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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.




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:

Professor Rebeca Sandoval leads a community engagement session in Salina

Bringing KUSSW expertise to rural Kansas communities

Attendees at a continuing education event in Pittsburg

Partnering with organizations across Kansas




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
Joonmo Kang speaks during a panel discussion about the KU Common Book and the KU Libraries

Connecting social work scholarship to campus communities

Briana McGeough speaks during a panel discussion about sharing faculty research

Sharing triumphs and challenges of public scholarship




Stories from CCEC

Fall color on the KU campus in 2023.

Social Welfare fall research events aim to facilitate important discussions

Research events cover self-care in election season, a pilot program to train social work students in supporting survivors of domestic violence, and faculty research on gender-affirming care.
MMIWG2ST+ art by Ahnawake Toyekoyah

Event to connect the issue of MMIWG2ST+ to social work values of service

MMIWG2ST+ is an inclusive acronym describing missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse relatives. Join us in learning about these tragic injustices and their roots in the violence of colonialism and anti-Indigenous U.S. policy — and in committing ourselves to solidarity and justice with Indigenous communities.
The School of Social Welfare’s Center for Community Engagement & Collaboration will host an interactive panel virtual panel Feb. 27 on supporting older adults through social isolation with intergenerational alliances.

Social work Grand Challenges event focuses on supporting older adults facing social isolation

The Grand Challenges for Social Work is an initiative within the social work profession to champion social progress around a series of grand challenges that the profession works to affect.



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