/Mixed Media and Dance is a collaboration
between Stonehill College, the Plymouth
County District Attorney's Office, and the Arnone
School in Brockton. The program has made a substantial
impact on the lives of both Stonehill students and the at-risk
young people they have mentored, using arts as a medium for
healthy self-expression.
Bridging the Gap: A Partnership for Refugee Families
between Massachusetts General Hospital-Chelsea Healthcare
Center and Harvard Medical School
is a Harvard Medical School student-initiated refugee family
advocacy project which matches students with refugee families
in a longitudinal relationship as a way to reach specific
underserved populations that present with complex medical
and psychosocial needs that are not adequately met by existing
services.
Connection, Service, and Partnership through Technology
(CSPTech) is a project of the Center for
Social Policy within the McCormack Graduate School of Policy
Studies at UMass Boston and Project Hope. This project
links together service providers, constituents, advocates,
researchers, foundations, and state and local governments
through a web-based computer network system to understand
and address homelessness in Massachusetts.
Health Promotion Tri-alliance: Creating Sustainable
Service Leaders to Promote Health and Fitness in the Roxbury
Community, a partnership between Northeastern
University, the Whittier Street Community
Health Center, and the Boston YMCA,
provides health- and wellness-promotion programs across the
lifespans of residents of the Roxbury community.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and
the North Adams Public Schools have collaborated
on a community service-learning partnership which is centered
firmly on education. Collaborative projects include Reading
Coaches TM-which places MCLA students with second graders-and
Skeletons, Rockets, and Pizza-an after-school science and
mathematics enrichment program for middle school students.
The Media Literacy and Violence Prevention Project
is a community service-learning project that combines students
from two undergraduate courses, university faculty, and graduate
students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
with sixth-grade students, teachers, and parents at Deerfield
Elementary School in a collaborative effort to build
a grassroots program that combines media literacy with interpersonal
conflict-resolution and violence-prevention strategies.
The Mystic Watershed Collaborative (MWC)
is a partnership between the Mystic River Watershed
Association and Tufts University.
Its purpose is to strategically link academic research and
student learning with real-world challenges, giving priority
to concerns raised by watershed citizens.
The Nuestras Raices-Hampshire College Community Partnership
has three principal areas of activity: development of an intergenerational
community gardening program in Holyoke's Latino community;
development of environmental justice initiatives; and community-based
economic development.
The Partners in Education (PIE) program is
a partnership between Northeastern University
and ten community organizations that provide
educational enrichment programs for neighborhood children
in the Roxbury and Dorchester areas of Boston. The goals of
the program are to prepare new teachers for service in urban
schools and to foster the personal and academic development
of Boston school children.
Through Project HEALTH, Harvard University and Boston
Medical Center bring together creative and energetic
college volunteers with experienced and dedicated health professionals
and community leaders to design and implement innovative programs
in child health.
Quinsigamond Community College, a community
college with exceptional dental education programs and a firm
community mission, and the Central Massachusetts Oral
Health Initiative, a coalition of people and organizations
including government, dentists' associations, hospitals, health
insurers, and private foundations interested in oral health,
have been working together to leverage college and community
resources and expertise to benefit at-risk populations in
the Central Massachusetts area.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Worcester County
and Holy Cross College created the School
Based Mentor Program to provide at-risk elementary-school-aged
children with one-on-one attention from college student mentors.
The SouthCoast Educational Compact is a K-16
education partnership between business leaders, area school
superintendents, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
and Bristol Community College to collectively
address the level of educational attainment in the South Coast
region of Massachusetts.
The Strategic Planning Initiative for Family & Youth
(SPIFFY) and the University of Massachusetts
Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences (UMassSPHHS)
have formed a partnership that provides SPIFFY with the evaluation
capacity of the UMassSPHHS, allowing SPIFFY to strengthen
their impact on the community by using research-based, data-driven
decision-making.
Through a collaboration between the St. Julie Asian
Family Education Center and the Middlesex
Community College Service-learning Program, MCC students
work with Southeast Asian immigrants in the center's educational
programs for adults and their young children by serving as
tutors, child care assistants, and most importantly as role
models, since many of them are first-generation college students
and/or Southeast Asian.
The Urban Places Project Urban Laboratory
is a partnership between the University of Massachusetts
Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional
Planning and the communities, neighborhoods, and
people of the City of Springfield. It is
an outreach program designed to take advantage of the existing
links between teachers, students, professionals, municipalities,
and residents to encourage ongoing exchanges of ideas and
information.
The Wider Horizons Project of the Irish Colleges of
Education, an international partnership for peace
and reconciliation between Middlesex Community College,
the Lowell Public Schools, UMass
Lowell, and the Irish Colleges of Education,
brings Catholic and Protestant student teachers from four
colleges in Ireland to Lowell, Massachusetts, to work with
Lowell public school teachers in summer programs that give
students a deep personal learning experience of education
for mutual understanding.
Harvard University and Partners for
Youth with Disabilities, Inc. first collaborated
on the Youth Leadership Forum in 2000. Youth
Leadership Forum participants have access to contacts and
mentors from the Harvard community as well as access to space,
materials, staff, and funding.
UMass Dartmouth and the Habitat for
Humanity of Greater Plymouth have formed a partnership
to participate in the Solar Decathlon Project by designing
and building affordable sustainable solar homes. This project
was too new to be considered for the award competition. |
The Carter Partnership Award was originally developed in Georgia. It is housed at the Board of
Regents for the University System of Georgia. Dr. Sue Sehgal is the founder and director of this
program. To see information on the Carter Partnership Award please visit
www.usg.edu/carteraward.
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