Cupp, the Community University Partnership Programme, has received an honourable mention at the prestigious 2010 Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) awards.
The 2010 CCPH award winner and the partnerships recognised as honourable mentions were announced at CCPH's 11th Conference, "Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships" in Portland, Oregon USA on 12-15 May 2010.
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a non-profit organisation that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. It was founded in 1996, and represents a growing network of over 1,800 communities and campuses across North America and the world that collaborate to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies.
The CCPH annual award recognises exemplary partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.
In selecting Cupp for an honourable mention, the reviewers described it as "an exemplary community engagement initiative". Also noted were its "substantive engagement with […] disability groups and families, the LGT community, and more" and its impressive scope.
Very many congratulations to all those involved in Cupp for their recognition at this prestigious awards ceremony.
