Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心（CEC）是科学和公共卫生影响的关键， 南加州拉丁裔家庭和儿童慢性健康差异中心。CEC将建立 并保持研究人员，社区组织，临床医生和医疗保健系统之间的合作， 公共卫生机构、政策制定者和其他关键利益相关者。CEC将由Kipke博士共同指导 （CHLA）和Baezconde-Garbanati（USC）都拥有领导大型财团的丰富经验， 对代表性不足的社区开展和评估健康促进干预措施， 社区参与的核心，并有一个既定的跟踪记录，在这项工作中一起工作。核心 将利用和建立在现有的网络NCAT资助的社区参与计划在南部 加州，包括南加州大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）、加州大学欧文分校 (UCI)Scripps Research Translational Institute（斯克里普斯翻译研究所）其他合作伙伴包括加州大学， 滨江（UCR）;南加州的凯撒医疗机构;圣地亚哥的家庭健康中心;公共卫生 基金会企业妇女、婴儿和儿童特别补充营养方案;以及公众 南加州健康联盟（所有10个县卫生部门的联盟）。的代表 每个伙伴机构将组成社区参与领导小组，共同努力， 通过一系列服务支持中心的使命，包括：1）社区参与咨询， 支持和协助中心项目和试点项目的招募、保留、打造社区合作伙伴，以及 传播研究结果; 2）社区倾听会议，以确定社区的需求和优先事项， 未来的研究; 3）培训promotores de salud提供教育和宣传有关拉丁美洲健康; 4）我们的 社区/我们的健康市政厅和其他教育讲习班，促进信息共享， 研究结果; 5）研究101，旨在建立社区成员发挥作用的能力的讲习班， 在学术-社区伙伴关系中发挥有意义的作用; 6）社区评审员培训计划， 为社区成员作为同行评审员参与中心的试点研究计划做好准备; 7）社区 导师计划，将学员和来自研究者发展核心的早期职业教师与 社区导师; 8）公民科学家，旨在告知和授权社区成员成为 倡导慢性病预防，并增加社区研究和传播的劳动力 9）开发新的方法来传播研究结果 关键利益相关者，尤其是普通观众。通过这些行动和与其他中心的密切结合， 核心、项目和试点研究，CEC将在加强所有社区合作伙伴关系方面发挥关键作用 中心活动，目的是最大限度地扩大中心调查结果在南部拉丁美洲社区的影响。 加州减少多种慢性病的差异。

The Community Engagement Core (CEC) is pivotal to the scientific and public health impact of the Southern California Center for Chronic Health Disparities in Latino Families and Children. The CEC will establish and maintain collaborations between researchers, community organizations, clinicians and healthcare systems, public health agencies, policy makers, and other key stakeholders. The CEC will be co-directed by Drs. Kipke (CHLA) and Baezconde-Garbanati (USC) who both have extensive experience leading large-scale consortia, conducting, and evaluating health promotion interventions with underrepresented communities, and leading community engagement cores, and have an established track-record working together in this work. The Core will leverage and build upon an existing network of NCAT funded Community Engagement Programs in Southern California, which includes USC, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Irvine (UCI), and Scripps Research Translational Institute (Scripps). Other partners include University of California, Riverside (UCR); Kaiser Permanente of Southern California; Family Health Centers of San Diego; Public Health Foundation Enterprises Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children; and the Public Health Alliance of Southern California (a consortium of all 10 County Health Departments). Representatives from each partner institution will form the Community Engagement Leadership Team which will work in concert to support the Center’s mission through a range of services, including: 1) Community engagement consultations to support and assist Center projects and pilots with recruitment, retention, forging community partners, and disseminating study findings; 2) Community listening sessions to identify community needs and priorities for future studies; 3) Training promotores de salud to offer education and advocacy related to Latino health; 4) Our Community/Our Health townhalls and other educational workshops that promote sharing of information and research findings; 5) Research 101, a workshop designed to build capacity of community members to play a meaningful role in academic-community partnerships; 6) A Community Reviewer Training Program designed to prepare community members to participate as peer reviewers in the Center’s pilot study program; 7) Community Mentoring Program, which pairs trainees and early career faculty from the Investigator Development Core with community mentors; 8) Citizen Scientists designed to inform and empower community members to become advocates for chronic disease prevention, and increase the workforce for community research and dissemination of Center’s research for informed policy making; and 9) Developing novel approaches to disseminating findings to key stakeholders, especially lay audiences. Through these actions and close integration with other Center Cores, projects and pilot studies, the CEC will play a critical role in strengthening community partnership in all Center activities, with the aim of maximizing the impact of Center findings in Latino communities of Southern California to reduce disparities in multiple chronic diseases.