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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Precilla L. Belin, PhD, MA, CHES, W. K. Kellogg Community Health Scholar, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N. Broadway, Room 609, Baltimore, MD 21205-1901, 410-614-4047, pbelin@jhsph.edu, J. Hunter Young, MD, MS, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, The Welch Center, Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, and Lloyd Stanton, Community Building in Partnership, Inc., 1114 Mount Street, Baltimore, MD 21205.
According to Healthy People 2010, one of the major priorities highlights the need for strong, cohesive, and integrated educational and community-based programs for racial and ethnic minorities. There is a need to increase partnerships between planned community health promotion programs and community organizations. Also, to have a strong, positive impact on the community’s health, there is a need to use interventions that involve community members, specifically in the program design, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination process (Health People 2010).
When an academic institution forms a healthy partnership with a community-based organization, it enables community members to identify their most important health concerns. The partnership allows the community to have a voice and to be a partner in a project that will aspire to meet the age, developmental levels, and culturally, linguistic, and other learning needs of its diverse audience. (Healthy People 2010).
This presentation will discuss the Johns Hopkins Sandtown-Winchester Project, a project that has developed from a ten-year partnership between a West Baltimore community and Johns Hopkins University. This project is taking another step to address high blood pressure and other important health issues in Sandtown-Winchester. The presentation will describe the purpose, partners, and participants of the project and the process employed for capacity building within the community. Lastly, the presentation will identify and discuss how the Sandtown-Winchester community benefited from being a partner in a community-based participatory research project.
Learning Objectives: "At the conclusion of the presentation, those attending this presentation will be able to
Keywords: Community-Based Partnership,
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: W. K. Kellogg Community Health Scholars Post-Doctoral Program
I have a significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
Relationship: Post-Doctoral Fellowship