Miner Sarah, Liebel Dianne V, Wilde Mary H, Carroll Jennifer, Omar Sadiya
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2017;11(1):53-59. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2017.0007.
Community-engaged research partnerships build the capacity of community and educational organizations to work together toward addressing important health issues and disparities for vulnerable populations, such as refugees or immigrants. A critical step for building a community-engaged research partnership is the Thrst contact or entrée into the community.
The purpose of this paper is to describe how a successful home health community-engaged partnership became the entrée and foundation for a community-engaged research partnership to explore the home health needs of Somali older adults and their families.
A number of strategies were used to engage the Somali community, initially in a clinical home health project and subsequently in an academic research study.
Valuable lessons were learned on delivering home health care (HHC) services to Somali older adults and their families as well as conducting research with this population. The most important lesson was that none of the work could be done without the involvement of the Somali community. The partnership described is one of the Thrst to address the home health needs and experiences of Somali older adults and their families. The project illustrates a mutually beneThcial relationship that can occur when a community-engaged clinical project expanded to address an issue of importance to the community through research.
This foundation served to create an opportunity for more comprehensive community-academic partnerships with the potential to improve the delivery of HHC to Somali older adults, as well as open avenues for research in other areas that are relevant to the Somali, medical, and academic communities.
社区参与式研究伙伴关系能够增强社区和教育组织共同努力解决弱势群体（如难民或移民）重要健康问题和差异的能力。建立社区参与式研究伙伴关系的关键一步是首次接触或进入社区。
本文旨在描述一个成功的家庭健康社区参与式伙伴关系如何成为探索索马里老年人及其家庭家庭健康需求的社区参与式研究伙伴关系的切入点和基础。
采用了多种策略来让索马里社区参与进来，最初是参与一个临床家庭健康项目，随后是参与一项学术研究。
在为索马里老年人及其家庭提供家庭健康护理（HHC）服务以及对这一人群进行研究方面学到了宝贵的经验教训。最重要的经验教训是，如果没有索马里社区的参与，任何工作都无法完成。所描述的伙伴关系是最早解决索马里老年人及其家庭家庭健康需求和经历的伙伴关系之一。该项目说明了当一个社区参与式临床项目通过研究扩展以解决对社区重要的问题时可能出现的互利关系。
这一基础为建立更全面的社区 - 学术伙伴关系创造了机会，有可能改善向索马里老年人提供的家庭健康护理，并为与索马里、医学和学术社区相关的其他领域的研究开辟途径。
