Community Engagement and Health Equity Pilot Program (CE-Pilot)
Past Awards
The CCTSI is proud to announce the CEHE-Pilot Awardees. These projects were chosen by rigorous scientific review from many applications submitted for consideration. Please join us in congratulating these talented investigators.2024 CE-Pilot Program Awards
| Primary Investigator | Affiliation | Project Title |
| Elena Broaddus, PhD Christina Gumbiner | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Food Bank of the Rockies | Building Community Capacity with Food Banks to Support Mental Health in Rural Colorado |
| Lisa Cicutto, PhD Su Korbitz | National Jewish Hospital College of Nursing Otero County Public Health Environmental Services | Building Partnerships in the Lower Arkansas Valley for a Healthy Environment Supporting Healthy Living |
| Kristine Erlandson MD, MS Guadalupe Uribe-Joyner | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Colorado Health Network | Building a Partnership to Improve HIV Prevention and Care among Latino Communities in Colorado |
| Katherine LeMasters, PhD, MPH Betsy Craft | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Applying as individual | Building a sustainable partnership to prevent suicide and overdose during and after jail incarceration and while on probation |
| Alison Abraham, PhD, MS, MHS Erin Burk-Leaver | CU Anschutz Medical Campus School of Public Health Colorado Health Network | The Healthy Aging Eyes and Ears Program: Developing a sensory care program to improve aging outcomes among adults aging with HIV |
| Jacob Holzman, PhD Don Hanna | CU Anschutz Medical Campus Department of Psychiatry La Puente Home PALS Children's Program | Growing Resilience and Improving Together (GRIT): Expanding Trauma-Informed Care and Evaluating the Sources of Strength Program among Children Experiencing High ACES |
| Patrick Romani, PhD, BCBA-D Dee Leyba | CU Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine Arkansas Valley Communities that Care Otero County Public Health | Addressing identified mental and behavioral healthcare needs in Southeast Colorado by educating youth about digital media safety |
| Eileen Wang, MD, MPH Jennifer McCullough, M.S.Ed | CU Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine National Jewish Hospital Morgridge Academy | Building Community Agency and Power to Advance Health Equity in Asthma: Engaging with Students, Caregivers and School Staff through Community-Based Participatory Research |
2023 CE-Pilot Program Awards
| Primary Investigator | Affiliation | Project Title |
| Patrick W. Romani, PhD, BCBA-D Laura DiPrince, MS, LPC, NCC, ADS | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Southeast Health Group | Partnership for Improved Youth Behavioral Health in Southeast Colorado: The ABLE Partnership |
| Christine Fruhauf (Bubien), PhD Sara Delgado | Colorado State University HDFS Extension Programs Logan County Coalition on Aging | Building Community Capacity for Health Aging Programming and Research in Northeast Colorado |
| Ian Stanley, PhD William Dunn, BA, NRP, FP-c | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Eagle County Paramedic Services | Reducing Psychological Health Disparities Among Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Providers in Colorado: Establishment of a Community-Academic Partnership |
| Gretchen Domek, MD, MPhil Mary Ann Bash, MA | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Parents for Parity | Addressing Disparities in Child Development Through a Community-Academic Partnership: Using Puppet Talk to Support Early Social-Emotional Health and Language Development |
2022 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Primary Investigator | Affiliation | Project Title |
| Gretchen Domek, MD, Mphil Mary Ann Bash | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Parents for Parity | Addressing Disparities in Early Brain and Child Development through a Community-Academic Partnership Supporting Early Language Promotion and Social-Emotional Health |
| Christine Garver-Apgar, PhD Donna Goldstrom | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Front Range Clinic | Integrated Addiction and Whole Health Treatment |
| Emily Gaskin, MA, MPH Julissa Martinez | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Applying as individuals | A Model for building health equity: Development of an implicit bias component of the Pregnancy and Parenting Partners (P3) program using a community-based participatory research framework |
