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A Collaborative Approach to Enhance Capacity and Power for Community-driven Policy Change: Project HEARD
Progress in Community Health Partnerships : Research, Education, and Action
|September 29, 2025
Summary
Project Health Equity via Advocacy for Resources in Detroit (HEARD) empowered community-academic teams to drive policy change for health equity. Tailored support and recognizing team expertise are key for successful community-led initiatives.
Area of Science:
- Community-based participatory research
- Health equity advocacy
- Policy change initiatives
Background:
- Project HEARD (Health Equity via Advocacy for Resources in Detroit) is a community-based participatory research initiative.
- It aimed to build the capacity of community organizations and academic partners to advance health equity through policy change.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe how Project HEARD facilitated the development of policy advocacy campaigns by community-academic teams.
- To outline the 1-year goals established for equity-focused policy changes.
Main Methods:
- Formation of a cohort of community-academic teams.
- Conducting policy change workshops and providing policy advocacy grants.
- Offering mentoring by established community-academic pairs and facilitating online strategy sessions.
Main Results:
- Project HEARD successfully supported community-academic teams in developing policy advocacy campaigns.
- Teams established specific 1-year goals for advancing health equity through policy.
Conclusions:
- Effective support for community-driven policy change necessitates acknowledging and leveraging teams' unique contexts, histories, and expertise.
- Tailoring support to diverse policy experiences and ensuring sustainability are crucial for long-term impact.
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