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For researchers and community partners, contact us to establish services and support
Thank you for your interest in the UCLA CTSI Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP) consultation service!
We provide a unique service to researchers and academic and community research partners: a group of experts from academic (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Charles Drew University, the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and UCLA) and community partners and stakeholder organization with many perspectives and specialized experience to help move current or planned projects forward.
CERP consultations are for community-engaged research projects looking for input on methods, engagement, partnership strategies, evaluation, grant preparation, community advisory board implementation, dissemination, or any issue that will further a current or prospective research project.
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For Researchers
Access & Insight
- Ability to gain access and insight into community priorities, knowledge, resources, health assets and health challenges
- Gain advisory guidance from community members on research applicability and policy implications towards improving public health
Partnership
- Mutally-beneficial partnership with community partners to work together to impact public health who share an interest in improving the health of LA County
- Community Partner matchmaking
Research & Program Support
- Community outreach assistance for recruitment and data collection from multilingual staff members
- Grant preparation assistance for incorporating community-engaged or health services research into grant proposals
- Pilot funding/incentives for community based research projects
Training
- Strategies to promote academic-community collaborations
- Research dissemination strategies to communities stakeholders
For Community Partners
Access & Insight
- Provide voice, community expertise and valuable insight towards improving public health, equity, and research
- Access to university resources, knowledge, evaluation, and evidence based practices
Partnership
- Mutually-beneficial partnership to work together to impact public health
Research & Program Support
- Development of practical applicable data for community use
- Program evaluation or data analysis for measurable change
- Support for community partnered grant writing
Training
- Addressing health equity in communities
- Training on generating evidence for your work
- Bi-directional interactive capacity building to promote academic-community partners