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Journal of community engagement and scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2018
Subjects
Health centers--United States
Abstract
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, directed content analysis to determine the effectiveness of using the two-phase process at the participating AHCs. The findings suggest that the ICESA project assisted AHCs in three key areas, and may provide a strategy for assessing community engagement in AHCs.
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DOI
10.54656/TJWR6964
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/40797
Citation Details
Vitale, K., Newton, G. L., Abraido-Lanza, A. F., Aguirre, A. N., Ahmed, S., Esmond, S. L., ... & Tumiel-Berhalter, L. M. (2018). Community engagement in academic health centers: A model for capturing and advancing our successes. Journal of community engagement and scholarship, 10(1), 81.