The Family
Navigator Program
…helping families access services for young
children
in our community.
The Family Navigator Program
is designed to empower parents and caregivers to participate in
health care decisions. Our goal is to foster an increased
understanding of medical, mental health and educational
information by
-
Explaining diagnostic report
-
Recommending appropriate services
-
Finding treatment providers
-
Reducing barriers to care
The Family Navigator Program
provides parents of young children with the information they
need to make decisions about their child’s behavioral health and
developmental care.
For an appointment, contact:
Sue Meeks, RN,C
OU-COM Community Health Programs
068 Grosvenor Hall
Athens, OH 45701
Phone: 740-593-9534
Fax: 740-593-9536
E-mail: meeks@oucom.ohiou.edu
On
September 11 and 12, 2008, Dr. Edith Parker and
Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, BSN gave two formal
presentations on Community-based Participatory
Research, in addition to providing individualized
programmatic consultation to regional
university-community partnerships. The CBPR
Research Colloquium illustrated how CBPR health
research incorporates the community voice with
methodological rigor. The CBPR Workshop
invited attendees to explore the dynamics underlying
community-university partnerships in research,
leveraging the experiences of Parker and Brakefield-Caldwell’s
Community Action Against Asthma protocol focused on
urban Detroit air quality and lung disease. Over 100
persons participated in the programs, including
faculty and staff from the Colleges of Arts and
Sciences, Osteopathic Medicine, Communication and
Health and Human Services, and Ohio University’s
regional campuses in Chillicothe, Lancaster,
Ironton, and Zanesville. Joining graduate students
and representatives from more than 15
community-based agencies, the diverse audience
engaged in an exploration of the rationale for,
benefits of and challenges associated with using a
community-academic partnership approach to research
and interventions.
Community-Based
Participatory Research is a philosophical approach
to research that equitably involves community
members and academic representatives in a
collaborative process. From the starting point of
jointly defining the focus for research, through the
shared interpretation of the data, Community-Based
Participatory Research strives to balance the
creation of knowledge with community intervention.
About the Speakers:
Edith A. Parker, DrPH, Associate Professor and
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of
Public Health, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor:
Dr. Parker‘s research focuses on the development,
implementation and evaluation of community-based
participatory interventions to improve health
status. Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, BSN: Ms.
Brakefield-Caldwell served as the Detroit Department
of Health representative to the Detroit
Community-Academic Urban Research Center prior to
her retirement in 1998. Since then, she continues to
serve as a community representative on the Community
Action Against Asthma Steering Committee.
Ohio University Sponsors:
Appalachian Rural Health Institute
Department of Psychology
Office of Campus Community Engagement
Vice President for Research & Creative Activity
Voinovich School of Leadership & Public Affairs
|
