Educating for Community-Based Practice: A Collaborative Strategy Jaime Phillip Muñoz, PhD, OTR, FAOTA Ingrid M. Provident, EdD, OTR/L Anne Marie Witchger Hansen, MS, OTR/L SUMMARY. This paper describes creative instruction strategies that prepare students for community-based practice. These educational inno- vations are designed to prepare graduates to understand occupation-based service delivery in community settings, to develop community-built pro- grams that are responsive to community needs, and to understand how to both secure funding for and market occupational therapy services in the community. The process and products of collaboration between instruc- tors in an administration and a community-based practice course are de- scribed. Outcome data from students and community partners are presented. Strategies for successful community partnerships and recom- mendations for continued development of these educational approaches are presented based on these data. [Article copies available for a fee from Jaime Phillip Muñoz is Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, Duquesne University, 219 Health Sciences Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15282 (E-mail: munoz@ duq.edu). Ingrid M. Provident is Instructor and Fieldwork Coordinator, Department of Oc- cupational Therapy, Duquesne University, 220 Health Sciences Building, Pittsburgh, PA (E-mail: provident@duq.edu). Anne Marie Witchger Hansen is Instructor and Director of the Practice Scholar Program, Department of Occupational Therapy, Duquesne Univer- sity, 225 Health Sciences Building, Pittsburgh, PA (E-mail: hansen@duq.edu). [Haworth co-indexing entry note]: “Educating for Community-Based Practice: A Collaborative Strategy.” Muñoz, Jaime Phillip, Ingrid M. Provident, and Anne Marie Witchger Hansen. Co-published simultaneously in Occupational Therapy in Health Care (The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 18, No. 1/2, 2004, pp. 151-169; and: Best Practices in Occupational Therapy Education (ed: Patricia A. Crist, and Marjorie E. Scaffa) The Haworth Press, Inc., 2004, pp. 151-169. Single or multiple copies of this article are available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service [1-800-HAWORTH, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EST). E-mail address: docdelivery@haworthpress.com]. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/OTHC  2004 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Digital Object Identifier:10.1300/J003v18n01_15 151