Community Research Partnership Core

Project Highlights

The CTSC consult service is currently looking for researchers and community organizations interested in community engagement projects to help us develop and pilot our resources. These projects may include grantwriting, program evaluation, survey development, or project development. To learn more about the Consult Service, please click on the CONSULT tab along the top of this webpage.

Research Participation Opportunities

Focus Group Participants

We are recruiting residents from the Greater Cleveland area who may be interested in joining our team of Community Resident Advisors for a number of focus groups that will be starting soon. In order to participate, you must be at least 18 years old. Community Resident Advisors are people who live in the Greater Cleveland area and are interested in being a part of research development. Advisors are asked their opinions about research ideas, surveys, and other projects, including focus groups. Advisors are not research subjects, but active in developing and refining new projects. Advisors do get paid for their participation. To participate, contact information and some demographic information will be requested and your name is put into a database along with other potential Advisors. If you are interested, please call Michele Abraham at 216-778-3858 and say that you are interested in becoming a Community Resident Advisor. Bilingual or Spanish-only speaking residents should call Liza DeJesus at 216-778-2057.

East Cleveland Residents

If you live in the city of East Cleveland and are interested in being a Community Resident Advisor for some focus groups, please contact Michele Abraham at 216-778-3858. There are a few research ideas starting that need advice from residents of East Cleveland, including one for parents of children in the East Cleveland school system.

Upcoming Events

Health Disparities Course - Fall 2009 at Case Western Reserve University

Mondays, 5:30 - 8:00 beginning August 24, 2009.

This course will provide theoretical and application tools for students from many disciplinary backgrounds to conduct research and develop interventions to reduce health disparities.  The course will be situated contextually within the historical record of the United States, reviewing social, political, economic, cultural, legal and ethical theories related to disparities in general, with a central focus on health disparities.  Several frameworks regarding health disparities will be used for investigating and discussing the empirical evidence on disparities, research and outcome measurement issues, policy and policy formation concerns, and intervention practices.  While racial/ethnic disparities in health and health outcomes will be an important focus of this course, disparities among other subgroups (e.g., the poor, women, uninsured, disabled, and non-English speaking populations) may also be included and discussed. The final paper will integrate what is learned through lectures and readings.

There will be a feature on oral health projects that have been particularly successful in researching oral health disparities and developing interventions to address those disparities.  Students will have the opportunity to learn about success in health disparities research and how it can translate into creative intervention programs at a community level.

For more information, please contact Michele Abraham at 216-778-3858 or mep2@case.edu

Community Based Research Consult Service

The Community Based Research Consult Service is based on a collaborative effort between Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Cleveland Clinic, and MetroHealth Medical Center. The effort has been created to help researchers and community organizations understand the processes of community-based research and to provide samples, guidance, and consultation along the way.

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