Strengthening Community Engaged Research

ENGAGED uses community engaged approaches to understand important issues impacting medical rehabilitation research  prioritized by disability communities and organizations. ENGAGED center’s vision also seeks to strengthen the medical rehabilitation research infrastructure through collaboration, communication, and consultation.

Community of Practice

The ENGAGED Community of Practice (CoP) is a social learning community that provides members with an opportunity to connect other people doing community-engaged disability research.

A CoP brings together people who share a common interest and who interact regularly to build knowledge, share expertise, and improve practice and scholarship, with a focus on community-engaged research in partnership with people with disabilities. We aim to foster collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing through shared resources, storytelling, tools, and seminars. We anticipate that the CoP will meet every other month or quarterly, depending on participants’ shared interests and priorities. We plan to launch the CoP in the early fall semester (mid-August) and would like to begin organizing the group now to build interest, identify priorities, and prepare for a successful start.

 

 

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                    Upcoming ENGAGED Community of Practice (CoP) Meetings
              

    

    

  

          
            



  
	
The ENGAGED CoP meets virtually every other month. Please RSVP using the links for each meeting below to get the Zoom link to join and a calendar invite



      
  



  



    

    
      




  
  

  
    

                  
  

    

      
    

    

  

          
            



    

  
  

  
	
Disability Community Scientists


Disability Community Scientists is a non-degree certificate program developed at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health for members of the disability community who are interested in developing research careers, advancing their capabilities in evidence-based practice, and/or creating strategic partnerships to improve community health and disability and rehabilitation research and programming.



  



  



    

    
      




  
  

  
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                    Ongoing and Upcoming Research Projects
              

    

    

  

          
            



    
    
              
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    Scoping Reviews
    
          
    
            
    ENGAGED is conducting a series of scoping reviews to examine the state of the science of medical rehabilitation research on community-engaged research practices, access to medical rehabilitation services, and the impact of key social determinants of health.
    

          
    
        
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    Listening Sessions
    
          
    
            
    ENGAGED will conduct listening sessions with people with disabilities and medical rehabilitation research stakeholders to document how social determinants of health impact functional performance and societal participation, the extent to which medical rehabilitation interventions addressed these, and supports and barriers to engagement in medical rehabilitation research.
    

          
    
        
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    Priority Setting
    
          
    
            
    ENGAGED will prioritize ways to increase participation of people with disabilities in medical rehabilitation intervention research using the Concerns Report Method.
    

          
    
        
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