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Featured Community-based Projects

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Adolescent Health and Well-being Project
Barbershop and Blood Pressure Project
Faith-based Cancer Screening Project
Gen-X Project
Healthy Community Neighborhood Initiative

Adolescent Health and Well-being Project

Aim
Partnership (Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA & Bright Star Charter Schools) to examine and explore the effects of a national school mental health club on mental illness stigma for students at three LAUSD high schools.

Partnership Activities
Surveys, interviews, focus groups, community conference on the topic.

Manuscripts: In progress.

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Barbershop and Blood Pressure Project

Cedars-Sinai

Barber Eric Mohammad and Mark Sims, seated, checking Sims' blood pressure.

Aim
Community health promotion by barbers (trusted peers) with specialty-level hypertension medication management delivered in the barbershops by clinical pharmacists led by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Partnership Activities
Blood pressure screening and management done in local barbershops.

Manuscripts:

A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Blood-Pressure Reduction in Black Barbershops

Featured Related Media:

The Associated Press | Mar 12, 2018, Barbershop study trimmed black men's hair - and blood pressure
Slate | Mar 15, 2018, Why Not Get Your Drugs at the Barbershop?
Los Angeles Times | Mar 13, 2018, How visits to the barbershop reduce blood pressure in African American men

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Faith-based Cancer Screening Project

Aim
Capacity building for church promotion of cancer screening, implementing community health educators to identify, provide counseling, and follow up to congregants or community members who have not received recommended cancer screenings.

Partnership Activities
Training of health educators, church and participant recruitment, evaluation of outcome, and potential effectiveness of the intervention. Community health conferences were organized highlighting project updates and results.

Manuscripts:

Promoting Cancer Screening in Partnership With Health Ministries in 9 African American Churches in South Los Angeles: An Implementation Pilot Study

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GenX Project

UCLA

The GenX project works to engage older adult volunteers into grades K-3 classrooms to help students improve reading and math skills.

Aim
Partnership (UCLA & LA Unified School District) to promote greater health and wellness outcomes in at-risk older adults, while simultaneously supporting academic and behavioral outcomes for children. Places older community volunteers into grades K-3 classrooms to help students improve reading and math skills.

Partnership Activities
Implementation support, data collection for adults and children, outcome analysis.

Featured Related Website:

GenX Project (UCLA)

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Healthy Community Neighborhood Initiative

UCLA

Dr. Arleen Brown and D'Ann Morris present a poster on the design of HCNI.

Aim
Multifaceted community partnered study that aims to improve health and health care in a predominantly African American and Latino community in South Los Angeles.

Partnership Activities
Study protocol, community events, household surveys, data collection.

Manuscripts:

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