Capacity Building Project

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Our Social Connectedness project (informed by a Photovoice research methodology), wherein participants document their psychological wellbeing photographically, shows the academic environment is especially problematic for historically marginalized graduate and professional students (HMGPS), which includes first-generation college students, non-binary, racial/ethnic minority, disabled, LGBTQ+, rural background, and low-income students. 

The long-term objective of this award is to increase the capacity of graduate students, faculty, staff, on- and off-campus healthcare providers, and university administrators to collaborate in patient centered outcomes research and/or comparative effectiveness research (PCOR/CER) that effectively addresses the mental health needs of historically marginalized graduate and professional students. 

We propose three aims to meet our long-term objective: 

1. Engage key stakeholders in a collaborative governance structure and a mental health taskforce 
2. Build stakeholder capacity to engage in PCOR/CER through co-learning activities focused on the mental health and patient-centered research with historically marginalized graduate and professional students (HMGPS). Here you can find the co-learning activities developed. 
3. Conduct deliberative democracy forums to prioritize research on the mental health needs of HMGPS and convene research workgroups to prepare for future PCOR/CER

This project is a collaboration between the University of California, Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine, University of California Graduate and Professional Council (UCGPC), UCR Health, and Solid Ground Wellness in Recovery.

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