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Poster Session Presenters

Melissa Abraham, Georgianna Willis, Kitty Bowman, Leslie Aldrich, Joan Quinlan
Institute for Research Policy, Community Benefit Program, Revere CARES Coalition, Massachusetts General Hospital

A Good Marriage? Partnership between Community-Based Coalition and Academic Medical Institute

Bryan Baldwin, Matthew D'Aprile
University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Amherst, MA)
Breaking up the Family: A Critical Analysis of Social Service Consolidations in Western Massachusetts

Monique Barber, Jane Peranteau, Linda Forys, CHES, Nancy Murray, Susan Tortolero
Texas Prevention Research Center's Community Advisory Board (Houston, TX)
A Prevention Research Center and Its Community Advisory Group: Building the Partnership

Josipa Basic, Martina Feric, Valentina Kranzelic Tavra
Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia, Europe)
Review of Scientific Project Prevention of Behavior of Disorders of Children and Youth in Local Community

Jen Kauper-Brown, Sarena D. Seifer
Community Campus Partnerships for Health (Seattle, WA)
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health: Building Healthier Communities, Strengthening Higher Education

Elizabeth Chin

Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)
Community Based Learning, Youth Action Research and Inter-Agency Cooperation: Project G*O*L*D (Goal Oriented Life Decisions)

Crala M. Cooper, Patricia Gail Bray,, Karen J. Williams, Jane Peraneatu, Ilana Reisz, Kimberly Lopez
St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities (Houston, TX)
Healthy Neighborhood Initiatives Model: Focus on Communities

Samuel L. Craballo, Amy Maizel Seeherman
Center for Community Health Education Research and Service (CCHERS) (Boston, MA)
Engaging High School Students in Community-Based Participatory Research

Judy De Bruym, Kim Workman
Spectrum Health Healthier Communities, De Vos Children's Hospital a member of Spectrum Health (Grand Rapids, MI)
Fire/Burn Prevention Program For the Preschool Child

Ernestine Delmoor, Benita Weathers
National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer (NBLIC) and The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (Philadelphia, PA)
Using CBCR to Assess and Address the Psychosocial Needs of Men During Diagnosis and Treatment of Prostate Cancer

Suzanne Hawley, Shirley Orr, Craig Molgaard
Kansas University of Medicine, Kansas Department of Health and Environment (Wichita, KS)
Developing Community Partnership and Social Capital through Leadership Training

Krista Heybruck, Ann A. O'Connell
University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)
Assessing CBO Capacity and Readiness to Translate Effective HIV Prevention Behavioral Interventions - Implications for Designing a Technical Assistance Measure

Sharon A. Jackson, Vanessa Duren-Winfield, Lynn Rhodes, Nathan Ross Freeman, Charles McClennahan, Kristy F. Woods
The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health, Wake Forest University (Winston/Salem, NC)
Health Education and the Arts (HEARTS): Merging Health Sciences into the Arts

Keith Jones, Erin Barrett
University of Massachusetts School, Center for Health Policy and Research (Shrewsbury, MA)
Our Path to Systems Change: A Collaborative Decision-Making Model

Nila Ginger Hofman
DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
Partners in Action Research: Facing the Challenge of Fraudulent Immigration Counseling Practices

Marian L. MacDonald, James Slavet, Lindsey Berkelman
University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Amherst, MA)
Blending Research and Service: The UFCC Net

Ann-Gel S. Palermo

Center for Multicultural & Community Affairs, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, NY)
Development of the Harlem Urban Research Center: Collaborative action on community health priorities

Diana Paulk
Center for the Advancement of Youth Health (Birmingham, AL)
Fostering University-Community Connections Via the Community Betterment Model

Stephanie Phibbs, Charlene Ortiz, Sheana Bull
Colorado Health Outcomes Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (Aurora, CO)
Accessing research participants in high risk situations

Khan Rahi, John Shields
Toronto Based Community-based Researcher, Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada)
Lessons Learned from the lived experience of African and Asian immigrant/refugee youth unemployment in Toronto, Canada

Julie Robison, Karen Bullock, Charlotte LaRocca, Eugene Hickey

Braceland Center for Mental Health & Aging Services, Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital (Hartford, CT)

Overcoming Barriers to Psychiatric Treatment in a Diverse Population of Urban Elders

