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Community-engaged research requires outsiders to listen deeply to what matters to the community without imposing external assumptions. It requires outsiders to understand the history of the community and past harms associated with community-researcher relationships and intentionally identify the community’s experience as the starting point for the work.
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Center for Health Care Strategies: Oral Health Stakeholder Engagement Plan Template
This template offers a framework for planning, conducting, and evaluating stakeholder engagement efforts to enhance the experience and results of the engagement process.
PCORI: Updated Engagement Plan Template
Centering community voice requires meaningful engagement with stakeholder groups throughout the research process. The purpose of this template is to guide the operationalization of an engagement strategy and document engagement activities at the project level.
Community Engagement Plan Template
This sample community engagement plan template can be used (and/or adapted) to document the engagement strategy, scope, deliverables, roles, and timelines of a research project. It can also be used as a prompt for classroom discussions on community engagement plans.
Preparing for Effective Collaboration
This illustration, created by Rio Holladay for the 2020 IRL Virtual Leadership Meeting, captures main points of the conversation among fellows and presenters about preparing for effective collaboration. This illustration can be used as a starting point for classroom discussions on this topic.
Preparing to Effectively Collaborate
This slide deck was used at the 2020 IRL Virtual Leadership Meeting in a session called “Preparing for Effective Collaboration.” It can be adapted for classroom discussions on similar topics and can be connected with the Illustration of the same name.
Harnessing the Power of Community Engagement for Population Health
“Practice the values of listening to understand, cultural humility to translate, and trustworthiness to build trust.” “Respect community strengths and avoid the idea that communities lack resources and need the preconceived solutions of outside groups to solve problems within the community.”
Reorienting IRL to prioritize community (IRL Fellow) needs
In this clip, co-directors Zinzi Bailey and Cody Cotton and former co-director Toben Nelson discuss the intentional reorientation of IRL to prioritize the needs and voices of the IRL fellows, specifically the community partners. IRL leadership listened to feedback from early cohorts, implemented the EDI Task Force and the CAAB, and discussed the importance of humility in the research process.
