title: Building Capacity in Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships Through a Focus on Process and Multiculturalism.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In health research, investigators and funders are emphasizing the importance of collaboration between communities and academic institutions to achieve health equity. Although the principles underlying community-academic partnered research have been well-articulated, the processes by which partnerships integrate these principles when working across cultural differences are not as well described.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We present how Project GRACE (Growing, Reaching, Advocating for Change and Empowerment) integrated participatory research principles with the process of building individual and partnership capacity.
  
  
  METHODS
  We worked with Vigorous Interventions In Ongoing Natural Settings (VISIONS) Inc., a process consultant and training organization, to develop a capacity building model. We present the conceptual framework and multicultural process of change (MPOC) that was used to build individual and partnership capacity to address health disparities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The process and capacity building model provides a common language, approach, and toolset to understand differences and the dynamics of inequity. These tools can be used by other partnerships in the conduct of research to achieve health equity.
authors.forename: Giselle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Corbie-Smith
authors.forename: Angela R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Bryant
authors.forename: Deborah J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: Connie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blumenthal
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Council
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Courtney
authors.forename: Ada
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Adimora
mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building / Q000458:organization & administration*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003219:Confidentiality; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D054521:Cultural Competency; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007802:Language; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration