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Julie Postma, RN, BSN, PhC¹, Eric Leber², Vickie Ybarra, RN, MPH³, Ricardo Garcia, BA⁴, Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH⁵, Mary Salazar, PhD⁶, Jennifer Crowe, MPH⁷, Guadalupe Sotelo⁴, James Birge, MD³, Julie Ricking, MD³, Elizabeth Hom, BS, MPH(c)⁷, Madelyn Carlson⁸, Yolanda Anita Sanchez, BS, MS candidate⁵, Maria Benavides, BA⁸, and Martin Yanez⁴. (1) Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing Program, University of Washington School of Nursing, 14327 26th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98125, 206-245-9141, jmpostma@u.washington.edu, (2) Heritage University, 3240 Fort Road, Toppenish, WA 98948, (3) Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, 402 N. 4th St., Suite 202, Yakima, WA 98901, (4) Northwest Community Education Center/Radio KDNA, P.O. Box 800, Granger, WA 98932, (5) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195-3770, (6) School of Nursing, University of Washington, Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195, (7) Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195, (8) Northwest Community Action Center, P.O. Box 831, Toppenish, WA 98948

“El Proyecto Bienestar” (The Well-Being Project) is a Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) project taking place in the Yakima Valley, Washington. The project's purpose is to develop strategies that will enable the Hispanic agricultural community to effectively identify, characterize, and respond to occupational and environmental health risks they face.

This Community Based Participatory Research project partners researchers, clinicians, and the Yakima Valley community to conduct research. A fundamental characteristic of community-based research is a co-production of knowledge between researchers and the greater community. The mission of this project is to enhance Environmental Justice in the region.

In this presentation, results from El Proyecto Bienestar's program evaluation will be presented addressing power and participation among diverse participants as they partner to create Environmental Justice in the Yakima Valley. Data was collected through participant observation, document review, and key informant interviews. Two types of narrative analysis, discourse and conversational analysis, were used to analyze the data.

Understanding, valuing, and incorporating community expertise is predicated on clear communication between all participants and is fundamental to the partnership process. A better understanding of these processes is critical to making community based research a successful strategy to enhance worker and community health.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe processes involved in developing community-university partnerships
• Identify quantitative and qualitative methods used to recognize and evaluate power and participation among diverse research partners
• Recognize different perspectives of what environmental justice means and how environmental justice should be achieved
• Discuss facilitation strategies to incorporate worker perspectives in project processes

Keywords: Evaluation, Environmental Justice

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation