The "Community Approaches to Cardiovascular Health in Detroit" (CATCH) uses a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities in cardiovascular disease by improving heart health in Detroit, Michigan. CATCH is a project of the Healthy Environments Partnership (HEP), a partnership of several
community-based organizations, health service providers and academic institutions that has been working together since 2000 to identify relationships between inequalities and cardiovascular disease in Detroit. The HEP Steering Committee, composed of representatives from each of the partner organizations that operates in accordance with a set of CBPR
principles adopted by the partnership, has identified the need to expand the partnership to assess the factors associated with and develop strategies to address health disparities in the city of Detroit. CATCH aims to: 1)
Implement a Community Assessment that engages community residents, community-based organizations, health and human service providers, researchers based in academic institutions and policy makers in Detroit's eastside, northwest and southwest areas to examine challenges, opportunities, and strategies to reduce and eventually eliminate disparities in cardiovascular disease; 2) Engage community residents, community-based organizations, health and human service providers, researchers based in academic institutions and policy makers in designing a Multilevel Intervention Plan to promote cardiovascular health among residents of eastside, northwest, and southwest Detroit to reduce and eventually
eliminate disparities in cardiovascular disease; 3) Conduct and evaluate a multilevel (individual, organizational, community, and policy level) pilot intervention research study using a community-based participatory research approach to reduce and eventually eliminate disparities in cardiovascular disease; and 4) Evaluate the partnership process to gain an increased
understanding of the successes, facilitating factors and barriers to using a community-based participatory research approach to reduce and eventually eliminate disparities in cardiovascular disease.
For more information please contact: Amy Schulz.