Elizabeth Lizaola

TL;DR: Community resilience (CR) is a priority for preparedness, but few models exist and a steering council used community-partnered participatory research to support workgroups in developing CR action plans and hosted forums for input to design a pilot demonstration of implementing CR versus enhanced individual preparedness toolkits.

TL;DR: It is found that whereas the three-model approach is a simple measure of the perception of community participation in research activities, CERI allows for a more nuanced understanding by capturing multiple aspects of such participation.

TL;DR: A conceptual model demonstrating the impact of community engagement in research on outcomes of partnered research projects suggests that communityagement in research is positively associated with perceived professional development as well as political and community impact.

TL;DR: How an approach to community engagement for improving mental health services, disaster recovery, and preparedness from a community resiliency perspective emerged from their work in applying a partnered, participatory research framework, iteratively, in Los Angeles County and the City of New Orleans is described.

TL;DR: Community Partners in Care, a community-partnered, cluster-randomized trial with depressed clients from 93 Los Angeles health and community programs, examined the added value of a community coalition approach (Community Engagement and Planning) versus individual program technical assistance (Resources for Services) for implementing depression quality improvement in underserved communities.