The School of Public Health and the Student Public Health Association are seeking nominations for the 5th Annual Service Award for Community Partners, to be presented at our All-School Awards Ceremony on May 19, 2011. Nominations are due by 11:59 pm, April 12, 2011. (At left, student Tegan Callahan presents last year's award to Gerry Pollet of Heart of America Northwest.)
Do you know someone outside the School who has shown exemplary support for its mission and goals? Perhaps an organization that has worked with the School's students, faculty, staff, or administrators in an effort that has increased the school's impact in the local, national, or international community?
If you're an SPH student, faculty, staff, or alum, we invite you to nominate this person or organization for the 2011 Service Award for Community Partners. We're especially looking for individuals (especially those who personify their own institution's commitment to collaboration with the School) and those who work closely with SPH students.
What is the Community Partners Award? The Community Partners Award was first presented in 2007, when students in our Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety & Health Center proposed that we recognize two of their mentors, Ofelio Borges and Flor Servin, farm worker trainers in eastern Washington, for their outstanding work with DEOHS students. The School's leadership and the SPHA quickly agreed—and then took it one step further, making the award permanent. Subsequent awards have gone to Public Health-Seattle & King County (2008), which has long supported the School by providing practicum experiences at its many sites throughout King County; Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness (2009), which gets our students involved in the entire range of its work, from policy advocacy to event organizing to hands-on service work; and Heart of America Northwest (2010) for their close collaboration with students in our Community-Oriented Public Health Practice Program.
What's the deadline? Nominations are due Tuesday, April 12, 2011 by 11:59 pm.
What should my nomination include? Nominations should include three to five paragraphs describing the nature of the nominee's collaborations with specific members of the SPH student body, faculty, staff, or administration; the frequency and duration of the collaboration; and ways in which the collaboration has strengthened or broadened the School's educational, research, and/or service activities.
How do I submit my nomination? If you have a current UW NetID, please submit your nominations online using the web link below. If you do not have a current UW NetID, please e-mail spha@u.washington.edu to request a custom ID that will allow you to submit nominations. You can find the nomination survey at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/spha/109304.
Previous winners:
Dean Wahl presents the 2009 Service Award for Community Partners to Alison Eisenger. Not shown is co-winner Scott Morrow.
Karen Hartfield receives the 2008 award on behalf of Public Health-Seattle & King County, which has long supported the School by providing practicum experiences at its many sites throughout King County.
2007 winners Ofelio Borges and Flor Servin, farm worker trainers for the Washington State Department of Agriculture's Farmworker Education Program, for the way they have encouraged and mentored DEOHS students.