Building Community Capacity and Impact Working Group
The Building Community Capacity and Impact Working Group is one of six (6) working groups in the RADx-UP program tackling specific topics and challenges that may commonly occur among similar populations across the country.
This working group brings together RADx-UP projects and community partners interested in building the capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs) to collaborate with their communities, with government agencies, and with academic institutions to improve COVID-19 communication and outreach, COVID-19 testing and diagnosis, COVID-19 vaccination, and COVID-19 data collection and dissemination.
Their goals are to start COVID-19 conversations, advance COVID-19 promotora/community health worker model, and personal storytelling.
RADx-UP Working Groups
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Shared and Developed Resources
BCCI Causal Loop Diagram Table
In collaboration with the CDCC Group Model Building team we created a visual representation of what helps, or hurts, equitable COVID-19 testing. In this resource, you will see a table with visual diagrams and written explanations of the working group's insights into community processes that impact COVID-19 testing.
BCCI Video Library
In this video library, you can watch and listen as the team talks through highlights of the Causal Loop Diagram Table resource.
Health Equity Policy Framework Workshops
The BCCI will be offering facilitated workshops using the RADx-UP Health Equity Policy Framework, to help project partners think through intervention strategies towards achieving equitable policy responses to COVID-19 in their communities. These workshops will be available by request in early 2023. More information on the framework is available at the link below.
Past Group Chair
Brandy Farrar, MS, Ph.D.
Dr. Brandy Farrar is a Managing Director at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). She is skilled in the design and implementation of qualitative and mixed methods approaches to thoroughly documenting and assessing the implementation process and outcomes (including systems changes) of complex innovations. Dr. Farrar uses research findings to provide actionable program and policy recommendations to help clients meet their goals. As a sociologist specializing in the intersection between individual-level social psychology and system-level structures and processes, Dr. Farrar has a broad theoretical foundation that enhances her ability to excel on projects in subject matter areas both within and outside of healthcare.
Grants
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Resources
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Publications
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