OUR COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY

RESEARCH PROJECT: A MODEL FOR RECIPROCAL

EMPOWERMENT

Dinah Ramirez, RNBarbara Akpan, RN, MS

Margaret Davis, RN, MSN, FNPGeorge Smith, MPH

TRADITIONAL RESEARCH

Limited partnerships

Limited sharing of resources

EXAMPLES OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH RESOURCES

• Research expertise

• Language

• Familiarity with academic environment

• Data collection & analysis

• Grant writing

EXAMPLES OF COMMUNITY RESEARCH RESOURCES

• Language

• Service provider

• Network of community-based organizations

• Familiarity with physical environment

UIC CPHHD COMMUNITY-INVESTIGATOR

COLLABORATION

PRE-UIC CPHHD

CPHHD Year 1

CPHHD Year 2

CPHHD Year 3

EXAMPLES OF PARTNERSHIP

BENEFITS

BENEFITS TO UIC CPHHD

• Better research intervention tools

• Trained facilitators

• Mammography facility analysis tool

• Proposal for a navigation system

• Identified other study areas

• Information

BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY

• Focus groups

• Town hall meetings

• Walkathons

• Conferences & support groups

• Translatable skills

• Capacity building

• Information

Researchers become fully engaged with the

community and the community fully

engaged in research.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Other CPHHD Community Advisory Committee Members contributing to

this work include P. Bowman, PhD, C. Ferrans, PhD,

A. Giachello, PhD, V. Martinez, JD,

R. B. Warnecke, PhD, and M. Willis, MS, RN.