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Bridging Gaps and Building Trust Through Effective Communication

The 8th annual spring conference, Bridging Gaps and Building Trust Through Effective Communication, was hosted by the Office of Community Engagement on May 8, 2025, at ThriveOn King. The conference learning objectives were: recognize a commonly accepted definition of community engagement; apply and evaluate principles of community engagement across diverse settings; demonstrate intentional strategies for connecting, communicating, and collaborating with others. View the program to learn more about the conference speakers and sessions.

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Showcasing Community Engagement in All Spaces

The 7th annual spring conference, Showcasing Community Engagement in All Spaces, was hosted by the Office of Community Engagement on May 2, 2024, at the Milwaukee County War Memorial. The conference learning objectives were: recognize a commonly accepted definition and principles of community engagement; apply learnings around community engagement principles and practices to the settings in which they operate; describe how to connect and collaborate intentionally with others; define equity in partnership development.

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A New Era of Community Engagement

The 6th annual spring conference, A New Era of Community Engagement, was hosted by the Office of Community Engagement on Thursday, May 4, 2023. Sessions were focused on program innovation, research in collaboration with communities of color, hearing directly from community health workers, and more. The sessions highlighted community engagement efforts and lessons learned that emerged through the pandemic in the research, clinical, and education spaces.

View 2023 conference program

Strengthening Partnerships, Cultivating Capacity

The 5th annual conference, MCW Engage 2019: Strengthening Partnerships. Cultivating Capacity, was hosted by the Office of Community Engagement on May 3. Please see links, slides, and handouts from the conference for your reference. Please note: the True Colors session materials are available upon request.

2019 MCW ENGAGE CONFERENCE PROGRAM (PDF)

  • Keynote

    Process is the New Program

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  • Session Slides

    Workshop explored project planning & development

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  • Session Toolkit

    Community Engagement Adaptive Project Planning Toolkit

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  • Session Slides

    Workshop explored dynamics of power & authority in leadership

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  • Livestream

    President's Community Engagement Award Ceremony

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Growing as a Leader through Community Engagement

MCW's Office of Community Engagement hosted their fall conference on Thursday, November 1, 2018. The conference kicked off with keynote speaker, Becca Berkey, PhD, Director of Service-Learning at Northeastern University, speaking on "Building and Sustaining a Culture of Engagement: The Role of Individuals as a Creative Catalyst for Professional Development and Institutional Change." Attendees explored how community engagement provides opportunities for developing leadership potential, as good leaders and effective community-engaged professionals share many of the same qualities. During the Community Engagement Fall Conference, attendees explored these commonalities across the community-academic partnership spectrum.

view 2018 fall conference program (PDF)

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Spreading the Word: Dissemination Strategies for Community Engagement

MCW’s 4th annual Community Engagement Conference hosted by the Office of Community Engagement and the Community Engagement Core took place on April 26 and 27 as a part of a 2018 conference series. The conference offered special sessions focused on community engaged dissemination methods, with inspiration, insight, and instruction to creatively share a message with a target audience and took place at the Ambassador Hotel.

view 2018 spring conference program (PDF)

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Elevating Community Voices in Health

The 2017 MCW Community Engagement Week included almost 700 unique attendees through the week’s events, our greatest attendance so far. The week’s accomplishments included building a greater awareness of social determinants of health that have significant impact in our communities. Panel discussions, a world café session, volunteer sandwich-making event and active workshops helped to raise community voices and perspectives, and provided opportunities to engage directly with community organizations, and to participate in rich discussion around issues where we can work to make a greater impact. View the conference program (PDF).

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Community Engagement: Bridging the Gap between Academics and Community

The 2016 Community Engagement Conference was an opportunity for community partners, colleagues, and MCW faculty, staff and students to learn and network in a variety of different settings and on different topics. The week included panel discussions, a poster-sharing session, several networking opportunities and presentations from existing community-academic partnerships! Each day had a different theme to provide greater knowledge and understanding of the issues affecting our communities and how to find solutions and bridge the gap between academics and the community.

View 2016 conference program (PDF)

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