C-GROw: Communities Generating Research to prevent Obesity

描述(由申请人提供)：AltaMed Health Services和加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)正在提议实施一项研究项目，旨在了解和确定与低收入拉丁裔家庭合作解决儿童肥胖问题的最佳实践策略。拟议项目的总体目标是在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的博伊尔高地社区采用基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)模式，帮助居民创造一个支持健康行为的环境，以减少肥胖。社区生成研究预防肥胖项目(C-Growth)将把居民和利益相关者聚集在一起，以确定社区对肥胖的看法、社区优势和资源、潜在的实施战略和确定合作伙伴关系。制定共同目标和宗旨将指导伙伴关系的工作。目标1：加州大学洛杉矶医学院和AltaMed健康服务公司将达成一项谅解备忘录，建立伙伴关系，重点是让博伊尔高地的社区成员确定将预防和减少他们社区儿童和青少年肥胖症流行的资产和战略。目标2：利用AltaMed Health Services Corporation和加州大学洛杉矶分校在博伊尔高地社区的工作关系，确定并召集顾问委员会成员，他们将在未来两年计划每年举行两次会议。该委员会由具有意愿、使命、能力和文化能力的组织和个人组成，以吸引和接触来自不同背景、社区和社会经济地位的不同社区成员，以便参与C-Growth社区参与性研究项目。目标3：在规划会议和会议期间，利用以社区为基础的参与性研究模式，确定和了解社区对儿童和青少年肥胖症患病率的感知原因，并提出预防和减少儿童和青少年肥胖症患病率的建议战略，以及其对合并疾病的影响，并确定社区实现这些战略的优势。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): AltaMed Health Services and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are proposing to implement a research project aimed at understanding and identifying best practice strategies for working with low-income, Latino families on the issue of childhood obesity. The overall goal of the proposed project is to employ a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) model in the Boyle Heights Community of Los Angeles, California that will assist residents in creating an environment that supports healthy behaviors to reduce obesity. The Community Generating Research to Prevent Obesity Project (C-GROw) will bring together residents and stakeholders to identify community perceptions about obesity, community strengths and resources, potential strategies for implementation and identify partnerships. The development of common goals and objectives will guide the work of the partnerships. Aim 1: University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine and AltaMed Health Services Corporation will enter into an MOU establishing a partnership that will focus on engaging the community members of Boyle Heights in identifying the assets and the strategies that will prevent and reduce the prevalence of pediatric and adolescent obesity in their community. Aim 2: Leverage the working relationships between AltaMed Health Services Corporation and UCLA in the Boyle Heights community to identify and assemble advisory board members who will plan two conferences a year over the next two years. The board is made up of organizations and individuals with the willingness, mission, capacity, and cultural competency to attract and reach a diverse range of community members, from varied backgrounds, neighborhoods, and social economic statuses in order to participate in the C-GROw community based participatory research project. Aim 3: Identify and understand the community's perceived causes of, and suggested strategies to prevent and reduce the prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity, and its impact on co- morbid conditions, as well as identify the community strengths to achieve these strategies, utilizing the community based participatory research model during the planning sessions and conferences.