Lessons Learned From a Community–Academic Initiative: The Development of a Core Competency–Based Training for Community–Academic Initiative Community Health Workers

Lessons learned from a community-academic initiative: the development of a core competency-based training for community-academic initiative community health workers.

OBJECTIVES Despite the importance of community health workers (CHWs) in strategies to reduce health disparities and the call to enhance their roles in research, little information exists on how to prepare CHWs involved in community-academic initiatives (CAIs). Therefore, the New York University Prevention Research Center piloted a CAI-CHW training program. METHODS We applied a core competency...

Parent peer education: Lessons learned from a community-based initiative for teen pregnancy prevention.

PURPOSE The Parent Peer Education program addresses a community-identified need to increase parent-child communication about sexuality, teen pregnancy prevention, and related issues. Community members are trained to lead workshops of peers on how to talk with their children about these topics. METHODS The program was pilot tested in 1997; three waves of workshops were conducted by 35 parent p...

Lessons Learned from the Failure of an Experience Base Initiative Using a Bottom - up Development Paradigm

This paper describes the development of an experience factory in an Australian organization. Information structures were well developed and used in the daily work of the organization. This included the use of network technology as well as the personal interaction between department members. Highly motivated personnel drove improvement via new techniques, knowledge, and tools. A special focus ex...

Lessons learned from using SGML in the Text Encoding Initiative

In April of 1994 the ACH-ALLC-ACL Text Encoding Initiative published Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (Document TEI P3). SGML was used as the basis for the encoding scheme that was developed. Several innovative approaches to the use of SGML were devised during the course of the project. Three aspects of this innovation are documented in the paper. First, all of the tags a...

The Urban Health Initiative : Lessons for Philanthropy