Black Kristin Z, Hardy Christina Yongue, De Marco Molly, Ammerman Alice S, Corbie-Smith Giselle, Council Barbara, Ellis Danny, Eng Eugenia, Harris Barbara, Jackson Melvin, Jean-Baptiste Jimmy, Kearney William, Legerton Mac, Parker Donald, Wynn Mysha, Lightfoot Alexandra
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2013 Fall;7(3):263-70. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2013.0040.
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) strives for equitable collaboration among community and academic partners throughout the research process. To build the capacity of academia to function as effective research partners with communities, the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS), home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)'s Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA), developed a community engagement consulting model. This new model harnesses the expertise of community partners with CBPR experience and compensates them equitably to provide technical assistance to community-academic research partnerships.
This paper describes approaches to valuing community expertise, the importance of equitable compensation for community partners, the impact on the community partners, opportunities for institutional change, and the constraints faced in model implementation.
Community Experts (CEs) are independent contractor consultants. CEs were interviewed to evaluate their satisfaction with their engagement and compensation for their work.
(1) CEs have knowledge, power, and credibility to push for systems change. (2) Changes were needed within the university to facilitate successful consultation to community-academic partnerships. (3) Sustaining the CE role requires staff support, continued compensation, increased opportunities for engagement, and careful consideration of position demands. (4) The role provides benefits beyond financial compensation. (5) Opportunities to gather deepened relationships within the partnership and built collective knowledge that strengthened the project.
Leveraging CE expertise and compensating them for their role benefits both university and community. Creating a place for community expertise within academia is an important step toward equitably including the community in research.
基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)致力于在整个研究过程中促进社区与学术伙伴之间的公平合作。为了提升学术界作为社区有效研究伙伴的能力,北卡罗来纳转化与临床科学研究所(NC TraCS),即北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校(UNC-CH)临床与转化科学奖(CTSA)的所在地,开发了一种社区参与咨询模式。这种新模式利用具有CBPR经验的社区伙伴的专业知识,并给予他们公平的报酬,以便为社区 - 学术研究伙伴关系提供技术援助。
本文描述了重视社区专业知识的方法、公平补偿社区伙伴的重要性、对社区伙伴的影响、机构变革的机会以及模式实施中面临的限制。
社区专家(CEs)是独立承包商顾问。对CEs进行了访谈,以评估他们对参与情况和工作报酬的满意度。
(1)CEs拥有推动系统变革的知识、权力和信誉。(2)大学内部需要进行变革,以促进与社区 - 学术伙伴关系的成功咨询。(3)维持CE的角色需要工作人员的支持、持续的报酬、更多的参与机会以及对职位要求的仔细考虑。(4)该角色带来的好处不仅仅是经济补偿。(5)有机会在伙伴关系中加深关系并积累集体知识,从而加强项目。
利用CE的专业知识并对其角色给予补偿,对大学和社区都有益。在学术界为社区专业知识创造一席之地是朝着公平地让社区参与研究迈出的重要一步。