Increasing capacity for ethnically-based community leaders to engage in policy change: assessing the impact of a train-the-trainer approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing disparities in healthcare access and outcomes, particularly among underserved communities. As one site participating in the NIH-funded Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19, our focus was to address COVID-19 disparities by training immigrant and refugee communities to advocate for their needs by increasing capacity to campaign for policy-level changes.

Objective

To evaluate the impact of a train-the-trainer policy advocacy program for ethnically-based community leaders within San Diego County using a mixed-methods evaluation.

Methods

We partnered with a non-profit social change, intermediary organization to adapt a five-session, 4-hour per session training that was conducted over five weeks. A baseline sur

SUBMITTER: Lomeli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11900054 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature