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Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers

The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and worsened existing health inequities among communities of color and structurally vulnerable populations. Community Health Workers, inclusive of Community Health Representatives (CHW/Rs) have entered the spotlight as essential to COVID-19 prevention and c...

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Autores principales: Jiménez, Dulce J., Gomez, Omar, Meraz, Ruby, Pollitt, Amanda M., Evans, Linnea, Lee, Naomi, Ignacio, Matt, Garcia, Katherine, Redondo, Richard, Redondo, Floribella, Williamson, Heather J., Oesterle, Sabrina, Parthasarathy, Sairam, Sabo, Samantha
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9932528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36817902
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1072808
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author Jiménez, Dulce J.
Gomez, Omar
Meraz, Ruby
Pollitt, Amanda M.
Evans, Linnea
Lee, Naomi
Ignacio, Matt
Garcia, Katherine
Redondo, Richard
Redondo, Floribella
Williamson, Heather J.
Oesterle, Sabrina
Parthasarathy, Sairam
Sabo, Samantha
author_facet Jiménez, Dulce J.
Gomez, Omar
Meraz, Ruby
Pollitt, Amanda M.
Evans, Linnea
Lee, Naomi
Ignacio, Matt
Garcia, Katherine
Redondo, Richard
Redondo, Floribella
Williamson, Heather J.
Oesterle, Sabrina
Parthasarathy, Sairam
Sabo, Samantha
author_sort Jiménez, Dulce J.
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and worsened existing health inequities among communities of color and structurally vulnerable populations. Community Health Workers, inclusive of Community Health Representatives (CHW/Rs) have entered the spotlight as essential to COVID-19 prevention and control. To learn about community experiences and perspectives related to COVID-19 and inform CHW/R workforce capacity building efforts, a series of focus groups were conducted with CHW/Rs throughout Arizona at two time points in 2021. Throughout the data collection and analysis process, researchers and community partners engaged in ongoing and open dialogue about what CHW/Rs on the ground were reporting as priority community concerns, needs, and challenges. Thus, CHW/Rs informed the development of culturally and linguistically relevant health education messages, materials, and training for CHW/Rs. In this community case study, we detail the efforts of partnership between a statewide CHW professional association and an academic research team that facilitated rapid decision-making and knowledge sharing to create community-grounded tools and resources supportive of CHW/R workforce capacity building in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-99325282023-02-17 Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers Jiménez, Dulce J. Gomez, Omar Meraz, Ruby Pollitt, Amanda M. Evans, Linnea Lee, Naomi Ignacio, Matt Garcia, Katherine Redondo, Richard Redondo, Floribella Williamson, Heather J. Oesterle, Sabrina Parthasarathy, Sairam Sabo, Samantha Front Public Health Public Health The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and worsened existing health inequities among communities of color and structurally vulnerable populations. Community Health Workers, inclusive of Community Health Representatives (CHW/Rs) have entered the spotlight as essential to COVID-19 prevention and control. To learn about community experiences and perspectives related to COVID-19 and inform CHW/R workforce capacity building efforts, a series of focus groups were conducted with CHW/Rs throughout Arizona at two time points in 2021. Throughout the data collection and analysis process, researchers and community partners engaged in ongoing and open dialogue about what CHW/Rs on the ground were reporting as priority community concerns, needs, and challenges. Thus, CHW/Rs informed the development of culturally and linguistically relevant health education messages, materials, and training for CHW/Rs. In this community case study, we detail the efforts of partnership between a statewide CHW professional association and an academic research team that facilitated rapid decision-making and knowledge sharing to create community-grounded tools and resources supportive of CHW/R workforce capacity building in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9932528/ /pubmed/36817902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1072808 Text en Copyright © 2023 Jiménez, Gomez, Meraz, Pollitt, Evans, Lee, Ignacio, Garcia, Redondo, Redondo, Williamson, Oesterle, Parthasarathy and Sabo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Jiménez, Dulce J.
Gomez, Omar
Meraz, Ruby
Pollitt, Amanda M.
Evans, Linnea
Lee, Naomi
Ignacio, Matt
Garcia, Katherine
Redondo, Richard
Redondo, Floribella
Williamson, Heather J.
Oesterle, Sabrina
Parthasarathy, Sairam
Sabo, Samantha
Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers
title Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers
title_full Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers
title_fullStr Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers
title_full_unstemmed Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers
title_short Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers
title_sort community engagement alliance (ceal) against covid-19 disparities: academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among arizona community health workers
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9932528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36817902
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1072808
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