May 10-14, 2011

community: practitioner, organization, funder

·       If you:

• Provide community service and strive for social change, either as an individual or organization/institution,
• Partner with academic institutions,
• Fund projects that incorporate C-U partnerships, or work that informs better C-U partnership making,

Or, you are exploring how to use (or better use) research, service-learning or inter-sectoral partnerships to inform, improve or undertake projects, 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: ‘We're not asking, we're telling: building on good practices in services for women and families facing homelessness’, and ‘Community-university partnership in creating passionate and visionary boards’.
• Skill-building workshops, such as: ‘Community advisory boards in community-based participatory research: best processes’, ‘Asset-mapping as a tool for mobilizing small rural churches in community development’, and ‘Adult education for social change: utilizing community-centred learning to build research capacity’.
• Presentations, such as: ‘Raising the bar on quality child care: a participatory programme evaluation’, ‘Growing community through urban agriculture: a community-university project involving senior immigrants’, and ‘What's in your knowledge mobilization toolbox?’
• 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 many 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**