1. OMHARN Multicultural Health Conference: Community perspective – how to advance multicultural research

2. Community Involvement in Research None A Lot Top-down Consultation Collaboration Partnership Community-led (Adapted from Winer & Ray, 2000)

3. Suggested Steps in CBR Background work (‘getting ready’) Establish the partnership Collaboratively Design the Research Project Collect the data Take Action / Advocate for Change Analyze and interpret the data Disseminate (share) your Findings Training and Building Capacity (ongoing) Monitor & Evaluate your Activities and Engage in Critical Reflection (ongoing) reSearch for Change: Suggested Steps in CBR

4. Research Re-defined: Opportunities The emergence of community agency led research is re-defining research relationships, processes and outcomes in new and interesting ways Academic-community-participant relationship is being reconfigured/blurred in interesting ways New areas of research priorities Participatory involvement of community members is being taken to new, deeper levels Enhanced role of dissemination and advocacy

5. Critical Issues in Community Agency Led Research Projects  Challenges of promoting equitable relationship between academics and community  Challenges of working closely with marginalized community members  Quality and equity of participation of community  New Ethical Issues/Dilemmas  Strengthening political weight of community agency led research

6. Other Challenges  Funding Constraints and negative pressures from funding agencies  Human Resources  Access to other resources (eg data analysis softwares, online journals)  Time  Capacity  Incentives and recognition

7. Best Practices in Research Collaboration  Develop and engage in collaborative models of research design, implementation and writing (results in much richer research questions, better methodology and high quality reports)  Don’t expect community agencies to do all the outreach and recruitment work (there is an ‘institutional cost’ on community agencies to do recruitment)  Build in adequate funding to support/remunerate participation from community agencies and community members (eg admin costs, research time stipend for community agency partners, training costs)

8.  Ensure proper recognition of community agencies/groups for their role in the research (not just as a footnote or acknowledgement but as co-authors wherever appropriate)  Broaden dissemination activities (beyond journal publications)  Get involved in advocacy (don’t leave dissemination and advocacy work to community)  Hire community members (not just graduate students) as community/peer researchers or RAs Best Practices in Research Collaboration