Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2023;17(1):99-108. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2023.0014.
Chicago's systemically underserved communities have disproportionately high cancer rates. The Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (ChicagoCHEC) brings together academic and community partners to address these health inequities. The community conversations known as "CHEC-Ins" provide a space for community members to voice their experiences and needs and for ChicagoCHEC to fulfill its commitment to advancing health equity through collaboration and action.
This paper presents a community-generated approach to social networking about cancer health issues known as CHEC-Ins. Through this innovative approach, community members and organizations share cancer related information and experiences, as well as needs and concerns, which are then channeled to ChicagoCHEC academic and administrative members who incorporate them into outreach and research activities. In this way, community members set the agenda and the process and collect the information they deem relevant and important. This paper describes the process of organizing and conducting two pilot CHEC-Ins and the model of this approach, which we intend to employ moving forward to advance partnership building and collaborative research practice between academic institutions and community partners and organizations. This paper contributes a unique model of community-generated and led outreach as a cornerstone of the ChicagoCHEC approach to community engagement.
The leaders of the ChicagoCHEC Community Steering Committee spearheaded the design and implementation of CHEC-Ins, including developing the question guide and hosting events within their organizations.
CHEC-Ins proved to be a valuable strategy for defining the role of community partners and establishing the basis for a bi-directional flow of information, resources, and productive action. The two pilot CHEC-Ins revealed important insights related to sources of cancer information, meanings and associated attitudes, barriers to access and use of health services, and social support systems in the communities where ChicagoCHEC works. We will implement this approach and continue to refine it as we conduct CHECIns moving forward.
芝加哥服务不足的社区癌症发病率过高，存在严重的系统性不公平问题。芝加哥癌症健康公平合作组织（ChicagoCHEC）汇集了学术和社区合作伙伴，旨在解决这些健康不公平问题。名为“CHEC-Ins”的社区对话为社区成员提供了一个表达自身经历和需求的空间，同时也使 ChicagoCHEC 能够通过合作和行动履行其推进健康公平的承诺。
本文介绍了一种针对癌症健康问题的社区主导社交网络方法，称为 CHEC-Ins。通过这种创新方法，社区成员和组织可以分享与癌症相关的信息和经验，以及需求和关注点，然后将其传递给 ChicagoCHEC 的学术和行政成员，这些成员将其纳入外展和研究活动中。通过这种方式，社区成员设定议程和流程，并收集他们认为相关和重要的信息。本文描述了组织和开展两次试点 CHEC-Ins 的过程以及这种方法的模型，我们打算在未来采用这种方法，以推进学术机构与社区合作伙伴和组织之间的伙伴关系建设和合作研究实践。本文贡献了一种独特的社区主导和领导的外展模式，作为 ChicagoCHEC 社区参与方法的基石。
ChicagoCHEC 社区指导委员会的领导人牵头设计和实施了 CHEC-Ins，包括制定问题指南和在其组织内举办活动。
CHEC-Ins 被证明是一种定义社区合作伙伴角色和为信息、资源和富有成效的行动的双向流动奠定基础的有价值策略。两次试点 CHEC-Ins 揭示了与癌症信息来源、意义和相关态度、获取和使用卫生服务的障碍以及 ChicagoCHEC 工作社区中的社会支持系统相关的重要见解。我们将实施这种方法，并在未来继续改进 CHECIns。
