Building Community Capacity for Research

Posted by on August 3, 2009

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is pleased to announce the third call in our 2009-2010 Educational Conference Call Series on Building Community Capacity for Research. Each call includes speakers who provide answers and insights from their direct experience, helpful handouts and links to relevant resources.  The audiofile, agenda and handouts for the first two calls on June 3 and July 15 are now posted on the CCPH website at http//depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html

The third call, scheduled for Aug 20 from 3:30 – 5 pm Eastern Time, will focus on the topic of Catalyzing CBPR at the Neighborhood Level.

To register for the call, go to
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/ccphuw/81018

The call will feature speakers from St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities’ Center for Community Based Research in Houston TX and communities that have partnered with the Center on CBPR initiatives.  Created in 1997 as a separate component of St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System, the Charities is a grant-making public charity with 501(c)(3) status that combines CBPR, strategic community partnerships, and its Community Health Information System to have the maximum impact on community health within the
57-counties of its mission field.

On the call, participants will learn about how the Charities has assisted organizations and institutions in moving from a “community as advisor” model of community-based research to a participatory model that
builds community capacity in all phases of the research process.

Participants will be introduced to the Healthy Neighborhood Initiative model of CBPR at the neighborhood level, a CBPR scholar-in-residence program, and the evolution of a team of community-based faculty available to work with academic institutions, community-based organizations, government agencies and philanthropies seeking to build capacity, at both individual and organizational levels, for research and
community engagement.

Intended audience members include community based organizations, grass-roots citizens groups, philanthropic organizations and academic administrators and researchers seeking to engage community in research.

Learn more about the Charities and Center for Community-Based Research online at
http://www.slehc.org/AboutUs/Index.cfm,
http://www.slehc.org/CenterOfExcellence/index.cfm and
http://www.slehc.org/HNI/CBPR.cfm

PLEASE NOTE: The call is free of charge for those dialing in from Canada and the US.  To maximize participation, we encourage you to gather colleagues to dial-in together using one phone line with conference call capabilities. Prior to the call, an email with instructions for dialing in will be sent to confirmed registrants. An audiofile and handouts from the call will be posted on the CCPH website at http://www.ccph.info within 2 weeks of the call.