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Annual Summer Institute
Communities and Science: Improving Family Mental Health Through Partnerships
The Family Research Consortium (FRC) IV conducts an annual Summer
Institute to promote interchange among scholars in the field of
family mental health. Modeled after the sessions held by previous
Family Research Consortia, the Institute is motivated by the belief
that significant advances in the field can be facilitated by a forum
that allows for dissemination, evaluation, and discussion of
important new findings and new developments in research design,
methods, and analysis. The Summer Institutes include formal plenary
addresses, smaller workshop format presentations, poster
presentations, mechanisms for proposal development, and opportunities
for networking among participants. Previous sessions have attracted
scholars and clinicians at all stages of development. Approximately
200 scholars, including presenters and representatives of government
and foundation funding agencies, are expected to attend.
The goals of the Institute are:
- Bring attention to the concept of community-based participatory research and its potential for understanding and improving mental health.
- Present key theories, principles, and methods used in community-based participatory research and practice.
- Present and discuss difficulties often encountered in community participatory efforts and ways to avoid and/or address such challenges.
- Provide exemplars of successful community-university partnerships in family mental health.
Archived Summer Institutes:
1st Annual Summer Institute 2004
2nd Annual Summer Institute 2005
3rd Annual Summer Institute 2006
4th Annual Summer Institute 2007
5th Annual Summer Institute 2008
UCLA Center for Culture & Health, 760 Westwood Plaza, Box 62, Los Angeles, CA 90024
FRC4@ucla.edu
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