Building Collaborative Partnerships to Improve Community-Based HIV Prevention Research

Facilitating School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Enhancing Student Mental Health: An Overview of the Special Series

“…Founded in the models of Development in Context Evaluation or DICE (Ostrom, Lerner, & Freel, 1995) and University-CBO Collaborative Partnership or UCCP (Harper & Salina, 2000), community-based participatory research (CBPR) emphasizes the importance of partnering with community agencies to co-develop culturally sensitive assessment and intervention strategies involving important problems facing low-resource urban communities (Connor, Rainer, Simcox, & Thomisee, 2007;Minkler & Wallerstein, 2003).…”

“…Similarly, modern CBPR begins with research topics identified by community members and focuses Action Research on promoting meaningful and sustainable social change to improve community health and eliminate health disparities (Brosnan, Upchurch, Meininger, Hester, Johnson, & Eissa, 2005;Harper & Salina, 2000;Rapkin, Massie, Jansky, Lounsbury, Murphy, & Powell, 2006). Through building the capacity of stakeholders, CBPR builds the strengths of multiple systems to promote effective and efficient public health research as well as to identify, study, and address health issues of importance to the community.…”

Partnership Selection and Formation: A Case Study of Developing Adolescent Health Community-Researcher Partnerships in Fifteen U.S. Communities

“…Despite the structured approach, sites complained of a lack of clarity of purpose at the outset that may have affected the partnership process, for example, in making alternate partner choices; again, easily achieved at a local level. As the health of the partnership and sense of true collaboration from all partners are vital to the success of such a partnership, ongoing and future research includes qualitative assessments of community-researcher partner relationships [35,36] and continued monitoring of coalition building and community mobilizing activities by an external program evaluation team. Additionally, surveillance of health outcomes of community youth are planned to determine program impact.…”

“…In identifying and using community resources and selecting partners that will be agents of social change, a collaborating process is established and a culture of teamwork is created [30,36]. C2P's approach to partner selection and formation allowed sites to determine if potential partners shared a common vision, strengthened community relationships and built trust, and permitted a clear understanding of the role of C2P to emerge locally.…”

Building International Collaborative Capacity: Contributions of Community Psychologists to a European Network

“…Although previous research has supported the success of interdisciplinary networks to address complex social problems (e.g., Connors and Seifer 2000;Harper and Salina 2000;Maton et al 2006;Suarez-Balcazar and García-Ramírez 2003;Suarez-Balcazar et al 2006) community psychologists have conducted little research on international networks involving a complex array of countries, settings, and languages. Community psychologists have a great deal of experience working with and developing networks for social change.…”