Trainer for WISE (Oregon Department of Education)

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) is requesting proposals from eligible individuals to provide school staff trainings in Standards and Assessment, Mapping and Alignment, and selected sexuality education curriculum at selected schools through criteria determined by the Working to Institutionalize Sex Ed (WISE) in Oregon Workgroup as required by the Grove/Packard Foundation Grant.

Amount: $40,000 - $70,000

Date due: October 8, 2009

The Contractor will work in partnership with the ODE Sexuality Education program specialist and the Health Education program specialist to provide capacity-building Training of Trainers (TOT) for the Healthy Kids Learn Better (HKLB) Cadre of Trainers in the ODE selected sexuality education curriculum, standards and assessment (S/A), and mapping and alignment (M/A) including Health Education Curriculum Analysis (HECAT).

For more information, email phyllis.reynolds@state.or.us.

Call for Presenters at the 2010 Community-Campus Partnerships Conference (Portland)

Excerpted from Northwest Health Foundation E-News (September 2009).

"Northwest Health Foundation is a major partner for the eleventh annual conference for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health taking place from May 12-15, 2010 in Portland and we invite you to share your knowledge, wisdom and experience! You are encouraged to submit a proposal for a session or poster presentation at the conference.

The conference is titled "Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships." Proposals are due Friday, October 16, 2009.

If you're interested, download the call for proposals at:

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf10-cfp.html

The CCPH conference draws diverse participants who share a commitment to social justice and a passion for the power of partnerships to transform communities and academe. All CCPH conference participants, whether they are community activists, students, faculty, CEOs, foundation program officers, etc., are embraced for the knowledge, wisdom and experience they bring to the table."