Community Engagement /Outreach Core

项目总结(见说明)： 社区参与的主要目标&拟议健康中心的外展核心 差异、研究、参与和培训(CeHDRET)旨在吸引非洲裔美国人和非洲人 明尼苏达州双子城明尼阿波利斯和圣保罗的移民社区，努力改善 保护少数群体的健康，缩小健康差距。社区参与和外联核心有两个 具体目标： 目标1：建立社区-学术伙伴关系，以提供统一和变革性的 明尼苏达州双城改善少数民族健康的组织框架； 目标2：与当地非裔美国人和非洲移民(索马里)的社区伙伴接触 社区参与传播干预措施，促进水果和蔬菜消费，减少 烟草使用。 在以社区为基础的参与性研究(CBPR)原则指导下，核心活动将是 明尼苏达大学、阶梯基金会(拥有32人联盟)之间的合作努力 双城的非裔美国人教堂)和明尼苏达国际卫生志愿者组织。 对于目标1，我们将重点放在确定CBPR的五个关键阶段：伙伴关系建设、能力建设、 需求评估、社区行动计划(CAP)制定、以及CAP的实施和评估。 对于目标2，我们提出了两项活动。首先，我们将与阶梯基金会合作，传播 促进非洲水果和蔬菜消费的循证计划--Body&Soul 美国人。第二，我们将与MIHV合作，开发一个以文化为目标的社区 采取干预措施，减少索马里社区的烟草使用。我们还将与CeHDRET密切合作 研究、培训和教育核心，使受训人员参与社区研究和外联活动。 通过伙伴关系和能力建设，我们计划共同努力，创造互利共赢的 可持续的计划，目标是产生可直接应用于改进的知识 社区卫生。与我们的社区合作伙伴一起，我们计划开发、实施和评估 创新的社区参与和外展方案，最终目标是减少健康 差距。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): The primary objective of the Community Engagement & Outreach Core of the proposed Center for Health Disparities, Research, Engagement, and Training (CeHDRET) is to engage African American and African immigrant communities in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, in efforts to improve minority health and reduce health disparities. The Community Engagement & Outreach Core has two specific aims: Aim 1: To establish a community-academic partnership that will provide a unifying and transformative organizational framework for improving minority health in the Twin Cities of Minnesota; Aim 2: To engage community partners from the local African American and African immigrant (Somali) communities in the dissemination of interventions to promote fruit and vegetable consumption and reduce tobacco use. Core activities, guided by the principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR), will be a collaborative effort among the University of Minnesota, the Stairstep Foundation (which has a coalition of 32 African American churches in the Twin Cities), and the Minnesota International Health Volunteers (MIHV). For Aim 1, we will focus on the five key phases that define CBPR: partnership building, capacity building, needs assessment, community action plan (CAP) development, and CAP implementation and evaluation. For Aim 2, we propose two activities. First, we will partner with the Stairstep Foundation to disseminate Body & Soul, an evidence-based program to promote fruits and vegetables consum ption in African Americans. Second, we will partner with MIHV to develop a culturally-targeted community-based intervention to reduce tobacco use in the Somali community. We also will work closely with the CeHDRET Research Training and Education Core to engage trainees in community research and outreach activities. Through partnership and capacity building, we plan to work collaboratively to create mutually beneficial and sustainable programs with the goal of producing knowledge that may be directly applied to improving community health. Along with our community partners, we plan to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative community engagement and outreach programs with the ultimate goal of reducing health disparities.