The CCHP Community Engaged Scholars Program

SCTR/CCHP is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2012 Community Engaged Scholars Program. The deadline for applications is December 5, 2011 at 5:00 PM.

Overview
The Community Engaged Scholars (CES) Program provides training and pilot funds for community and academic partners who have interests in community-based participatory research (CBPR). The goal of this program is to increase the capacity of community-academic partnerships to conduct research with mutual ownership of the processes and products.

After successfully completing the CES Program, participants will meet the following competencies:

1. Understand the concepts and components of CBPR
2. Apply CBPR principles in the conduct of research
3. Incorporate CBPR principles and approaches in grant proposals
4. Demonstrate CBPR efforts in a career portfolio
5. Communicate with audiences in both academic and community settings about CBPR principles and components
6. Implement a pilot CBPR initiative

Eligibility
Applicant teams must consist of a community partner and an academic partner. A community partner is defined as an individual(s) who maintains a primary affiliation, whether employed or volunteer, with a community organization. For the purposes of this program, community organization is defined as an organization that:

1. Has a documented interest in improving the health of the relevant community (e.g. a mission statement) and;
2. Has a history of serving the health needs and interests of the relevant community. These organizations may include, but are not limited to public schools, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, and/or advocacy groups. An academic partner is defined as an individual(s) with a faculty appointment in a research area at MUSC.

Important Dates

Cohort 3
Applications Due                    December 5, 2011
Start Date                              January 27, 2012

Cohort 4
Call for Applications                April 20, 2012
Applications Due                    May 25, 2012
Start Date                              July 13, 2012


Application Materials

Call for Applications
Appendix A - Application
Appendix B - Supervisor Consent
Appendix C - Session Schedule


Past Teams

Our past CES teams and participants have:

• Presented at state and national conferences with both academic and community partners as presenters
• Been awarded funding to continue their research with community partners as co-investigators
• Written articles about their partnership teams
• Received a Liberty Fellowship

Summary of past CES cohorts


For more information, please contact Brandi M. White at whitbm@musc.edu or (843) 792-2215.