Training Program

CBPR需要经验学习，并承认伙伴关系是动态的，不断发展的。CBPR的专业知识沿着一个连续体不断变化。导师是必要的沿着所有阶段的连续性。导师们在 在连续体中不断变化的地方，社区合作伙伴也是如此。本课程是在考虑到这一连续性的情况下制定的，并认识到受训人员、研究人员和社区伙伴正在沿着这一连续性共同前进。高级导师，他们的社区合作伙伴和该计划的许多学员已经启动并 在CBPR中沿着这个职业发展连续体工作，如我们的TCPP中所述。拟议的中心应用程序使我们能够正式化和加强我们的培训计划结构，支持一些新的创新计划，并受益于网络中的其他CNP中心。一个简短的例子展示了我们的经验和能力，以培训新的教师调查员在CBPR方法，并支持他们的成功努力，以获得职业生涯 发展赠款。在讨论Ochs-Balcom博士在遗传流行病学方面的科学兴趣时，Envin教授报告了与一位年轻的见证项目志愿者和乳腺癌幸存者的谈话，他对研究为什么这么多像她这样的非裔美国妇女有多个乳腺癌家庭成员不是BRCA 1/2的遗传携带者感兴趣。恩温教授将这位年轻的教师与这位充满活力的幸存者倡导者联系起来，并在一年之内进行了额外的指导和培训，奥克斯-巴尔科姆教授成功地申请了第一批苏珊·G。 科门的治疗，职业催化剂奖在Pisparities研究，进行全基因组连锁扫描，以寻找基因相关的乳腺癌隔离在非洲裔美国人谱系，并与国家证人项目小组合作，招募参与者。她的目标是获得更高的CBPR技能，并确定影响非裔美国妇女乳腺癌差异的遗传因素。她还获得了NCI K 07。下面描述的培训计划旨在增加这种成功的CBPR合作，以加强差距研究的职业发展。

CBPR requires experiential learning and acknowledges that partnerships are dynamic and continually developing. Expertise in CBPR transpires along a continuum and Is ever changing. Mentorship is necessary along all stages ofthe continuum. Mentors themselves are at ever changing places on the continuum, as are the community partners. This curriculum is developed with that continuum in mind and recognizes that trainees, researchers and community partners are moving along the continuum together. The Senior Mentors, their community partners and many of the trainees in this program have already initiated and been working along this career development continuum in CBPR as outlined below in our TCPP. The proposed Center application allows us to formalize and enhance out training program structure, support some new innovative plans, and benefit from other CNP Centers in the network. A brief example demonstrates our experience and ability to train new faculty investigators in CBPR methods and support their successful efforts to obtain career development grants. Pr. Ochs-Balcom met Pr. Enwin at a RPCI-sponsored meeting, and in discussing Dr. Ochs-Balcom's scientific interests in genetic epidemiology, Pr. Envin reported a conversation with a young Witness Project volunteer and breast cancer survivor who was interested in research on why so many African American women, like herself, with multiple family members with breast cancer are not genetic carriers of BRCA1/2. Pr. Enwin connected this junior faculty with this energetic survivor advocate, and with additional mentoring and training, within a year, Pr. Ochs-Balcom successfully applied for one of the first Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Career Catalyst Awards in Pisparities Research, to perform a genome-wide linkage scan to search for genes related to breast cancer segregating in African American pedigrees, and is partnered with the national Witness Project teams to recruit participants. Her aims are to gain greater skills in CBPR and determine genetic factors that are impacting breast cancer disparities in African American women. She also has been awarded an NCI K07. The training program described below is designed to multiply this type of successful CBPR collaboration to enhance career development in disparities research.