Community-Based Participatory Research
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Fit Kids in Union County
Across America, too many kids are carrying too much weight. It’s no different in Union County, where a 2005 study found that almost 35 percent of K-12 youths were either overweight or at risk of becoming overweight.
Since there has been very little research in how to prevent childhood obesity in rural settings, the UC Fit Kids Coalition, a group of eight schools and health care organizations, invited local teens to take photos of what might be affecting kids’ decisions about eating and activity. Each teen got a disposable camera, and was sent on his or her way.
The photo project was supported by a $58,000 grant from the Northwest Health Foundation, and the picture seen here – of a dilapidated tennis court – is one of the shots taken.
The National Institutes of Health was so impressed by the project that it awarded an additional grant to support further information gathering. Efforts such as this are often successful when they take a long-term approach, and when they involve large numbers of people in the community, both of which this project has done.
...read moreGrantees:
Project Quest, DBA Quest Center for Integrative Health
LGBTQ Communities Participating for a Healthier Future
2010 - To address health disparities in LGBTQ communities by developing a community-wide strategic plan that includes a research agenda and policy recommendations using CBPR.
$20,000
Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon
Jackson County Latina Women’s Health Project
2010 - To build a CBPR partnership to understand and address reproductive health disparities present within the Latina community in rural Jackson County.
$20,000
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
Empowering Native Youth to Engage in Policy Change Addressing Nutrition & Physical Activity
2010 - To explore perceived barriers and facilitators for physical activity and healthy eating among Native American youth of two Oregon tribes in order to initiate policy recommendations for physical activity and nutrition.
$180,000
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
African Partnership for Health (APH): Building Alliances between Health Providers and African Refugees and Immigrants
2010 - To test community driven interventions and then identify and promote policy solutions to ensure culturally responsive care for Africans in Portland.
$120,000
Lane Coalition of Active and Healthy Youth
Healthy Corner Stores Initiative
2010 - To conduct a CBPR policy initiative that addresses the childhood obesity by focusing on the availability of healthier foods at two local corner stores in Eugene.
$180,000
Coalition for a Livable Future
Regional Equity Atlas 2.0
2010 - To develop the next edition of the Regional Equity Atlas (Atlas 2.0), a web-based mapping tool that depicts health equity conditions, using CBPR, and support grassroots policy changes related to the findings.
$90,000
Central City Concern
Social Determinants of Chronic Illness in the Most Vulnerable: A Partnership for Advocacy and Research
2010 - To establish a community-academic partnership to study the impact of social determinants on chronic disease health
outcomes of Central City Clients using CBPR methods.
$20,000
Adelante Mujeres
Partnering with Latino Farmers to Address Core Issues of Chronic Disease and Improve the Region’s Food Landscape
2010 - CBPR Grants 2010
$20,000
Janus Youth Programs, Inc.
Village Gardens
2009 - To improve nutritional options, social cohesion, social capital, and opportunities for micro-enterprise among residents of housing complexes by first establishing a CBPR advisory board.
$20,000
Benton County Health Department
Latino Health Ambassador Network
2009 - To develop a Latino Health Ambassador Network to formally engage Latino community members and other formal/informal Latino community leaders in addressing the disproportionate impact of chronic disease on Latinos living in Benton and Linn Counties.
$15,000
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
African Partnership for Health
2009 - To enhance the capacity for health leadership and policy advocacy among African refugees and immigrants in the Portland Metro area using CBPR.
$19,857
Family Building Blocks
Advocacy for Oregon’s Relief Nurseries
2009 - Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Inform Policy Advocacy for Oregon’s Relief Nurseries: Identifying Returns on Investments. To study the cost effectiveness and return on investment of the relief nurseries programs in Oregon using CBPR.
$180,000
Mountain View Hospital Foundation
Policy Approaches to Children’s Health (PATCH)
2009 - To test if school-based policies such as menu labeling, recess before lunch, and parental notification of body mass index will have an impact on childhood obesity.
