Journal Article10.18060/27204
Small CBPR Grants Program
Payam Sheikhattari,Jummai Apata,Gillian Beth Silver,Shiva Mehravaran,Emma Mitchell,Shervin Assari +5 more
TL;DR: Small CBPR Grants Program aims to invest in genuine community-engaged research and support lasting trusting partnerships between academic and community organizations. The program provided funding and resources to new partnerships, fostering continued partnerships and leading to new research initiatives and outcomes.
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Abstract: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an effective approach for addressing health disparities by integrating diverse knowledge and expertise from both academic and community partners throughout the research process. However, universities and funding agencies have not done enough to invest in the foundational infrastructure and resources that are necessary for building and maintaining lasting trusting research partnerships and supporting them to generate impactful research projects and solutions. Small CBPR Grants Program is a CBPR-seed-funding program that may be particularly helpful to minority-serving institutions’ and universities’ goal to invest in genuine community-engaged research. The Morgan State University Prevention Sciences Research Center, in collaboration with other community and academic organizations, provided 14 small CBPR awards to new partnerships, and evaluated the success and challenges of the program over a period of three years. To achieve our goal, technical support and training were provided to these partnerships to help with their growth and success. The expected outcomes included trusting relationships and equitable partnerships, as well as publications, presentations, and new proposals and awards to work on mutually identified issues. The program’s results included: continued partnerships beyond the program (in most cases), a founded CBPR Center, and a few secured additional funding. One key to the program’s success was supporting the formation of research partnerships through networking opportunities and information sessions, as well as providing small grants to incentivize the development of innovative concepts and projects. A learning network and local support group were also created to enhance productivity and the overall impact of each project.
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FIGURE 1. The CARES model. 
TABLE 1. Characteristics of principal investigators (academic and community partners) of five of the fourteen funded projects 
FIGURE 4. Capacity development and training services by partners stages of readiness. 
FIGURE 3. Flow chart showing the process of the CBPR small grants program. 
TABLE 3. Identifying stages of the CBPR small grants program by mapping results of the qualitative evaluations and the main findings in terms of assets (A), perceived needs (N), and recommended responses (R) in each stage of readiness 
TABLE 2. Collaborative activities of funded project partnerships
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Power of community in “Engage for Equity PLUS” for strengthening equity-centered patient and community engaged research in academic health centers
Nina Wallerstein,Shannon Sanchez-Youngman,Elizabeth Dickson,Prajakta Adsul,Michael Muhammad,Tabia Henry Akintobi,Rhonda Holliday,LaShawn Hoffman,Howard Grant,Melissa Kottke,Lisa Goldman Rosas,Anisha Patel,Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa,Ysabel Duron,Starla Gay,Jason A. Mendoza,Kathy Briant,Rachel Ceballos,Elizabeth Carosso,Diane Mapes,Bridgette Hempstead,Tung Nguyen +21 more
TL;DR: This commentary highlights the "Engage for Equity PLUS" framework, emphasizing the power of community engagement in academic health centers to strengthen equity-centered patient and community engaged research, promoting more inclusive and effective healthcare solutions.
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Abstract: Participatory research continues to attract attention across academia, civil society, policymaking, and research funding landscapes. Yet Q methodology has not fully explored the full potential of participatory practice, despite its well-recognised democratic characteristics. In this article, we introduce ‘Participatory Q’, a co-productive reimagining of Q methodology, offered not as a prescriptive roadmap for a perfectly participatory approach (if such a thing were even possible), but as a research orientation that challenges researchers to work more collaboratively and reflexively. We propose Participatory Q as both a methodological and epistemological intervention, one that aims to de-centre dominant knowledge systems rooted in the colonial legacy of the Academy, and to foreground pluralistic, community-informed ways of knowing. Drawing on the Queering Shelter project - which explored the meanings of ‘shelter’, ‘safe space’, and ‘home’ among LGBTQ + communities in England, UK - we describe how participatory principles were integrated across all stages of the Q methodology process: from study design and concourse development to analysis and output creation. The aim for this article is to serve as a useful starting point on which others can build, in order to advance Q methodology practice in ways that are not only participatory in technique but also disruptive of epistemic hierarchies.
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