The UCSF Community Partnership Resource Center (CPRC) is a Department of Family & Community Medicine initiative to facilitate partnership activities between UCSF and local communities with the overall goal of improving health status and decreasing health disparities within San Francisco.

Following a set of guiding principles of partnership, the CPRC will:

• Coordinate linkages between community agencies and UCSF faculty, staff, and students with complementary interests;
• Assist with partnership building;
• Assist with project development, implementation, and evaluation;
• Build capacity within UCSF and partner community agencies; and
• Help ensure long-term sustainability of projects when appropriate.

The nature of specific projects will be driven by the needs and priorities of partner communities, but potential programmatic areas include:

• Health education in local communities
• Increased “community competency” among health professionals
• Community-based participatory research
• Social advocacy

The following two guides were developed by the CPRC with assistance and guidance from survivors of violence, health professionals, medical students and community-based experts. The guides will be updated periodically. We invite you to provide us with additions, corrections or comments by contacting the CPRC and/or in addition, completing our survey at the link provided below.

This website was produced with financial assistance from: