Weger, Marla Berg.

The Collaborative Research Education Partnership Community, Faculty, and Student Partnerships in Practice Evaluation / [electronic resource] : Marla Berg Weger PhD, LCSW,Susan S. Tebb PhD, RN, ACSW,Cynthia A. Loveland Cook PhD, LCSW,Mary Beth Gallagher PhD,Barbara Flory LCSW &Ashley Cruce MA, MSW. - pp. 141-162.

This article discusses the founding and operation of the Emmett J. and Mary Martha Doerr Center for Social Justice Education and Research, an endowed nonprofit organization located within the School of Social Service at Saint Louis University. The nonprofit Center provides a creative mechanism for facilitating university-community agency research. The Research Education Partnership (REP) model creates a partnership among students, community agency personnel, and faculty in funded practice research and program evaluation. Four collaborations, their benefits and challenges, are described. Students are prepared to integrate research into practice. The Center promotes and supports faculty-community partnerships for social justice.


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University-community partnerships, collaboration, practice research, program evaluation, social justice

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