Grant: HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General - CBR Facilitators

This is a proposal for a IV phase of the activities of the Community Based Research Facilitator in the British Columbia Community-Based Research Capacity-Building Program (hereafter "CBR Facilitator" or "CBRF") from May 2009 to March 2011. The CBRF a) facilitates, develops and enhances community based research capacity, b) facilitates the development and maintenance of efficient and mutually supportive partnerships between academics and community, and c) improves and sustains the skills for understanding and undertaking research, especially community-based research, amongst those connected to community-based organizations (e.g. PWAs, volunteers, staff, etc.). The CBRF will continue to a) engage and assist communities, agencies, and individuals (many of whom are living with HIV) in CBR capacity building activities, b) broker democratic and efficient partnerships between community leaders and academic institutions/researchers, c) supervise collaborative CBR activities between community volunteers and university students d) collaborate in research projects, e) network with other CBR Facilitators across the country, f) bring the CBR perspective to traditional research projects as a collaborator, and g) showcase the CBR models and projects of the province in local, national and international fora.