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This human subject research protection training program enables community partners to safely and ethically conduct community engaged research. This training fulfills the regulatory and policy requirement that everyone conducting research completes human subject research protection training. It was designed by a community/academic partnership to be conducted by academic partners with their community partners.
About "Opening Doors to Community Research"
In 2014, a request was made for a funding opportunity to create innovative methods for a human research protection training product applicable to community engaged research and diverse community partner organizations.
Through the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Capacity Building funding opportunity titled "Call for Human Subject Research Protection Training Program Product Development," a partnership was started to create an innovative training product. This partnership, known as "Opening Doors to Community Research," created a training curriculum applicable to community engaged research. Participating organizations included the United Community Center, Friedens Community Ministries Network, Silver Spring Neighborhood Center, and the Ϲ.
How It Works
This program meets the training requirement for community partners who want to conduct research with an academic partner. This interactive training is designed to be conducted in-person or virtually with more than one trainee attending. The academic partner, usually the PI, conducts the training with the training slides and guide. The PI should schedule a training session and invite the trainees to attend. The PI then submits the names of those who completed the training to [x] and the community partners are now authorized to conduct research in a mentored setting (i.e. they can facilitate consent, but not by themselves). Once the community partner feels they have sufficient experience in research to proceed and the academic partner agrees, the PI can conduct the second part of the training. The PI should schedule a second training session and invite the trainees to attend. When complete, the PI then submits the names of those who completed the second training. The community partners are now authorized to conduct research by themselves for studies under the IRB. Remember, this training IS NOT meant to be done by the community partner alone, but conducted by the academic partner, as the community partners who co-created the training intended.Review the Training Map(PDF) or to get started.