Michelle Ronda, Will Weikart, Vivian Nixon
City University of New York (New York, NY)
The College and Community Fellowship: Moving from criminal justice policy to higher education policy in the re-entry of the formerly incarcerated

Lisa A. Benz Scott, Martha N. Hill, Lee Bone, Leon Purnell, Dwyan Monroe, Sylvia Robinson, Cassia Lewis, LaPricia Lewis, Cheryl Dennison
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Stony Brook University (Baltimore, MD; Stony Brook, MD)
Community-based Participatory Translation Research Process and Outcomes: From a Clinical Trial-tested Intervention to an Inner-City Community-Owned Health Clinic

Karen Snyder
Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Services (Seattle, WA)
El Proyecto Bienestar: A Community Health Intervention with Yakima Agricultural Workers

Jill Trufant, Lynice Williams
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and North Carolina Fair Share (Chapel Hill, NC)
Community-Driven Research and Environmental Justice: Landfill Siting and Demographic Change in Holly Springs, NC

Martha Vungkhanching
Institute for Health Services and Policy Research, Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, IL)
Recovering Substance Abusers' Experiences in Faith-Based Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Programs

Kimberlie J. Warren

Walden University (South Bend, IN)
What Sounds Like a Great Idea...A Community Based Comprehensive Smoking Cessation Model

Sharrire White, Ella Greene Morton, Yvonne Lewis, Dan McLinden, Lynda Anderson
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Research Centers Program (Atlanta, GA)
Perceptions of Community and Academic Partners regarding key issues in Promoting Health in Communities

Rebecca F. Wiseman

University of Maryland, School of Nursing (Baltimore, MD)
Clinical Outcomes and Access to Healthcare Resources in the Uninsured - Community Partnerships

Margot Zaharek
Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (Derby, CT)
Building Community Partnerships through Microgrants

Posters Presented by the Institute for Community Research

Bonnie Nastasi
Male Sexual Concerns and Prevention of HIV/STD in India

Margaret R. Weeks
AIDS Prevention with Female Sex Workers in China: Exploring Potential Community Collaboration

Julia Dickson-Gomez
Sex Work, Drugs and Violence in El Salvador

Maryland Grier, Colleen Coleman, Warren Avery
The Urban Artists' Initiative

Reinaldo Rojas, Ken Williamson
Resident Engagement Project
Neighborhood Involvement, Families, Children and Culture: Resident Engagement Banner

Ken Williamson, Marlene Berg, Elsie Vasquez, Siobhan Pass
Engaging Youth & Community Residents: Creating Justice Through Participatory Action Research

Jean J. Schensul, Marlene Berg, Raul Pino
Training and Pilot Research on Alcohol Use Among Young Men in Mumbai (Bombay)

Orlando Velazco, Regina Blake
Dust in Connecticut

Lynne Williamson
Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program

Maria Martinez, Oscar Woods, Chris Ortiz, Mark Convey
RAP: The Risk Avoidance Partnership: Peer-led HIV Prevention with Active Drug Users

Kim Radda, William Disch, Evelyn Baez, Gus Lopez, Michelle Garner
ICR's Program of Research and Intervention with Older Adults: History and Current Projects

Maryann Abbott, Margaret R. Weeks
Microbicide Acceptability Among High-Risk Urban U.S. Women: Experiences and Perceptions of Sexually Transmitted HIV Prevention

Michelle Corbett, Helena de Moura Castro
Understanding Female Condom Use in a High-Risk Population

Mary Prince, Maryann Abbott
Women's and Men's Use of and Experiences with the Female Condom: A Hartford Connecticut Trial

Chiedza Rodriguez, Damion Sincere Morgan
Youth Action Research Institute

Maritza Lopez, Kaila Kuban
Youth Partners: Sharing Knowledge, Experience and Ideas

Raul Pino, Gary Burkholder
Ecstasy and Associated Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Urban Youth

Rey Bermudez, Jean J. Schensul, Gary Burkholder
Reaching and Intervening with Hard-to-Reach Populations: Unemployed, Underemployed and Socially Marginalized Youth

Dhita Ngy, Bonnie Nastasi
Building Preventive Group Norms in Urban Middle Schools

Sarah Diamond, Rashida Copes, Shadia Coley
Fashion, Youth Identity and Risk among Hartford Youth

Jean J. Schensul

The Worst to the Best: Multisectoral Research and Stakeholder Benefit