Summer Seminar Series 2006

Course Directors: Peter Cronholm, MD MSCE (peter.cronholm@uphs.upenn.edu) and Ian Bennett, MD PhD (ian.bennett@uphs.upenn.edu)

Overview: See Summer Assistantship

Session 1 - Building Community Partnerships (Presenters: Dana Prince and Scott Baier)

Discussion of student projects

Issues with community-academic partnerships

Principles of community partnerships

Session 2 - Community Schools (Presenters: Katherine Margo, MD and Gillian Bazelon)

Sayre (http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/schools/sayre/)

   History

   Transformation

Community Schools (http://www.communityschools.org/)

A community school is both a set of partnerships and a place where services, supports and opportunities lead to improved student learning, stronger families and healthier communities.

Using public schools as a hub, inventive, enduring relationships among educators, families, community volunteers, business, health and social service agencies, youth development organizations, and others committed to children are changing the educational landscape — permanently — by transforming traditional schools into partnerships for excellence.

FQHCs (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/center/fqhc.asp; http://bphc.hrsa.gov/chc/default.htm) 

History and Role in the community

Session 3 - Needs assessments (Presenters: Peter Cronholm, MD MSCE, Ian Bennett, MD PhD)

  Discussion of student projects

  Drew Health Collaborative as a model

  Community resources

  More on local data sources

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_data_for_all_ages.htm; http://factfinder.census.gov/home/;

http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/; http://www.fedstats.gov/; http://phillyneighborhoods.org/;

http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/site/default.asp; http://cml.upenn.edu/nbase/;

http://www.phila.gov/health/; http://westphillydata.library.upenn.edu/;

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/;

http://www.thefoodtrust.org/pdf/supermar.pdf

  Process evaluation

  Outcome measures

Session 4 - Community-Based Preventive Services (Presenters: Peter Cronholm, MD MSCE, Ian Bennett, MD PhD)

  Discussion of student projects

  AHRQ Guide:

Viswanathan M, Ammerman A, Eng E, Gartlehner G, Lohr KN, Griffith D, Rhodes S, Samuel-Hodge C, Maty S, Lux, L, Webb L, Sutton SF, Swinson T, Jackman A, Whitener L. Community-Based Participatory Research: Assessing the Evidence. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 99   (Prepared by RTI–University of North Carolina Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-02-6). AHRQ Publication 04-E022-2. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. July 2004. AHRQ_2004_CBPR Evidence Report.pdf

  The Guide: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/

Session 5 - CBPR (Presenter: Chanita Hughes Halbert, PhD)

  Discussion of student projects

  CBPR Principles

1. Recognizes the community as a unit of identity.

2. Builds on strengths and resources within the community.

3. Facilitates collaborative partnerships in all phases of the research.

4. Integrates knowledge and action for mutual benefit of all partners

5. Promotes a co-learning and empowering process that attends to social inequalities.

6. Involves a cyclical and iterative process. 

7. The research should involve trust-building, partnership development and maintenance in all phases of the research.

8. Disseminates findings and knowledge gained to all partners.

    CBPR Process

1. Identify community and partners (by set criteria)

2. Identify the research question (prioritize and develop consensus)

3. Write the grant application (may or may not be a required step)

4. Collaborative implementation of the project

5. Analysis and interpretation of results and manuscript preparation (with partners as co-authors)

6. Dissemination and application of findings

Session 6 - Ethnography and interviewing (Presenter: Frances K. Barg, PhD)

  Discussion of student projects

  Interviewing

  Qualitative methods

Focus Groups and Nominal Group Technique

Individual Interviews

Cultural Consensus Analysis

Session 7 - Project Reports (Presenters: Peter Cronholm, MD MSCE, Ian Bennett, MD PhD)

  Discussion of student projects

  Group Debrief