Establishing New CBPR Partnerships using the CBPR Charrette Model: Lessons from the CHAMPS Study

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• Alternative Title:
  Prog Community Health Partnersh
• Personal Author:
  Samuel, Cleo A. ; Lightfoot, Alexandra F. ; Schaal, Jennifer ; Yongue, Christina ; Black, Kristin ; Ellis, Katrina ; Robertson, Linda ; Smith, Beth ; Jones, Nora ; Foley, Karen ; Kollie, Jemeia ; Mayhand, Alicia ; Morse, Claire ; Guerrab, Fatima ; Eng, Eugenia
• Description:
  Background:
  
  Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative and equitable approach to research inquiry; however, the process of establishing and maintaining CBPR partnerships can be challenging. There is ongoing need for innovative strategies that foster partnership development and long-term sustainability. In 2010, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill developed a CBPR charrette model to facilitate stakeholder engagement in translational research.
  
  Objective:
  
  To describe how the Cancer Health Accountability for Managing Pain and Symptoms (CHAMPS) Study leveraged the CBPR charrette process to develop and strengthen its CBPR partnership and successfully implement research objectives.
  
  Methods:
  
  Fourteen CHAMPS community, academic, and medical partners participated in the CBPR charrette. Two co-facilitators guided the charrette application process and in-person discussion of partnership strengths, needs, and challenges. Community and academic experts with extensive experience in CBPR and health disparities provided technical assistance and recommendations during the in-person charrette.
  
  Conclusions:
  
  Overall, the CHAMPS partnership significantly benefited from the charrette process. Specifically, the charrette process engendered greater transparency, accountability, and trust among CHAMPS partners by encouraging collective negotiation of project goals and implementation, roles and responsibilities, and compensation and communication structures. The process also allowed for exploration of newly-identified challenges and potential solutions with support from community and academic experts. Furthermore, the charrette also functioned as a catalyst for capacity building among CHAMPS community, academic, and medical partners. Future studies should compare the impact of the CBPR charrette, relative to other approaches, on partnership development and process evaluation outcomes.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Article Breast Neoplasms Community-Based Participatory Research Community Health Partnerships Community Health Research Diseases Health Disparities Neoplasms Power Sharing Process Issues
• Source:
  Prog Community Health Partnersh. 12(1):89-99
• Pubmed ID:
  29606697
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6542568
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  L60 MD011052/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States ; R01 CA150980/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; U48 DP005017/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; UL1 TR001111/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha256:e2ec5588a0d00c1663f0af83c589a78cabb26a7e0d6f0efec99797b7c3af3eb4
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/79129/cdc_79129_DS1.pdf
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