Community Partners

These partnerships can exist in different configurations depending on the nature of the program: between faculty and community agency staff, between academic institution and community agency, between student and community agency client, faculty and student, and so forth.

• How can you build a solid foundation by developing a trusting relationship with your community partners?

• What strategies will you use to achieve 'gain-gain' relationships, whereby your community partners and you academic institution both benefit first sttudent participation
  
• inservice-learning?How can you move away from the 'community as placement site' model to the community as partner' model of students serving and learning in community settings?
• How can you build partnerships into all aspects of service-learning?

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The difference between service-learning placements, internship placements, and volunteering: