Center for Community Engagement & Collaboration
The Center for Community Engagement & Collaboration (CCEC) adds capacity to the School of Social Welfare's community engagement. CCEC advances our values and vision in community-university initiatives at KU.
About CCEC
CCEC promotes public scholarship from the School of Social Welfare, expanding the reach for important research. CCEC also represents the School of Social Welfare in crucial community-university alliances, bringing social work values and skills to this community-engaged work.
CCEC Priorities
Community Engagement
Upcoming CCEC Events
Community Engagement
CCEC adds capacity to the School’s community engagement and advances our values and vision in community-university initiatives at KU.
Community Engagement Partners
While the KU School of Social Welfare has always been deeply committed to developing and sustaining relationships with communities, CCEC adds capacity to these efforts. CCEC provides an additional pathway through which community members experience the School, and ensures that social work values and our School's vision are represented in community-university initiatives at KU.
CCEC's community engagement efforts prioritize Wyandotte County, a long-time School ally in research projects and practicum education, and rural Kansas, a crucial arena for strengths-based social work.
Identifying community both within and beyond the university, CCEC is the KU School of Social Welfare's liaison to:
- KU Civic Engagement Ambassadors
- KU Community Engagement Consortium
- Frontiers Clinical & Translational Science Institute
- KUMC Institute for Community Engagement
- KU Commons
Public Scholarship
CCEC's public scholarship work connects researchers and communities for transformative engagement with the School's valuable research.
Commitment to Public Scholarship
CCEC helps build connections between KU School of Social Welfare researchers and communities through efforts including:
- Publication of policy, practice and research briefs
- Support for government relations and media appearances
- Thought partnership and capacity-building for KUSSW scholars' innovative dissemination
- Public events - both in-person and virtual - including Research Impact Talks and Grand Challenges panels