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西部山区的覆盖面， 利用现有基础设施，治疗患有药物使用障碍的孕妇和产后 (南方)为实现公平而经历不平等的人。我们刻意将实现公平定位为关键 提升中心使命的结果，并认识到这需要一种颠覆传统 研究结构，从根本上改变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合作时，研究工作在以下情况下最成功 调查人员从一开始就与社区合作伙伴和有生活经验的人合作。这是 在与身份相交的社区合作时，这一点尤为重要。孕妇和产后人群 患有自闭症的人，特别是土著母亲或农村地区的母亲，经历了许多影响健康的结构性障碍 是Elevate Center项目的重点。明确分享指导和指导的权力 对该中心研究工作的解读会产生信任，从而扩大结果的影响范围和影响。 Elevate Center调查人员从事以社区为中心的长期社区合作伙伴关系 以及有生活经验的人。这些长期的社区合作伙伴关系为 Elevate Center的社区参与集成核心和社区咨询委员会(CAB) 嵌入到核心中。我们牢固的合作伙伴关系为实现我们的长期目标提供了跳板 进行社区综合研究，扩大社区智慧和领导力，以消除 犹他州孕产妇发病率和死亡率的不平等。社区参与集成核心将 通过提供响应迅速的中央基础设施来支持Elevate Center的目标 社区伙伴关系建立在公平领导、社区智慧和韧性的基础上。我们的目标是 (1)建立扩大和协调社区声音的结构，以创造公平的领导力 提升中心的努力；(2)加快提升之间和跨提升的网络成熟 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 在Elevate社区的脚手架上建立强大的传播途径和可持续发展结构 接洽集成核心的基础设施。 CAB和社区参与集成的定期核心会议、虚拟连接资源、 协调实习生和参与者的招聘，并进行能力建设培训，以确保持续进行 所有参与的中心调查人员和我们的社区合作伙伴之间的协作工作。《升华》 中心的社区参与集成核心将集中基础设施，为 双向知识交流和社区领导，并扩大传播努力。总而言之， 这些行动将最大限度和可持续地降低犹他州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.