COMMUNITY NETWORK CORE
The Community Network Core is a critical
component of the Center’s mission to improve the quality of
life of middle-aged and older people with schizophrenia and
other psychotic disorders through the development,
implementation, and dissemination of evidence-based practice
through community partnership.
The goal of the Community Network Core is
to nurture a sustainable collaborative research partnership
between the Center and community clinical and services
systems, primarily
San Diego county’s Adult and Older Adult Mental Health
Services (AOAMHS), whose infrastructure will promote the
research aims of the Center.
Based on the models of community-based
research and cultural exchange, this Core will partner with
the AOAMHS to collaborate in all stages of research: needs
assessment, study design, implementation, interpretation,
and dissemination of the results.
Other community partners will include the
San Diego chapter of the
National Alliance on
Mental Illness (NAMI), the Veterans Affairs San Diego
Healthcare System, community-based psychiatrists and
clinics, regional homeless shelters, and other
collaborators.
The Community Network Core will seek to
build, sustain, and expand community partnerships, and to
mobilize community support and enhance infrastructure for
research capacity. Our community partners will benefit by
obtaining enhanced tangible resources including money, time,
information, and access to technical and scientific
expertise; the investigators will benefit by being able to
study diverse populations, acquire “real world” information
to guide the development of interventions and services, and
developing insight and opportunities for improving community
practice.
The Community Network Core will evaluate
the success of the partnerships on a regular basis using
quantitative and qualitative procedures that the Center has
developed. This Core will work closely with the other Cores
to help accomplish the three major themes of the Center:
optimizing pharmacotherapy; promoting recovery through
psychosocial interventions; and developing and adapting
assessments and interventions for underserved subgroups.
Other Cores:
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