Building bridges: treatment research partnerships in the community.
نویسندگان
چکیده
Substance abuse during pregnancy continues to affect the lives of families across the United States. Most communities are not organized to deal with the multiple problems that must be addressed when developing intervention and treatment programs for pregnant women. At the same time, many citizens and community organizations may be suspicious of outside investigators stepping in to design outreach and treatment programs within existing structures and organizations. These difficulties are multiplied if the community regards the research as an opportunity to take advantage of the community without providing any long-term benefit to the community members.
منابع مشابه
Defining & Tracking What’s Important in Residential Care
The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) is a national effort to identify and promote practice and policy that creates strong and closely coordinated partnerships and collaborations between families, youth, community and residential treatment and service providers, advocates and policy makers. Central to the work of BBI is ensuring that comprehensive family-driven, youth-guided and culturally comp...
متن کاملA Model for Strengthening Collaborative Research Capacity: Illustrations From the Atlanta Clinical Translational Science Institute.
INTRODUCTION Community-engaged research is effective in addressing health disparities but may present challenges for both academic institutions and community partners. Therefore, the need to build capacity for conducting collaborative research exists. The purpose of this study is to present a model for building research capacity in academic-community partnerships. METHOD The Building Collabor...
متن کاملCommunity-based research in action: tales from the Ktunaxa community learning centres project.
BACKGROUND Rural communities, particularly Aboriginal communities, often have limited access to health information, a situation that can have significant negative consequences. To address the lack of culturally and geographically relevant health information, a community-university partnership was formed to develop, implement, and evaluate Aboriginal Community Learning Centres (CLCs). OBJECTIV...
متن کاملCommunity capacity building: a collaborative approach to designing a training and education model.
BACKGROUND Successful community-academic research partnerships require building the capacity of both community-based organizations (CBOs) and academics to conduct collaborative research of mutual interest and benefit. Yet, information about the needs and goals of research-interested CBOs is lacking. Our partnership aimed to conduct a community research needs assessment and to use results to dev...
متن کاملBuilding value-based partnerships: toward solidarity with oppressed groups.
We propose a value-based conceptualization of partnership, defining partnership as relationships between community psychologists, oppressed groups, and other stakeholders, which strive to achieve key community psychology values (caring, compassion, community, health, self-determination, participation, power-sharing, human diversity, and social justice). These values guide partnership work relat...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- NIDA research monograph
دوره 166 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996