Why we value community engagement
Community engagement is essential for creating equitable healthcare and research for excluded and marginalized populations. As we work to operate from a health justice and antiracist lens; community engagement ensures that the perspectives, experiences, well-being and needs of community members and patients are amplified when conducting research and creating policy. Community-engaged research helps to bridge the gap between traditional research approaches and real world circumstances.
Is your research community engaged?
If you are doing research that involves or could impact specific populations, you are doing research that could (or should?) be community engaged. In other words, you are in the right place! The “timeline” serves as a metaphor for the steps and processes needed to build equitable research practices from the beginning of a project; however, in real life working with communities is more cyclical than it is linear. Whether you are just starting out in your engagement journey, or an experienced practitioner of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), click through the “timeline” and discover essential actions and tools for each phase of the research process to ensure your research is both impactful and rooted in community perspectives.
Explore the comprehensive resources linked in our Best Practices Timeline to gain valuable insight and ensure convenient access to all essential guidelines and tools:
Introduction
Research Design
2. Research Design: Invest Your Time - Best Practices for Community Engagement Manuals
3. Research Design: Start Early - Community Engagement Guiding Principals Resources
4. Research Design: Engage Community Advisors - Lived Experience Advisory Board Toolkit
5. Research Design: Case Study: Pre-term Birth Initiative - Community Advisory Board
6. Research Design: Case Study: Youth Research Advisory Council (YRAC) Curriculum
Seeking Funding
7. Seeking Funding: Budget for Community Engagement PowerPoint
8. Seeking Funding: Streamline Payment Processes Webinar + Payment Guide
9. Seeking Funding: Staff Your Team Appropriately - Staff Recruitment Resources
Study Implementation
10. Study Implementation: Hire Diversely Resources
11. Study Implementation: Nurture Cultural Sensitivity Video
12. Study Implementation: Use Accessible Language Presentation
13. Study Implementation: Ensure Research Practices Reflect Equity & Anti-Racism Report
14. Study Implementation: Elicit Community Feedback Resources
15. Study Implementation: Adapt Culturally Tailored Designs Guide
16. Study Implementation: Empower Site Champions Guide
17. Study Implementation: Engage Community Co-Investigators Toolkit
18. Study Implementation: Lower Barries Resources
19. Study Implementation: Monitor Recruitment & Adapt - Video
20. Study Implementation: Use Informed Consent Best Practices Template
Analysis & Interpretation
21. Analysis & Interpretation: Work With Community Partners Resources
22. Analysis & Interpretation: Maintain Relationships Guide
23. Analysis & Interpretation: Circle Back Resource Manual
Dissemination
