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Community Engagement In Academic Health Centers: A Model For Capturing And Advancing Our Successes, Karen Vitale, Gail L. Newton, Ana Abraido-Lanza, Alejandra N. Aguirre, Syed Ahmed, Sarah Esmond, Jill Evans, Sherril Gelmon, Multiple Additional Authors

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Academic health centers (AHCs) are under increased pressure to demonstrate the effectiveness of their community-engaged activities, but there are no common metrics for evaluating community engagement in AHCs. Eight AHCs piloted the Institutional Community Engagement Self-Assessment (ICESA), a two-phase project to assess community-engagement efforts. The first phase uses a framework developed by the University of Rochester Medical Center, which utilizes structure, process, and outcome criteria to map CE activities. The second phase uses the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Self-Assessment to identify institutional resources for community engagement, and potential gaps, to inform community engagement goal-setting. The authors conducted a structured, …