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Overview & Call for Applications
Registration & Lodging
Cosponsors
Planning Team
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Overview
& Call for Applications
Applications are due October 12, 2012 for the 2nd National Community
Partner Forum on Community-Engaged Health Disparities Research,
December 5-7, 2012 in Washington DC. Click here for the Call for
Applications.
Community engagement in research is central to understanding and
addressing racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in
health. Research funding agencies are supporting faculty
members and institutions to engage communities as partners in
conducting research. As more community organizations enter into
research partnerships with institutions as well as initiate and
conduct research, it is clear that we need our own networks for
professional development, mentoring and advocacy in order to advance
the social change through knowledge and power sharing that must happen
if we are to achieve health equity in this country.
At the inaugural National Community Partner Forum in December 2011 in
Boston, an agenda for change emerged: For research to have any hope of
moving the needle on health disparities, communities of color and
low-income communities need to have (1) power in decisions made about
research (2) the capacity and infrastructure to engage as equal
research partners with institutions and conduct their own research and
(3) significant roles in building the capacity of academic institutions
to engage and partner with communities. As community
leaders who are passionate about health equity and social justice,
participants quickly came together around the need for research equity
and justice - through the co-production of knowledge and building
democracy in the shared governance of their partnerships. Inaugural
forum participants - 77% people of color and 80% involved in federally
funded research - established a leadership structure, formed workgroups
for peer learning and resource development and pledged to gather again
a year later in Washington DC.
The 2nd National Community Partner Forum seeks to advance
community-engaged research as a tool for eliminating health disparities
by:
- Deepening the knowledge and skills needed by community
partners to successfully conduct community-engaged research, negotiate
community-academic research partnerships and serve in national
leadership roles;
- Disseminating innovative work of community partners that
others can learn from and build on;
- Engaging in constructive dialogue between community
partners and key stakeholders in academic, government and philanthropic
sectors to foster mutual understanding and supportive action; and
- Growing and deepening a national network of community
partners that facilitates professional development and has a
significant voice in decisions about research practice and policy
The forum agenda is designed to provide time and space for community
partners to learn and strategize together as peers before their
academic partners and other key stakeholders join the
conversation. On Wednesday December 5th, afternoon skill-building
workshops will cover such topics as the basics of community-based
participatory research, addressing challenges in partner-based
research, applying for and managing research grants, preparing to serve
on federal research advisory committees and grant review panels, and
developing community IRBs and community research review boards.
On Thursday December 6th, workgroups will report on their progress and
engage new community members in determining their future plans.
Small group sessions will tap into the knowledge in the room by drawing
out successes, failures, lessons learned and promising practices in
community-engaged research. That evening, academic partners,
policy makers and funders will join the forum for a reception and
poster session. On Friday December 7th, community partners will
report on their deliberations and engage academic partners, policy
makers and funders in a dialogue around the actions that are
needed. The forum will conclude that day at 12 pm.
We are seeking experienced and novice community partners involved in
research who are committed to social justice, willing to share their
challenges and successes, and eager to both enhance their impact at a
local level and contribute to a broader research and advocacy
agenda. Individuals from community-based organizations are
especially encouraged to apply. Community partners who are
involved in partnerships with academic institutions are encouraged to
invite an academic partner to apply to attend the forum evening
reception and poster session on Thursday December 6th and the dialogue
on Friday December 7th. Only applications from academic
partners that have a corresponding community partner application will
be considered.
In making final selections, we will strive for diversity among
participants in terms of their geographic location, race/ethnicity and
research experience. In order to maximize opportunities for dialogue,
active learning and subsequent action, the forum will be limited to
about 150 community-based participants and 50 academic partners, policy
makers and funders. Applicants will be notified on the status of
their applications no later than November 1st.
Registration
& Lodging
Registration for all forum participants is free of charge, supported by
a grant from the National Institutes of Health. A block of rooms
is being held at the Washington
Court Hotel,
525 New Jersey Avenue NW in Washington DC at the government rate of
$183 plus tax for a single or double room. To make your hotel reservation, please call the hotel toll-free at
1-800-321-3010 and indicate that you are attending the Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health conference. To receive the discounted rate, you
must make your reservation no later than midnight on Friday November
16, 2012. Assistance will be
provided to connect participants who would like to share a room.
Limited scholarship funds will be available for selected community
partners who would otherwise be unable to attend. Information on
how to apply will be provided when application decisions are sent
out. We are also happy to provide official letters of invitation
or other documentation that may help in raising funds to attend the
forum; requests may be submitted by email.
