Workshop Description:

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is the combination of research and partnership building when assessing a community priority. Partnerships are diverse, often including individuals from specific communities, organizations, academic institutions, and/or coalitions. The CBPR approach strives for shared decision making and involvement of partners and community members during all phases of the process. This two-part workshop will introduce CBPR, its principles, critical points in partnership development and issues throughout the research and partnership processes. Issues related to power dynamics, trust, and culture will be highlighted in the workshop sessions. This workshop is inclusive for anyone interested in research and assessment. Each session will incorporate education for organizations implementing and evaluating community programs.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand CBPR within the scope of community engaged research
2. Identify where community participation occurs in the research and evaluation process
3. Provide strategies for partner engagement and partnership development

Featured Speakers:

Julie E. Lucero, PhD MPH, is an associate dean, College of Health, and associate professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology, at the University of Utah. Lucero’s research is centered on the identification of modifiable social determinants to reduce the impact of health inequities within underrepresented populations. Using mixed methods, dissemination and implementation science, and community based participatory research (CBPR), her projects have focused on examining factors associated with substance abuse, mental health, housing and food security, and  positive youth development. Lucero has been involved with CBPR projects in collaboration with Native American/Indigenous, Latino/Hispano, young adult, and LGBTQ+ communities. Much of Lucero’s research has contributed to advancing the science of community engaged research approaches. Lucero strives to achieve health equity by means of education, research, diversity and inclusion, and policy development.

Kadie Zeller is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and of the people of Kiribati in the South Pacific. She is currently a Program Specialist for the Nevada Afterschool Network at NICRP. She is also a Certified Prevention Specialist and has started her own nonprofit, in Fallon, to share mindfulness and other wellness programs to youth and adults.

Kadie received her Bachelors Arts in Psychology, with a focus on public service, from the University of California, San Diego. Her background is in primary and secondary substance prevention and mental health wellness for historically misrepresented community members in Rural and Frontier Nevada.

Kadie’s passion is connecting communities with the tools and resources needed to create positive systems of change and sustain intergenerational healing.