Partnering for Research
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead
Welcome travelers and learners...
choose your path for caring, creating and connection.
Choose this path to view the methods and results of engaging over 60 members of the Multiple Chronic Conditions Community in a Cooperatively Inspired Research Community for Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).
Choose this path to use and download materials from the Guide's facilitated engagement processes, tools, and resources. This guide was a product of engaging Multi-stakeholder teams in planning for research.
All Truths are easy to understand once they are discovered.
The point is to discover.
-Gaileo Galilei
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince
About this Site
This site is a result of reciprocal relationships founded upon deep listening, flexibility, trust, courage, persistence and patience. It is a way to share lessons learned and wisdom gained from partnering for research with members of the MCC community. It is a way to share steps, tools and processes of our engagement strategies collated into the Partnering Guide for Research. The guide's tools were tested while conducting community engagement in research and used to create everything on this website.
If you are interested in the methods and results of collaborating with over 60 members of the Multiple Chronic Conditions Community, go to the MCC Research Agenda.
If you are interested in viewing and downloading materials from the Guide's facilitated engagement processes, tools, and resources, go to the Partnering Guide for Research page in the menu of this website.
This project was guided by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute's engagement rubric. Click here to learn also about PCORI's newly developed diversity, equity and inclusion engagement principles.
This website was funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program (EATR-18361). The views, statements, and opinions presented in this website are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010. Its mission is to fund research that will provide patients, their caregivers, and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better-informed healthcare decisions. PCORI is committed to continually seeking input from a broad range of stakeholders to guide its work.
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