CTSA Western Region Community Engagement Workshop

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CTSA Western Region Community Engagement Workshop

• October 17, 2008
• Hosts University of California, Davis
• Clinical and Translational Science Center
• Center for Reducing Health Disparities

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Workshop Goals

• To support and strengthen community engagement
  within CTSA
• To facilitate partnerships between CTSAs and
  between CTSAs and community-based organizations
  and health institutions
• To recognize community partnerships are an
  essential component of community research
• Western Region Workshop theme
• How do we optimize opportunities and chances for
  success in academic-community partnership
  research?

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Open Space Technology

• 4 different time slots for sessions, 5 rooms
• Result 20 discussion topics, led by those who
  suggested them
• Closing circle in which participants identify
  what they learned from the process
• 60 participants (roughly half representing
  community partners), from UC Davis, UC San
  Francisco, Oregon Clinical and Translation
  Science Institute, University of Washington,
  Scripps, Stanford, University of Colorado,
  University of Utah

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Building the agenda . . .
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Topic examples . . .

• Improving community health outcomes that matter
• Valuing and trusting kitchen table wisdom
• Grounding research in community/population based
  data
• Building community capacity as a part of research
• The consultation process for community researcher
  partnerships
• How can community partners most effectively
  communicate their wisdom needs, ideas, to NIH?
• Resources and incentives for community safety-net
  practice-based research networks

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more topics . . .

• Integration of community partnerships across all
  missions of an academic health center
• Relationship-driven models of research that give
  back
• Is process a worthy product?
• Dissemination of research findings
• HIV and minority communities
• The process of establishing mutually beneficial
  research
• Sustainability and investment for the long term
  in academic-community partnerships

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Commonalities

• Looking for impactwhere? Short-term, long-term?
  Connection to CTSA goals?
• Establishing community-institutional
  relationships, balance of power, trust, resolving
  conflict
• Addressing institutional barriersto data access,
  training of community members in research, to
  allowing time necessary for CBPR
• Building capacity for research in
  communitiesboth within communities, and for
  researchers working toward sustainability

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Evaluation results

• 100 felt the workshop theme was well addressed
• 94 agreed that what they learned was useful to
  their work
• 90 felt that what they learned would be useful
  to making connections with community partners,
  and building academic-community partnerships
• 90 felt that the meeting format was appropriate
  for achieving workshop goals, and had suggestions
  for making it even more useful