Lower Washington Heights CBPR Partnership

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究项目的具体目的是改善位于曼哈顿北部华盛顿高地的拉丁裔/非裔美国人社区的健康状况，减少健康差距。我们建议通过建立社区组织、纽约长老会医院和哥伦比亚大学之间的现有关系，并通过规划基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）来做到这一点，该研究将利用活跃的社区领导人的反馈，以便我们可以共同确定对华盛顿高地人口最有意义的医疗保健研究优先事项。这将是一项长期CBPR议程的开始，其中包括评估和衡量将在社区积极参与下制定的当前和未来干预措施的结果。面对糟糕的医疗保健结果问题，社区本身早些时候试图通过在社区组织之间以及与邻近的医院和大学建立强有力的合作伙伴关系来解决这些问题。通过这样的合作，我们希望在此基础上建立这个项目，一个联盟目前正在以深刻的方式改变华盛顿高地社区。这一工作伙伴关系被称为卫生学院伙伴关系咨询委员会，它已经在纽约长老会医院附近开办了一所以健康为导向的中学和高中，名为“高地社区卫生学院”。我们建议与该伙伴关系咨询委员会合作，建立发展和维持基于社区的参与性研究伙伴关系所需的信任关系、组织结构和操作规范。在这个为期三年的项目结束时，该伙伴关系将拥有成功申请研究经费的能力、能力和团结。目标1：通过建立CBPR伙伴关系咨询委员会，改善华盛顿高地的卫生知识普及和信息传播，该委员会将为开展改善卫生知识普及和信息传播的CBPR项目提供结构。目标2：在纽约长老会医院（申请组织）、哥伦比亚大学、高地社区联盟和高地社区卫生学院之间制定谅解备忘录，以执行关于卫生知识普及和信息传播的CBPR项目。目标3：通过举办至少5个利益攸关方焦点小组和3个开放社区论坛，为社区外联提供一个论坛，这些论坛将确定社区对解决保健差距的兴趣，并将教育社区了解保健差距的情况、保健资源和保护儿童权利伙伴关系在帮助纠正这种差距方面的作用。目标4：此外，我们的目标是为此类研究和基于CBPR分析和结果评估的进一步干预措施设计和创建资助提案。我们的假设是，投资社区组织的强大的预先存在的伙伴关系与基于集水区周围机构的研究团队相一致，以及基于社区的参与性研究的使用可以联合起来作为一种有效的变革工具-无论是在地方还是扩展到全国。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The specific aims of this research project are to improve health outcomes and decrease health disparities in the predominantly Latino/African American neighborhood of Washington Heights, located in Northern Manhattan. We propose to do this by building upon existing relationships among community organizations, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University and by planning Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) that will utilize feedback from active community leaders so that we may jointly identify the most meaningful healthcare research priorities for the population of Washington Heights. This will be the beginning of a long-term CBPR agenda that includes assessing and measuring the outcome of current and future interventions that will be developed with active community participation. Living with the problems of poor healthcare outcomes, the community itself has earlier attempted to address the issues by forming strong collaborative partnerships among community organizations and with the neighboring Hospital and University. Through one such collaboration, the one upon which we wish to build this project, a coalition is currently changing the Washington Heights community in profound ways. This working partnership, known as the Health Academy Partnership Advisory Board, has already opened a health-oriented middle and high school called the Community Health Academy of the Heights, established in close proximity to New York Presbyterian. We propose to work with that Partnership Advisory Board to build the trusting relationships, organizational structures, and operational norms required to develop and sustain Community Based Participatory Research partnerships. At the end of the three year project, the partnership will have the capability, capacity and unity to successfully apply for research funding. Aim 1: Improve health literacy and information dissemination in Washington Heights by establishing a CBPR Partnership Advisory Board that will provide a structure for conducting CBPR projects that will improve health literacy and information dissemination. Aim 2: Develop an MOU between the New York Presbyterian Hospital (applicant organization), Columbia University, the Community League of the Heights, and the Community Health Academy of the Heights for the purpose of carrying out a CBPR project on health literacy and information dissemination. Aim 3: Provide a forum for community outreach by conducting at least 5 stakeholder focus groups and three open community forums that will identify the community's interest in addressing disparities in health and that will educate the community about health disparity conditions, health resources and the role of the CPBR Partnership in helping to remediate such disparities. Aim 4: In addition, we aim to design and create funding proposals for such research and for further interventions based on CBPR analyses and outcomes assessments. Our hypothesis is that a strong pre-existing partnership of invested community organizations aligned with a research team based at the institutions surrounding the catchment area, and the use of Community Based Participatory Research can coalesce as an effective tool for change - both locally and, by extension, nationally. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Our hypothesis is that a strong pre-existing partnership of invested community organizations aligned with a research team based at the institutions surrounding the catchment area, and the use of Community Based Participatory Research can coalesce as an effective tool for change - both locally and, by extension, nationally.