| James Kaferly, MD Jordyn Gendel | Denver Health and Hospital Authority Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center | Collaborating to Address Health Disparities Among Youth with Lived Experience in Foster Care |
| David Nowles, MD, MPH Adrian Miller, MD | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Colorado Council of Churches | Constructing Alliances with Faith Communities to Explore Advance Care Planning (CAFE-ACP) |
| Karen Orjuela, MD Charment Moussata, PhD | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Clinical Trust Solutions | Create community ties between University of Colorado and African Immigrant community in the Denver Metro area through addressing stroke prevention and preparedness |
| Claudia Amura PhD, MPH Kim Gonzales | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Las Animas Huerfano Counties Health Department | Las Animas and Huerfano Together Changing the Narrative regarding Substance Use |
| Morgan Clennin, PhD Wendy Peters Moschetti | Kaiser Permanente of Colorado Nourish Colorado | Transforming Food Systems: Evaluating pathways to scale up the Healthy Food Incentives program |
| Beth Osnes, PhD Chelsea Hackett | CU Boulder SPEAK | Building a Culture of Consent through Youth Voice |
| Talia Thompson, PhD Marybel Good | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Turner Syndrome Colorado | Anxiety in Turner syndrome: Engaging families and youth to address barriers and facilitators to diagnosis and care |
2021 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Primary Investigator | Affiliation | Project Title |
| Elizabeth Kvach, MD Tara Jae, PhD | Denver Health LGBTQ Center of Excellence Youth Seen | Building Partnerships to Address Disparities in Healthcare Access and Utilization for Transgender and Nonbinary People of Color in Denver |
| Alex Reed, PsyD, MPH Terri Richardson, MD | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Colorado Black Health Collaborative | BBSHOP (Black Barbershop/Salon Health Outreach Program)/ Project Hair Care Collaborative |
| Meredith Fort, PhD, MPH Valerie Small, PhD | CU Anschutz Medical Campus Colorado School of Public Health Trees, Water & People | Regenerative Foodscapes: Envisioning systems that promote food sovereignty and support healthy, equitable and sustainable diets and the environment |
| Kristin Uhler, Ph.D Sara Kennedy | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Colorado Hands & Voices | Sustaining EHDI Programming: Parents and Researchers Partner to Reduce Barriers to High Outcomes during COVID-19 and Beyond |
| Joshua Williams, MD Adrian Miller, JD | Denver Health Department of Pediatrics, Ambulatory Care Services Colorado Council of Churches | The CURIOUS Partnership: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Appropriateness of an Intervention in Black Faith Communities to Increase Knowledge and Receipt of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines |
| Brad Morse, PhD, MA Alexander Wamboldt, PhD | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine One Colorado | A pilot study of the Transgender Health Information Resource tool |
| Rebecca Mullen, MD, MPH Maret Felzien | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine High Plains Research Network Community Advisory Council | Tackling Loneliness with Communities (T.L.C.): Assessing and Translating Local Coping Strategies |
| Julie Braungart-Rieker, PhD Kristin Glenn, MBA | Colorado State University College of Human Development and Family Studies The Women's Clinic of Northern Colorado | Dad Space: Increasing Community Support Resources for Perinatal Fathers |
| Amber McDonald, PhD, LCSW Dan Eamon | CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine Longmont Department of Public Safety | Police Co-Responder Teams: Do they make a difference? |
2020 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
Claudia Amura, PhD, MPH CU Anschutz Medical Campus | Kimberly Kim Gonzales, Executive Director Las Animas/Huerfano Counties District Public Health Department | Together for Drug Free Communities in Las Animas and Huerfano frontier Colorado counties |
Kathleen Bickel, MD CU Anschutz Medical Campus | Leslie Eber, MD, President Colorado Medical Director’s Association | Creating a joint community-academic partnership to guide translation and implementation of trauma-informed care to post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities |
