University of Houston Center for Public Policy

Community-Based Participatory Research Workshop:

Challenges and Solutions for Researchers and Community Leaders

Friday, April 10, 2009 ▪ University of Houston

Program & online Materials*

( The titles in bullets below are background papers that can be downloaded)

■ 8:25am - 8:30am Greetings from the organizers: Jim Granato, Center for Public Policy and Joan Sieber, JERHRE

■ 8:30am - 8:40am WELCOME & INTRODUCTION: Rogene Calvert, Mayor's Office, City of Houston

■ 8:40am - 9:00am KEY NOTE SPEAKER: Linda Silka, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. "Community-Based Participatory Research: Why it's Vital and Why it's Challenging."

Creating Community-Based Participatory Research In a Diverse Community: A Case Study

■ 9:00am - 10:00am MODELS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: (CBPR has many meanings. We begin by presenting the basic models.)

A Researcher Originates the Idea Based on Scientific Expertise – Why the Framingham Heart Study Has Been So Successful for Over 61 Years - Greg Koski, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

A Community Challenges a University to Action and Gets a Research Project Instead – Susan Gust, Community Activist/CCPH Board Member & Cathy Jordan, University of Minnesota.

The Trustworthiness of Research: The Paradigm of Community-Based Research

A Hybrid Model Focusing on Population Health and Community Development – Patricia Gail Bray, St Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities, Houston (SLEHC).

A Hybrid Model Focusing on Population Health and Community Development

Discussion: What makes each model successful? Or not?

■ 10:15am - 11:15am Challenges to Community Engagement - Engaging the Clientele (Standard research methodology does not prepare researchers to engage community populations.)

Engaging Vietnamese, Pakistani, Hispanic and African American Communities – Jane Peranteau, St Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities, Houston (SLEHC).

Engaging Vietnamese, Pakistani, Hispanic and African American Communities

Approaching Sensitive Topics: STDs, Birth Control, Mental Health Issues in Low-Income Adolescents – Ruth Buzi, Baylor Teen Health Clinic, Baylor Medical College, Houston.

Why Conduct Research on Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), Contraceptives and Mental Health With Adolescents?

Hard to Reach Populations : Homeless, Gangs, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Tran-sexual Mental Health Project – Cache Steinberg, University of Houston.

Discussion: How do researchers learn to engage their community clientele?

■ 11:15am - 12:40pm Challenges to Community Engagement - Engaging the IRB (Ethics committees and CBPR investigators cannot assume they start from the same page.)

It's Like Tuskegee in Reverse – But it Needn’t Be – Leslie Wolf, Georgia State University School of Law.

"It's Like Tuskegee in Reverse": A Case Study of Ethical Tensions in Institutional Review Board Review of Community-Based Participatory Research

How CBPR Violates the IRB’s Medical Model – Let Me Count the Many Ways – Ruth Buzi, Baylor Teen Health Clinic, Baylor Medical College, Houston.

How CBPR Violates the IRB’s Medical Model: Let Me Count the Many Ways

An African-American Community Creates its own IRB – Jane Peranteau, SLEHC.

Galveston Island Research Community Research Advisory Committee (GICRAC) - Letter of Support Policy and Procedures

How to Operate an IRB for CBPR – Jeannette Truxillo, Harris County Department of Education.

Discussion: How can an IRB prepare to work effectively with CBPR?

■ 1:40pm - 3:00pm Engaging the Researcher: Professional Socialization for CBPR (There are various approaches to educating people to relate professionally to communities; this session presents some successful models.)

Building Research Capacity Within Community Based Organizations – Transforming Research Capacity into Community Health Development – Marlynn May, Texas A&M, School of Rural Public Health, College Station, TX and Jon Law, Paso del Norte Health Foundations, El Paso, TX.

CBPR as Community Health Intervention: Institutionalizing CBPR Within Community Based Organizations

Educating Optometry Students to Engage the Community: Learning Professional Identity – Norman Bailey, College of Optometry, University of Houston.

Educating Optometry Students to Engage the Community: Learning Professional Identity

Teaching the Practical Basics of Responsible Conduct of Research – Chi Anyansi-Archibong, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro.

Teaching Forestry in a Lumber Yard: Community Engagement for Medical Students – Elizabeth Heitman, Vanderbilt University.

The Importance of Getting It Right from the Beginning – Susan Gust, Community Activist/CCPH Board Member & Cathy Jordan, University of Minnesota.

