TABLE 2.

Developmental Model for Community-Academic Collaborations

Stages	Highlights of Activities	Challenges	Outcomes
Stage 1: Collaborating to Secure Funding	Initial contacts with academic and CPs	Finding investigators and community leaders with mutual interests	Academic and community leaders develop partnership with overall goal of improving recognition and treatment of depression
	Getting acquainted	Significant time investment—projects for future funding are not supported currently	NIMH funding (P30MH071944)
	Establishing objectives and negotiations	Develop goals to encompass group diversity	Establish relationships
	Meetings to generate ideas, determine goals, write proposals and apply for funding
	Change in leadership
Stage 2: Building a Communications Platform and Research Infrastructure	Establish working communications	Academics and CPs speak different languages	Increased interactions and time in the community resolve speaking different languages problem
	Share goals of existing research projects and interests with CPs	Expectation from Clinical Core for RNDC partnership to recruit AA minorities into existing clinical protocols	Projects—agencies desire to participate after adaptations to existing protocol
	Offer CPs an opportunity to participate in existing research projects		Clinical Core begins to have a better understanding of methodological differences
Stage 3: Fostering Enduring Relationships	Meet monthly for implementations meetings	Concerns regarding problems historically working with University	Communicate and address issues in monthly working meetings
	Discuss expectations, goals, and objectives	Reiterate information in subsequent meetings to ensure accurate understanding of group ideas	Develop common understanding of information
	Review information in meetings and report progress of projects		Develop shared values, respect, and trust
Stage 4: Assessing Needs/Educating about Research Process	Collaboratively develop and conduct a needs assessment to better understand the CPs’ services, mental health care needs, and challenges affecting clients’ access to mental health care	Significant undertaking of time: scheduling interviews, collecting qualitative and quantitative data, coding transcripts, analyzing data, and determining needs	Needs Assessment Report completed summer 2007— used by CPs to share with Board and by the partnership in seeking funding for needs
			Product developed collaboratively
Stage 5: Initiating Specific Collaborative Projects	Using results from the needs assessment: review findings, generate research ideas, develop plans, projects, and goals to accomplish needs	Must increase staff to support needs	Develop educational and outreach programs
		Work with limited financial resources initially to develop programs to support needs	Funding—frontline worker training from Staunton Farm Foundation
			Develop depression care manager and peer educator model R-21
Stage 6: Maintaining a Sustainable and Productive Partnership	Establish relationships to continue projects, mutually develop budgets, seek additional funds, and make financial commitments	Continued support for most promising projects and programs that were developed	Develop sustainability subcommittee
			Develop consortium for utilizing resources
			Funding—NIMH Outreach Grant
			Funding—PA Department of Public Health