Engaging Partners in Caring Communities (EPICC): Building capacity to implement health promotion programs in African American churches

EPICC项目总结 让合作伙伴参与关爱社区(EPICC)旨在减少健康差距 与肥胖、高血压、糖尿病等慢性健康状况有关， 心血管疾病和癌症，通过支持提供循证健康促进 在为非裔美国人社区服务的教会中开展计划。这个学术团体 伙伴关系将支持30个教会发展由4-5名成员组成的实施团队，以 参与TIS项目。他们将有权访问EPICC应用程序和网站 利用社区意见指导实施团队选择循证计划 (EBPS)由联邦机构批准。然后，他们将完成基于网络的EPICC调查 为该项目制定，以评估其组织实施计划的能力 选择。这将用于确定推动者以及他们在提供 EBP在他们的会众。研究小组将使用最近开发的分析工具来 指导他们根据调查结果提供技术援助。 这项混合方法阶梯-楔形整群随机试验将提供有关 向以信仰为基础的社区传播关于EBPS的信息的方法，评估 优势和挑战，并提供技术援助，以建设教会的能力 促进健康。它的设计也是为了让参与教会的实施团队 共同学习协作，以确定和解决健康的社会决定因素， 对卫生公平构成了额外的障碍。还将带来实施团队 共同确定和解决与其共享的健康相关的社会决定因素 目标。 该项目的成功完成可能会改变社区的方式 参与和赋权，以改善卫生公平。将参与的合作伙伴 该项目包括来自两所历史悠久的黑人学院/大学的四名学术人员 (HBCU)谁将为研究生和本科生提供参与机会 社区参与的研究，了解实施科学，观察和反思 开发和部署几种以社区投入为设计的技术产品。

EPICC PROJECT SUMMARY Engaging Partners in Caring Communities (EPICC) is designed to reduce health disparities associated with chronic health conditions such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, by supporting delivery of evidence-based health promotion programs in churches serving African American communities. This academic-community partnership will support 30 churches in developing implementation teams of 4-5 members to participate in tis project. They will have access to the EPICC App and website will be designed with community input to guide implementation teams in selecting evidence-based programs (EBPs) approved by federal agencies. They will then complete the web-based EPICC Survey developed for this project to assess their organization’s capacity to implement the program they select. This will be used to identify facilitators and challenges they may face as they offer the EBP in their congregation. The research team will use a recently developed analytic tool to guide them in offering technical assistance based on the results of that survey. This mixed methods step-wedge cluster randomized trial will provide information about the approach to disseminating information about EBPs to faith-based communities, assessing strengths and challenges, and delivering technical assistance to build church capacity to promote health. It is also designed to bring implementation teams from participating churches together in a learning collaborative to identify and address social determinants of health that constitute additional impediments to health equity. will also bring implementation teams together to identify and address social determinants of health that are relevant to their shared goals. Successful completion of this project will potentially transform approaches to community engagement and empowerment to improve health equity. The Partners who will be engaged in this project include four academic faculty from two historically Black colleges/universities (HBCUs) who will offer graduate and undergraduate students opportunities to participate in community-engaged research, learn about implementation science, observe and reflect on development and deployment of several technological products designed with community input.