CBMHR Community Engagement Core

摘要 德克萨斯南方大学(TSU)在实施社区参与外展工作方面有着悠久的历史 通过与医疗保健系统建立伙伴关系和合作来解决健康差距， 联邦合格卫生中心(FQHC)和基于社区的组织(CBO)。然而，这些 教职员工和学生组织之间的努力被孤立，从而剥夺了我们，最重要的是 社区，这是利用我们所有CBO、FQHC和医疗保健的优势的独特机会 系统协作者，有效识别和解决大休斯顿地区与健康相关的问题 社区(GHC)代表不足的少数群体(URM)和提高URM研究意识和 参与。 我们建议在生物医学少数民族健康中心内建立一个社区参与核心(CEC) 将利用TSU与CBO的许多长期伙伴关系和合作的研究(CBMHR)， 医疗保健系统、FQHC以及它与URM社区的独特关系。CEC将 开发创新计划，将现有的但孤立的社区参与努力整合到整个TSU。 我们会通过我们的医疗保健机构进行的调查，确定GHC URM与健康有关的问题 系统、FQHC和CBO合作伙伴以及社区个人和CBO合作伙伴的反馈。我们会 通过健康教育研讨会(基于GHC与健康相关的关注的主题)解决健康问题 URM)，并为导航庞大的医疗基础设施(包括可用的金融 援助计划)。旨在建立信任和减少障碍的临床研究教育论坛 将与我们的医疗保健系统合作，参与GHC URM的临床试验 德克萨斯医疗中心的合作伙伴。我们还将举办研究成果会议，以促进 台大生物医学研究成果以通俗语言促进研究意识 在GHC城市居民中的调查结果。相关信息将通过同时开发的 将作为社区资源的信息“枢纽”存在的数据库，包括最新的 TSU和我们的CBO合作伙伴的所有社区参与外展活动和活动的综合清单，如 以及社区组织和合作伙伴的全面列表，如FQHC、医疗保健系统、 慈善诊所、专科服务中心、多服务社区中心、政府和非政府组织 政府组织、营利性和非营利性组织以及为GHC URM提供服务的学区。 我们将利用各种社交和大众媒体渠道，确保GHC对CEC活动的了解。 CEC的目标与TSU的使命、愿景和价值观在协作、伙伴关系、 社区和参与度。总体而言，我们相信，CEC将在弥合卫生保健方面发挥非常大的影响 GHC中城市居民收入差距的问题。

Abstract Texas Southern University (TSU) has a long history of implementing community engagement outreach efforts addressing health disparities through established partnerships and collaborations with healthcare systems, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), and community-based organizations (CBOs). However, these efforts are siloed among faculty, staff, and student organizations thus depriving us and most importantly the community, of the unique opportunity to leverage the strengths of all of our CBOs, FQHCs, and healthcare system collaborators to effectively identify and address the health-related concerns of the Greater Houston Community (GHC) Underrepresented Minorities (URMs) and increase URM research awareness and participation. We propose to develop a Community Engagement Core (CEC) within the Center for Biomedical Minority Health Research (CBMHR) that will leverage TSU’s many longstanding partnerships and collaborations with CBOs, healthcare systems, and FQHCs as well as its unique relationship with the URM community. The CEC will develop innovative programs that will integrate existing yet siloed community engagement efforts across TSU. We will identify the health-related concerns of GHC URMs through surveys conducted by our healthcare systems, FQHC, and CBO partners as well as community individuals and CBO partners’ feedback. We will address health concerns through health education seminars (topics based on health-related concerns of GHC URMs) and also provide guidance for navigating the vast healthcare infrastructure (including available financial assistance programs). Clinical research education forums aimed at building trust and reducing barriers to participation in clinical trials among GHC URMs will be implemented in collaboration with our healthcare system partners in the Texas Medical Center. We will also host research outcomes conferences to promote the outcomes of TSU’s biomedical research endeavors in lay-language to facilitate the awareness of research findings among the GHC URMs. Relevant information will be obtained through the concurrent development of databases that will exist as an information “hub” for community resources consisting of up-to-date comprehensive lists of all community-engagement outreaches and activities at TSU and our CBO partners as well as comprehensive lists of community organizations and partners such as FQHCs, Healthcare systems, Charity Clinics, Specialty Service Centers, Multi-service Community Centers, governmental and non- governmental organizations, profit and non-profit organizations, as well as school districts serving the GHC URM. We will use various social and mass media outlets to ensure awareness of CEC’s activity among the GHC. The goals of CEC align with the mission, vision, and values of TSU with regards to collaboration, partnership, community and engagement. Overall, we are convinced that the CEC will be very impactful in bridging the health disparity gaps for URMs in GHC.