Community Engagement Team

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Community Engagement Team
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Key Community Partners

• Community Advisory Board - Governmental and
  non-governmental, coalitions, CBOs
• Health Associations Collaborative volunteer
  organizations patient support and advocacy
• African American and Hispanic Health Leadership
  Conference Committee
• Health Action Monroe County DPH priorities
• Providers Outpatient medical providers / staff

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AIM 1 Promote community participation in
research

• Establish activities in the Center for Community
  Health
• Team and 4 subgroups which include non-CTSI,
  administrative
• Establish long-term research partnerships with
  community
• Presentations of CTSI to all groups engagement
  in priority setting sharing of grants
  opportunities data analysis assistance
• Engage organizations/individuals in developing
  priorities, design, and implementation strategies
• Key informant interviews and focus groups
  community liaison
• Key organizations formal input
• Expand expertise in community-based participatory
  research
• Faculty Group Dan Blumenthal visit in May -
  consultation
• Inventory of community health projects CBPR
  enhancement
• Establish and disseminate community criteria
• Needs assessment public, providers,
  investigators
• Health improvement practice improvement
  dissemination

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AIM 2 Promote participation of providers in
research

• Create the Greater Rochester PBRN in the CCH
• NCRA Rochester Research Associate Organization
• Coordinate existing PBRNs and facilitate new
  research
• PROS network Pediatric obesity report card
• Ongoing work in neighborhood health center
  network
• Implement training / consultation for
  investigators and practitioners on practice-based
  research
• Surveys, interviews of practices and
  investigators - barriers
• Provider dominated steering committee priority
  shift to quality initiatives definition of
  levels of involvement
• Coordinate with education/training aim
• Develop innovative communication strategies
• Databases of providers, practices and projects
• Improve recruitment from health care settings -
  tracking

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AIM 3 Improve community health knowledge of
investigators

• Develop training program for investigators and
  trainees (K30, K12 and others) CME credit
• Interviews, focus groups with clinical research
  coordinators and investigators needs assessment
  survey
• Team based approach PI training mentorship for
  RCs/PIs
• Training includes didactic, experiential,
  distance learning, group
• 2. Develop curriculum for training program Fall
  2007
• Community based participatory research
• Principles of community health improvement and
  collaboration
• Theories of organizational and behavioral change
• Cultural competency
• 3. Continuously evaluate and revise training
• 4. NCRA/RRAO training assessment and development

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AIM 4 Increase participation in research

• Increase awareness of and interest in clinical
  research among the public
• Communications plan public education
  grassroots
• Centralized consultation/marketing for
  recruitment
• Design and test innovative community-driven
  recruitment and retention strategies
• Establish measures of recruitment / diversity
• Maintain an annotated bibliography of
  evidence-based recruitment/retention strategies
• Establish a working group on recruitment/retention
  to review literature and provide consultation
• Faculty Group
• Maintain a database of past and current research
  being conducted in the Finger Lakes region
• Clinical Research Database searchable enhance