Community Partners

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Summary The central theme running through the center’s research projects and training program is consistent and robust communication across community partners and to and with mothers. Each community partner represents a node or access point to a larger web of community networks. These networks are necessary to garner community buy-in and engagement that amplifies community voices, needs, and resources. As liaisons, our community partners will ensure community member access to each stage of the center’s research projects and training program, including conceptualization, planning, execution, assessment, and dissemination. The first research project will develop and adapt an evidence-based community worker home visiting program that is grounded in extensive patient and community participation as well as partnerships with community organizations in healthcare, mental health, social work, and child/lactation support. The second research project will evaluate the effectiveness of a multilevel and multisectoral communication and health literacy strategy to increase trust and engagement in postpartum healthcare, through partnerships with community organizations in healthcare, racial and economic justice, and health policy. Supporting the goals of the research projects, an extensive research training program for early-stage investigators will address the interpersonal and structural factors that affect maternal outcomes, leveraging community partnerships with a consortium of academic and non-profit institutions supporting positive change in the Mississippi Delta. Aim 1: Establish a meaningful and equal community partnership throughout the entire research development and implementation process. Aim 2: Ensure transparency and trust by employing community-centric strategies for dissemination. Aim 3: Adjust and adapt the center through a community-based model to make a lasting contribution to women in the Mississippi Delta