RESOURCE CORE 1: RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION CORE

5年来，加州大学洛杉矶分校OAIC招聘核心(RC)为学术研究人员提供了宝贵的帮助，他们试图通过招收低收入和少数族裔老年人来扩大他们资助的科学的覆盖范围和影响。在曼乔内博士的领导下，伊斯兰会议组织理事会成功地协助招募了 16个不同项目的低收入和少数族裔高中科目。随着研究中心的记录和国家对翻译研究的日益关注，OAIC研究中心已经发展成为致力于他们的第一个研究项目的研究员和初级教员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的一个非常受欢迎的资源。 在这项续签申请中，我们力求延续中心过去5年的高度成功模式，同时扩展核心的合作水平，不仅包括招聘，还包括社区合作研究的其他几个关键组成部分：项目开发、参与者留住、评估和传播。鉴于这些扩大的职能，核心将更名为审查处招聘和保留核心(RRC)。Sarkisian博士将担任核心领导者的角色，带来她作为老年病学家和最近成立的NIA资助的洛杉矶社区老龄化研究学术伙伴关系(L.A.Capra)中心主任的专业知识。 RRC将加快和促进低收入和少数族裔老年人的招募和留住，扩大和加强现有的UCLA OAIC老年人登记，有兴趣参与研究的老年人，并与其社区行动委员会和UCLA OAIC信息传播核心密切合作，以旨在最大限度地发挥社区影响的方式传播调查结果。 OAIC RRC通过为科学家和社区合作伙伴建立一个创新的单一“切入点”，让他们走到一起，公平地部署合作研究，从而挑战目前低效的“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 该项目的实施将造就新一代社区参与性研究专家，并将大大加快将研究转化为以社区为基础的项目的速度。

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.