J. Douglas Coatsworth, PhD Colorado State University | Kristin Glenn, MBA, Director Women’s Clinical of Northern Colorado Education Department | University-Community Partnership to Support Fathers in the Transition to Parenthood |
Katherine Dickinson, PhD CU Anschutz Medical Campus | Shaina Burkett, Director Denver Housing Authority | Housing Policy as Public Health Policy: Building a Community-Engaged Impact Evaluation of Denver's Sun Valley Public Housing Redevelopment Project |
Lisa Ross DeCamp, MD CU Anschutz Medical Campus | Robin Waterman, PhD Aurora Community Connection | Reducing Childhood Obesity Disparities for Latino Children in Immigrant Families through Community-Based Intensive Weight Management |
Sarah Ann Stotz, PhD CU Anschutz Medical Campus | Adrianne Maddux, Executive Director Denver Indian Health and Family Services, Inc. | Building A Community Academic Partnership to Address Food Insecurity Among American Indian and Alaska Native Elders in Denver, CO |
Shannon Allen, PhD University of Denver | Celina Espinoza, MA South Conejos School District | Developing a trauma-sensitive school: a process evaluation of a small, rural district’s translation of evidence-based social-emotional health practices and programs |
Karen Caplovitz Barrett, PhD Colorado State University | Kimberly Penney, MSW, Program Director Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountain | Teaching Adoptive Parents Trauma-Informed Parenting (TAPT-in Parenting) Parent-to-Parent intervention pilot |
Sarah E. Brewer, PhD, MPA CU Anschutz Medical Campus | Paul Stein, Executive, Director iNOW (integration: Navigation, Outreach, Wealth-Building) | Improving Primary Care Use and Engagement among Resettled Refugee Adults |
Chrissy Chard, PhD Colorado State University | Deborah Fard, Executive Director The Dr. Justina Ford Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (JF-STEM) Institute | Engaging Women and Girls of Color: A Cultural Adaptation of the Health and Well-being Program, Smart Fit Girls |
Sarah A. Stella, MD Denver Health and Housing Authority, and University of Colorado School of Medicine | Lisa Thompson, DNP, Chief Operating Officer Colorado Coalition for the Homeless | Engaging Community Stakeholders to Develop a Hospital-Based Peer Support Intervention for Patients Experiencing Homelessness |
2019 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| Elaine Belansky | Clarissa Woodworth | A Community-University Partnership to Meet the Social-Emotional Needs of Rural Youth |
| Rochelle Cason-Wilkerson | Griselda Pena-Jackson | Community Engagement in the African American Community: Can We Slow the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity with the Help of the Community |
| Rebecca Mullen | Maret Felzien | Tackling Loneliness with Communities (T.L.C.) |
| Joshua Williams | Adrian Miller | The CURIOUS Partnership: Coloradans Understanding Religion and Immunization through Sustained Partnership |
2018 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| Dawn Magnusson, PT, PhD | Griselda Pena-Jackson | Promoting Early Identification and Intervention for Children with or at Risk for Developmental Delay |
| Nancy Asdigian, PhD | Brandy Kramer | A Pilot Exploration of Community-Led WALKshops for Improving Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in the Bhutanese/Nepali Refugee Community |
| Angela L. Rachubinski, PhD | Lori A. Ropa, CAE | Crisis Prevention through Planning: A Partnership to Support Individuals with a Dual Diagnosis in the I/DD Community |
| Matthew J. Simpson, MD, MPH | Andrea Clement-Johnson, MS | Building community partnerships to promote the human papilloma virus vaccine |
| Sarah A. Stella, MD | Lisa Thompson | Building a Partnership to Improve Hospital Care and Care Transitions for Vulnerable Homeless Patients |
| Shannon N. Allen, PhD, MA, BA | Jim Johnson | The San Luis Valley Substance Abuse Prevention Collaborative |
2017 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| Nancy L. Asdigian, PhD | Brandy Kramer | Community/Academic Partnership to Improve Cardiovascular Health in Metro-Area Refugee Communities |
| Christine A. Chard, PhD | Maisha Fields | Partnering with a Community of Color to Create a Culturally Responsive Program: Smart Fit Girls |
