Location
Price, UT
Start Date
5-13-2025 4:00 PM
End Date
5-13-2025 5:50 PM
Description
Communities across Utah are facing many significant challenges that adversely affect the well-being of their residents. Economic disparities, including lack of affordable housing and food insecurity, are impacting every aspect of life. Mental and physical health issues are also on the rise, especially among vulnerable populations (e.g., LGBTQ, BIPOC, rural). Environmental problems, such as poor air quality and limited water supply, stand to cause unprecedented harm to the state. As leaders, government agencies, nonprofits, and residents take on these issues, among others, community-engaged methods that promote generating context-specific evidence and developing sustainable solutions are critical for improving resident well-being.
This training session will provide participants with practical, asset-oriented strategies for assessment and solution-building by applying the Framework for Collaborative Community Action on Health (Institute of Medicine, 2002) that will ensure equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable community partnerships. This session will use real-world case examples to illustrate how researchers and practitioners can co-create knowledge and co-develop solutions with communities by forming dynamic working groups and advisory panels.
In the assessment part of the training, participants will explore how to engage and excite residents in a research process who may not have experience; develop good research questions; and choose research methods that consider feasibility and local context. In the problem-solving portion, attendees will learn about data-driven prioritization strategies; identifying and adapting evidence-based interventions; and considerations for evaluation. Throughout the session, participants will consider how to incorporate and prioritize lived experiences, expertise, and concerns of those most affected by social issues.
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Collaborating for Change Based on Evidence: How to Employ Community-Engaged Assessment & Solution-Building
Price, UT
Communities across Utah are facing many significant challenges that adversely affect the well-being of their residents. Economic disparities, including lack of affordable housing and food insecurity, are impacting every aspect of life. Mental and physical health issues are also on the rise, especially among vulnerable populations (e.g., LGBTQ, BIPOC, rural). Environmental problems, such as poor air quality and limited water supply, stand to cause unprecedented harm to the state. As leaders, government agencies, nonprofits, and residents take on these issues, among others, community-engaged methods that promote generating context-specific evidence and developing sustainable solutions are critical for improving resident well-being.
This training session will provide participants with practical, asset-oriented strategies for assessment and solution-building by applying the Framework for Collaborative Community Action on Health (Institute of Medicine, 2002) that will ensure equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable community partnerships. This session will use real-world case examples to illustrate how researchers and practitioners can co-create knowledge and co-develop solutions with communities by forming dynamic working groups and advisory panels.
In the assessment part of the training, participants will explore how to engage and excite residents in a research process who may not have experience; develop good research questions; and choose research methods that consider feasibility and local context. In the problem-solving portion, attendees will learn about data-driven prioritization strategies; identifying and adapting evidence-based interventions; and considerations for evaluation. Throughout the session, participants will consider how to incorporate and prioritize lived experiences, expertise, and concerns of those most affected by social issues.