Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2021;15(4):525-532. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2021.0065.
Community collaboratives have been shown to be effective in changing environments and systems to promote health by facilitating and coordinating programs, services, and practices. East Harlem, a New York City neighborhood, recently experienced a growth in bicycling infrastructure and resources. However, community concerns raised about safety, equity, and inclusion highlighted the need for a coordinated effort to reduce barriers to biking.
To describe the formation of and activities of El Barrio Bikes, a community biking collaborative by providing examples of community engagement strategies, evaluation methods, and lessons learned.
A values-driven community engagement framework was used to form a multi-sector community collaborative to reduce barriers to biking in East Harlem. El Barrio Bikes conducted monitoring and evaluation activities to evaluate community engagement strategies used, to ensure that the group's goals were being met, and to make improvements or adjustments when needed.
The use of a community engagement framework was critical to the evolution of El Barrio Bikes from a group of individual partners to a model of shared leadership. Collaborative decision-making, extensive outreach efforts, and feedback surveys were time-intensive, but essential in in developing a sustainable and equitable partnership.
Carefully selected community engagement strategies were integral to the success of creating a community biking collaborative to promote biking. Collaboration between community stakeholders can strengthen community ties and power, which are key to implementing an effective strategy to reducing barriers to biking in East Harlem.
社区合作组织通过促进和协调项目、服务和实践，已被证明在改变环境和系统以促进健康方面非常有效。纽约市的东哈莱姆区最近增加了自行车基础设施和资源。然而，社区对安全、公平和包容的担忧凸显了需要协调努力来减少骑自行车的障碍。
通过提供社区参与策略、评估方法和经验教训的示例，描述 El Barrio Bikes 的形成和活动，这是一个社区自行车合作组织。
采用以价值观为导向的社区参与框架，形成一个多部门的社区合作组织，以减少东哈莱姆区骑自行车的障碍。El Barrio Bikes 开展了监测和评估活动，以评估使用的社区参与策略，确保该组织的目标得以实现，并在需要时进行改进或调整。
使用社区参与框架对于 El Barrio Bikes 从一个由个人合作伙伴组成的团体发展成为一个共享领导力模式至关重要。协作决策、广泛的外展工作和反馈调查都需要大量时间，但对于建立可持续和公平的伙伴关系至关重要。
精心选择的社区参与策略是创建社区自行车合作组织以促进骑行的成功的关键。社区利益相关者之间的合作可以加强社区联系和力量，这是在东哈莱姆区实施减少骑自行车障碍的有效策略的关键。
