GalleryThe focus of the Community Research Alliance (CRA) is to help define and create the infrastructure for equitable, good and sustainable community research partnerships and research on health and other disparities that is scientifically sound and immediately beneficial to the communities involved.
GalleryGood Oral Health: A Collaboration with Older Adults to Improve Oral Health
Community Alliances, Health Disparities, Older Adults
The goal of GOH is to improve oral health self-management among older adults in senior housing.
GalleryThe Sewing Circle Project
Community Alliances, Cultural Conservation
The Sewing Circle Project assists newcomer, refugee, and immigrant textile artists to produce and sustain their traditional art forms and share their work and cultural expressions with public audiences.
GalleryBuilding Youth Leadership Capacity in Food Justice Campaigns
Community Alliances, Health Disparities, Participatory Action Research, Specialized Methods, Youth
ICR is working with food justice organizations across Connecticut to develop the next generation of leaders in the local food justice movement.
GalleryYouth Participatory Action Research to Reduce Teen Substance Use in Meriden
Community Alliances, Participatory Action Research, Science and Art, Specialized Methods, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth
This youth participatory action research (YPAR) program is a year round youth employment opportunity for economically disadvantaged youth in Meriden, Connecticut, funded by the Workforce Alliance, Inc.
GalleryAssessing Perceived Risk of Dental Treatments for Pregnant Women on Medicaid
Community Alliances, Health Disparities
This exploratory study was designed to examine barriers to the provision of allowable dental care to pregnant patients on Medicaid in Connecticut, despite the known benefits and safety of prenatal dental care.
GalleryTranslation of the Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) for Drug Treatment Clinic Implementation
Community Alliances, HIV AIDS Risk and Prevention, Specialized Methods, Substance Abuse and Prevention
The goal of this 3-year study was to translate the Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) project for implementation in outpatient drug treatment clinics and to pilot test the modified intervention in two methadone clinics.
GalleryMultilevel Female Condom Intervention
Community Alliances, HIV AIDS Risk and Prevention, Specialized Methods
This 4-year study sought to enhance HIV prevention by increasing community-wide availability, accessibility, and support for use of the female condom to reduce transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections as well as pregnancy.
GalleryHIV Prevention in High Risk Drug Use Sites: Project RAP
Community Alliances, Cultural Conservation, Health Disparities, HIV AIDS Risk and Prevention
This study investigated the efficacy and diffusion of a peer-led HIV prevention intervention, implemented by trained, active substance users in partnership with project staff. It was conducted in high-risk substance use settings. The subsequent longitudinal study investigated long-term behavioral effects of the peer-implemented HIV prevention program on trained active substance users and the substance-using contacts to whom they provided the intervention, diffusion of the intervention and its effects through substance-user social networks, and into substance-use sites in Hartford, CT. It also investigated the sustainability of the peer-led HIV prevention intervention.