Community Engagement Team

1. Community Engagement Team

2. Key Community Partners • Community Advisory Board - Governmental and non-governmental, coalitions, CBO’s • Health Associations Collaborative – volunteer organizations – patient support and advocacy • African American and Hispanic Health Leadership Conference Committee • Health Action – Monroe County DPH; priorities • Providers – Outpatient medical providers / staff

3. AIM 1:Promote community participation in research • Establish activities in the Center for Community Health • Team and 4 subgroups which include non-CTSI, administrative • Establish long-term research partnerships with community • Presentations of CTSI to all groups; engagement in priority setting; sharing of grants opportunities; data analysis assistance • Engage organizations/individuals in developing priorities, design, and implementation strategies • Key informant interviews and focus groups; community liaison • Key organizations – formal input • Expand expertise in community-based participatory research • Faculty Group; Dan Blumenthal visit in May - consultation • Inventory of community health projects – CBPR enhancement • Establish and disseminate community criteria • Needs assessment: public, providers, investigators • Health improvement; practice improvement; dissemination

4. AIM 2: Promote participation of providers in research • Create the Greater Rochester PBRN in the CCH • NCRA – Rochester Research Associate Organization • Coordinate existing PBRNs and facilitate new research • PROS network – Pediatric obesity report card • Ongoing work in neighborhood health center network • Implement training / consultation for investigators and practitioners on practice-based research • Surveys, interviews of practices and investigators - barriers • Provider dominated steering committee – priority shift to quality initiatives; definition of levels of involvement • Coordinate with education/training aim • Develop innovative communication strategies • Databases of providers, practices and projects • Improve recruitment from health care settings - tracking

5. AIM 3: Improve community health knowledge of investigators • Develop training program for investigators and trainees (K30, K12 and others); CME credit • Interviews, focus groups with clinical research coordinators and investigators; needs assessment survey • Team based approach; PI training; mentorship for RC’s/PI’s • Training includes didactic, experiential, distance learning, group 2. Develop curriculum for training program; Fall 2007 • Community based participatory research • Principles of community health improvement and collaboration • Theories of organizational and behavioral change • Cultural competency 3. Continuously evaluate and revise training 4.NCRA/RRAO training assessment and development

6. AIM 4: Increase participation in research • Increase awareness of and interest in clinical research among the public • Communications plan – public education; grassroots • Centralized consultation/marketing for recruitment • Design and test innovative community-driven recruitment and retention strategies • Establish measures of recruitment / diversity • Maintain an annotated bibliography of evidence-based recruitment/retention strategies • Establish a working group on recruitment/retention to review literature and provide consultation • Faculty Group • Maintain a database of past and current research being conducted in the Finger Lakes region • Clinical Research Database – searchable; enhance