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Supported by NIMHD Grant R24MD004902

Capacity Building Across the Lifespan: Community-Based Participatory Research with Two Generations of Cambodian American Women. Supported by NIMHD Grant R24MD004902

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Supported by NIMHD Grant R24MD004902

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  1. Capacity Building Across the Lifespan: Community-Based Participatory Research with Two Generations of Cambodian American Women • Supported by NIMHD Grant R24MD004902 • The following personal financial relationships with commercial interests relevant to this presentation existed during the past 12 months: No relationships to disclose.

  2. Co-Authors Juliet P. Lee (1), Talaya Sin (1,2), Sean Kirkpatrick (3), Sotheavy Tan (3), Ann Rojas-Cheatham (3), Shadia Godoy (3), Roland Moore (1), Angelo Ercia(3), Mona Afary(4) • Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1995 University Ave #450, Berkeley, CA • Cambodian Community Development, Inc., 624 Douglas Ave, Oakland, CA • Community Health for Asian Americans, 268 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA • Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, 544 International Blvd, Suite #9, Oakland, CA

  3. Cambodian Women’s Group ThaveryHov SarouenIm PhannaraKhun Kong Lap Choun Norn Maria San Poly YatTep Monica Then

  4. Project Aims • Identify a priority health issue with leadership of Cambodian American women • Pilot test a community intervention with leadership of Cambodian American women • Build capacities of communities to engage in research for health improvement, and scientists to partner with communities

  5. Approach • Grassroots: Cambodian Women’s Group • Two generations • Identify and address root causes • Develop awareness of health in social context

  6. Cambodian Women’s Group

  7. Analyzed Issues • Trauma - the overarching issue • Problem Alcohol Use • Prescription Drug Misuse • Housing • Education • Employment • Domestic Violence • Social Isolation • Gambling • Sense of Unity • (Community Violence)

  8. Analyzed Need: Cambodian Community Center

  9. Pilot Intervention Components • Community Garden • Healthy, restful place to meet • Exercise • Reconnect with rural origins • Cambodian New Year Celebrations • Bridge factions within community • Intergenerational, alcohol-free gathering • Cambodian Cultural Exhibit • Bridge knowledge gap about trauma for youth • Bridge Cambodian and American contexts • Celebrate Cambodian identity

  10. Cambodian Community Gardens

  11. Two gardens established to date, third in process • 129 Oakland Cambodians participated during project period

  12. Cambodian New Year Celebrations

  13. Celebrations held in 2011, 2012 • Attended by approx. 500 people each year

  14. Surveyresults • many older adults are socially isolated

  15. Survey results • seeing other Cambodians was the best thing about the event

  16. Cultural exhibit: Rhythm of the Refugee: A Cambodian Journey of Healing

  17. Life stories of Oakland Cambodians, contextualized • Traumas of Khmer Rouge period • Legacies and new cultural forms in Oakland

  18. Survey results: Best thing about the exhibit: Pride in our culture

  19. Two generations: challenges • Language needs • Simultaneous translation and interpretation • Mixed educational experiences • Team facilitation • Non-verbal means of conducting analyses • Traumatized population • Aim to reduce conflict and tension in group • Additional support may be needed • Safe space • Confidentiality reminders

  20. Two generations: Benefits • Analyses grounded in lived experiences • Holistic view across generation divide • New insights about health • Individual and family wellbeing closely connected to community wellbeing • New ideas about how to improve health • Community center and component features • Engage youth with adults to bridge gaps • Innovations in research and program design • Complex interventions may synergistically address complex and interrelated health issues

  21. Acknowledgements • Funder: National Institutes on Minority Health and Health Disparities • Collaborative partners: Community Health for Asian Americans (CHAA), Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), Cambodian Community Development, Inc. (CCDI), Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants (CERI) • Community gardens hosts: Harbor House of Oakland and City of Oakland Parks and Recreation • New Year’s Celebrations co-organizers: CWG,CCDI, CERI, CHAA, PIRE, with Asian Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS), East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC), UC Berkeley Cambodian Student Association, Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, & SFSU Asian American Studies Program • Exhibit co-curators: CWG, CCDI, CHAA, & Peralta Hacienda Historical Park • Photo credits: Roland S. Moore, Sean Kirkpatrick, KampheakVa, S. Nadia Hussain • Thanks to the Community Advisory Board members and the many volunteers and community members who contributed their creative ideas and energy to the project

  22. For more information: • Juliet P. Lee Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1995 University Ave. #450,Berkeley CA 94704 jlee@prev.org; 510-883-5772 • Sean Kirkpatrick Community Health for Asian Americans, 268 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610 sean.kirkpatrick@chaaweb.org; 510-282-7550

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