Invited Symposium III: School, University, and Community Collaborations to Build Resilience and Improve Children’s Health: The Homewood Approach

The focus of this session is on how school, community, and university partners can collaborate to support high needs communities in efforts to ameliorate and ultimately eliminate, disparities in children’s health. The presenter, Professor John Wallace, School of Social Work, Katz School of Business, and Department of Sociology – University of Pittsburgh, will discuss current collaborations between the University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt-Assisted Community Schools (PACS) program, the Homewood Children’s Village Community Schools Initiative, and three collaborating Title 1 public schools in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh.  The session will detail various aspects of, leading, designing and executing this collaboration that leverages community school supports and university resources in order to provide a pipeline of full-service programming that promotes resilience and health among one of the city’s highest need populations.