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Building Wellness OBJECTIVE(S): Building Wellness is a workgroup formed under the umbrella of Witness for Wellness. The overall goal of Witness for Wellness is to build community capacity to relieve the burden of depression within historically under-served and predominantly minority communities, primarily in South Los Angeles. Under this overarching goal of the Witness for Wellness project, the goal of Building Wellness is to improve the quality of, and access to depression care in the community. METHODS: Building Wellness combines principles from evidence-based research with community expertise and direction and by executing its collaborative agenda through a balanced academic-community partnership. The method is based on a model of communitypartnered participatory research, which focuses on an equal relationship where academic and community partners are both involved from program inception to design, development, implementation, and analysis; and both academic and community are recognized to bring valuable skills and knowledge to the partnership. FINDINGS/RESULTS: Building Wellness narrowed and focused its action plan to a project to test the feasibility of implementing an online toolkit the group developed for non-mental health professionals to provide depression screening, education, and referrals for treatment. It has since developed most of the content of the website and the measures for evaluating the pilot. The group checked with target community representatives throughout the process of developing the website, the questionnaires, and planning for implementation at various agencies. The progress of the group was featured in its own article in Ethnicity & Disease, 2006, 16(S1). STATUS: Building Wellness continues to finish the website. It is developing training materials for the toolkit users and looking into having the toolkit translated into Spanish and Korean. The project is under review by the UCLA IRB. The group continues to develop its relationships with agencies in the target community through phone conferences and collaborative discussions. Once the IRB approval is obtained, the project will be implemented in the community. IMPACT: This project has given the community the opportunity to work with researchers and to design its own research project. Its work has been featured in the journal, Ethnicity & Disease, a huge source of pride for the community members and the group as a whole. Within the time the workgroup has met, community leaders have emerged and developed their leadership capacity and understanding of research from an academic perspective. The group members have developed a more trusting and friendly relationship with the academic representatives. This process has created a model for implementing CBPR in the South Los Angeles community; and increased awareness around community needs. |
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