Wrap-up: What is learned that generalizes to actual practice?

■ 3:00pm - 3:30pm The Importance of Being Clear About the Town-Gown Relationship (This brief session is designed to focus workshop participants on the need for MOUs.)

Clear Agreements – Susan Gust, Community Activist/CCPH Board Member and Cathy Jordan, University of Minnesota.

The Costs of Getting it Wrong –Seeds & Weeds – Cynthia Clemmons, North Carolina State University.

We See it Still as a Journey – Caitlin Kennedy, Johns Hopkins University.

"I see this as a Journey": Faculty Perspectives on Community-Based Research

■ 3:45pm - 5:00pm Putting Together the Lessons Learned in this Workshop: Negotiating a Town-Gown Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) – Linda Silka, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

In this valuable hands-on workshop, Professor Silka will guide participants as they work their way through creation of a memorandum of understanding – one concerned with their own plans for CBPR or based on someone else’s, or a hypothetical case. This wrap-up workshop will enable conference participants to integrate what they have learned and draw upon that understanding to formulate a workable plan for collaborative town-gown research partnerships. Participants will also receive the URL to an online version and template for drafting their MOUs. Thus, participants get to understand the challenges and rationales of creating a MOU and can use the template at home afterward. Persons who must leave early to catch a plane will have the template and instructions to work with at home.

*For updated online workshop papers or additional Information, please check back again.

GENERAL PAPERS & RESOURCES:

CES4Health.info is a mechanism to facilitate peer review and online dissemination of products of community-engaged scholarship (CES) that are not in the form of manuscripts appropriate for submission to a peer-reviewed journal.

Resources for Community-Based Participatory Research

Resources for Community-Engaged Scholarhsip (CES)

Ensuring Community Level Research Protections

Achieving the Promise of Authentic Community-Higher Education Partnerships: Community Voices Speak Out!

Online CBPR Curriculum

CCPH’s CBPR Resource page

Resources Specific to Creating "MOUs/MOAs" (Memorandum of Understanding/Memorandum of Agreement)

Resources specific to Partnership Policies on Authorship and Dissemination

St Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities, Houston (SLEHC) Conference Sessions

The 2nd Annual JERHRE Workshop on

Community-Based Participatory Research

April 8 - 9, 2010

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ORDER THE WORKSHOP BOOKLET / CD

(The post-conference CD contains all the background papers, presentations, materials, and summaries of panel discussions. These materials are also available for downloading from this page)

VIEW PHOTOS FROM THE WORKSHOP

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WHY THIS WORKSHOP IS IMPORTANT

Rogene Calvert, Director of Personnel and Volunteer Initiatives for the Office of Mayor White, City of Houston welcomes the participants to the Workshop and explains why it's important for the City of Houston.

Key Note Speaker, Linda Silka, Director for the Center for Family, Work and Community at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell explains why community-based research is vital and challenging.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health members Susan Gust and Cathy Jordan present over ten years of partnership experience at CBPR Workshop in Houston, TX. Read more about them (scroll down to Members in Action).

Christopher Smith, Director of Research Compliance at the University of Houston, Joan Sieber, Professor Emerita of Psychology at California State University, East Bay/Editor-in-Chief of JERHRE, and Jim Granato, Director of the University of Houston Center for Public Policy.

Leslie Wolf, Associate Professor at Georgia State University School of Law, Chi Anyansi-Archibong, Professor at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, and Linda Silka Director for the Center for Family, Work and Community at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Anthony Love, President and CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston / Harris County speaks to to the audience about his organization and the people who are homeless in Houston.

Jane Peranteau and Yvonne Green from St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities present at the CBPR Workshop.

Dr. Catherine "Cache" Steinberg, Sr. Researcher at the University of Houston's Social and Behavioral Sciences speaks to to the audience about hard to reach populations.

Jim Granato, Director of the University of Houston Center for Public Policy, and Rogene Calvert, Director of Personnel and Volunteer Initiatives for the Office of Mayor White, City of Houston greet the participants.

PRESENTERS:

Chi Anyansi-Archibong, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro

Norman Bailey, College of Optometry,

University of Houston

Patricia Gail Bray, St Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities,

Houston (SLEHC)

Ruth Buzi, Baylor Teen Health Clinic,

Baylor Medical College, Houston

Cynthia Clemmons, North Carolina State University

Susan Gust, Community Activist & CCPH Board Member