May 10-14, 2011

better C-U partnerships

If you:

• Facilitate, run or actively participate in a Community-University partnership, community-based research, community service learning and related activities,
• Are a community organization currently or looking for ways to enhance your activities by means outside of your expertise, such as research to inform program design, conducting evaluation, and using tools such as asset mapping and facilities such as Science Shops.

Or, you are currently exploring the best ways to initiate any of the above,­ you will find value in attending CU Expo 2011 May 10-13 in Waterloo, ON. Three days and four evenings of packed programming May 10-13 will inform your activities, strengthen your partnerships, and offer opportunities to connect with others across a range of disciplines. Choose from 250 sessions in a variety of formats - talks, roundtables, panels, workshops, open spaces and more. Be exposed to cutting-edge knowledge on current and emerging trends from others taking similar approaches in research and programs, but from outside your field and in unique ways that could tweak or even transform your own work.

Join us at CU Expo 2011: Register | Sponsor | Exhibit

**Student reduced rate**
**One-day registrations are available**

Featured content:

• Roundtable sessions, such as: ‘Community-University partnerships: Mediating elements & processes’, ‘Researching the impact of community service-learning: a policy lens approach’, and ‘Developing inter-professional service learning opportunities’.
• Skill-building workshops, such as: ‘Moving past icebreakers: team building activities to foster communication, collaboration, and understanding’, ‘Going beyond inclusion: the advantages and challenges of community-led community-university research alliances’, and ‘Towards inclusive CBR: lessons-learned from disability and rehabilitation in Cameroon’.
• Presentations, such as: ‘Sharing a built vision: creating community-university partnerships’, ‘Exploring ethics and community-based research: communities and academics working together for change’, ‘Aboriginal-infused community-based research: ethics and ethical dilemmas’, and ‘Interrogating reciprocity: differences in power, privilege, and marginalization in an international collaboration between El Salvador and Canada’.
• Visit community organizations undertaking innovative C-U partnerships.
• Evening activities that include a theatre production by MT Space and a musical performance hosted by the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Jazz Group.

Sessions will cover a broad collection of themes, including:

• Diversity & Migration: health issues, immigrants in the agricultural sector, community engagement, cross-cultural and language issues, and advocacy issues.
• Mental Health: community voices, vulnerabilities, stigmatization, and using participative approaches with those experiencing mental health issues.
• Environment: how research is used in environmental issues, advocacy, and promising practices in locations around the world.
• Disability: inclusion, advocacy, workers rights and worker injuries.
• Aboriginal issues: capacity building, healthcare, and early childhood development.
• Health: built environment and health, policy issues, social mobilization, promoting healthy lifestyles, and sessions focusing on specific health issues such as HIV/AIDs and breast cancer.
• Many sessions are on the ‘how tos’ of CU partnerships and community-based research, including:
  • Community Service Learning
  • Building partnerships
  • Exemplar practices
  • Ethics
  • Participatory planning
  • Engaging community members
  • Working with community advisory boards
  • Definitions and theory
  • Working across sectors
  • Publishing
  • R­eciprocity and trust

Join us at CU Expo 2011: Register | Sponsor | Exhibit

**Student reduced rate**
**One-day registrations are available**