About

Community Engagement Core

Mission:

The mission of the Community Engagement Core is to overcome and remove barriers that exist to creating and supporting respectful, bidirectional partnerships between communities and research teams, through consultation (one-time and ongoing), core service provision for community-based data collection, and facilitated access to community input.

CEC services will support research teams in:

  • Planning for, establishing, and supporting community partnerships
  • Planning for and conducting culturally responsive and/or multilingual data collection
  • Accessing and incorporating community input into study plans and activities, through creation of a Community Consultation Group

Aims:

  1. Expand innovative programs of community engaged research to equitably improve health for all children and families
  2. Enhance existing expertise and expand research infrastructure through core resources supportive of community-engaged research for children
  3. Support the success of early career investigators committed to addressing disparities in pediatric health care through providing in-kind research management services
  4. Decrease barriers to accessing and integrating community input into research

Leadership:

  • CHBD interim Center Director, Tonya Palermo, PhD
  • CDHE Research Director, Casey Lion, MD, MPH

Services:

We offer consultation and direct research services to all Seattle Children’s Investigators, regardless of the stage of their career, area of focus or funding. Additional opportunities to offer these services to external and community organizations may be explored in the future.

Consultation Services

  • Project development and implementation, including guidance around IRB management, payment considerations, and cultural adaptation of study materials
  • Advice on budget considerations and compensation for individuals and organizations engaged in research
  • Assistance with descriptions and scripts for grants and IRB protocols
  • Providing connections and partnerships between clinicians, researchers, and communities, including opportunities for long term collaborations
  • Individual study plans for recruitment and retention, at any project phase
  • Results dissemination
  • Community engagement strategies
  • Recruitment materials feedback and development

Research Coordinator Services

  • Multilingual REDCap survey development
  • Participant recruitment
  • Data collection
  • Qualitative data collection (in collaboration with BEAR core)
  • Cultural adaptation of study materials (including translated materials as resources permit)

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1920 Terry Ave Seattle, WA 98101