$175,271
Upstream Public Health
Engaging Social Service Agencies and Poverty Rights Groups in Tobacco Control
2008 - To engage people concerned about the welfare of low-income Oregonians in policy advocacy for tobacco prevention in the 2009 legislative session.
$20,000 over one year.
Upstream Public Health
Assessing the Health Benefits of Reducing Car and Truck Traffic
2008 - To conduct a CBPR-centered Health Impact Assessment (HIA) that would map the impact of reduced vehicle use to key health indicators.
$72,140 over one year.
Community Alliance of Tenants
Mold and Moisture: Effective Interventions, useful Practice, and Better Policies
2008 - To pilot and evaluate an CBPR intervention to address high mold/moisture conditions and its effects on respiratory disease among rental housing unit tenants, and use data to affect rental housing policies in Multnomah County.
$180,000 over three years.
Coalition of Communities of Color
Making People of Color Count in Policy Making
2008 - To gather information to develop community profiles about the “lived realities” of communities of color in Multnomah County, and utilize this information to inform agencies and policymakers about these communities.
$180,000 over four years
Trauma Healing Project, Inc.
Healing Conversations Community Action Research and Engagement (CARE) Project
2007 - To develop and evaluate a community-based trauma healing model using a participatory action approach.
$180,000 over 3 years
Organizing People, Activating Leaders
Portland Environmental Justice Partnership Project
2007 - To establish a broad coalition of community organizations, public agencies, faith-based institutions, low-income residents, businesses and academic institutions in an effort to assess and address environmental risk factors and health disparities in the neighborhoods of outer southeast and north/northeast Portland.
$30,000 over 1 year
Mountain View Hospital Foundation
Baseline BMI Measure of Jefferson County School-aged Children
2007 - To assess children's BMI (body mass index) using a community-based participatory research approach intended to strengthen and expand an existing community partnership. Jefferson County;
$29,538 over 1 year
Farmworker Housing Development Corporation
My Health in My Hands (Mi Salud en Mis Manos)
2007 - To develop and test a community-based chronic disease self-management program for Latino farmworkers using community-based participatory research. Marion and Polk counties;
$179,974 over 3 years
Community Alliance of Tenants
Tenants' Voice: A Housing and Health Needs Self-Assessment and Intervention Plan
2006 - To identify housing repair and other problems within a low-income rental housing community in Multnomah County that are linked with chronic respiratory illnesses, and use the findings of the needs assessment to collaboratively plan educational and policy-level interventions.
$66,545
Union County Commission on Children & Families
Assessing the Influence of the Rural School and Community Environments on the Physical Activity Patterns and Food Choices of Rural Children
2006 - To better understand how the environment of rural children contributes to obesity through an extensive assessment process involving focus groups and a “photovoice” project.
$57,566
Josiah Hill, III Clinic
Healthy Futures Collaborative
2006 - To improve indoor air quality and thus reduce asthma triggers for low-income families and families of color in the Cully neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.
$82,050
Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization
HIV / AIDS Prevention Intervention for Asian Pacific Islander Women: Do Partners Make a Difference?
2006 - To develop, implement and evaluate a culturally and linguistically appropriate HIV / AIDS educational prevention program for Asian Pacific Islander women living in the Portland metro area that involves male partners.
$150,245
University of Washington School of Nursing
Arthritis in Focus: Improving the Quality of Life Through a Lifetime Fitness Program
2003 - To improve the health of people with arthritis in targeted counties by increasing participation in a Lifetime Fitness Program.
$275,691
Institute on Aging, Portland State University
Arthritis Among Hispanics in Oregon: Developing Community Solutions
2003 - To develop a database on the characteristics of, beliefs about, and treatment behaviors related to arthritis among this population; to develop a comprehensive plan for minimizing the ill effects of arthritis on this population; and to field-test one or more strategies developed and evaluate the results.
$461,000
Providence Center on Aging
CHAMPS: Community-Based Home Arthritis Management Project
2003 - To determine whether or not an arthritis self-management education program alone, or in combination with nursing case management, will lead to decreased pain, increased function, and decreased health care costs for study participants. The study targets home-bound older adults (65+) with limited mobility.
$446,543