Table 1:

Longitudinal summary of anticipated contributions and returns and respective accomplishments

	Anticipated contributions and returns (baseline)		Accomplishments (follow-ups)
Partnership processes and dynamics	Attend meetings	‘My initial expectation was to attend meeetings’	‘I think I made most meetings. I might have missed one’
	Speak in meetings	‘To voice my experiences from the field of twenty years'	‘I bring information from the community and perspective of life. I speak of religious perspectives and knowledge’
	Exert influence	‘There's a gain in being able to influence the process’ ‘I feel my responsibility is to let them know agenda items whenever needed’ ‘My expectation is to develop and expand the board’	‘Everyone was involved in the process through shared decision making where everyone voiced their opinions’ ‘I brought organization to the board such as shaping our research agenda’ ‘I was help the board by recommending people’
	Problem-solve	‘I think there's always going to be a stress … understanding inherent conflicts and deciding as a group how much needs to be attended to is very important’	‘We had disagreements on how to deal with designs … we voted on issues and on how are we going to accomplish that issue. We negotiate and give each other respect and an opportunity to voice our opinions’
Research tasks and procedures	Conduct research	‘It's an effort to get together service providers, clients and university collaborators to develop research and design projects and to get them funded to further those agendas’	‘I have collaborated with X, a service provider, in the board on a research project that will likely get funded for the next five years’
	Develop grant proposals	‘I'd like the board to write a grant related to an HIV/AIDS intervention using a community collaborative board model’	‘We are working on a grant to test effectiveness of a trauma-based HIV intervention for female offenders’
	Perform health promotion outreach	‘I see this venue to learn more so this information can enlighten me and I would be able to come back and communicate additional information to my community’	None found
Social Support	Lend emotional support	‘I'd like to feel at ease to say what I feel, hear them and open up’	‘They made me feel good about myself … it was the atmosphere that makes me feel good about my myself’
	Lend tangible support	‘Every day if B could hire me for an hour, I could have a job in the board and get a computer’	‘D put food in my house, she works at a pantry. I told her that I didn't have food. She told me I'll bring you food’
	Lend informational support	‘I look forward to developing relationships as much as possible to learn more about the information in their fields’	‘People reach out. If there is a job available, people discuss the information, there seems to be a network’
	Learn more about research	‘I'm looking to learning more within this model of collaboration involving different types people and learn more to do research’	‘I have increased my knowledge base about research by gathering information … I believe I have been able to expand more resources by learning about research’