TY - JOUR
T1 - Voices from the community
T2 - Key ingredients for community collaboration
AU - Franco, Lydia M.
AU - McKay, Mary
AU - Miranda, Ana
AU - Chambers, Nealdow
AU - Paulino, Angela
AU - Lawrence, Rita
N1 - Funding Information:
CHAMP-NY is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health Research on AIDS (RO1 MH63622).
PY - 2007/5/23
Y1 - 2007/5/23
N2 - When community members are allowed to participate in the planning and implementation process of a program, they are empowering themselves and their community. The CHAMP Family Program uses a collaborative programming approach with a focus on building the capacities of community members to deliver a family-based HIV prevention program. The CHAMP Program has a Collaborative Board that oversees all aspects of the research project. Using an empowerment framework, this article explores Community Board members' perspectives on their experience in working on CHAMP. Recommendations to researchers in the form of ten key ingredients for community collaboration are presented. The key points primarily focus on building trust with the community, recognizing community strengths, developing skills, building intragroup relations, and involving the community as partners from the beginning to the end.
AB - When community members are allowed to participate in the planning and implementation process of a program, they are empowering themselves and their community. The CHAMP Family Program uses a collaborative programming approach with a focus on building the capacities of community members to deliver a family-based HIV prevention program. The CHAMP Program has a Collaborative Board that oversees all aspects of the research project. Using an empowerment framework, this article explores Community Board members' perspectives on their experience in working on CHAMP. Recommendations to researchers in the form of ten key ingredients for community collaboration are presented. The key points primarily focus on building trust with the community, recognizing community strengths, developing skills, building intragroup relations, and involving the community as partners from the beginning to the end.
KW - Community as partners
KW - Community collaboration
KW - Community empowerment
KW - Family-based HIV prevention program
KW - Recognizing and developing community strengths
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34249694683&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1300/J200v05n03_04
DO - 10.1300/J200v05n03_04
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34249694683
SN - 1533-2985
VL - 5
SP - 313
EP - 331
JO - Social Work in Mental Health
JF - Social Work in Mental Health
IS - 3-4
ER -