Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods

描述（由申请人提供）：作为在2009-2014年周期资助的仅有的两个新的综合中心之一，CWRU健康社区预防研究中心已成为一个高度响应和协作的社区研究中心，具有进行严格和创新研究的强大能力，与社区和CDC的优先事项密切相关。 我们的多学科学术社区团队包括以社区为基础的研究人员，卫生和其他健康和社区组织，邻里领导人和社区居民的地方和国家部门。我们将在未来五年内共同实现以下目标：（1）与我们的社区顾问网络（NOCA）密切合作，制定研究和计划优先事项，并确保社区的声音通知我们的工作;（2）与NOCA和附属学院，开展全面的5年研究议程，建立在我们最有前途的工作，通过我们的新核心项目，保持我们改善低收入居民获得营养食品（NFA）的承诺，并寻求新的机会，以确定和传播以证据为基础的方法，以改善弱势居民的健康;（3）通过正式的培训计划，研讨会和指导，在我们的教师，学生和社区合作伙伴中培养和建立严格的社区参与研究的能力;（4）通过提供技术援助，建设社区改善公共卫生做法的能力，向社区合作伙伴，特别是地方和州卫生部门提供评价服务和重点内容专业知识;（5）实施一项全中心的交流和传播计划，将交流和传播活动纳入研究、培训、评估、和社群活动，并建立PRCHN作为预防和减少慢性病的地方数据和循证方法的中心资源;（6）对PRCHN进行持续的全面评估，以确保中心的目标按时、按预算实现，并为PRCs的国家评估做出贡献。 我们应用公共卫生传播和实施核心研究项目的目标是与社区合作伙伴合作，创建和使用快速反应系统，以评估和改善农贸市场，农产品补贴和EFNEP在克利夫兰低收入社区的影响。将调整和测试社区民意领袖传播战略。这项研究将与我们的NOCA，凯霍加就业和家庭服务办公室，俄亥俄州州立大学扩展，马里兰州凯霍加县食品政策联盟和凯霍加大都会住房管理局合作进行。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As one of only two new comprehensive centers funded in the 2009-2014 cycle, the CWRU Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods has established itself as a highly responsive and collaborative community-based research center with strong capacity for conducting rigorous and innovative research that is closely aligned with community and CDC priorities. Our multidisciplinary academic-community team includes community-based researchers, local and state departments of health and other health and community organizations, neighborhood leaders, and community residents. Together, we will accomplish the following goals during our next five years: (1) work closely with our Network of Community Advisors (NOCA) to set research and programmatic priorities and ensure the community's voice informs our work; (2) with NOCA and Affiliated Faculty, carry out a comprehensive 5-year research agenda that builds upon our most promising work, maintains our commitment to improving nutritious food access (NFA) among low income residents through our new core project, and seeks new opportunities to identify and disseminate evidence-based approaches to improve the health of disadvantaged residents; (3) foster and build capacity for rigorous community-engaged research among our faculty, students, and community partners through formal training programs, seminars, and mentoring; (4) build community capacity for improving public health practice by providing technical assistance, evaluation services and focused-content expertise to community partners, especially local and state departments of health; (5) carry out a center-wide communication and dissemination (C&D) plan that integrates C&D activities into research, training, evaluation, and community activities and establishes the PRCHN as a central resource for local data and evidence-based approaches to preventing and reducing chronic disease; and, (6) conduct an ongoing, comprehensive evaluation of the PRCHN, to ensure that the Center's goals are achieved on time and on budget and to contribute to the national evaluation of PRCs. The goal of our applied public health dissemination and implementation core research project is to work with community partners to create and use a rapid-response system for evaluating and improving the reach, adoption, and impact of farmers' markets, Produce Perks, and the EFNEP among low-income neighborhoods in Cleveland. A community popular opinion leader dissemination strategy will be adapted and tested. This research will be conducted in partnership with our NOCA, Cuyahoga Office of Job and Family Services, Ohio State University-Extension, Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition, and Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority.