Abstract
Marginalized communities have a documented distrust of research grounded in negative portrayals in the academic literature. Yet, trusted partnerships, the foundation for Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), require time to build the capacity for joint decision-making, equitable involvement of academically trained and community investigators, and co-learning. Trust can be difficult to develop within the short time between a funding opportunity announcement and application submission. Resources to support community- and academic-based investigators’ time to discuss contexts, concerns, integration of expertise and locally acceptable research designs and data collection are limited. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Center for American Indian Resilience and the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative have implemented an internal funding mechanism to support community and academic-based investigators’ travel cost and time to discuss complementary areas of interest and skills and to decide if moving forward with a partnership and a collaborative grant proposal would be beneficial to the community. The rationale and administration of this Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) Program are described and four examples of supported efforts are provided. Centers and training programs frequently fund pilot grants to support junior investigators and/or exploratory research. This CCPS mechanism should be considered as precursor to pilot work, to stimulate partnership building without the pressure of an approaching grant application deadline.
Highlights
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) integrates the expertise and perspective of both insiders and outsiders who contribute to a process of systematic inquiry and data collection, community capacity building and action [1,2,3,4,5]
The Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) Program supports community, agency and academic partners to explore the role of resilience and identify local assets that contribute to health equity
All funded partnerships completed their proposed work and the experience contributed to the professional growth of the community and university partners
Summary
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) integrates the expertise and perspective of both insiders and outsiders who contribute to a process of systematic inquiry and data collection, community capacity building and action [1,2,3,4,5]. At the outset of the partnership, project partners met in person in different locations over the first few months of the grant in order to identify common interests and complementary skills. They developed the project to deliver training sessions to tribal Community Health Representatives (CHRs) on home health risk remediation, and to deliver health home kits for participating households. The community partner has worked for 37 years in the local area on efforts to support successful transition from school to adulthood, including finding gainful employment, for youth with IDD. The partners initially met during the academic partner’s year-long outreach to community members engaged in IDD support services in the region to inform this project’s development
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