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Community Engagement

A key component of equitable research is meaningful engagement with impacted communities. Please refer to this library for trainings, readings, and tools curated for an ICES audience to support community engagement.

Resources for Community-Engaged Research

As part of an equity-centered approach, researchers are also encouraged to engage in anti-racist research practices as described in the Guidance Document and Framework for Anti-Racist Approaches to Research and Analytics at ICES.

Community engagement is an integral part of ICES’ 2023 – 2026 Strategic Plan. Please refer to this library for trainings, readings, and tools curated for an ICES audience to support community engagement.

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Community Engagement Tools

ICES Community Engagement Guide

This guide describes recommendations throughout the engagement cycle, from preparation to evaluation. Supporting resources curated for an ICES audience are embedded at every step.

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Community Engagement Tools

Boston Public Health Commission: Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit

This planning tool and template guide development of an accountable, collaborative, and sustainable community engagement plan.

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Trainings

This guidebook from Chicago Beyond explores privilege and power dynamics in research. Sections with suggested actions are tailored separate for researchers, funders, and community organizations.

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This 60-minute webinar encourages researchers to use community engagement to let people tell their own stories and seek understanding of what is culturally acceptable to talk about in individual communities. It introduces best practices for meeting people where they are (in their spaces) and suggests further background work/reading for researchers prior to engaging.

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This 60-minute webinar defines community engagement in research and walks through the continuum of engagement. ICES’ own Dr. Pat O’Campo describes first steps to equitable engagement through case examples.

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In this article, Dr. Aisha Lofters and colleagues offer five key considerations for effective engagement of diverse and inclusive patient communities for equitable patient partnerships.

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This 20-minute webinar introduces best practices in community engagement and describes a concrete example of these in practice.

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This 80-minute webinar describes 3 cases of the value of quantitative data to community partners and introduces best practices to publishing health equity data. ICES’ own Dr. Susitha Wanigaratne is featured to describe a community project with linked administrative data.

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