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PORTLAND, Maine

Social Work and Nursing faculty to present webinar on interprofessional service learning in community settings

Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., F.N.A.P., associate professor of Social Work, director of the Center for Excellence in Interprofessional Education (CEIPE); Kerry Dunn , J.D., Ph.D. assistant professor of Social Work; and Jen Morton, D.N.P., M.P.H., APHN, director and associate professor for the Department of Nursing will co-present a webinar titled, "Empowering Students. Empowering Communities; Interprofessional Campus to Community Learning Opportunies," on March 5, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. EST.

The webinar will describe three interprofessional community and global projects that were developed and executed in collaboration with community stakeholders and clinical partners:

  •  The CHANNELS Project helps students foster the skills necessary for working with immigrant and refugee populations and community health outreach workers as members of a development team.
  • The Cumberland County Jail Project brings students from multiple health professions together to learn with and from inmates about their health needs and perspectives. Innovative evaluation of these community-based learning models will be presented.
  •  The Ghana Cultural Immersion connects teams of health professions students and faculty with local health providers twice a year in the Western Region of Ghana.

This presentation for the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) will be disseminated to a nationwide audience of leaders invested in the future of interprofessional collaboration and learning. The AIHC webinar series aims to showcase significant transformational interprofessional education and  collaborative practice efforts.

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