Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心(CEC)对科学和公共卫生的影响至关重要 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协作， 公共卫生机构、政策制定者和其他关键利益攸关方。CEC将由Kipke博士共同执导 (CHLA)和Baezconde-Garbanati(USC)，他们都拥有领导大型财团的丰富经验， 在代表性不足的社区开展和评估健康促进干预措施，并领导 社区参与核心，并有在这项工作中共同工作的既定记录。《核心》 将利用并建立NCAT资助的南部社区参与计划的现有网络 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)和斯克里普斯翻译研究所(斯克里普斯)。其他合作伙伴包括加州大学， 河滨大学(UCR)；南加州凯撒永久医院；圣地亚哥家庭健康中心；公共卫生 基金会企业妇女婴幼儿专项补充营养计划及公众 南加州健康联盟(由所有10个县卫生局组成的联盟)。来自中国的代表 每个合作机构将组成社区参与领导小组，该小组将共同努力 通过一系列服务支持中心的使命，包括：1)社区参与咨询，以 支持和协助中心项目和试点项目的招聘、留住、结成社区合作伙伴以及 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 未来研究；3)培训推广员，提供与拉丁裔健康有关的教育和宣传；4)我们的 社区/我们的卫生市政厅和其他教育研讨会，促进信息和 研究成果；5)研究101，这是一个旨在培养社区成员发挥 在学术-社区合作中发挥有意义的作用；6)社区审查员培训计划旨在 准备社区成员作为同行评审员参与中心的试点研究计划；7)社区 指导计划，该计划将来自调查员发展核心的受训者和早期职业教师与 社区导师；8)公民科学家，旨在为社区成员提供信息并使其成为 倡导慢性病预防，增加社区研究和传播的劳动力 以及9)开发传播研究结果的新方法 面向主要利益相关者，特别是非专业受众。通过这些操作并与其他中心紧密集成 作为核心、项目和试点研究，CEC将在全面加强社区伙伴关系方面发挥关键作用 中心活动，目的是最大限度地发挥中心调查结果在南方拉美裔社区的影响 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.