Community Partnership/Engagement Core

社区伙伴关系/参与核心响应我们提出的C-SALUD的目标2，3和4。 该核心旨在1）为拉丁美洲社区提供有意义的参与机会，特别是 最近的拉丁裔移民（RLI）和拉丁裔移民工人（LMWs）; 2）对 健康促进和信息传播方法在改善拉丁美洲和加勒比地区 消除艾滋病毒/艾滋病和药物滥用的健康差距; 3）建立合作伙伴关系 学术机构与社区团体和组织之间的关系。通过与 基于社区的机构使用基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）方法，该核心将 实现以下目标：1）制定预防艾滋病毒和药物的社区行动计划 改善这些地区艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防计划的可及性， 社区. 2)提高地方一级地方领导机构和地方妇女组织应对艾滋病毒流行病的能力 通过提供工具，教育社区中的其他妇女并赋予她们权力，同时获得 为未来的研究工作寻求资金所需的知识和技能;以及3）让年轻人参与 这些社区的成员（14-17岁）参与健康促进和教育推广模式， 预防艾滋病毒/艾滋病和药物滥用。该核心基于CBPR方法，将强调 授权战略，旨在加强拉丁美洲艾滋病毒差异的社会和文化决定因素， 妇女与社区领导人达成协议，成立了社区伙伴关系/参与咨询委员会， 将设立一个社区咨询委员会，协助进行社区需求评估。社区妇女 在项目期间，将有针对性地接受四次干预。

The Community Partnership/Engagement Core responds to Aims 2, 3, and 4 of our proposed C-SALUD. This Core aims to 1) Provide opportunities for meaningful involvement of the Latino community, particularly recent Latina immigrants (RLI) and Latina migrant workers (LMWs); 2) conduct original research on the efficacy of health promotion and information dissemination approaches to improve the health of Latinas and eliminate HIV/AIDS and substance abuse health disparities; and 3) Establish a collaborative partnership between the academic institution and community groups and organizations. Through collaborations with community based agencies using a community based participatory research (CBPR) approach, this Core will accomplish the following goals: 1) Develop a community action plan for preventing HIV and substance abuse among RLI and LMW populations by improving access to HIV/AIDS prevention programs in these communities. 2) Increase the capacity of RLIs and LMWs to respond to the HIV epidemic at the local level through the provision of tools to educate and empower other women in the community, while also gaining the necessary knowledge and skills to seek funding for future research endeavors; and 3) Involve young members (ages 14-17) of these communities in health promotion and education outreach models for preventing HIV/AIDS and substance abuse. This Core, based on a CBPR approach, will emphasize empowering strategies that seek to enhance social and cultural determinants ofthe HIV disparities in Latina women. In agreement with the community leaders, a Community Partnership/Engagement Advisory Board (CPAB) will be created which will assist in the community needs assessment. Women from the community will be targeted to receive four interventions in the duration of the project.