Community-Based Participatory Research
Events
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Northwest Health Foundation is a major partner for the eleventh annual conference for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health taking place from May 12-15, 2010 in Portland and we invite you to join us! You are encouraged to submit a proposal for a session or poster presentation at the conference.
The conference, “Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships” promises to be CCPH’s best yet as hundreds of community and campus partners convene for 4 days of skill-building, networking and agenda-setting! Whether you are new to community-based participatory research (CBPR), service-learning or community-campus partnerships and looking for basics to get started, or have been involved for years and seeking more advanced knowledge and connections, this is one conference you will not want to miss!
With its focus on Creating the Future We Want to Be, the conference seeks to empower individuals and partnerships to create a just and sustainable future, so that we need not be passive participants in the status quo or mere witnesses to the change determined by others. With its focus on Transformation through Partnerships, the conference seeks to highlight the power of partnerships to lead and inspire transformation at all levels.
The CCPH conference draws diverse participants who share a commitment to social justice and a passion for the power of partnerships to transform communities and academe. All CCPH conference participants, whether they are community activists, students, faculty, CEOs, foundation program officers, community health workers, or public health researchers, are embraced for the knowledge, wisdom and experience they bring to the table.
For more information on the conference, visit the CCPH website: http://www.ccph.info/. Download the flyer.
Resources
NWHF CBPR Grantee Publishes Resarch Results: Arthritic Pain Among Latinos
Latino residents partnered with researchers from Portland State University and conducted a community-based participatory research study to examine factors associated with pain among Latinos with arthritis, identify common coping strategies and potentially effective interventions, and determine whether pain levels affect the level of interest in potentially useful programs. Their results are published her in the Journal of Arthritis Care & Research.
Arthritic Pain Among Latinos: Results from a Community-based Survey
Speaking Truth, Creating Power: A Guide to Policy Work for CBPR Projects
This tool-kit is designed for community-based participatory research (CBPR) institutional and community partners written by Cassandra Ritas.
2004 CBPR Conference Proceedings
Our first conference, entitled "Improving the Health of Our Communities Through Collaborative Research," was a series of lively and informative discussions of one of the key challenges facing communities today: how to effectively translate knowledge into practice. Combining knowledge with action to improve health outcomes and eliminate health disparities is the ultimate goal of this approach to research.
2006 CBPR Workshop Agendas
In 2006 NWHF partnered with Community-Campus Partnerships for Health to offer CBPR skills-building workshops in four Oregon cities: Portland, Corvallis, Medford, and LaGrande.
As Steve Gilbert of Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest said, "For community-based organizations serving a diverse client population, the CBPR model of research practice creates a true partnership where participants are treated as respected teachers rather than faceless subjects ... As a participant at one of the Skill Building Workshops, I found the sharing of strategies and real life examples to be as valuable as the formal presentations. Conference participants were both learners and teachers - an experiential mirror of the CBPR model."
2007 CBPR Conference Agenda and Program
Strategies for CBPR Funding
Show Me The Money: Funding Strategies, Resources for Sustaining Partnerships in CBPR. Presentation by David Rebanal at the 2006 CBPR Conference.
Delivering on the Promise of CBPR - Mildred Thompson
Keynote address from the 2007 CBPR Conference in Portland delivered by Mildred Thompson, Director, PolicyLink Center for Health and Place, July 19, 2007
A Brief Slideshow from 2006 CBPR Conference
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Commentary
NWHF Hosts Ladder to Leadership - September 8th, 2009
Northwest Health Foundation hosts launch for the Robert Wood Johnson and Center for Creative Leadership’s “Ladder to Leadership” Program.