Community Engagement/Outreach Core

Bertrand, Desiree

Abstract

The purpose of the CERC Community Engagement/Outreach Core is to make a significant contribution to the goals/specific aims of the CERC Center of Excellence by ensuring that community engagement/outreach activities include: a) disseminating evidenced-based information and translation of research findings;b) increasing health literacy;c) promoting clinical trials offered through the CERC;and c) increasing the knowledge of health disparities and strategies aimed at preventing, reducing and eliminating them.

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
• Type: Exploratory Grants (P20)
• Project #: 5P20MD002286-08
• Application #: 8644151
• Study Section: Special Emphasis Panel (ZMD1)
• Budget Start: 2014-04-01
• Budget End: 2015-03-31
• Support Year: 8
• Fiscal Year: 2014

Institution

• Name: University of the Virgin Islands
• City: St. Thomas
• State: VI
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 00802

Publications

Gary, Faye A; Yarandi, Hossein; Evans, Edris et al. (2018) Beck Depression Inventory-II: Factor Analyses with Three Groups of Midlife Women of African Descent in the Midwest, the South, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Issues Ment Health Nurs 39:233-243

Campbell, Jacquelyn C; Anderson, Jocelyn C; McFadgion, Akosoa et al. (2018) The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and Probable Traumatic Brain Injury on Central Nervous System Symptoms. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 27:761-767

Alexander, Kamila A; St Vil, Noelle M; Braithwaite-Hall, Marilyn A et al. (2017) 'Some men just don't want to get hurt': perspectives of U.S. Virgin Islands men toward partner violence and HIV risks. Ethn Health :1-16

St Vil, Noelle M; Sabri, Bushra; Nwokolo, Vania et al. (2017) A Qualitative Study of Survival Strategies Used by Low-Income Black Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence. Soc Work 62:63-71

Sloand, Elizabeth; Killion, Cheryl; Yarandi, Hossein et al. (2017) Experiences of violence and abuse among internally displaced adolescent girls following a natural disaster. J Adv Nurs 73:3200-3208

Campbell, Doris W; Campbell, Jacquelyn C; Yarandi, Hossein N et al. (2016) Violence and abuse of internally displaced women survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Int J Public Health 61:981-992

Sabri, Bushra; Holliday, Charvonne N; Alexander, Kamila A et al. (2016) Cumulative Violence Exposures: Black Women's Responses and Sources of Strength. Soc Work Public Health 31:127-39

Gabriel, Naïka C; Sloand, Elizabeth; Gary, Faye et al. (2016) ""The women, they maltreat them… therefore, we cannot assure that the future society will be good"": Male perspectives on gender-based violence: A focus group study with young men in Haiti. Health Care Women Int 37:773-89

Sabri, Bushra; Huerta, Julia; Alexander, Kamila A et al. (2015) Multiple Intimate Partner Violence Experiences: Knowledge, Access, Utilization and Barriers to Utilization of Resources by Women of the African Diaspora. J Health Care Poor Underserved 26:1286-303

Sloand, Elizabeth; Killion, Cheryl; Gary, Faye A et al. (2015) Barriers and Facilitators to Engaging Communities in Gender-Based Violence Prevention following a Natural Disaster. J Health Care Poor Underserved 26:1377-90