The East Side Village Health Worker Partnership is a community-based participatory research and intervention effort on Detroit’s east side. Members of the partnerships include the Butzel Family Center, Detroit Health Department, Kettering-Butzel Health Initiative, Friends of Parkside, Henry Ford Health System, Warren Conner Development Coalition, Islandview Development Corporation, VISIONS, the East Side Parish Nurse Network and over 30 community residents known as Village Health Workers. This presentation will describe a community-based participatory process that brought together results from a random sample survey with women raising children, in-depth interviews with lay health advisors, and other community members and dialogue among members of the East Side Village Health Worker Partnership to determine priorities for community health interventions. The presentation will describe the process through which data from a variety of sources were examined and discussed by members of the Partnership and priorities determined. In addition, it will describe the translations of those priorities over the next several years into a comprehensive plan with focused projects designed to address selected program priorities. Implications for community-based participatory research and intervention efforts will be discussed, as well as lessons learned regarding community planning processes for health interventions.
Learning Objectives: 1. Articulate a community-based participatory process for establishing priorities for community health interventions. 2. Assess lessons learned regarding community planning processes for health interventions.
Keywords: Lay Health Workers, Community-Based Partnership
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.