Growing food connections through planning:

Raja, Samina; Whittaker, Jennifer; Hall, Enjoli; Hodgson, Kimberley; Leccese, Jeanne

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“…Alternatively, providing technical assistance may also provide value to study partners. Other studies, such as Growing Food Connections (20), have successfully recruited partners using an RFP for technical assistance but not funding. At a minimum, we hope that this model will encourage implementation researchers to be more thoughtful and systematic about partner selection and publish the methods and results of their partner selection processes.…”

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“…The RFP process was developed to mimic a process familiar to many community organizations (i.e., applying for a grant) and was informed by our teams previous experience with using an application and selection process to identify research partners for food systems work (20,21). The rst step in the RFP process was to determine the criteria that we were looking for in our implementation partners.…”

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A Novel Process to Recruit Community Partners for a Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study

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BackgroundCreating strong partnerships with community organizations is essential to testing implementation of evidence-based interventions. Given the time and investment needed build relationships, partners are often chosen based on convenience, rather than capacity or diversity. Streamlined processes are needed to identify qualified, diverse, and invested partners to conduct community-based implementation research. Currently there is a gap in the literature on effective and efficient methods for recruiting implementation partners. The goal of this paper is to fill that gap by describing a novel process for identifying a diverse group of community organizations to participate in implementation research.MethodsWe used a community-guided Request for Partners (RFP) approach to recruit implementation partners to participate in a cluster-randomized hybrid implementation-effectiveness study of the Veggie Van mobile produce market model. The multi-state RFP process included formative work to inform RFP development, creation of an outside selection committee, an intent-to-apply round, a full application round, and an in-person training and selection process. Chosen implementation partners receive a toolkit, training, technical assistance and funding to offset the costs of implementing the Veggie Van model and assisting with research. Data was collected to characterize applicant size, location and experience; pre-post surveys were conducted to understand the utility of the in-person training.ResultsWe received 59 intent-to-apply submissions, of which we invited 28 organizations to complete full applications: 17 submitted applications and 12 finalists were invited to the in-person training and selection process. The RFP process took approximately eight months to recruit nine organizations and 32 community sites across five states with a range of size and experience. The process increased understanding of the intervention and implementation partner responsibilities; 63.6% of finalists reported being very to extremely familiar with the Veggie Van model post-training compared to 28.6% pre-training. Only one finalist dropped out (due to significant organizational change).ConclusionsAn RFP process is familiar to even small community organizations that compete for grant funding, but may not have prior research experience. This RFP process streamlined partner recruitment timelines, increased partner diversity and cultivated community among mobile market organizations. It may also improve research transparency, study completion and intervention fidelity.

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A Novel Process to Recruit Community Partners for a Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study

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“…The paper draws on the data from the Growing Food Connections (GFC) project, a federally funded, national initiative focused on local government capacity in food systems planning (https://growingfoodconnections.org). From 2012 to 2017, the GFC team-composed of the core research team, a national advisory committee with representation from diverse disciplines and regions, and the American Planning Association-engaged in a policy action research initiative to enhance food security among consumers while ensuring sustainable and economically competitive agriculture among struggling farmers in vulnerable communities across the U.S. (Raja, Whittaker, Hall, Hodgson, & Leccese, 2018).…”

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Rejoining the Planning and Public Health Fields: Leveraging Comprehensive Plans to Strengthen Food Systems in an Urban versus Rural Jurisdiction

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Khojasteh

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J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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The growth of health disparities in the United States, particularly those associated with dietrelated diseases, has motivated a reconvergence of the public health and planning disciplines to address this shared challenge. However, the dynamics and mechanisms through which public health and planning agencies can systematically address food-related issues have yet to be fully understood. This study analyzes how partnership between public health professionals and planners in local, regional, and metropolitan (LRM) governments can strengthen community food systems through a more integrated and holistic approach to health. Using a national survey of

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“…The majority (59%) of intent to apply submissions and six selected partners (66%) came from the northern region of our study area. 19% 1129% 1712% 747% 818% 329% 56% 155% 618% 227% ( 28.8% (17) 33.9% (20) 23.5% (4) 3% (9) 23.5% (4) 27.3% 39.4% (5) 27.3% (3…”

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A Novel Process to Recruit Community Partners for a Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study

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Kasprzak

Lally

et al. 2020

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BackgroundCreating strong partnerships with community organizations is essential to testing implementation of evidence-based interventions. Given the time and investment needed to build relationships, partners are often chosen based on convenience, rather than capacity or diversity. Streamlined processes are needed to identify qualified, diverse, and invested partners to conduct community-based implementation research. Currently there is a gap in the literature on effective and efficient methods for recruiting implementation partners. The goal of this paper is to fill that gap by describing a novel process for identifying a diverse group of community organizations to participate in implementation research.MethodsWe used a community-guided Request for Partners (RFP) approach to recruit implementation partners to participate in a cluster-randomized hybrid implementation-effectiveness study of the Veggie Van mobile produce market model. The multi-state RFP process included formative work to inform RFP development, creation of an outside selection committee, an intent-to-apply round, a full application round, and an in-person training and selection process. Chosen implementation partners receive a toolkit, training, technical assistance and funding to offset the costs of implementing the Veggie Van model and assisting with research. Data was collected to characterize applicant size, location and experience; pre-post surveys were conducted to understand the utility of the in-person training.ResultsWe received 59 intent-to-apply submissions, of which we invited 28 organizations to complete full applications: 17 submitted applications and 12 finalists were invited to the in-person training and selection process. The RFP process took approximately eight months to recruit nine organizations and 32 community sites across five states with a range of size and experience. The process increased understanding of the intervention and implementation partner responsibilities; 63.6% of finalists reported being very to extremely familiar with the Veggie Van model post-training compared to 28.6% pre-training. Only one finalist dropped out (due to significant organizational change).ConclusionsAn RFP process is familiar to even small community organizations that compete for grant funding, but may not have prior research experience. This RFP process streamlined partner recruitment timelines, increased partner diversity and cultivated community among mobile market organizations. It may also improve research transparency, study completion and intervention fidelity.

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Growing food connections through planning:

Cited by 9 publications

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A Novel Process to Recruit Community Partners for a Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study

A Novel Process to Recruit Community Partners for a Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study

Rejoining the Planning and Public Health Fields: Leveraging Comprehensive Plans to Strengthen Food Systems in an Urban versus Rural Jurisdiction

A Novel Process to Recruit Community Partners for a Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study

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