| Dina M. Flink, PhD | Michael Russum, MD | Addressing the need for education and early detection services for HPV and cervical cancer in the Denver Latina community |
| Karen Barrett, MA, PhD | Kimberly Penney, MSW, LCSW | TAPT-In Parenting (Teaching Adoptive Parents Trauma-Informed Parenting) partnership development |
| Lorraine F. Kubicek, PhD | Jennifer Rosendo, MA | Parents & Child Care Providers Partnering to Support the Social and Emotional Health & Development of Young Children: Implementing Relationship-based Curricula at Home & in Early Head Start Setting |
| Anu Sharma, BS, MA, PhD | Sara Kennedy | Enhancing Well-Being for Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families |
| Lauren Shomaker, PhD* | Laura Schwartz, LCSW | Comparative Effectiveness Pilot Study for Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Prevention in Hispanic/Latino Adolescents |
| Doug Coatsworth, PhD* | Yvonne Myers, BS, CAN | Building a Compassionate Community Actively Living Mindfulness (CCALM) to Promote Health and Well-Being Among Older Adults, Family Caregivers, and Care Staff |
| Tamanna Tiwari, MPH, MDS, BDS* | Mirna Ramirez-Castro | A Community-based Intervention to Improve Oral Health Knowledge and Behavior in Latino Primary Caregivers of Children Under the Age of 6 Years |
| Lynn Schofield Clark, PhD* | Megan Miccio, MSW | Incorporating Video Storytelling into Trauma-Informed Practice with Low-Income Youth of Color |
2016 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| Tamanna Tiwari, MPH, MDS, BDS | Mirna Ramirez-Castro | Developing a Community –Academic partnership to engage Latino families in reducing early childhood caries |
| Gregory Tung | Griselda Pena-Jackson | A partnership to engage communities and stakeholders on the subject of youth access to legal marijuana. |
| Doug Coatsworth, PhD | Yvonne Myers | Building mindfulness and contemplative practices for residents family and staff into a system of care for aging adults |
| Lauren Shomaker, PhD | Laura Schwartz | Unidos por la salud/United for health: Innovative community-academic solutions for diabetes prevention in Northern Colorado |
| Kristine Gauthier, PhD, MPH, PNP | Nita Gonzales, MEd | La Escuela Healthy Lifestyle Collaborative |
| Jamaluddin Moloo, MD, MPH | Janet Meredith, MBA | Youth Community Health Awareness Partnership |
| Darcy A. Thompson MD, MPH | Jill Bonczynski RD, MS | Intervening on postpartum weight-retention in a WIC setting |
| Heidi Wald, MD, MPH | Leslie Eber, MD | Antimicrobial Stewardship in Long Term Care |
| Andrea Nederveld, MD | Traci Wieland | "This Is My Gym": A program encouraging children and their families to be active through play and interaction with the built and natural environment in Mesa County. |
| Nicole Kasper, PhD | Liza Marron, MA | A Community Based Approach to Implementing Farm to School in the San Luis Valley |
| Lisa Meltzer, PhD | Griselda Pena-Jackson | Power Down to Power Up: Feasibility and Efficacy of a Community Based Sleep Health for Youth |
2015 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| Linda Overholser, MD, MPH* | Penny Cooper, MD | Using Boot Camp Translation to Create a Community of Solution for Cancer Survivorship in the San Luis Valley |
| Rocio Pereira, MD* | Fernando Pineda-Reyes | Finding the "desire line" - Supporting Latinos in their own path to diabetes prevention |
| Lisa McKenzie, PhD, MPH* | Kelly Giddens | Research in Service of Communities: Demystifying, Communicating, and Incorporating Public Health Research on Energy Development |
| Stephen Scott, MD* | Rick Ellsmore | Stabilizing Families through Conflict Reduction Among Teen Parents |
| Lisa J. Meltzer, PhD* | Margaret E. Brawley | Sleep Health in Children and their Families |
| Heidi Wald, MD, MSPH* | Greg Gahm, MD | The Colorado Long Term Care Research Partnership: A Community Partnership and Research Collaboration to Promote Health for Residents of Long Term Care Communities |
| Darcy A. Thompson MD, MPH* | Erin Ulric, MPH | Establishment of a community-academic partnership to address the intergenerational transmission of obesity in low-income mothers and children |
| Deborah Rinehart, PhD, MA* | Rudy Gonzales | Building Community Partnerships to Address Current Social Inequities Impacting the Mental Health of the Latino Community |
| Jodi Holtrop, PhD* | Andrea Nederveld | Engaging Mesa County for Action on Pediatric Obesity |
