Building Equitable Community-Academic Partnerships for Opioid Recovery Research: Lessons Learned from Stakeholder Engagement With Peer and Provider Organizations
Forming equity-based community-academic partnerships focused on recovery research is a time- consuming and challenging endeavor, but one well worth the care and effort required. Through building trusting relationships, vital research collaborations emerge, which are driven by expressed community nee...
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| author | Jon N. Gilgoff Eunsong Park Julvette Price Tiffinee Scott Tyrell Moyd Katie Rouse Gabby Knighton Jodi Jacobson Frey Nicole Mattocks Erika Shook Michelle Tuten Jay Unick Fernando A. Wagner |
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| description | Forming equity-based community-academic partnerships focused on recovery research is a time- consuming and challenging endeavor, but one well worth the care and effort required. Through building trusting relationships, vital research collaborations emerge, which are driven by expressed community needs and supported with university resources. This article describes the stakeholder engagement process utilized by a university-based and opioid-focused initiative entitled Innovations in Recovery through Infrastructure Support (IRIS). IRIS developed a diverse and representative network of clinical providers, peer recovery workers, academics, and other behavioral health leaders. The process was informed by community-based participatory research (CBPR) practices and principles aimed at creating equitable partnerships. Lessons learned include the need to reshape the relationship between research and the community through an acknowledgment of harms committed by academia, as well as the importance of maintaining an approach of humility, accountability, and patience with the partnership process. Concrete benefits that go beyond the long-term promise of change, including compensating partners financially for their time, help ensure equity. A commitment to always asking “Who’s missing?” and then filling those gaps builds a broad network inclusive of the various constituencies that make up the recovery support system. As IRIS builds on these lessons learned and plans next steps, we share our experience to support others engaged in forming community-academic partnerships through deep stakeholder engagement and use of participatory approaches within and outside of recovery research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e56a26950d894f8c9902324a6dc05c082023-08-29T20:56:20ZengThe University of AlabamaJournal of Community Engagement and Scholarship1944-12072837-80752022-11-0115110.54656/jces.v15i1.479Building Equitable Community-Academic Partnerships for Opioid Recovery Research: Lessons Learned from Stakeholder Engagement With Peer and Provider OrganizationsJon N. Gilgoff0Eunsong Park1Julvette Price2Tiffinee Scott3Tyrell Moyd4Katie Rouse5Gabby Knighton6Jodi Jacobson Frey7Nicole Mattocks8Erika Shook9Michelle Tuten10Jay Unick11Fernando A. Wagner12University of Maryland, BaltimoreUniversity of Maryland, BaltimoreBehavioral Health System BaltimoreMaryland Peer Advisory Council3c Recovery Support Training InstituteOn Our Own of Maryland, Inc.People Encouraging PeopleUniversity of Maryland, BaltimoreUniversity of Maryland, BaltimoreUniversity of Maryland, BaltimoreUniversity of Maryland, BaltimoreUniversity of Maryland, BaltimoreUniversity of Maryland, BaltimoreForming equity-based community-academic partnerships focused on recovery research is a time- consuming and challenging endeavor, but one well worth the care and effort required. Through building trusting relationships, vital research collaborations emerge, which are driven by expressed community needs and supported with university resources. This article describes the stakeholder engagement process utilized by a university-based and opioid-focused initiative entitled Innovations in Recovery through Infrastructure Support (IRIS). IRIS developed a diverse and representative network of clinical providers, peer recovery workers, academics, and other behavioral health leaders. The process was informed by community-based participatory research (CBPR) practices and principles aimed at creating equitable partnerships. Lessons learned include the need to reshape the relationship between research and the community through an acknowledgment of harms committed by academia, as well as the importance of maintaining an approach of humility, accountability, and patience with the partnership process. Concrete benefits that go beyond the long-term promise of change, including compensating partners financially for their time, help ensure equity. A commitment to always asking “Who’s missing?” and then filling those gaps builds a broad network inclusive of the various constituencies that make up the recovery support system. As IRIS builds on these lessons learned and plans next steps, we share our experience to support others engaged in forming community-academic partnerships through deep stakeholder engagement and use of participatory approaches within and outside of recovery research.https://account.jces.ua.edu/index.php/s-j-jces/article/view/479stakeholder engagementcommunity-based participatory researchopioid recoverypeersequitable partnershipcommunity-academic partnerships |
| spellingShingle | Jon N. Gilgoff Eunsong Park Julvette Price Tiffinee Scott Tyrell Moyd Katie Rouse Gabby Knighton Jodi Jacobson Frey Nicole Mattocks Erika Shook Michelle Tuten Jay Unick Fernando A. Wagner Building Equitable Community-Academic Partnerships for Opioid Recovery Research: Lessons Learned from Stakeholder Engagement With Peer and Provider Organizations Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship stakeholder engagement community-based participatory research opioid recovery peers equitable partnership community-academic partnerships |
| title | Building Equitable Community-Academic Partnerships for Opioid Recovery Research: Lessons Learned from Stakeholder Engagement With Peer and Provider Organizations |
| title_full | Building Equitable Community-Academic Partnerships for Opioid Recovery Research: Lessons Learned from Stakeholder Engagement With Peer and Provider Organizations |
| title_fullStr | Building Equitable Community-Academic Partnerships for Opioid Recovery Research: Lessons Learned from Stakeholder Engagement With Peer and Provider Organizations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building Equitable Community-Academic Partnerships for Opioid Recovery Research: Lessons Learned from Stakeholder Engagement With Peer and Provider Organizations |
| title_short | Building Equitable Community-Academic Partnerships for Opioid Recovery Research: Lessons Learned from Stakeholder Engagement With Peer and Provider Organizations |
| title_sort | building equitable community academic partnerships for opioid recovery research lessons learned from stakeholder engagement with peer and provider organizations |
| topic | stakeholder engagement community-based participatory research opioid recovery peers equitable partnership community-academic partnerships |
| url | https://account.jces.ua.edu/index.php/s-j-jces/article/view/479 |
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