Community Engagement Resources

Authentic Engagement Of Patients And Communities Can Transform Research, Practice, And Policy - Health Affairs 
Authentic engagement encompasses involving stakeholders as full partners in all phases of research, as research funders increasingly require. Such engagement, although challenging, can enhance the quality and impact of studies on many levels, from ensuring that data are relevant to users’ needs to elevating the moral plane of research by showing respect to patients and vulnerable populations.

Shifting Academic Health Centers From a Culture of Community Service to Community Engagement and Integration - AAMC 
There is an increasing need for academic health centers (AHCs) to engage communities across their clinical, research, and educational missions. To accomplish this, AHCs will need to establish the necessary infrastructure to support long-term community partnerships, adapt policies to support and reward engaged scholarship and teaching, and consider new ways of integrating community members in roles as advisors and collaborators across the AHC.

Survey of Community Engagement in NIH-Funded Research - Clinical and Translational Science Journal 
This study assessed baseline prevalence of community engagement activities among NIH-funded studies at a large Midwestern university with a CTSA. Given NIH’s inclusive call for community engagement in research, relatively few NIH-funded studies reported community engagement activities, although this study used a broad definition of community and a wide range of types of engagement.

Video: Community Perspectives On Research - Ohio State University 
The Ohio State College of Public Health's Prevention Research Center presents community perspectives on academic research in this YouTube video.

Progress in Community Health Partnerships - Johns Hopkins University 
In each volume of Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, PCHP editors select one article for our Beyond the Manuscript podcast interview with the authors. Beyond the Manuscript provides the authors with the opportunity to tell listeners what they would want to know about the project beyond what went into the final manuscript.

Community Engaged Scholarship Resources - East Carolina University 
A list of resources that may help you begin your community engaged scholarship journey, including publication outlets, online resources, toolkits, guides, and downloadable content.

Community Engagement Handout - Virginia Cooperative Extension 
This handout describes key terms, principles of community engagement, its purpose, and a phased guide to implementation.

Community Engagement in Public Health - WHO 
This guide describes the value and implementation of community engagement in public health interventions, including emergency risk communications.

Community Engagement Toolkits - AAMC Center for Health Justice 
These toolkits help institutions engage their academic and local communities in dialogue to identify actions individuals or institutions can take to move communities toward health and health care equity.

Engagement Toolbox - Penn State University 
The tools and resources provided here are intended to help you assess your engagement needs, plan for effective strategies and processes, as well as implement and monitor your engagement efforts.

Resources For Responsible and Ethical Community Engagement - Duke University 
The goal of this document is to provide a centralized, accessible collection of recommended practices and resources that can be used by the Duke community in preparing students to engage responsibly and ethically in their communities.

Community-Engaged Research: A Quick-Start Guide for Community-Based Organizations - CTSI at UCSF 
This Quick-Start Guide is intended for community-based organizations that may be interested in partnering with academic researchers at UCSF to conduct community-based research.

CEnR: A Quick-Start Guide for Community-Based Clinicians - UCSF CTSI 
This Quick-Start Guide is intended for community-based clinicians who may be interested in partnering with academic researchers at UCSF to conduct community-based research.

Discussion Guide: Difficult Conversations - Conscious Business Center 
A guide to effectively discuss Fred Kofman's lecture, "Difficult Conversations" and to practice the skills it introduces.

In It Together: Community-Based Research Guidelines for Communities and Higher Education - The Community Research Collaborative 
These guidelines, developed by a community-campus collective, offer advice for both community-based and campus-based people who want to do collaborative research.

Introduction to CBPR - University of Kansas Center for Community Health and Development 
A Community Tool Box answering five key questions: (1) What is community-based participatory research? (2) Why would you use community-based participatory research? (3) Who should be involved in community-based participatory research? (4) When should you employ community-based participatory research? (5) How do you institute and carry out community-based participatory research?

Toolbox for Developing Community Partnerships - University of Southern California CTSI 
This manual was created through a collaborative process that included the community engagement team at Southern California and Translational Science Institute Office of Community Engagement, Scripps Translational Science Institute Community Engagement Program, Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, Project Dulce as well as members from the communities they serve.