| Carol Foust, PhD, LPC* | Naomi Orona Reyes | Partnership to Explore Mindfulness Training in Pueblo City Schools to Prevent School Violence and Empower Health Decisions |
| Kimberly Henry, PhD* | Toshiko Dignam | Measuring Efficacy of Training Transfer and Feasibility of Technology Components that Support the Success of Promotores de Salud Workers |
| Eric J. Moody, PhD* | Jeanette Cordova | Improving Access to Autism Care for Hispanic/Latino Families |
2014 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| Ronica N. Rooks, PhD | Sarah McCarthy* | Is time-banking an effective social capital building model to help maintain or improve seniors' health in Colorado? |
| Kathleen Garrett, MS* and Patricia Valverde, MPH | Rubin Medina | A Community Feasibility Study of Tobacco Behaviors, Cessation Barriers Including Chronic Life Stressors, and Community Reach Among a Multi-Ethnic, Low SES Community in Aurora |
| Scott Harpin, PhD, MPH* | Kendall Rames | Feasibility of Using SBIRT for Mental Health Screening with Runaway/Homeless Youth |
| Luisa Mestroni, MD* | Adrianne Maddux | Engaging Native American Populations in Improving Understanding of Genetic Cardiovascular Conditions and Related Research |
| Gregory J Tung, PhD, MPH* | Dawn Barrett | Community Partnership to Facilitate Positive Youth Development and Prevent Youth and Gang Violence in Aurora, Colorado |
| John Brett, PhD* | Rebecca Born | Park Hill Healthy Families Food Action Research Network |
| Eric J. Moody, PhD* | Jeanette Cordova | Culture and Community: Building Partnership to Serve Spanish-Speaking Families Living with Autism |
| Joseph Douglas Johnson, MD* | Maisha Pollard | Building the Platform to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Joint Community-Academic Interdisciplinary Student-run Free Clinic Venture in Original Aurora |
| Kimberly Henry, PhD* | Toshiko Dignam | Partnership to Study Effectiveness and Replication of Promotores de Salud Program in High Need Denver Neighborhoods |
| Alia Al-Tayyib, MD, MSPH* | Adam Evans | Establishment of a Community-Based Partnership to Develop Primary Prevention Strategies Related to Youth Mental Health |
| Ashley Brooks-Russell, PhD, MPH* | Stacy Weinberg | Partnership to Improve Child and Adolescent Mental Health by Promoting the Interrelatedness of Mental Health and Physical Health |
2013 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| Kristine Knuti Rodrigues, MD* | Kit Taintor, MPH | African Immigrants and Refugees, Part Two: Evaluating an Expanded Community Health Worker Program |
| Ingrid A. Binswanger, MD, MPH, MS* | Lisa Raville | “Let’s talk about life”: Empowering our community to prevent deaths from overdose |
| Tillman Farley, MD | Janet Meredith* | Community and Students against Healthcare Racism: developing and testing interventions with providers and community |
| Sarit Polsky, MD, MPH* | Grant Jones | Physical Activity among Older African Americans in the Denver Metropolitan Area |
| Marilyn J. Macdonald* | Dawn Loge-Greer | Translating an Evidence-based SUD/MH Treatment for Adolescents to a School Setting |
| Rocio Pereira, MD* | Robin Waterman, PhD | Measuring the Effectiveness of Community-based Health Programs Targeting Latino Immigrants |
| Benjamin Miller, PsyD | George DelGrosso* | Addressing Data Infrastructure and Health Outcomes for the Community Mental Health System |
| Mandy A Allison, MD, MSPH* | Scott Romero and Jade Williamson | Partnership to Study School-Based Health Care Effectiveness |
2012 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| Al Marcus, PhD | Sonia Okuyama Sasaki, MD* | Pilot Study of the Feasibility and Acceptability of Psychosocial Counseling via Telephone for Underserved Cancer Survivors at Denver Health Hospital |
| Mori Krantz, MD | Rachel Cleaves* | Factors Influencing Participation and Cardiovascular Outcomes in a Community-Based Zumba Exercise Program |
| Deborah Main, PhD* | George Ware | Testing methods for identifying and describing the health, health care needs and resources for socially isolated older adults |
| Greg Gutierrez, MD* | Leah Huffer-Solomon, CTRS | Evaluation of a Joint Community Health Services and City Parks and Recreation Exercise Program |
| Hal C. Lewis, PhD* | Tammye Pirie | An Investigation of Home-Based, Computerized Cognitive Rehabilitation for High School Students with Persistent Learning and Behavioral Symptoms Following Brain Injury |
