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The purpose of the annual Texas Tech Health El Paso Community Outreach and Engagement survey is to both document the involvement of our Texas Tech Health El Paso faculty, staff, and residents in community outreach and engagement activities and collate community partners that request support from Texas Tech Health El Paso. Examples of activities include:

New and continuing community projects.
Collaborations with community organizations.
Services provided in the community.
Collaborations with external and internal partners.
Level of community involvement (number of hours dedicated).

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, through the Office for Outreach and Community Engagement, sponsors an Annual Community Engagement Summit biennially which serves to evaluate the status of our engagement with our local community partners.

As a result of our Annual Community Engagement Survey, major community engagement partners are identified and invited to participate in this summit.

The partners range from major local education institutions, patient support groups, as well as healthcare organizations. The partners gather to both give feedback via focus groups in order to ensure Texas Tech Health El Paso aligns our engagements with our community partners’ vision and ensure that our engagements are focused on sustainable multi-directional relationships. This Summit assists in assessing the broader impacts of Texas Tech Health El Paso’s engagement activities.

Texas Tech Health El Paso community reaches out to our Paso del Norte community by providing focused days of volunteer service by the entire Texas Tech Health El Paso campus community as part of our institutional mission. Students, faculty, residents, and staff are given an opportunity to provide a wide range of volunteer service activities to a wide range of community based non-profit organizations at a wide range of sites. The Office for Outreach and Community Engagement provides coordination and resources to make this annual event a success.

During our first annual community engagement Summit, various community patient support groups expressed a need for a centralized leader to gather the disparate patient support organizations to learn best practices, disseminate information, and share community resources. Texas Tech Health El Paso, as the major health education resource, will step in to fill this need and will sponsor, through Our Office for Outreach and Community Engagement, this learning opportunity for our community partners.

The Office for Outreach and Community Engagement provides synchronization of communication between our campus and our El Paso community partners. Coordination of activities on the Texas Tech Health El Paso Campus by community partners, identification of faculty and staff expertise for use by the El Paso community, and identification of resources. In a similar manner, our office provides identification of community partners for faculty looking to provide research, student experiences, or clinical training. The Office for Outreach and Community Engagement synchronizes these collaborative activities between our campus community and the El Paso community.

Link for Community Requests is provided here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/019e276eadc877f983bd97fd227b0df0

Our Office for Outreach and Community Engagement provides community physician SOURCING for educational departments on our campus as a source for community faculty outreach and support.