Working through bound liberation: a community engagement framework for health partnerships.
BACKGROUND
A community-academic partnership was developed to implement a community-based participatory research project within Chicago's Englewood community.


OBJECTIVE
We explain how Mental Health Impact Assessment (MHIA) ensures that mental health and health inequities are considered in decision making by using a systematic process that engages populations most likely to be impacted by those decisions.


METHODS
We report on the process of developing an MHIA by engaging community partners to evaluate and predict potential mental health outcomes of an employment policy.


CONCLUSIONS
We describe the principle of working through bound liberation, resulting in a bidirectional engagement between academics and community partners. We highlight lessons and challenges of our engagement process.


CONCLUSIONS
Effectively joining in solidarity with community partners was critical for project success, but community capacity needs to be increased to support future projects.
Tiffany L
TL
McDowell
Nataka
N
Moore
Juandalyn N
JN
Holland
D001741:Black or African American; D002641:Chicago; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D062489:Health Impact Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D016730:Program Development; D014495:Universities