CTSA - Clinical & Translational Science Awards

The predominant mission of the Community Engagement Key Function Committee is to implement a successful broad plan of community and practice engagement among the CTSA sites by sharing knowledge, expertise and resources. The goal of the CTSA Community Engagement Key Function Committee is to effectively engage communities and practices in the translational research process via bidirectional dialogues. The main areas of focus include: community and practice outreach, access and dissemination of the translational research process via bidirectional dialogues. The specific milestones of the committee include developing a community engagement needs assessment; generating a project registrar with the input of the NIH and other federal agencies, and community practices agencies and members; establishing partnerships for funding collaborative development of curricula and evaluation outcomes as well as metrics for community engaged research.

Researchers and Their Communities: The Challenge of Meaningful Community Engagement

The CTSA Community Engagement KFC is pleased to announce the completion of the Best Practices in Community Engagement summary: Click to view. The report provides meeting proceedings from the CTSA Community Engagement KFC 2007-2008 regional and national workshops and conferences summarizing community engagement best practices and is now available for use and dissemination.

For citations, please use the following: Clinical and Translational Science Awards Community Engagement Key Function Committee (2009). Researchers and Their Communities: The Challenge of Meaningful Community Engagement. http://www.ctsaweb.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=committee.viewCommittee&com_ID=3&abbr=CEKFC