National Training Institute Announced Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches to Sustaining Healthy Families and Multicultural Communities
Rochester, NY (September 28, 2009) - The University of Rochester’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, in partnership with San José State University, is pleased to announce the Third Annual Training Institute on community-partnered research. This year’s Institute, Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches to Sustaining Healthy Families and Multicultural Communities, will be held on February 6-10, 2010 in San José, California.
The training institute is designed for research teams comprised of academic and community member investigators. Community-academic partners seeking to advance their collaborative public health and preventive research are welcome to apply.
Research projects focusing on behavioral, social, and environmental factors promoting health and preventing adverse health outcomes among people whose lifestyles represent the cultural mosaic of communities are encouraged. Lifestyle, family turmoil, community violence, psychological and personal distress, and adverse life events are a few examples of factors that could be a research focus for attending teams. Innovative health services and interventions research topics, for instance, to evaluate effectiveness of known interventions with ethnic populations or to enhance the capacity for interventions research in new settings, will also be considered. This forum is designed to support related National Institutes of Health (NIH) research priorities.
The program will develop knowledge about effective collaborative teams and skills in writing peer-reviewed grants to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other comparable funding agencies, to advance community-integrated and community-led research programs addressing their priority areas.
Junior investigators with completed doctorates, or experienced researchers and community members seeking to expand their expertise in conducting community-based participatory research, are eligible to apply.
Further information and applications are available at www.rochesterpreventsuicide.org. Applications are due November 18, 2009.
Funding for this institute comes from the NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and the National lnstitute of Mental Health. Lodging and reasonable costs of airfare will be sponsored for the lead academic and community team member in partnerships selected to attend.
For more information, please contact Linda Viney at (585) 275-3571 or via email at Linda_Viney@urmc.rochester.edu.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced this new initiative:
American Recovery Reinvestment Act of 2009 Communities Putting Prevention to Work
Click these links for details:
American Recovery Reinvestment Act of 2009 Communities Putting Prevention to Work
ARRA Prevention and Wellness – Communities Putting Prevention to Work Funding Opportunities Announcement (FOA)
Purpose: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to create healthier communities through sustainable, proven, population-based approaches such as broad-based policy, systems, organizational and environmental changes in communities and schools. Awardees funded under this FOA will work collaboratively to promote and sustain policy change efforts in communities and schools. It is recommended that awardees include a strong focus on the needs of populations who suffer disproportionately from the burden of disease.
Proposals should focus on implementing broad-based policy changes that are chosen from the prescribed set of evidence-based interventions. Each community will address all 5 evidence-based MAPPS strategies (Media, Access, Point of decision information, Price and, Social support services) for each application: tobacco and/or obesity/physical activity/nutrition.
Click here to read the HHS Press Release:
HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Cornerstone Funding of the $650 Million Recovery Act Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative
PA-08-074 (R01): Community Participation in Research
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-074.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Office of
Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), National Institutes of
Health (NIH) solicits R01 grant applications that propose intervention
research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities
that communities and researchers jointly conduct.
For the purposes of this FOA, intervention research is quasi-experimental
research projects that seek to influence preventive behaviors, treatment
adherences, complementary behaviors, and related attitudes and beliefs.
Natural experiments also may fall under the interventions rubric. Examples
include, and are not limited to promotion of physical activity-friendly
neighborhoods; tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse prevention among youth; a
community-led action plan for cancer, hypertension and cardiovascular
disease prevention and control in minority populations; establishing safer
work practices among agricultural workers in rural areas; nutrition and
reducing childhood obesity; HIV/AIDS and STD prevalence among young adults;
promoting infant mental health; and reducing health disparities.
PAR-08-075 (R01): Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically
Underserved
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-075.html
PAR-08-076 (R21): Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically
Underserved
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-076.html
The ultimate goal of these Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) with a
special review issued by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research (OBSSR), National Institutes of Health (NIH) is to solicit
applications that propose research on health promotion, disease prevention,
and health disparities that is jointly conducted by communities and
researchers and targets medically underserved areas (MUAs) and medically
underserved populations (MUPs) as defined by the Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
These FOAs will use the R01 and R21 grant mechanism to encourage studies
that specifically target medically underserved areas as well as underserved
and underrepresented populations. This focus will allow studies to assess
the nature and scope of health problems in underserved communities,
formulate hypotheses about the relationship of community dynamics and health
problems as they relate to underrepresented populations, design targeted
interventions aimed at addressing health disparities in specified
communities and specific populations, and track the efficacy of outreach
efforts that result from CBPR research in the community. The FOAs will
ensure that the health issues of underserved communities and populations are
addressed using CBPR research strategies.
Answers to frequently asked questions for PAR-08-075 and PAR-08-076 are
available at: http://obssr.od.nih.gov/pdf/CBPR_FOA_FAQs.pdf
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