Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心将利用CEHD附属计划中的以下现有社区参与资源： 隆巴迪癌症中心健康差距倡议(1)倡导政策，以减少 (2)与基层组织会面，了解当地社区的需求和关切；(3)在各种活动中与社区组织结成伙伴关系，如健康博览会和社区活动；(4)与当地社区组织合作开展社区研究。 胡氏癌症中心社区卓越研究外展计划(1)与文化和语言不同的社区合作，提供癌症健康教育，并促进转介到中心的免费癌症筛查计划；(2)与当地CBO合作，支持社区组织的健康博览会、计划和活动；以及(3)让不同信仰的社区参与研究。 Gu创伤中心和马里兰州蒙哥马利县社区和初级保健联盟(1)确定对社区重要的研究问题；(2)解决参与研究的障碍；(3)与基层组织密切合作，争取社区对研究工作的支持。 ？CTSA社区参与和研究部分(1)解决参与研究的识字和语言障碍，(2)将具有相似兴趣的学术研究人员联系起来，(3)促进学术研究人员和CBO之间的伙伴关系。 中风差异计划社区咨询委员会(1)将中风幸存者、照顾者和社区倡导者聚集在一起，建立社区伙伴关系，以加强教育和研究参与；(2)就文化敏感性以及外展和招募战略向研究团队提供建议；以及(3)审查教育材料和研究同意文件。 所有列出的社区参与资源都有与减少健康差距有关的目标。 每个现有的社区参与资源都与当地CBO合作，向个人、家庭、社区和社区团体提供直接的外联服务。通过与CBO的长期伙伴关系，当地居民参与了与研究参与、当地健康问题和传播研究成果有关的问题。这些现有的关系为双向 与社区研究伙伴建立伙伴关系。CEC不是在CEHD内重新创建这些职能，而是通过提供一个协调职能来提高现有社区参与活动的效率，该职能调查信息并支持AHC和CBO之间的网络联系。 上面列出的每个社区参与资源还与其自己的社区咨询委员会(CAB)密切合作。CEC将利用现有出租车的优势。土木工程署不会成立一个新的社区谘询小组，而是要求每个现有的政制事务局指定一名成员担任土木工程署社区谘询委员会(CAC)的联络人。(有关CAC的说明，请参阅管理核心部分。) 为了在现有咨询小组之间建立协同作用，土木工程处将作为一个综合机制，确保咨询委员会之间的信息共享。除了有一名联络员将食典委的信息与其各自的CAB联系起来外，每年还将向每个CAB提交一份CEHD及其附属方案内活动的综合摘要。这将使每个董事会了解他们所建议的小组正在进行的工作的更广泛的背景。CAB对这些报告的回应将是 根据需要，与CEHD项目经理和核心领导沟通，以便采取行动。这一方法将允许一个迭代过程，通过这个过程，社区不同代表的意见可以不断反映在联合国人权事务高级专员办事处的活动和方法中。出租车司机的输入时间将同步，因此，如果出租车司机有类似的建议，产生的CEHD答复将反映收到的所有建议。

The Community Engagement Core will leverage the following existing community engagement resources in CEHD-affiliated programs: ¿ GU Lombardi Cancer Center Health Disparities Initiative (1) advocates for policies to reduce minority health disparities; (2) meets with grassroots organizations to understand the needs and concerns of the local community; (3) partners with community organizations in a variety of activities, such as health fairs and community events; and (4) conducts community-based research in partnership with local community-based organizations (CBOs). ¿ HU Cancer Center Community Outreach for Research Excellence Program (1) partners with culturally and linguistically diverse communities to provide cancer health education and promote referral to the center's free cancer screening programs; (2) works with local CBOs to support community organized health fairs, programs, and events; and (3) engages communities of faith in research. ¿ GU Center for Trauma and the Community and Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland, (1) identifies research questions that are important to the community; (2) addresses barriers to participation in research; and (3) works closely with grassroots organizations to gain community buy in for research efforts. ¿ CTSA Community Engagement and Research Component (1) addresses literacy and language barriers to research participation, (2) links academic investigators with similar interests, and (3) promotes partnerships between academic investigators and CBOs. ¿ Stroke Disparities Program Community Advisory Committee (1) brings together stroke survivors, caregivers, and community champions to build community partnerships that enhance education and research participation; (2) advises the research team on cultural sensitivity and outreach and recruitment strategies; and (3) reviews educational materials and research consent documents. All of the listed community engagement resources have objectives related to reduction of health disparities. Each existing community engagement resource works in partnership with local CBOs to provide direct outreach to individuals, families, neighborhoods, and community groups. Through long-standing partnerships with CBOs, local residents are engaged around issues related to research participation, local health concerns, and disseminating research findings. These existing relationships provide a foundation for bi-directional partnerships with community research partners. Rather than recreate these functions within the CEHD, the CEC will enhance the efficiency of existing community engagement activities by providing a coordinating function that surveys information and supports networking among AHCs and CBOs. Each community engagement resource listed above also works closely with its own community advisory board (CAB). The CEC will leverage the strengths of the existing CABs. Rather than create a new community advisory group, the CEHD will ask each existing CAB to designate a member to serve as a liaison to the CEHD Community Advisory Committee (CAC). (See Administrative Core section for description of CAC.) To build synergy between existing advisory groups, the CEHD will serve as an integrating mechanism to assure information sharing among the advisory boards. In addition to having a liaison to relate information from the CAC to his/her respective CAB, a comprehensive summary of activity within the CEHD and affiliated programs will be delivered to each CAB twice per year. This will allow each board the understand the broader context of the work being conducted by the group they advise. CAB responses to these reports will be communicated to CEHD Pis and core leaders for action, as needed. This method will allow an iterative process by which input from diverse representatives of the community can be continually reflected in the activities and approaches of the CEHD. Timing of input from the CABs will be synchronized so that, if CABs have similar recommendations, the resulting CEHD response will reflect all recommendations received.