Community Engagement in Academic Health Centers: A Model for Capturing and Advancing Our Successes

• Main Authors: Karen Vitale (Author), Gail L. Newton (Author), Ana F. Abraido-Lanza (Author), Alejandra N. Aguirre (Author), Syed Ahmed (Author), Sarah L. Esmond (Author), Jill Evans (Author), Sherril B. Gelmon (Author), Camile Hart (Author), Deborah Hendricks (Author), Rhonda McClinton-Brown (Author), Sharon Neu Young (Author), M. Kathryn Stewart (Author), Laurene M. Tumiel-Berhalter (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The University of Alabama, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

Academic health centers (AHCs) are under increased pressure to demonstrate the effectiveness of their community-engaged activities, but there are no common metrics for evaluating community engagement in AHCs. Eight AHCs piloted the Institutional Community Engagement Self-Assessment (ICESA), a two-phase project to assess community-engagement efforts. The first phase uses a framework developed by the University of Rochester Medical Center, which utilizes structure, process, and outcome criteria to map CE activities. The second phase uses the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Self-Assessment to identify institutional resources for community engagement, and potential gaps, to inform community engagement goal-setting. The authors conducted a structured, directed content analysis to determine the effectiveness of using the two-phase process at the participating AHCs. The findings suggest that the ICESA project assisted AHCs in three key areas, and may provide a strategy for assessing community engagement in AHCs.

Item Description

10.54656/TJWR6964
1944-1207
2837-8075