# Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research - COMMUNITY LIAISON AND RECRUITMENT CORE (CLRC)

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2024 · $150,948

## Abstract

COMMUNITY LIAISON AND RECRUITMENT CORE (CLRC) ABSTRACT
African American older adults continue to lag dramatically behind Non-Hispanic Whites in terms of both health
outcomes and participation in health research. The most common barriers to research recruitment are fear and
mistrust. The Healthier Black Elders Center (HBEC) Participant Registry of the MCUAAAR employs best
practices in the science of recruitment, retention, and continuing program evaluation. We propose three major
ways to extend the MCUAAAR’s work in recruitment and retention of older African Americans in research and
in the science of recruitment and retention: (1) Enhance the Flint registry through the maturation of the CLRC
in Flint. We began building a Community Advisory Board in 2018, and a registry is now underway; (2) Publicize
the participant registries to faculty at Michigan, Wayne State and Michigan State doing research in health
among older African Americans, and (3) Conduct research on long-term registry members to better understand
retention. Our three specific aims are to (1) Expand our long-established participant registry and older African
American involvement in research; (2) Contribute to the science of recruitment and retention of older African
Americans by examining the characteristics of our program and the registry participants who remain in the
registry long-term and (3) Enhance our established nationally recognized model for successfully engaging
African American communities. The CLRC is clearly present in all of the MCUAAAR cores and REC. The
Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University, directed by MPI Peter Lichtenberg, houses the HBEC. The
Analysis Core is involved in each of the recruitment and retention projects led by the CLRC. Finally, the REC
integrates the CLRC into community-based research projects with older African Americans. The LAC, REC
and CLRC will work together to plan the summer workshops focused on best practices for community based
research on African American older adults.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10912059
- **Project number:** 5P30AG015281-27
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** Jaymia Ann Mitchell
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $150,948
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-09-30 → 2028-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10912059

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10912059, Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research - COMMUNITY LIAISON AND RECRUITMENT CORE (CLRC) (5P30AG015281-27). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10912059. Licensed CC0.

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