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CORE Community Involvement Program
The HPTN CORE created the Community Involvement
Program (CIP) to oversee the issues around the support of community involvement
and participation in the Network. The CIP has staff and resources to help
coordinate and support the community participation process within the Network.
The CIP staff work directly with the site
community and research staff, Regional Working Groups, the Community Working
Group, and other Network teams and committees to help coordinate partnership
with community representatives throughout all levels of Network research
efforts.
Additional efforts are made by the CIP staff to
coordinate similar community participation and education activities with the HIV
Vaccine Trial Network's Community Program, as well as with other HIV projects
funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Facilitate the Community Working Group -
provide support to the function and identified plans of the CWG
- Advocate for Community Involvement - provide a
voice for community involvement issues in the Network infrastructure and
with other HIV research community programs
- Monitor site community activities - assess
community education activities and advisory processes through annual Community
Involvement Workplans, Community Involvement Quarterly Reports, and
regular visits to the community advisory groups and community education
staff at the sites.
- Provide technical assistance and training -
assess and respond to CIP-identified and site-identified technical
assistance needs by providing appropriate guidance and training needed to
conduct HIV prevention trials in a community context.
- Provide guidance - advise sites on community
involvement activities, integrating community participation in the research
process at site and Network levels, community participation planning, and
budgeting issues.
- Monitor CIP activities in the HPTN - create
and maintain appropriate records and evaluation information to support the
evaluation of the CIP's contribution to the Network
Planning for Community
Participation
An important part of establishing and maintaining the Network's community
participation is to have an established longer-range strategic plan. In February
of 2002, the Community Working Group (CWG) charged the Network with moving
toward having community members as partners in the process rather than just
advising the research. To do this, the CWG has committed to the development of a
strategic plan to identify the strategies and conduct activities to bring about
the shift to community participation at all levels of the research process. As
advocates for community involvement in the Network, the CORE CIP staff helps to
facilitate and coordinate the strategic planning process and
activities.
CORE CIP Staff Contacts
Jonathan Lucas, Community Program Manager, FHI
Rhonda White, Community Program Manager,
FHI
Charlyne Rich, Community Program
Administrative Assistant, FHI
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