Jemal Alexis D, Benoit Ellen, Thompson Shola, Jones Heather A, Windsor Liliane, Lassiter Teri, Thompson Warren
Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College.
The Briar Patch Collaboratory.
J Particip Res Methods. 2024;5(2). doi: 10.35844/001c.120896. Epub 2024 Jul 29.
The Newark Community Collaborative Board (NCCB) is in its fourteenth year of operation with nine successful research projects and more than six million dollars in funding. The NCCB began with a community needs assessment in Newark, New Jersey, that led to the subsequent establishment of a community collaborative board (CCB) of consumers, researchers, service providers, and residents committed to advocating for health equity through community engagement and research informed by critical thinking. This paper explores the NCCB's history and processes that allowed conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR) to reduce inequities related to social determinants of health (SDH). This conceptual manuscript draws on data from NCCB meeting minutes and a group interview with three of the five founding members. We detail the collaborative process used to develop and assess Community Wise, a multilevel, group-based intervention designed to reduce substance use among formerly incarcerated men in Newark, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Review of documentation and interview transcripts revealed the following key ingredients for success: 1) Having a north star; 2) Functional diversity; 3) Challenges as learning opportunities; 4) Board structure and healthy relationships; and 5) Funding and resources. The NCCB has undergone multiple transformations, including a name change to the New Jersey Critical Consciousness Collaborative Board (NJ-3CB), representing its growth from being a small local board to becoming part of a network of community collaborative boards across the United States and a chapter of the global campaign against racism. These and future transitions will help sustain the collaborative journey.
纽瓦克社区合作委员会（NCCB）已运营十四年，开展了九个成功的研究项目，获得了超过六百万美元的资金。NCCB始于对新泽西州纽瓦克市的社区需求评估，随后成立了一个由消费者、研究人员、服务提供者和居民组成的社区合作委员会（CCB），致力于通过社区参与和基于批判性思维的研究来倡导健康公平。本文探讨了NCCB的历史和流程，这些历史和流程使其能够开展基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR），以减少与健康的社会决定因素（SDH）相关的不平等现象。这篇概念性手稿借鉴了NCCB会议记录中的数据以及对五名创始成员中的三名进行的小组访谈。我们详细介绍了用于开发和评估“社区明智”（Community Wise）的合作过程，“社区明智”是一项多层次、基于群体的干预措施，旨在减少纽瓦克市曾被监禁男性的物质使用，由美国国立卫生研究院资助。对文件和访谈记录的审查揭示了成功的以下关键要素：1）有一个北极星目标；2）功能多样性；3）将挑战视为学习机会；4）董事会结构和健康的关系；5）资金和资源。NCCB经历了多次变革，包括更名为新泽西批判意识合作委员会（NJ - 3CB），这代表了它从一个小型地方委员会发展成为美国社区合作委员会网络的一部分以及全球反种族主义运动的一个分会的成长历程。这些以及未来的转变将有助于维持合作之旅。
