What Is Community Engagement?: Community Engagement in Practice
This guide is meant to be a first stop for those trying to learn about and implement community engagement in their work, and includes definitions and principles, how-to-guides and other resources, as well as frequently asked questions.
Community Engagement in Public Health - WHOThis guide describes the value and implementation of community engagement in public health interventions, including emergency risk communications.
Community Engagement Toolkits - AAMC Center for Health JusticeThese toolkits help institutions engage their academic and local communities in dialogue to identify actions individuals or institutions can take to move communities toward health and health care equity.
Engagement Toolbox - Penn State UniversityThe tools and resources provided here are intended to help you assess your engagement needs, plan for effective strategies and processes, as well as implement and monitor your engagement efforts.
Resources For Responsible and Ethical Community Engagement - Duke UniversityThe goal of this document is to provide a centralized, accessible collection of recommended practices and resources that can be used by the Duke community in preparing students to engage responsibly and ethically in their communities.
Articles
Authentic Engagement Of Patients And Communities Can Transform Research, Practice, And Policy - Health AffairsAuthentic engagement encompasses involving stakeholders as full partners in all phases of research, as research funders increasingly require. Such engagement, although challenging, can enhance the quality and impact of studies on many levels, from ensuring that data are relevant to users’ needs to elevating the moral plane of research by showing respect to patients and vulnerable populations.
Community Engagement in Academic Health Centers: A Model for Capturing and Advancing Our Successes - University of North GeorgiaAcademic health centers (AHCs) are under increased pressure to demonstrate the effectiveness of their community-engaged activities, but there are no common metrics for evaluating community engagement in AHCs. The authors conducted a structured, directed content analysis to determine the effectiveness of using a two-phase process developed by the University of Rochester at the participating AHCs.
Shifting Academic Health Centers From a Culture of Community Service to Community Engagement and Integration - AAMCThere is an increasing need for academic health centers (AHCs) to engage communities across their clinical, research, and educational missions. To accomplish this, AHCs will need to establish the necessary infrastructure to support long-term community partnerships, adapt policies to support and reward engaged scholarship and teaching, and consider new ways of integrating community members in roles as advisors and collaborators across the AHC.
Survey of Community Engagement in NIH-Funded Research - Clinical and Translational Science JournalThis study assessed baseline prevalence of community engagement activities among NIH-funded studies at a large Midwestern university with a CTSA. Given NIH’s inclusive call for community engagement in research, relatively few NIH-funded studies reported community engagement activities, although this study used a broad definition of community and a wide range of types of engagement.
Progress in Community Health Partnerships - Johns Hopkins UniversityIn each volume of Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, PCHP editors select one article for our Beyond the Manuscript podcast interview with the authors. Beyond the Manuscript provides the authors with the opportunity to tell listeners what they would want to know about the project beyond what went into the final manuscript.
CBPR Toolkit - Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO)This curriculum is and educational resource developed by the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) for national organizations, funding agencies, researchers. It provides an introduction to the practice of community-based participatory research for improving health.
Introduction to CBPR - University of Kansas Center for Community Health and DevelopmentA Community Tool Box answering five key questions:
(1) What is community-based participatory research?
(2) Why would you use community-based participatory research?
(3) Who should be involved in community-based participatory research?
(4) When should you employ community-based participatory research?
(5) How do you institute and carry out community-based participatory research?
Toolbox for Developing Community Partnerships - University of Southern California CTSIThis manual was created through a collaborative process that included the community engagement team at Southern California and Translational Science Institute Office of Community Engagement, Scripps Translational Science Institute Community Engagement Program, Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, Project Dulce as well as members from the communities they serve.
