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Community-Based Organizational Capacity Building as a Strategy to Reduce Racial Health Disparities |
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| Authors: | Derek M Griffith Julie Ober Allen E Hill DeLoney Kevin Robinson E Yvonne Lewis Bettina Campbell Susan Morrel-Samuels Arlene Sparks Marc A Zimmerman Thomas Reischl |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Health Behavior & Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, 3806 SPH I, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2029, USA 2. Flint Odyssey House Health Awareness Center, 1225 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., Flint, MI, 48503, USA 3. Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, 300 Airdale Road, Bryn Mawr, PA, 19010-1697, USA 4. Faith Access to Community Economic Development, 310 East Third Street, 5th Floor, Flint, MI, 48503, USA 5. YOUR Center, 4002 N. Saginaw St., Flint, MI, 48505, USA 6. GCCARD, 601 N. Saginaw Street, Suite 2-C, Flint, MI, 48502, USA |
| Abstract: | One of the biggest challenges facing racial health disparities research is identifying how and where to implement effective, sustainable interventions. Community-based organizations (CBOs) and community-academic partnerships are frequently utilized as vehicles to conduct community health promotion interventions without attending to the viability and sustainability of CBOs or capacity inequities among partners. Utilizing organizational empowerment theory, this paper describes an intervention designed to increase the capacity of CBOs and community-academic partnerships to implement strategies to improve community health. The Capacity Building project illustrates how capacity building interventions can help to identify community health needs, promote community empowerment, and reduce health disparities. |
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