Program Director and Assistant Professor Belmont University
Nashville, TN
Background Information
- Engaged in AHD-type activities for 5 years
- Organization does not participates in any AHD partnerships
Areas of AHD Experience or Expertise
Getting Started with AHD Partnerships
- Developing an AHD partnership
- Selling the AHD concept
- Identifying AHD champions
- Identifying potential partners
- Building leadership support for an AHD partnership
- Setting parameters for partnerships
- Transforming informal relationships into formal partnerships
- Building relationships between practice and academia
- Developing written partnership agreements
Components of AHD Partnerships
- Developing classroom teaching
- Developing continuing education
- Expanding and sustaining practicum sites
- Developing research
Operationalizing AHD Partnerships
- Institutionalizing an AHD
- Sharing personnel across organizations involved in an AHD
- Sharing resources across organizations involved in an AHD
Understanding Impact/Evaluating AHD Partnerships
- Measuring AHD outcomes
- Determining the value of AHD partnerships