Engagement Core

预防肥胖相关癌症的变革社区驱动研究中心（中心）的参与核心认为，与利益相关者的积极参与可以加速研究参与并产生有意义的结果。我们将专注于社区参与的科学在阿克斯家园社区。我们将优先考虑建立信任，理解其在社区-学术关系中的首要重要性，特别是考虑到过去机构可能利用社区的例子。我们在Acres Homes社区的努力，以MD Anderson的Be Well Communities模式为例，奠定了信任的基础。通过投资于社区确定的需求，与30多个社区组织建立伙伴关系，并建立共享的卫生治理，我们为社区参与的科学发现创造了独特的机会。这一信托基金与Be Well™Acres Home倡议的经验一起，为信任科学和鼓励社区参与公共卫生研究和实践树立了一个基准。在这些成就的基础上，我们的目标是：(1)利用Be Well Acres Homes指导委员会作为中心社区咨询委员会（CAB）来促进研究合作，增强中心研究人员和Acres Homes社区开展社区参与研究的能力；(2)建立中心调查员和Acres Homes社区开展社区参与研究的能力；(3)制定并实施劳动力发展计划，为受训人员和调查人员提供体验式服务学习体验；(4)开发、测试和传播有效的信息和新方法，吸引来自持续贫困地区的个人参与癌症预防研究。

The Engagement Core within the Center for Transformative Community-driven Research to Prevent Obesity-related Cancer (the Center) believes that active engagement with stakeholders accelerates research participation and yields meaningful outcomes. We will focus on the science of community engagement in the Acres Homes community. We will prioritize building trust, understanding its paramount importance in community-academic relationships, especially given past instances where institutions might have taken advantage of communities. Our efforts in the Acres Homes community, exemplified by MD Anderson’s Be Well Communities model, have laid a foundation of trust. By investing in community-identified needs, forging partnerships with over 30 community organizations, and establishing shared health governance, we've created a unique opportunity for community-engaged scientific discovery. This trust, alongside the experience with the Be Well™ Acres Home initiative, sets a benchmark for trusting science and encouraging community engagement in public health research and practice. Building on these achievements, our aims are to: (1) Leverage the Be Well Acres Homes steering committee as the Center community advisory board (CAB) to foster research collaborations Enhance the capability of Center researchers and the Acres Homes community to undertake community-engaged research; (2) Build capacity of Center investigators and Acres Homes community to conduct community-engaged research; (3) Develop and implement a workforce development program to provide experiential service-learning experiences for trainees and investigators; (4) Develop, test, and disseminate effective messages and novel methods to engage individuals from persistent poverty areas in cancer prevention research.