| Amy Huebschmann, MD | Lucille Johnson* | Overcoming Barriers to Physical Activity for African-American Women |
| Eileen Thomas, PhD, RN | Lourdes Yun* | Integrative Care Services for Asian Pacific Islanders in Colorado Communities |
| Rocio I Pereira, MD* | Robin Waterman, PhD | Establishment of a community-academic partnership to develop evidence-based lifestyle interventions aimed towards obesity prevention and weight-loss in Latino families |
2011 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| Diane K. King, PhD* and Leslie Wright, MA | Ken Helander, MA; Cathy Grimm, LCSW; Jessica Haxton Retrum, PhD, LCSW | Translating the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) model to address health and social service gaps for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) senior population |
| Comilla Sasson, MD, MS* | Ricardo Padilla, MD | Improving survival from Out-of Hospital Cardiac Arrest in high-risk neighborhoods (Denver OHCA): A community-based participatory research study to understand barriers to CPR |
| Sandra Friedman, MD, MPH* | Acceptability of social-emotional screening in a population of Latino children | |
| Nia Mitchell, MD, MPH* | Grant Jones | Senior Wellness Initiative and TOPS Collaboration for Health (SWITCH) |
| Karen Albright, PhD | Fernando Pineda-Reyes* | Barriers to adoption of cessation treatment among Mexican-American/Chicano smokers |
| Jeanette Waxmonsky, PhD* and Brian Stafford, MD | Implementation and evaluation of a perinatal mental health education and systems integration program for low income women | |
| Matthew C. Brown, PhD | Deryk Sanchez Standring, MA* | Research protocol to identify and test HIV prevention messages that gay/bi men in the Denver metropolitan area are receptive to using in their social networks |
| Paula Riggs, MD and Marilyn Macdonald* | Developing a partnership for the implementation of school-based integrated mental health and substance abuse/dependence treatment for adolescent high school students | |
| Kristine Knuti, MD* | Kit Taintor, MPH | Improving access to health care and increasing disease screening and prevention for African immigrants and refugees |
2010 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| John Crumlin, PhD | Rocky Mountain Health Care Services: Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) | Field testing a self-administered cognitive and psychological screen in an integrated primary care setting |
| Larry A. Allen, MD, MHS | Kaiser-Permanente of Colorado | Qualitative assessment of factors resulting in heart failure rehospitalization |
| Chad Morris, PhD | Behavioral HealthCare, Inc. (BHI) | A needs assessment for persons with behavioral health and weight control issues |
| Lauren DeAlleaume, MD | High Plains Research Network Community Advisory Council | Translating hypertension research to improve blood pressure control in rural Colorado |
| Diane K. King, PhD* | Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of Colorado; Jewish Family Service of Colorado; University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work | Building partnerships to translate the naturally occurring retirement community (NORC) model to address health and social service gaps for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) senior population residing in and around Capitol Hill neighborhood, Denver, Colorado |
| Sheana Bull, PhD* | University of New Mexico; El Centro de Desarrolo Humano, Cuernavaca, Mexico; Estara's Integrative Program, Lakewood, Colorado | Developing partnerships to facilitate integration of traditional Curanderismo with primary care |
| Chris Melby, Dr PH | Larimer County Department of Health and Environment | Establishment of a CSU-LCDHE partnership to reduce obesity and diabetes among Hispanic adults |
| Merrick Weaver, MHS | Partnerships for Healthy Communities (P4HC) | A youth-adult taskforce that uniquely addresses barriers to accessing healthy foods |
| Sarah McCarthy | Neighborhood Resource Center of Colorado | Do community socioeconomic status disparities affect the relationship between social capital and health among older adults in metro Denver? |
| Arlene Stredler Brown, CCC-SLP, CED; John K. Bennett, PhD | The Listen Foundation; Healthbridge Systems | Telehealth Colorado: Rural & remote access to speech & language therapy for toddlers, preschoolers, and older students with cochlear implants |
