Capacity Building Project
Background
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:
- Engage key stakeholders in a collaborative governance structure and a mental health taskforce
- 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.
- 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.
Funding:
This project received a two-year funding award from the Eugene Washington Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Engagement Awards program.
Our co-learning activities
Leadership Plan
Co-learning activities
Project Timeline
This figure outlines our project leadership structure and engagement plan.
Project Timeline
Co-learning activities
Project Timeline
The above timeline breaks down the engagement award activities by the three aims of the proposed project, which are nestled between the pre-award work that began in 2020 to 2021 with the Social Connectedness and Healing the Academy projects and the dissemination activities that will occur throughout the award period.
Co-learning activities
Co-learning activities
Co-learning activities
Are you interested in our co-learning activities?