Community Partnerships CORE QUESTION: How can we cultivate strong university-community partnerships throughout Washington University? OBJECTIVE: Strengthen capacity building role to support growth of current St. Louis partnerships and establishment of new St. Louis partnerships that are stewarded by faculty, staff, departments, and student organizations.
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3.1 Create infrastructure and resources to support university departments and organizations in developing and sustaining community partnerships. Examples include: multi-year pilot funding, planning tools and guidelines, professional development and training, ongoing consultation, technical support with evaluation, and communications.
3.1 New infrastructure and resources lead to an increase in mutually beneficial partnerships, measurable community impact, and sustained initiatives. New community partnerships form and are sustained through robust evaluation and quality improvement mechanisms.
3.2 Create a collaborative network among community partners, faculty, staff, students, and local alumni to support relationship building, knowledge and skill development, shared planning, and collaboration.
3.2 Increased knowledge, coordination, and collaboration among campus departments and organizations leads to efficiencies, greater impact, and greater clarity for community partners navigating university resources.
3.3 Develop and implement a system for measurement of partnership involvement, communication, and evaluation that can be used to monitor university partnerships, coordinate across related efforts, and contain and share information about partnership history, context, and outcomes.
3.3 Community partnerships have defined measures for success, lifecycles, and quality improvement processes that show impact and continuous improvement. There is increased institutional knowledge and coordination of university community engagement.