C2DREAM’s
Cores
Community Engagement Core
Pictured left to right: Moncies Franco, CE Coalition Member, Kate Diaz Vickery, Co-Investigator, Yasamin Graff, Community Engagement Specialist, Kristen Jacklin, Co-Investigator, Sarah Gollust, Co-Investigator, Antonia Wilcoxon, CE Coalition Member, Rebekah Pratt, Academic Co-Lead, and LaPrincess Brewer, Co-Investigator
Not Pictured: Antony Stately, Community Co-Lead, Amran Ahmed, CE Coalition Member, Catherine McCarty, CE Coalition Member, Graciela Porraz Capetillo, CE Coalition Member, Jay Desai, CE Coalition Member, Michael Van Keulen, CE Coalition Member, Tawonda Burks, CE Coalition Member, and Walter Novillo, CE Coalition Member
Community engagement is essential for developing, conducting, and disseminating research on the prevention, treatment and management of chronic condition disparities in BIPOC communities. To support the success of the goals of C2DREAM a proactive community-engagement infrastructure is needed, co-led by a coalition of expert regional stakeholders, to develop critical and anti-racist community engagement processes and disseminate relevant and actionable information and findings to stakeholders across the region.
Building strong foundations for future leaders .
The Community Engagement (CE) Core’s overarching goal is to support the activities of C2DREAM by building the strong foundation of critical and anti-racist community engagement practices needed to meaningfully address the drivers of disparities in chronic disease risk and outcomes across BIPOC communities in Minnesota. The CE Core will:
1. Support the activities of C2DREAM by building a regional community and academic Coalition to offer guidance and input on engagement and dissemination.
2. Build a strong foundation of critical and anti-racist community engagement practices academic and community stakeholders.
3. Guide community engaged informed dissemination throughout C2DREAM.
4. Evaluate CE Core activities using RE-AIM.
The CE Core will generate sustained impact by creating an innovative infrastructure for community engagement and dissemination on research on the prevention, treatment, and management of cardiovascular disease and the related chronic conditions of hypertension and obesity, particularly in relation to health disparities impacting BIPOC communities.
how we do community engagement
The Community-Centered Dissemination Toolkit is a resource designed to help research teams incorporate community-engagement principles into dissemination. The Toolkit was created in collaboration between the University of Minnesota Medical School Program in Health Disparities Research (PHDR) and Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s (CTSI) Community Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health (CEARCH) along with the help of community members, faculty, staff, and students at the University of Minnesota.
Sarah Gollust, Professor in the School of Public Health and Co-Investigator of the Community Engagement Core, created an introductory video on the Community Centered Dissemination Toolkit. Sarah Gollust was part of the team creating the Community-Centered Dissemination and is part of C2DREAM to support dissemination efforts. The video was created for staff and faculty in C2DREAM to support their efforts in designing dissemination plans that are community-engaged, but can be a helpful introductory resource to dissemination that is community-centered for those outside of C2DREAM.
Please view the full Community-Centered Dissemination Toolkit here, on PHDR’s website.
contact: c2dream-engage@umn.edu
