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Title: Community-Based Research Networks: Development and Lessons Learned in an Emerging Field.
Author : Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
Release Date : January 22, 2003
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 245 KB

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In the last decade a variety of models and approaches have been developed for doing CBR projects (Murphy, Scammell, & Sclove, 1997; Park, Brydon-Miller, Hall, & Jackson, 1993; Petras & Porpora, 1993; Porpora, 1999; Stoecker, 1999; Strand, 2000; Stringer, 1999; Williams, 1997). In addition, models are emerging for creating and maintaining CBR centers on single campuses (Cheadle et al., 2002; Stoecker, 2002). But we know little about multi-institutional CBR networks serving metropolitan or wider regions, partly because until very recently there have been too few cases to compare. The first known United States network of higher education institutions and community organizations supporting CBR was the Chicago Policy Research Action Group, or PRAG, founded in 1989. With four Chicago institutions--Loyola University, DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Chicago State University--and more than 15 nonprofit and community organizations (Policy Research Action Group, 2002), PRAG set the standard for CBR networks and is the only one that has been written about. But writings about PRAG emphasize its projects (Nyden, Figert, Shibley, & Burrows, 1997), so we still know little about how to develop such a network. There are also specialty CBR networks, especially focused on public health (Minkler, 2000), such as the Center for Community Health Education, Research and Service in Boston and the Center for Healthy Communities in Dayton, Ohio (Center for Healthy Communities, 2000). The Community-University Research Alliances program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada also sponsors specialty CBR networks in areas such as housing (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2001).