We encourage our allies in academic institutions, government and
philanthropy to consider supporting community partner travel expenses
to the extent possible. Individuals and organizations that
provide such support will be recognized by name on the forum website
and in the forum program with their permission.
Cosponsors
Community-Campus Partnerships for
Health:
A national non-profit organization founded in 1996, CCPH promotes
health equity and social justice through partnerships between
communities and academic institutions. We view health
broadly as physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being and
emphasize partnership approaches to health that focus on changing the
conditions and environments in which people live, work and play.
Our strategic goals are to:
- Leverage the knowledge, wisdom and experience in
communities and in academic institutions to solve pressing health,
social, environmental and economic challenges
- Ensure that community-driven social change is central to
the work of community-academic partnerships
- Build the capacity of communities and academic institutions
to engage each other in partnerships that balance power, share
resources, and work towards systems change
Our members - a diverse group of over 2,000 individuals affiliated with
community organizations, colleges and universities, health care
delivery systems, student service organizations, foundations and
government - are advancing these goals in their work on a daily
basis. CCPH is governed by a board of directors that reflects the
diverse constituencies we serve. What ties us together is our
commitment to social justice and our passion for the power of
partnerships to transform communities and academe.
Center for Community Health
Education Research and Service:
CCHERS is a community-based organization that is a community/academic
partnership established in 1991 with a $6 million grant from the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation’s Community Partnerships in Health Professions
Education initiative. The partnership is comprised of Boston Medical
Center, the Boston Public Health Commission, Boston University School
of Medicine, Northeastern University Bouve College of Health Sciences
and an established network of fifteen community health centers (FQHC)
serving the racially and ethnically diverse populations of the City.
Northeastern University serves as its host institution and sustaining
partner. The mission of CCHERS is to promote the development of
“academic community health centers,” that integrate education,
research, and service, to influence and change health professions
education; improve health care delivery; and promote health systems
change to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health.
National Institutes of Health:
Funding for the forum is made possible (in part) by 1R13MD007569-01
from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities,
the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health &
Human Development, and the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences awarded to Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the
Center for Community Health Education Research and Service. The views
expressed in written conference materials or publications and by
speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official
policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does
mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply
endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Planning
Team
Planning Committee
Willie Mae Bennett-Fripp, Executive Director, Committee for Boston
Public Housing, Boston, MA
Grace Damio, Director of Research and Service Initiatives, Hispanic
Health Council, Hartford, CT
Susan Gust, Community Activist & Small Business Owner, Minneapolis,
MN
Ernest Hopkins, Founder & CEO, The Phoenix Group Foundation,
Atlanta, GA
Loretta Jones, Founder & CEO, Healthy African American Families,
Los Angeles, CA
Ogonnaya Dotson Newman, Director of Environmental Health, West Harlem
Environmental Action, Inc. (WE-ACT), New York, NY
Ann-Gel Palermo, Chair, Harlem Community & Academic Partnership,
New York, NY
Fernando Pineda-Reyes, Executive Director, Community, Research,
Education & Awareness (CREA) Results, Denver, CO
Alex Pirie, Coordinator, Immigrant Service Providers Group/Health,
Somerville, MA
Angela Reyes, Executive Director, Detroit Hispanic Development
Corporation, Detroit, MI
Al Richmond, Director, Healthy Workplace Initiatives, North Carolina
Institute of Minority Economic Development, Durham, NC
Zachary Rowe, Executive Director, Friends of Parkside, Detroit, MI
Jean Schensul, Senior Scientist & Founding Director, Institute for
Community Research, Hartford, CT
Raquel Trinidad, Member, Institutional Review Board, Special Service
for Groups, Los Angeles, CA
Eric Wat, Director, Research and Evaluation Unit, Special Service for
Groups, Los Angeles, CA
Gayle M. Woodsum, President, Action Resources International,
Laramie WY
Principal Investigators
Elmer Freeman, Executive Director, Center for Community Health
Education Research and Service, Boston, MA
Sarena D. Seifer, Executive Director, Community-Campus Partnerships for
Health, Seattle, WA
Consultants & Staff
Nancy Shore, Associate Professor, University of New England School of
Social Work and Senior Consultant, Community-Campus Partnerships for
Health
Faye Ziegeweid, Administrative Coordinator, Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health
For More
Information
If you have any questions or would like to be added to the forum email
list, please email us.
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