The Confluence Collaborative for Community Engagement serves as a convening unit and supportive platform for community-engaged research, education, and practice across WashU, with community-identified needs at the forefront.
St. Louis community
Your expertise and community knowledge are the foundation of our work.
WashU scholars
Your work elevates the programs that support the community we call home.
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Substance use recovery through ministry, a conversation with Dr. Leslie Johnson Moore of Jubilee Community Church
Dr. Leslie Johnson Moore serves as the First Lady of Jubilee Community Church in St. Louis. Dr. Johnson Moore spoke with the Confluence Collaborative about the Church’s substance use recovery ministry that has grown into a network of homes, mentorship, and wraparound care for men rebuilding their lives after addiction and homelessness. Dr. Johnson Moore also spoke about her partnership with […]
Missouri Public Health Institute’s Spring Schmidt on community based public health work
Spring Schmidt, a member of the Community Collaborative, is CEO and President of the Missouri Public Health Institute, a statewide nonprofit that supports Missouri’s 115 local public health agencies. The Confluence Collaborative talked with her about her journey to this work, the significance of public health, and the role community voice plays in MPHI’s mission. […]
Addressing the Opioid Crisis Through Data, Language Access, and Collaboration — a Q&A with Sal Valadez
Sal Valadez, a member of the Community Collaborative, sat down with the Confluence Collaborative to discuss how the Ethnic Community Opioid Response Network–Missouri (ECORN-MO) advocates for multilingual resources, disaggregated demographic data, community engagement, and public health collaboration to address the needs of communities often left out of opioid response efforts. ECORN-MO is a certified Missouri […]
Our framework
Community engagement describes collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge, applied practice, and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. (Adapted from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)
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Whether you’re new to the field or have a specific project you’re ready to embark on, we’re here to support your work.
We’re working toward taking WashU’s significant knowledge and expertise and making sure that the questions we’re asking, the problems we’re trying to tackle, are those that are going to make a difference in the lives of the people who are giving their time (and) sharing their resources to help us generate this new knowledge.
Vetta Sanders-Thompson, PhD, Brown School