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Community Engagement Consultative Service (CECS)
The Community Engagement Consultative Service (CECS) is an online listing of best practices and experts in community engagement, and a consultation service that will provide guidance on how sites can more effectively work with communities, building on the unique strengths of each. The CECS consultative service is available to CTSAs in collaboration with their community partners.
CECS addresses two of the goals of the national CTSA Consortium’s priorities:
- Develop an effective national model for community engagement (Goal #8)
- Develop a coordinated/federated approach to career development, training and education across the spectrum of translational and clinical disciplines (Goal #2)
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Note to CTSA's: All forms related to your consultant visits scheduled or completed in 2009 must be submitted by FEBRUARY 15, 2010.
The Community Engagement Consultative Service (CECS) will help CTSA sites to exchange best practices and collectively strengthen their capacity for Community Engagement.
Below are dated versions of the list of CE best practices compiled from discussions at the CTSA regional CE workshops. If there are other best practices you would like to submit for consideration, please email us at cecs@duke.edu.
- Best Practices in Community Engaged Research (Version 1.0, October 2008)
- Best Practices in Community Engaged Research (Version 2.0, November 2008)
- Best Practices in Community Engaged Research (Version 3.0, December 2008)
- Research and Their Communities: The Challenge of Meaningful Community Engagement (May 2009)
- Best Practices in Community Engaged Research (Version 4.0, May 2009)
As a CTSA site, you will have the opportunity to invite a consultant, with community engaged research experience, for a one-time visit to address your specific community engaged research needs. Please review the detailed information about selecting a CE consultant.
You will need to log in to the CECS site in order to access the assessments and also to review any content that has been submitted for your site.
CECS accounts will be e-mailed to each individual CTSA site Community Engagement (CE) Lead by the DCRIWeb account.
CE Leads may distribute the account information to members of their site’s CE team.
- For CE Leads – Log-in to access your site folder and the CECS assessment forms. Accounts are provided for the leads of each CTSA’s Community Engagement Core. Review the list of CE leads.
List of regional CE coordinators for the CECS project.
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