Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods

描述(申请人提供)：作为2009-2014年度仅有的两个新的综合性资助中心之一，CWRU健康社区预防研究中心已将自己确立为一个高度响应和协作的社区研究中心，具有开展严格和创新研究的强大能力，与社区和疾控中心的优先事项密切一致。我们的多学科学术社区团队包括基于社区的研究人员、地方和州卫生部门以及其他卫生和社区组织、社区领导人和社区居民。在接下来的五年里，我们将共同完成以下目标：(1)与我们的社区顾问网络(NOCA)密切合作，设定研究和规划的优先事项，并确保社区的声音为我们的工作提供信息；(2)与NOCA及其附属学院合作，在我们最有希望的工作的基础上，开展一项全面的5年研究议程，通过我们的新核心项目，保持我们对改善低收入居民营养食品获取(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，在我们的教职员工、学生和社区合作伙伴中培养和建设严格的社区参与研究的能力；(4)通过向社区合作伙伴，特别是地方和州卫生部门提供技术援助、评估服务和集中内容的专业知识，建设社区改善公共卫生实践的能力；(5)实施中心范围的沟通和传播(C&D)计划，将C&D活动整合到研究、培训、评估和社区活动中，并将PRCHN确立为地方数据和基于证据的方法的中心资源，以预防和减少慢性病；以及，(6)对中心进行持续、全面的评估，以确保按时和按预算实现中心的目标，并为国家对社区中心的评估作出贡献。我们的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覆盖范围、采用率和影响。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、俄亥俄州立大学扩建、克利夫兰-凯霍加县食品政策联盟和凯霍加市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.