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PFRH Noon Seminar

September 11, 2013

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Mission

To serve as a catalyst that brings together the resources of Johns Hopkins Institutions with the City of Baltimore, and especially East Baltimore to improve the community’s health and well-being, and in so doing serve as a model of community-university collaboration regionally and nationally.

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Goals

• To serve as a primary portal between JHI and Baltimore • To serve as a forum that brings JHI and community

leaders together • To collaborate on efforts aimed to improve the health

and well-being of our community • To help strengthen the capacity of the Baltimore

community • To initiate long-term, sustainable interventions in

conjunction with existing resources that improve the health and well-being of the citizens of Baltimore

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Core Content Areas and Activities

• Health Services and Programs • Community-University Engagement • Academic Engagement • Education Engagement • Community Engagement/Capacity

Building

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Health Services and Programs

• J-Chip • East Baltimore Health Empowerment

Zone • PCORI grant: collaborator with medical

school • Health and Wellbeing of Baltimore’s

Children, Youth and Family Report

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Health Services and Programs Community Health Initiative

– All Partners’ Working Group – Hired and trained data collectors from 5 zip codes (Assets mapping) – Completed 185 interviews with community residents – Working with team of community residents and Hopkins students to code and analyze qualitative data – Analysis to be completed Fall 2013

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Academic Activities

• Baltimore Researchers’ Dinners • Small Grants Awards: undergraduate, graduate

and faculty • Coordinate Brown Scholars’ Program • Coordinate symposium on The Social

Determinants of Health • President’s Award for Research that Improves the

Health and Wellbeing of Baltimore • Reverse Research Day

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UHI Research Activities

• You Gotta Have Faith: R21 collaboration with community-based faith organization to study role of Black Church in adolescent reproductive health.

• Community-Based Assets Mapping Project: Part of CHI to assess neighborhood-based human capital upon which to develop community initiatives.

• The Access Partnership (TAP) Evaluation • Health in Baltimore Report: city-side data report

focusing on the health and well-being of children and families in Baltimore

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Community Engagement Activities

• Baltimore Dialogues: group discussions which use a book written by a local author on Baltimore as a vehicle for discussing issues such as Hopkins relationships with the community as well as issues such as race and racism in Baltimore – Sept 30: discussion w Marisela Gomez on Race, Class, Power, and

Organizing in East Baltimore – Dec 16: discussion w F. Michael Higginbotham on Ghosts of Jim Crow:

Ending Racism in Post-Racial America – Mar 6: discussion w Dorothy Roberts on Fatal Invention: How Science,

Politics and Big Business Re-Create Race in the 21st Century

• Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award: recognizes community-university partnerships (Saturday, October 5)

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Community Engagement Activities

• Quarterly Symposia: Dorothy Roberts, Tony Iton (invited)

• Third Tuesday Seminars: how social determinants impact children’s academic achievement

• The Social Determinants of Health Symposium: April 28.

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Community Capacity Building

Workshops

– Creating Sustainable Partnerships (October 16, 2013)

– Diversifying Funding Sources/Multi-year Budgeting – Program Evaluation – Grant writing

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Education Engagement • Henderson-Hopkins-Weinberg Early Childhood

Development Center • Undergraduate and Graduate level course

development on urban health and development • JHU Community-Based learning Advisory Board • Engagement with Baltimore City Public Schools

– Evaluation of Community Supports for Schools Initiative

– Development of School climate survey – Chair Interagency taskforce of school-based non-academic services – Assist Incentive Mentoring Program in developing an evaluation – Co-Chair monthly research meetings with BCPS

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Communications

• Quarterly Newsletter • Weekly updates to listserv • Expanded Social Media Presence

– UHI YouTube Channel – Facebook and twitter

• SDH summary and briefs • Small Grants: Lessons Learned Report • Health of Baltimore’s CYF Report Briefs