| A community engagement process for families with children with disabilities: lessons in leadership and policy. | |
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PMID: 20814726 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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This article examines a community engagement process developed as part of leadership training for clinical trainees in the Oregon Leadership Education for Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program in a complex community with diverse families who have children with disabilities. The goal is to examine the process and lessons learned for clinical trainees and their mentors from such a process. This is a case study conducted as community-engaged action research by participant-observers involved in the Cornelius community for the past 4 years. The authors include faculty members and clinical trainees of the Oregon LEND Program at the Oregon Health & Science University, families with children with disabilities in the community, and city officials. It is a critical case study in that it studied a community engagement process in one of the poorest communities in the region, with an unusually high population of children with disabilities, and in a community that is over half Latino residents. Lessons learned here can be helpful in a variety of settings. Community engagement forum, community engagement processes, a debriefing using a seven-element feasibility framework, and trainee evaluations are key elements. A community engagement forum is a meeting to which community members and stakeholders from pertinent agencies are invited. Community engagement processes used include a steering committee made up of, and guided by community members which meets on a regular basis to prioritize and carry out responses to problems. Trainee evaluations are based on a set of questions to trigger open-ended responses. Lessons learned are based on assessments of initial and long-term outcomes of the community engagement processes in which families, community members, local officials and LEND trainees and faculty participate as well as by trainee participant-observations, end of year evaluations and trainee debriefings at the time of the initial community assessment forum. The thesis that emerges is that community engagement processes can afford significant opportunities for clinicians in training to develop their leadership skills toward improving maternal and child health for minority families with children with disabilities while building capacity in families for advocacy and facilitating change in the community. |
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Claudia María Vargas; Consuelo Arauza; Kim Folsom; María Del Rosario Luna; Lucy Gutiérrez; Patricia Ohliger Frerking; Kathleen Shelton; Carl Foreman; David Waffle; Richard Reynolds; Phillip J Cooper |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Maternal and child health journal Volume: 16 ISSN: 1573-6628 ISO Abbreviation: Matern Child Health J Publication Date: 2012 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-01-06 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9715672 Medline TA: Matern Child Health J Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 21-30 Citation Subset: IM |
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Child Development Rehabilitation Center, Oregon Health & Science University, 707 SW Gaines Road, Portland, OR, 97239, USA, vargascl@ohsu.edu. |
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