SIRC Community Engagement & Outreach Core

项目总结（见说明）： 社区参与和外展核心（CEOC）的目的是加强和扩大现有的有意义的社区学术合作，以促进美国少数民族的健康西南地区和预防，减少和消除健康差距。利用基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR），并让SIRC的社区咨询委员会（CAB）参与战略规划，SIRC调查人员确定了以下战略性健康差异活动，以指导CEOC向前迈进：1）加强CAB的领导作用，2）加强社区合作伙伴的研究能力， 3)加强转化研究和卫生知识普及工作，4）建设社区评估能力，5）制定政策和宣传倡议。CEOC与支持高危人群的组织合作，通过创造双向知识流动，主要目标是减少健康差距。CEOC使用行为和社会科学研究以及社会文化因素来帮助发现社区干预的有效新方法和所需的文化适应， 将其转化为实际应用。与社区合作伙伴合作，为他们参与研究能力建设提供各种方法/活动，在改变健康条件的健康社区-学术伙伴关系的愿景中发挥着核心作用。这一社区参与和外联进程涉及合作伙伴直接参与SIRC和CEOC的计划和活动，以及让CEOC成员参与专门设计的社区努力，旨在发展社区领导能力、健康知识和扫盲、研究和评价能力， 评估基于文化的干预措施的必要性。此外，这项研究的翻译可用于影响地方，社区，区域和州一级的数据驱动的决策和政策制定。这些目标和活动促使社区参与决定如何利用其自身的社会文化复原力因素来改善健康成果和减少健康差距，并建立持续的可持续伙伴关系，以继续开展这项重要工作。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): The purpose of the Community Engagement and Outreach Core (CEOC) is to enhance and expand existing meaningful community-academic collaborations in order to promote minority health in the U.S. Southwest region and to prevent, reduce and eliminate health disparities. Using community-based particiaptory research (CBPR) and involving SIRC's Community Advisory Board (CAB) in strategic planning, SIRC investigators identified the following strategic health disparities activities to guide the CEOC as we move forward: 1) enhancing leadership role of the CAB, 2) strengthening research capacity of community partners, 3) increasing translational research and health literacy efforts, 4) building community evaluation capacity, and 5) developing policy and advocacy initiatives. The CEOC partners with organizations supporting at-risk underserved populations by creating a two-way flow of knowledge with the main goal of reducing health disparities. The CEOC uses behavioral and social science research and socio-cultural factors to help uncover effective new approaches for community interventions and needed cultural adaptations, and translate them into practical applications. Working with community partners on providing a myriad of methods/activities for their involvement in research capacity building plays a central role in the vision of healthy community-academic partnerships that serve in changing the conditions for health. This community engagement and outreach process involves the direct participation of partners in SIRC and CEOC plans and activities, as well as including CEOC members in specifically designed community efforts aimed at developing community leadership, health knowledge and literacy, research and evaluation capacity, assessment of need for culturally-based interventions. Further, translation of this research can be used to impact data-driven decision and policy making at the local, community, regional and state levels. These aims and activities lead to inclusion of the community in determining how to use their own socio-cultural resiliency factors to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities, and forge on-going, sustainable partnerships to continue this vital work.