RESOURCE CORE 1: RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION CORE

5年来，UCLA OAIC招聘核心（RC）为学术研究人员提供了宝贵的帮助，他们通过招收低收入和少数民族老年人来提高其资助科学的影响力。在Mangione博士的领导下，国际移民组织驻地协调员成功地促进了 低收入和少数民族高级科目的16个不同的项目。随着RC的跟踪记录和国家对转化研究的关注增加，OAIC RC已经发展成为研究员和初级教师在他们的第一个研究项目上工作的备受追捧的资源，以及不熟悉基于社区的参与式研究方法的高级独立调查人员。 在这次更新申请中，我们寻求继续RC过去5年来非常成功的模式，同时扩大核心的合作水平，不仅包括招募，还包括社区合作研究的其他几个关键组成部分：项目开发，参与者保留，评估和传播。鉴于这些扩大的职能，该核心将重新命名为内审办征聘和留用核心。Sarkisian博士将担任核心领导人的角色，将她作为老年病学家的专业知识和最近成立的由NIA资助的洛杉矶社区学术伙伴关系老龄化研究（洛杉矶）的主任。CAPRA）中心。 RRC将加速和促进低收入和少数族裔老年人的招聘和保留，扩大和加强现有的加州大学洛杉矶分校OAIC登记册有兴趣参与研究的老年人，并与社区行动委员会和加州大学洛杉矶分校OAIC信息传播核心密切合作，以最大限度地发挥社区影响力的方式传播研究结果。 OAIC RRC通过为科学家和社区合作伙伴建立一个创新的单一“入口点”，共同部署公平合作的研究，挑战目前效率低下的“项目对项目”社区合作研究模式。这种基础设施从根本上改变了研究的方式， 这将造就新一代的科学家，他们是社区参与性研究的专家，并将大大加快将研究转化为基于社区的方案的速度。

For 5 years, the UCLA OAIC Recruitment Core (RC) has provided invaluable assistance to academic investigators seeking to enhance the reach and impact of their funded science by enrolling lower income and minority seniors. Under the leadership of Dr. Mangione, the OAIC RC successfully facilitated recruitment of lower income and minority senior subjects for 16 different projects. With the RC's track record and the increased national focus on translational research, the OAIC RC has evolved into a highly sought-after resource for fellows and junior faculty members working on their first research projects as well as senior independent investigators unfamiliar with community-based participatory research methods. In this renewal application we seek to continue the highly successful model of the RC's past 5 years while at the same time extend the level of the Core's collaborations to include not only recruitment but also several other critical components of community-partnered research: project development, participant retention, evaluation, and dissemination. In light of these expanded functions, the Core will be re-named the OAIC Recruitment and Retention Core (RRC). Dr. Sarkisian will assume the role of Core Leader, bringing her expertise as a geriatrician and Director of the recently-established NIA-funded Los Angeles Community Academic Partnership for Research in Aging (L.A. CAPRA) Center. The RRC will accelerate and facilitate recruitment and retention of lower income and minority seniors, expand and enhance the existing UCLA OAIC registry of older adults interested in participating in research, and work closely with its Community Action Board and the UCLA OAIC Information Dissemination Core to disseminate findings in a manner designed to maximize community impact. The OAIC RRC challenges the current inefficient "project to project" community-partnered research model by establishing an innovative single "point of entry" for scientists and community partners to come together to deploy equitably partnered research. This infrastructure fundamentally changes the way research is conducted, will create a new generation of scientists who are expert in community participatory research, and will greatly accelerate the rate of translation of research into community-based programs.