Community-Academic Research Network

E-Newsletter - Spring 2015

Happy Spring! We have some noteworthy updates and opportunities to let you know about. So please peruse the brief news items below.

Apply by May 15 for CBPR Summer Short Course

Are you involved with a Detroit community organization and interested in applying for a scholarship to attend our week-long CBPR course at U-M from July 13-17, 2015? If so, we want to remind you that the deadline to apply is Friday, May 15, 2015. Up to five scholarships will be awarded this year (more than twice as many as last year), and tuition is covered in full. Read more.

Walk Your Heart to Health Study Published

In case you missed it, check out this recent story about the Healthy Environments Partnership's Walk Your Heart to Health program. After a three-year health intervention, research findings were recently published in the respected journal Health Education & Behavior about how many of the participants made substantial health improvements by regularly walking with the program. Read more.

Apply for Small Planning Grant by June 1

Interested in receiving a small planning grant to help support a new community-academic research partnership or to kick off a new collaborative health research project in Detroit? If so, then be sure to apply to the Detroit URC's Small Planning Grants Program by June 1, 2015. We expect to award a total of up to $12,000 in grants in this round, with individual grants of up to $4,000 per community-academic team. Read more.

CBPR Partnership Academy Kicks Off in July

The Detroit URC has selected 12 community-academic teams from seven different states to participate in the CBPR Partnership Academy. This new, year-long program is designed to enhance participants' knowledge and skills in community-based participatory research, so they may apply this collaborative approach to address racial and ethnic inequities in health in their communities. The Academy kicks off in July with our five-day CBPR course on U-M's campus. Read more.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Event in June

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's New Connections Program is holding its Ninth Annual Symposium in Princeton, New Jersey from June 10-12, 2015. The Symposium aims to boost the visibility and skills of New Connections grantees and potential applicants. New Connections applicants are early- to mid-career researchers from historically underrepresented groups. Read more.

Detroit URC Welcomes Input about Website

Have you ever visited the Detroit URC website and been particularly satisfied or dissatisfied with what you found or experienced? If so, we'd love to hear from you. We are in the beginning stages of planning a website upgrade. So, if you have input or ideas about how we can improve the site, please jot a note to DetroitURC@umich.edu.

Prof. Lichtenstein Earns Leadership Award

Congratulations to U-M School of Public Health Professor and Detroit URC Co-Director Richard Lichtenstein, who has been selected to receive the 2015 Gary L. Filerman Prize for Educational Leadership. The prize, from the Association for University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA), recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of health administration education. The award will be presented in June. Read more.

Celebrating our 20-Year Anniversary in 2015, the Detroit Urban Research Center is a collaboration of the following partner organizations: Communities In Schools; Community Health and Social Services Center (CHASS); Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation; Eastside Community Network; Friends of Parkside; Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice; Latino Family Services; Neighborhood Service Organization; Institute for Population Health; Henry Ford Health System; The University of Michigan Schools of Public Health, Nursing, and Social Work.

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