2009 CEHE-Pilot Program Awards
| Academic Partner | Community Partner | Project Title |
| Teresa Sharp, PhD; Elizabeth Gilbert, EdD; Sharon Shields, PhD; Laurel Lunn | Ina Burmeister, BA, MA, Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services | A Mixed-Methods Community Based Participatory Research Study to Expand Intercultural Understanding of the Long-Term Detrimental Effects of Childhood Obesity |
| Heather Taussig, PhD | Melissa Carson | Collaborative Development of a Protocol to Assess Health Disparities Among Maltreated Youth with a History of Foster Care Placement |
| Allegra Melillo, MD; Mark Earnest, MD; and Amy Barton, RN, PhD | Marybeth Rensberger, RN, Aurora Public School District; Katie Hartenbach, Elkhart Elementary School | Developing a Community-Based Participatory Research Infrastructure to Support the Development of an Interprofessional Student-Run School-Based Health Center |
| Jill Litt, PhD | Michael Buchenau, MLA, GGHC; Laura Lavid, GGHC; Joe Brown, Starz Down to Earth Films | Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities (GGHC) |
| Eric Sigel, MD | Adam Evans/Mike Johnson - Project PAVE; John Youngquist, Principal East High School | Screening and Treating Youth at Risk for Violence Involvement in the School Setting |
| Patricia Iwasaki, MSW; Debbi Main, PhD | Tracey Stewart; George Ware | Using Social Networks and Small Groups to Explore Interpretations of Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart (TNH2H) Data and Collect Outlier Pilot Data |
| Jini Puma, PhD; Martin Tombari; Laurie Bennett; Nicholas Cutforth; Janet Shriberg | Susan Downs-Karkos - Spring Institute; Barbara Hummel/Matthew Kelly - Refugee Preventive Health Services Program of Colorado; Paul Stein - Colorado Refugee Services Program; Francoise Mbabazi - Colorado Progressive Coalition; Dr. Khalid Mohammed - Colorado African Organization; Dr. Gretchen Heinrichs - Denver Health | What Gets Lost in the Translation? Why Refugees with Abnormal Health Conditions Fail to Seek Follow-up Medical Care |
| Chris Bryant, RN (Community PI) | Tracy Williams, TradeWinds Communications, LLC; Dr. Margie Cook, Colorado Council of Black Nurses; Leslie Sterling, LCSW, Mental Health Center of Denver; Sia Chandler-Garcia, Denver Public Schools; Kelly O'Keefe Voorhees, MSPH, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment | Community/Academic Partnership to Increase Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Graduates in Minority Residents in the Montbello and Green Valley Ranch Community |
| Arnold Levinson, PhD | Fernando Pineda-Reyes | Community-Embedded Navigators and Health Promotores for Disease Prevention and Treatment |
| Karen Peifer, PhD; Mary Weber, PhD | Design and Development of a Community Needs Assessment Tool Based on Standardized Measures: Focus on Unmet Needs Related to Maternal Depression | |
| Jean Kutner, MD, MSPH | Janelle McCallum, RN, MSM, CHPN, BSN; Susan Lasker-Hertz, RN, MSN, CHPN | Hospice-Academic Partnership to Improve Care for Vulnerable Populations at the End of Life |
| Jennifer Morse (Community PI); Bennett Parnes, MD | Identify the Health Care Needs of a Geriatric Hispanic Population Affected by Range of Health Disparities | |
| Bridgette Larkin (Community PI) | Margie Cook, PhD, NP, RN, Colorado Council of Black Nurses | Nurturing Our Village Association |
| Linda Zittleman, MSPH; Bennett Parnes, MD; Lauren DeAlleaume, MD; Elaine Belansky, PhD; Jack Westfall, MD | Shirley Cowart - Yuma; Maret Felzien - Sterling; Mike Hernandez - Ovid; Emily Mollohan - Sterling; Ned Norman - Sterling; Mary Rodriquez - Fort Morgan; Norah Sanchez - Yuma; Sergio Sanchez - Yuma; Carly Schrade - Sterling; Kathy Winkelman - Limon; Steve Winkleman - Limon | Partnering to Improve Health on the Eastern Plains |
| Evelin Gomez, PhD | Betsy Rogers, LCSW | Providing Evidence-Based Treatments to Enhance the Mental Health of Latino Children and Families |
| Nick Cutforth, PhD | Elaine Belansky, PhD, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado School of Public Health, Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center; Robert Chavez, Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center John Naranjo, San Luis Valley schools; Tony Laker/Margie Miller, Adams State College | The San Luis Valley Physical Education Collaborative |