Table 1.

Descriptions of Funded Seed Grant Projects

Grant Typea	Title	Project Description	Organization Type	Prior Relationship With Researcher	Received Harvard Catalyst Pilot Grant
Round 1 Funded Seed Projects
CBPR-G	Designing Interventions to Educate Minority Populations about Health Risks Associated with Elevated Sodium Intake	A community project to decrease sodium intake and improve hypertension.	Health center
CBPR-G	Assessing the Efficacy of Outreach Efforts and Mobile Mammography	To investigate the efficacy of specific strategies related to mobile mammography screening and inform future screening interventions.	Task force
CBPR-G	Comprehensive Needs Assessment of a Diverse Community	To gather information on what motivates people to make food choices and barriers that prevent them from making sustainable changes related to their health.	Coalition
CBPR-G	Examining Recent Increase in Teen Pregnancy in Roxbury	To explore implementation of a teen after school programs and its impact on teen health/health seeking behaviors and sexuality decision making.	Health center
CBPR-G	From Homeless to Housed: Assessing the Impact on Health Outcomes	To collect comprehensive data on housing and health outcomes among rough sleepers.	Homeless program	Yes	Yes
CBPR-G	Reducing the Risk: Effective HIV Outreach to Portuguese Speaker and New Immigrant Populations	To collect preliminary data evaluating the outcomes and impact of a Portuguese speakers HIV prevention program on HIV risk behaviors of the Portuguese community.	Community-based organization
CBPR-G	Screen time reduction: developing a family targeted preventive health campaign	To develop a culturally appropriate campaign and family education intervention to create a healthy home screen environment for children.	Community task force
CBPR-G	Use of a registry to promote optimal outcomes for childhood ADHD	To construct and deploy a childhood ADHD Registry to reduce adverse clinical outcomes in children with ADHD.	Health alliance	Yes	Yes
CBPR-G	Community Efforts to Address Outdoor Alcohol Advertising and Marketing in Greater Boston	To create a community dialogue around alcohol advertising, to collect map data of the current environment and explore social justice issues in communities with high exposure to alcohol advertising.	Community organization
CBPR-G	Women in Need: Exploration of an Alternative Sentencing Model for Commercial Sex Workers in Chelsea	To identify the components for a successful alternative sentencing program for commercial sex workers and explore the feasibility of implementing this program.	Hospital community benefits department
CBPR-G	Assessing Community Interest in Helping the Familial Caregivers of Latino Adults With Dementia	To ascertain the number of Latino families caring for a demented adult and identify barriers (e.g., language), resources (e.g., coalition-based) and needs unique to this population.	Elder services organization	Yes
CBPR-G	Building a Haitian Church Base for Participatory Research	To expand and foster new relationships with Haitian pastors to identify health priorities of their congregations and gather input regarding culturally appropriate methods for recruitment and data collection.	Faith-based organization	Yes
CBPR-G	Assessing Disparities in Reduction of Body Mass Index in Cambridge Youth	To understand recent increases in obesity among African American and low-income children.	Community task force	Yes	Yes
Round 2 Funded Seed Projects
PB	Using GIS to Understand Community Health, Assets, Needs, and Disparities: Data-Sharing at the Neighborhood Level	To develop a partnership with a researcher and ultimately use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) related to health and wellness, to identify obesity causes, impacts and possible interventions.	Health department
PB	Exploring the Mental and Physical Health Impacts of Adolescent Girls' Experience With Dysmenorrhea and the Barriers to Treatment Through the Cultural Lens of the Portuguese-Speaking Community	To develop a partnership with a researcher and explore cultural issues that impact identification and intervention for various manifestations of painful periods (dysmenorrhea).	Women's group
PD	Promoting Cancer Screening Among Haitians in Faith-Based Settings	To understand Haitian disparities in cancer morbidity and mortality and to adapt, implement, and evaluate cancer control interventions for Haitians delivered in faith-based settings.	Community-based organization	Yes
PD	Assessing the Impact of a Peer-Led Empowerment and Community- Building Program on Low-Income Women With Depression	To understand how peer-led empowerment and social support program created by and for low income women impacts low-income women struggling with depression.	Community organization	Yes
PB	Using CBPR to Understand the Impact of a Parenting Intervention on Child Outcomes	To develop a partnership with a researcher to understand child and parental outcomes that are impacted by participation in a parenting program for at-risk parents.	Family support organization	Yes
PD	The Community Health Education Project	To understand modalities that reduce the communication gap between communities and clinical providers on self-management and disease prevention and explore whether community health forums can improve the knowledge, skills, and health behaviors of participants.	Neighborhood organization	Yes
PD	Community-Based Ultrafine Studies, Data Mapping, and Health Policy Forum	To collect ultrafine particulate air quality data and explore possible collaborations to devise more powerful methods of communicating environmental data to the public and include the community in the collection of air quality data.	Health department	Yes	Yes
PB	HEAP: Health Education and Awareness Project	To develop a partnership with a researcher to explore how to engage older foster care youth and professionals who work with them to identify health information to support their transition into adulthood.	Adoption and Foster Care Organization
Round 3 Funded Seed Projectsb
PB	Integrated Care for Homeless and At-Risk Adults	To develop a partnership with a researcher to identify and address chronic pain management in a vulnerable homeless population through an integrated model of care.	Health center		Round 3 Seed Grant Recipients will apply for Harvard Catalyst pilot grants in Spring 2011.
PB	The Men's Health League—It's Working, But Why?	To develop a partnership with a researcher to understand why a men's health intervention has been effective in reaching and engaging men of color.	Neighborhood settlement house
PB	Healthy Community Initiative	To develop a partnership with a researcher to explore community assets related to youth substance abuse/use, self-image, and suicide.	School system
PB	Association of Mental Health Diagnoses and Noncompliance With Birth Control Methods Among Urban Teens	To develop a partnership with a researcher to understand behavioral health factors associated with birth control noncompliance among teen women.	Health center
PB	Impact of a Community Educational Intervention on Kidney Disease Awareness and Health Outcome for African Americans in an Inner-City Neighborhood of Massachusetts	To develop a partnership with a researcher and track participant awareness and health outcomes resulting from an educational intervention focused on treatment options and transplantation for chronic kidney disease.	Support group
PD	Approaches for Integrating Depression Screening and Other Behavioral Health Issues Into Primary Care (Community Health Centers) Settings, Including Barriers and Facilitators	To understand patient mental health issues, ascertain coping skills, examine screening and referral patterns, barriers, and facilitators to integrating behavioral and primary healthcare and examine barriers to mental health care among African American patients.	Social service agency	Yes
PD	Mental Health of the Newly Resettled Iraqi Families in Worcester	To examine mental health issues among Iraqi refugee individuals and families.	Coalition	Yes

^aIn Year 1, we did not make a distinction between Partnership Building and Project development grants, but funded general CBPR projects (CBPR-G). PB are Partnership Building Grants (for or to encourage newly developing partnerships between community-based organizations and Harvard academic partners); PD are Project Development Grants (to develop a specific CBPR research project between community-based organizations and Harvard academic partners).

^bRound 3 Seed Grant Recipients will apply for Harvard Catalyst pilot grants in Spring 2011.