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"Public health researchers have advocated CBPR as a means to bring evidence-based public health policies and programs to communities and to enable researchers to conduct community-informed research. Despite these goals, no studies have evaluated whether linkages among agencies involved in the CBPR process have changed as a result of interventions. In our study, we measured network linkages across 14 topics to determine whether linkages among and between CBOs and universities have changed as a result of project activities."

A useful guide to common theories in health behavior research. I will be using the Integrated Theory of Health Behavior in my proposal

Family and community involvements foster partnerships among schools, family and community groups, and individuals.

This is the theory I am using in my research

Since 2007, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Policy Research Center (PRC) has partnered with the Universities of New Mexico and Washington to study the science of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Our goal is to identify facilitators and barriers to effective community-academic partnerships in American Indian and other communities, which face health disparities.

Asking questions well is the hardest part of applied social research. I It has two principal components. The first is selecting an issue ofsufficient importance, i.e., an issue with a likely "payoff' in knowledge and/or application. In this regard, not all questions are of equal value (Merton, 1959). Unfortunately, we are often uninterested or unwilling to make judgements about quality of questions, and instead focus most of our attention on research methodology. But research costs a great deal oftime and money. Years are required to even begin to address most questions. A scholar can address only a small number of questions in her entire career; and therefore -- ifshe wants to make a meaningful and lasting contribution, and who of us does not? -- she must choose her questions carefully. The second component of asking questions well is I Some may prefer to think ofsocial work as a profession rather than an applied social science. Certainly social work has elements of both. The emphasis in this paper is on the use of theory in knowledge building for application. In this sense, social work faces issues similar to other applied social sciences such as public administration, commuuity development, urban plamting, and public health, as well as applied branches of academic disciplines, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics. As I discuss in this paper, the fact that social work is also a profession does not change the nature of knowledge, or the requirements for knowledge building. I to frame a research question that will be productive. It is possible, indeed common, to have an important issue but a research question that does not lead anywhere worthwhile. Toward the end ofthe lecture, I suggest that, for the purposes ofthe applied social sciences, certain structures ofinquiry may lead to theories that are more productive than others.

Mallik-Kane and Visher provide a comprehensive overview of the impact of physical, mental, and substance abuse conditions impact reentry.

Bureau of Justice Statistics special report on rates of mental illness among incarcerated persons