Community Partnership

ELEVATE CENTER社区合作项目总结 ELEVATE中心的使命是扩大我们在犹他州和山间西部的影响力， 利用现有的基础设施，治疗患有物质使用障碍的孕妇和产后妇女 (SUD)为实现公平而经历差异的人。我们有意将实现公平作为一个关键 ELEVATE中心的使命的结果，并认识到这需要一种方法，颠覆传统的 研究结构，从根本上改变了社区参与和伙伴关系的参数。 当与历史上和结构上被边缘化的人一起工作时，研究工作最成功， 调查人员从一开始就与社区伙伴和有实际经验的人合作。这是 在与具有交叉身份的社区合作时尤其重要。孕妇和产后人群 患有SUD的母亲，特别是土著母亲或农村地区的母亲，在健康方面遇到许多结构性障碍。 也是ELEVATE中心项目的重点。明确对方向的共享权限， 对中心研究工作的解释产生了信任，从而扩大了成果的范围和影响。 ELEVATE中心的调查人员参与了长期的社区合作伙伴关系， 有生活经验的人。这些长期的社区伙伴关系为 ELEVATE中心的社区参与整合核心和社区咨询委员会（CAB） 嵌入内核中我们强大的合作伙伴关系为实现我们的长期目标提供了跳板， 开展社区综合研究，增强社区智慧和领导力， 犹他州孕产妇发病率和死亡率的不平等。社区参与整合核心将 支持ELEVATE中心的目标，提供一个中央，响应基础设施，培养 社区伙伴关系建立在公平领导、社区智慧和复原力的基础上。我们的目标是 （1）发展扩大和协调社区声音的结构，以在 ELEVATE中心的努力;（2）加速ELEVATE之间和跨ELEVATE网络的成熟 中心的社区合作伙伴，以促进研究和培训工作的创新实施;以及（3） 在ELEVATE社区的脚手架上建立强大的传播途径和可持续性结构 Engagement Integration Core的基础设施。 定期CAB和社区参与整合核心会议，虚拟连接资源， 协调培训生和参与者的招聘，以及能力建设培训将确保持续进行 所有参与中心的研究人员和我们的社区合作伙伴之间的协作。升降 中心的社区参与集成核心将集中基础设施， 双向知识交流和社区领导，并扩大传播努力。总的来说， 这些行动将最大限度地和可持续地降低犹他州因SUD而导致的孕产妇发病率和死亡率。

ELEVATE CENTER COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP PROJECT SUMMARY The mission of the ELEVATE Center is to Expand our reach across Utah and the Intermountain West, LEVerage existing infrastructure, And Treat pregnant and postpartum people with substance use disorder (SUD) who experience disparities to achieve Equity. We have intentionally positioned achieving equity as a key outcome of the ELEVATE Center’s mission and recognize this requires an approach that upends traditional research structures, radically altering the parameters of community engagement and partnership. When working with historically and structurally marginalized people, research efforts are most successful when investigators collaborate with community partners and people with lived experience from the outset. This is particularly critical when working with communities with intersecting identities. Pregnant and postpartum people with SUD, particularly Native mothers or those in rural areas, experience numerous structural barriers to health and are the focus of the ELEVATE Center’s projects. Explicitly sharing authority over the direction and interpretation of the Center’s research efforts engenders trust, thus amplifying the reach and impact of results. ELEVATE Center investigators are engaged in long-standing community partnerships that center communities and people with lived experience. These long-standing community partnerships create the foundation for the ELEVATE Center’s Community Engagement Integration Core and the Community Advisory Board (CAB) embedded within the Core. Our strong partnerships provide a springboard for realizing our long-term goal of conducting community-integrated research that amplifies community wisdom and leadership to eliminate inequities in maternal morbidity and mortality in Utah. The Community Engagement Integration Core will support the ELEVATE Center’s objectives by providing a central, responsive infrastructure that cultivates community partnerships predicated on equitable leadership, community wisdom, and resilience. Our aims are to: (1) develop structures that amplify and coordinate community voices to create equitable leadership in the efforts of the ELEVATE Center; (2) accelerate the maturation of networks between and across the ELEVATE Center’s community partners to facilitate innovative implementation of research and training efforts; and (3) build robust dissemination pathways and sustainability structures on the scaffold of the ELEVATE Community Engagement Integration Core’s infrastructure. Regular CAB and Community Engagement Integration Core meetings, virtual connection resources, coordinated trainee and participant recruitment, and capacity building trainings will ensure ongoing collaborative work across all participating Center investigators and our community partners. The ELEVATE Center’s Community Engagement Integration Core will centralize infrastructure, provide avenues for bidirectional knowledge exchange and community leadership, and amplify dissemination efforts. Collectively, these actions will maximally and sustainably reduce maternal morbidity and mortality from SUD in Utah.