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Ohio University
receives community
engagement grant
Dr. Hamel-Lambert
leads efforts
supporting
community-based
participatory
research
By Anita Martin
February 3, 2009
Ohio University is
one of six
institutions
nationwide to
receive a two-year,
$15,000 grant from
the Faculty for the
Engaged Campus, a
national initiative
of community-campus
partnerships. The
grant will support
faculty development
programming to
advance
community-engaged
scholarship.
Jane Hamel-Lambert,
Ph.D.,
director of
multidisciplinary
mental health
education, is the
principle
investigator among
three other Ohio
co-investigators.
“The grant supports
faculty competency
development,” says
Hamel-Lambert. “It
seems that
institutions have
high levels of
community engagement
if their faculty
members have these
certain
competencies, such
as service learning
and community
engaged research.”
Ohio University’s
faculty development
initiative will
build faculty
competencies in
community-based
participatory
research (CBPR) that
is organized around
three programs:
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A
CBPR
Learning
Community
for
university
and
community
professionals,
leading
to
the
development
of
undergraduate
and
graduate
courses
in
participatory
methods.
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A
Faculty
Fellows
in
Engaged
Scholarship
initiative,
investing
in
engaged
scholarship
leaders
to
mentor
and
advance
community-engagement
across
the
region.
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The
writing
of a
book,
Case
Studies
of
Community-Based
Participatory
Research,
featuring
a
collection
of
national
case
studies
illustrating
the
complexities
of
CBPR
as
experienced
by
nationally-recognized
experts
and
their
community
partners.
Hamel-Lambert
is a clinical
psychologist who
joined the
Department of Family
Medicine in
September of 2004 to
focus on promoting
interdisciplinary
mental health care
in Southeastern
Ohio. She is
co-director of
Integrating
Professionals for
Appalachian Children
(IPAC), a
community-university
rural network for
children’s mental
health; and
co-director of the
Appalachian Rural
Health Institute, an
interdisciplinary
health services and
research group that
incorporates CBPR
into its efforts.
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