Camp for Stroke Survivors, Caregivers Receives Campus-Community Partnership Award

First lady Rosalynn Carter awarded first place to PSU’s Stroke Camp Northwest at the annual Simon Benson Awards Dinner on April 7, 2009.

The Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences camp for stroke survivors and their caregivers won the first-ever Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Partnerships.

Portland State campus-community partnerships competed exclusively for the awards. The Carter Foundation selected three projects out of 26 applications to receive top awards. Stroke Camp won $10,000 for its program. Second-place winners—receiving $5,000 each—were the Portland Public Schools Migrant Education Program and the Community English as a Second Language Project.