The Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center ("Detroit URC"), established in 1995, is a partnership involving the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Detroit Health Department, six community-based organizations, and Henry Ford Health System through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The URC promotes and supports interdisciplinary, collaborative, community-based participatory research aimed at addressing community and family health concerns on eastside and southwest Detroit, and which enhances knowledge of those issues. The URC fosters the development of innovative community-based approaches to a variety of research and prevention projects focusing on public health priority areas identified by the URC Board, with the ongoing involvement of all partners in assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination activities related to URC priority projects. This session will provide an overview of the community-based participatory research principles adhered to in developing and maintaining this partnership, and will include the evaluation results to date highlighting the challenges and successes of the partnership. Additional presentations will highlight the methodologies and early findings of specific URC-affiliated projects focusing on intimate partner violence prevention, promoting healthy lifestyles among women in Detroit, and reducing racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes. See www.sph.umich.edu/urc
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to: 1) describe the key principles of community-based participatory research involving community and academic partnerships; 2) describe methods to evaluate a community-academic partnership; and 3) identify a variety of methodological techniques for conducting community-based public health research projects.
Keywords: Community-Based Partnership, Partnerships
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