Program Goal

CLIK assists community leaders associated with organizations that engage and empower communities to address health challenges, leverage funding, and use data to improve services and programs.

Program Benefits 
 

• Training: To ensure the program meets participants’ needs, we use a hybrid format to cover the 60 hours of training. We will launch the program with a four day in-person meeting over a long weekend and then conduct the trainings online thereafter. Training sessions include: 
  • Grant Proposal Writing
  • Accessing and Mining Public Datasets
  • Quality Improvement/Ensuring Evidence Based Practice
  • Survey Development
  • Assessing Community Health Needs
  • Program Evaluation/Data Analysis
  • Designing and Implementing a Solid Budget
  • Advanced Public Speaking
     
• Research Mentorship: Each participant will be matched with a research mentor. Once the training has been completed, each participant will be provided with a $5000 grant to implement their research project in conjunction with their mentor. Mentors will visit the project site at least once.

Funding

Each participant’s organization will receive a $5000 grant for their participation in this competitive program and completion of proposed project. Priority will be given to applicants who propose projects consistent with the UK CCTS Community Engagement and Research Program’s areas of interest, including:

• Cancer prevention (e.g., nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation)

• Reducing obesity and sedentary lifestyle

• Chronic disease (diabetes, cardiovascular disease) prevention or management

• Substance abuse prevention and treatment

Program Requirements

To accomplish the goals of the Institute, the full participation of each individual selected is necessary. To successfully complete the Institute, participants must:

• Bring in projects to ensure that there is a “real world deliverable” that builds organizational and community capacity.

• Attend all training sessions and present their project during the graduation session

• Provide a brief 6-month and 1-year progress report

• Present their projects at the annual CCTS Spring Conference