COLLABORATION, STAFFING, AND PIZZA: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE BEGINNING STAGES OF A COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION

Community-Based Participatory Research;East Baltimore;Social and Behavioral Interventions

Dougan, Bryan MCwik, Mary ;

Johns Hopkins University

关键词: Community-Based Participatory Research;    East Baltimore;    Social and Behavioral Interventions;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: JOHNS HOPKINS DSpace Repository

【 摘 要 】

In addressing the social determinants of urban health conditions, urban academic hospitals often form an academic-community partnership (ACP) with local community leaders and organizations to collaboratively intervene. ACPs bring together their collective resources to improve urban health, particularly for areas with poor health outcomes. Based in east and southeast Baltimore, Project CONNECT aims to work with local community-based organizations (CBOs) to produce resources to improve health in the seven ZIP Codes surrounding the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. This paper describes the formative stages of an ACP comprising local community-based organizations (CBOs) and a research team at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to address urban social and health needs in east Baltimore. It explains how community engagement changed the directions of the project in three domains: 1) study design, 2) cultural humility, and 3) specificity of messaging. Our understanding of engagement is informed by our adaption of the African Partnerships for Patient Safety Community Engagement (ACE) Approach in combination with the paradigmatic Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). We found that, by having community involvement from the beginning of a project, the direction of the project will change. There are notions and barriers, such as different understandings of time, that will come through engagement. Implications for efforts to conduct future community engagement projects include earlier community participation for ACPs, openness to bidirectional flow for both community members and academics, and combining complementary models to strengthen theoretical frameworks and action.