COMMUNITY LIAISON CORE

CADC社区联络核心（CLC）的使命是继续扩大少数民族老年人在针对这些人群健康差异的研究中的作用。CLC通过提供必要的基础设施、专业知识、不断测试和完善招募方法以及传播基于社区的研究方法和知识，提高了进行少数民族老龄化研究的能力。 在研究项目的所有阶段与主要社区代表合作，是加强少数群体招聘和保留的有效手段，也是开展更符合社区需求的研究的有效手段。 需要，更包容的社区观点，并可能减少健康差距。学术界与社区的伙伴关系的可持续性以及支持社区参与研究所需的基础设施仍然是重要问题。在过去九年中，社区联络中心建立并维持了一个以社区和信仰为基础的基础设施，以满足少数民族老年人的健康需求。CLC作为研究活动的指挥中心，旨在提高 少数民族老年人参与研究，主要是通过为CADC学者和其他UCSF研究人员提供招聘科学和社区能力建设方面的技术专业知识，以提高少数民族学生的入学率。在未来5年中，CLC将致力于：1）为CADC学者提供招募科学和社区能力建设方面的方法论专业知识和培训，以提高少数民族社区对研究的参与; 2）保持 与社区和信仰组织建立合作基础设施，继续为少数群体老年人提供参与研究的入口和谈判机会; 3）传播有关最先进的招募和保留方法、社区研究活动能力建设以及与少数群体老年人有关的健康差距研究结果的信息。2008年，社区联络中心将主办一次社区专题讨论会，传播影响这些社区少数民族老年人的研究成果。CLC将继续为研究人员，卫生从业人员和社区成员提供关键的技术和培训支持，以促进社区参与相互尊重和有益的研究，并寻求消除不同老年人之间的健康差距。

The mission of the CADC Community Liaison Core (CLC) is to continue to expand the roles of older minority adults in research targeting health disparities in these populations. CLC improves the capacity to conduct minority aging research by providing the necessary infrastructure, expertise, continued testing refinement of recruitment methods, and dissemination of community-based research methods and knowledge. Collaborating with key community representatives in all phases of a research project is an effective means of enhancing minority recruitment and retention, and conducting research that is more responsive to community needs, more inclusive of community perspectives and may reduce health disparities. Sustainability of academic-community partnerships and the infrastructure needed to support community involvement in research continue to be important issues. During the past nine years, the CLC has established and maintained a community- and faith-based infrastructure that is responsive to the health needs of older minority adults. The CLC serves as a command center for research activities designed to enhance the participation of older minority adults in research, primarily by providing technical expertise on the science of recruitment and community capacity building for research to CADC Scholars and other UCSF researchers seeking to increase minority enrollment in their studies. Over the next 5 years the CLC will work to: 1) provide CADC Scholars with methodological expertise and training in the science of recruitment and community capacity building to enhance ethnic community participation in research; 2) maintain a collaborative infrastructure with community and faith-based organizations to continue to provide entree and negotiate access to older minority adults for participation in research; and 3) disseminate information on state-of-the art recruitment and retention methods, community capacity building for research activities, and results-of health disparities research pertaining to older minority adults. In 2008, the CLC will host a community symposium to disseminate research findings that affect older minority adults from these communities. The CLC will continue to provide critical technical and training support to researchers, health practitioners, and community members to promote community participation in research that is mutually respectful and beneficial, and seeks to eliminate health disparities among diverse older adults.