COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS
https://ccphealth.org/95-2/principles-of-partnering/ CCPH Board of Directors. Position Statement on Authentic Partnerships. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, 2013.
In order to authentically engage communities, CEEJH aims to create partnerships with communities following the “Principles of Partnering” established by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. These include guiding principles, quality processes, meaningful outcomes, and transformative experiences. Partnerships create transformational power that “point to the larger systems changes that are needed to achieve health equity—the ultimate goal of community-based participatory research (CBPR).” - Seifer & Gottlieb, 2010. Transformative experiences can occur at many levels within successful partnerships. Some transformative experiences that CEEJH aims to achieve through work with partners include community capacity building, policy change, and social justice.
Processes must be authentic, relationship focused; open, honest and respectful; trust-building; acknowledging of history; and committed to mutual learning and sharing credit to be successful. CEEJH focuses on meaningful outcomes that are relevant to community needs such as exposure reduction, removal of environmental hazards, increasing air quality, improving access to green space, creating affordable housing, eliminating health inequities, and supporting economic development.
In order for community-university partnerships to be sustainable, communities must gain as much as academic partners do in terms of benefits and resources. CEEJH is committed to training community members in research methods in order to build community capacity and be fully involved in research processes through the Community-Owned and Managed Research (COMR) framework and INpowerment Science. Community members can gain transferable skills as part of their involvement in the research process, such as how to design a study, how to analyze data, how to present and translate research findings, and how to write grant proposals.