Reflect and share your perspective on the following questions.
Why is it important that CBPR projects/programs become involved in policy advocacy and change? Please use examples from the readings where CBPR approaches supported community-based policy advocacy and change.
What are some of the tensions between the community and the academy in advocating for policy change? How does CBPR help communities consider or think differently about problems affecting them?
In reviewing the readings, what are some of the strategies used by the CBPR projects to address the opposition to their work/policy advocacy? Please describe the effectiveness of these strategies. (Please pick three projects to discuss.)
Readings:
Ingram, M., Sabo, S., Gomez, S, Piper, R., Guernsey de Zapien, J., Reinschmidt, K. . . . Carvajal, S. (2015). Taking a community-based participatory research approach in the development of methods to measure a community health worker community advocacy intervention. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 9(1), 49–56.
Jilcott, S., Ammerman, A., Sommers, J., & Glasgow, R.E. (2007). Applying the RE-AIM framework to assess the public health impact of policy change. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 34(2), 105–114.
Minkler, M., & Wallerstein, N. (Eds.). (2017). Community-based participatory research for health: advancing health and social equity (3rd ed.). Jossey-Bass.
Chapter 15: Democratizing Ethical Oversight of Research through CBPR
Chapter 16: Everyday Challenges in the Life Cycle of CBPR: Broadening our Bandwidth on Ethics
Chapter 20: Community-Based Participatory Research for Health Equity Policymaking
Chapter 21: Improving Food Security and Tobacco Control through Policy-Focused CBPR: A case study of healthy retail in San Francisco
Chapter 22: Criminal Justice Reform through Participatory Action Research
Last Completed Projects
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