National Core: Community, Family and Peer Support Core

项目摘要/摘要-利用社区，同伴和家庭支持核心 这一核心促进研究、制定和评价针对社区的干预措施， 同伴和家人的支持我们将社区定义为一个总体生态系统，通过它，家庭和同伴 支持是杠杆。家庭和同龄人的定义很宽泛，包括生物亲属和个人， 包括当前的和潜在的新的社交网络。这些可能包括同事、邻居、参与者 在一次集体医疗访问中，虚拟社区的成员，甚至是设计良好的应用程序。因此，这个核心 强调a）社区、家庭和同伴内部和之间的交流（即，重叠）; B） 它们共享的特性和过程（即，（三）相互影响;（四）相互影响。 影响及其背景-文化、疾病特征、生命阶段等（即，函数）。芯会 支持对这些主题的研究，包括在社区和卫生保健系统中采取干预措施 利用社区、同伴或家庭的影响，广义地定义。改进设计、实施和 对干预措施的评估，该核心还将支持探索社区、同伴和家庭支持的研究 路径以及不同的环境如何塑造它们。 核心小组的工作与该中心强调反种族主义和卫生平等的工作高度相关。重要的是要 考虑社区，家庭和同龄人如何受到种族主义和社会的有害影响， 经济不公。与此同时，社区、同龄人和家庭在帮助儿童方面发挥着至关重要的作用。 个人面对种族主义，处理其对健康的影响，并更广泛地减少不平等。这 核心的目标是集中在如何从社区，同龄人和家庭的支持影响，并可以最好地 动员起来，促进糖尿病患者的生活和健康发生实质性的积极变化。 该核心是密歇根州-密歇根州同伴支持核心的产物，由密歇根州中心资助， 糖尿病转化研究，2016 - 21。它延续了同侪支持核心对各种 同行和同行支持的方法和过程，加强他们，同时扩大这些， 包括家庭和社区。以其国家为重点，核心将服务于同事在大学 密歇根大学，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校，以及美国各地的糖尿病研究人员。这将 包括向研究人员和研究项目提供个别咨询、国家推广和便利， 通过网络研讨会和国家研究人员特别兴趣小组的年度研究讲习班， 感兴趣的贡献和社区之间的互动，同侪和家庭的支持，以减少 糖尿病预防和管理方面的不平等。

Project Summary/Abstract - Leveraging Community, Peer, and Family Support Core This Core facilitates research on and the development and evaluation of interventions addressing community, peer, and family support. We define community as the overarching ecosystem through which family and peer support is leveraged. Families and peers are defined broadly to include biological kin and individuals who comprise current and potential new social networks. These may consist of colleagues, neighbors, participants in a group medical visit, members of a virtual community, and even well-designed apps. Thus, this Core emphasizes a) the exchanges within and between communities, families, and peers (i.e., overlap); b) the characteristics and processes they share (i.e., interact); and c) the reciprocal association between their influence and their contexts – culture, disease characteristics, stage of life, etc. (i.e., function). The Core will support studies into these topics, including interventions anchored in communities and health care systems that utilize community, peer, or family influences, broadly defined. To improve the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions, this Core will also support studies exploring community, peer, and family support paths and how different contexts shape them. The Core’s work is highly pertinent to the Center’s emphasis on anti-racism and health equity. It is important to consider how communities, families, and peers are influenced by the harmful effects of racism and social and economic injustice. At the same time, communities, peers, and families have critically important roles in helping individuals confront racism and deal with its effects on their health and reducing inequity more broadly. This Core’s objectives are centered on how supports from communities, peers, and families impact and can best be mobilized to promote substantive positive changes in the lives and health of those affected by diabetes. The Core is an outgrowth of the Michigan-UNC Peer Support Core, funded through the Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research, 2016-21. It continues the Peer Support Core’s emphasis on the variety of peers and peer support approaches and the processes that undergird them, while expanding on these to include families and communities. With its national focus, the Core will serve colleagues at the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and diabetes researchers across the US. This will include individual consultation to researchers and on research projects, national outreach, and facilitation such as through webinars and annual research workshops of a national Special Interest Group of researchers interested in the contributions of and interactions among community, peer, and family supports for reducing inequity in diabetes prevention and management.