COMMUNITY LIAISON CORE

南方资源中心少数民族老龄化研究（RCMAR）是四个独特的合作伙伴关系。优势互补的南方院校：莫尔豪斯医学院、塔斯基吉大学、亚拉巴马大学、伯明翰亚拉巴马大学。深南RCMAR社区联络核心[CLC]的主要目标是教育，培训和指导学者以理论为基础的方法，让老年非裔美国人参与健康相关的研究，协助RCMAR学者招募老年非裔美国人参加他们的研究，并建立一个可持续的基础设施，以产生和传播关于招募和保留科学的新知识。深南RCMAR CLC的具体目标是：（1）与研究者发展核心（IDC）合作，教育，培训和指导RCMAR学者关于社区参与的理论和方法，并协助RCMAR学者在他们的研究中招募老年非裔美国人;（二）通过对与社区合作制定的招聘和留用战略进行实证检验，推进招聘和留用城市和农村非裔美国老年人领域的科学知识成员;（3）扩大社区-学术伙伴关系的能力，以支持老年城市和农村非裔美国人的招聘和保留;（4）向科学界和我们所服务的社区传播研究成果。我们将通过RCMAR学者的指导，学者与建立调查员进行基于社区的研究，开发和测试与社区成员一起开发的招聘策略的联系，以及重点社区和机构能力建设来实现这些目标。我们的目标的实现将创建一个国家的最先进的基础设施，将培训RCMAR学者在招聘和保留的科学，促进与社区的长期合作伙伴关系，并创建一个可持续的和有效的方法来产生新的知识和传播研究成果相关的少数民族老龄化的科学界和我们所服务的社区。

The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) is a collaborative partnership of four unique. Southern institutions with complementary strengths: Morehouse School of Medicine, Tuskegee University, University of Alabama, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The primary objectives of the Deep South RCMAR Community Liaison Core [CLC] are to educate, train, and mentor Scholars in theory-based approaches to engaging older African American in health-related research, assist RCMAR Scholars in recruiting older African Americans to their research studies, and to build a sustainable infrastructure that will generate and disseminate new knowledge regarding the science of recruitment and retention. The specific aims of the Deep South RCMAR CLC are to: (1) Work collaboratively with the Investigator Development Core (IDC) to educate, train, and mentor RCMAR Scholars regarding the theory and approach to community engagement and assist RCMAR Scholars in recruiting older African Americans in their research studies; (2) Advance scientific knowledge in the area of recruitment and retention of older urban and rural African Americans by empirically testing recruitment and retention strategies developed in partnership with community members; (3) Expand capacity for community-academic partnerships to support the recruitment and retention of older urban and rural African Americans; and (4) Disseminate research findings to the scientific community and the communities we serve. We will achieve these aims through mentorship of RCMAR Scholars, linkage of Scholars with established investigators conducting community-based research, development and testing of recruitment strategies developed in concert with community members, and focused community and institutional capacity building. The attainment of our aims will create a state-of-the art infrastructure that will train RCMAR Scholars in the science of recruitment and retention, foster long-term collaborative partnerships with the community, and create a sustainable and efficient method to generate new knowledge and disseminate research findings relevant to minority aging to the scientific community and the communities that we serve.