Community Partners
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Partnership with community and campus associates is an essential ingredient of our program.The MCHP works with community partners on collaborative research projects and provides technical assistance when requested, particularly in the area of program evaluation. Our community partners serve as preceptors or mentors for our students participating in on-site practica, and often teach in our classes. Community organizations are welcome to send brief descriptions of available practica opportunities to post on our student listserves to Kris Gupta, the Continuing Education Coordinator. Recently, faculty member Myrtis Sullivan co-edited a book of essays, Collaborative Research: University and Community Partnership, which was developed from the UIC-based project, The Maternal and Child Community Health Science Consortium (MC2HSC). This project, funded by the MCHB from 1992-2000, consisted of more than 100 members and included service providers, advocates, faculty, consumers and community-based agencies. Members of MC2HSC met quarterly to discuss various aspects of the three major programs it operated: research, technical assistance, and outreach. Although the program no longer exists, the MCHP has continued to offer some of the CE &TA services that had historically been provided by MC2HSC. The Maternal and Child Health Program Advisory Committee (MCH-AC) also serves as a community liaison to the faculty and staff of the MCHP. The MCH-AC is composed of health and human service MCH professionals as well as consumers from DHHS Regions V and VII, public and private agencies, and the community. Campus PartnersThe MCHP has a long history of working collaboratively with various UIC departments and units. MCH-related activities are widely spread throughout the University of Illinois at Chicago, particularly on the health sciences campus. Our campus partners have included: departments in the College of Medicine and the College of Nursing; the departments of Psychology and Sociology; the Division of Specialized Care for Children; the departments of Disability and Human Development and Human Nutrition; and the Center for Research on Women and Gender, among others. Our relationships with these groups include joint appointments, research activities, community projects, student placement in practica, and teaching. Links to the websites of many of our campus partners are listed at the bottom of this page. Adjunct FacultyOne major benefit of having long-term connections with our campus and community partners is that we have been afforded many opportunities to hire quality leaders from the MCH community to teach as adjunct faculty in our program. Like the MCHP full-time faculty, MCHP adjunct faculty members represent many disciplines. These include Sociology, Health Policy, Public Health Nursing, Health Education, and Medicine, among others. Specialties of our adjunct faculty include Child Health, Women's Health, International Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs, Family Planning, Evaluation and Analytic Methods. Courses taught by our adjunct faculty members add an indispensable breadth and depth to the curriculum of the MCHP. MCH ListservIn order to foster active communication with our community and campus partners, the MCHP has established and maintains a MCH Listserve. To join the listserve, send an email to listserv@listserv.uic.edu. In the body of the message type: subscribe mchatuic First_name Last_name (type in first and last names). Links to Campus Partners
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