# Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities-CLaRO Community Engagement and Dissemination Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES · 2020 · $245,190

## Abstract

The Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (CEDc) of the Center for Latino Health Research 
Opportunities (CLaRO) draws from the experiences and expertise that El Centro and CRUSADA have 
acquired during 20 combined years of community engagement to propose aims and a plan of action to address 
substance abuse, violence, and HIV/AIDS in vulnerable Latino groups. The El Centro and CRUSADA have 
built extensive networks of community partners that will be essential to advancing the goals and objectives of 
CLaRO in Miami-Dade County. Guided by CLaRO leadership and key personnel, the Community Engagement 
and Dissemination Core (CEDc) will implement a CBPR approach to achieve three aims. (1) Conduct a 
community level assessment of needs, resources, and existing services related to the above conditions; (2) 
Build an equitable, collaborative and sustainable consortium of community based agencies and other 
stakeholders dedicated to the prevention or reduction of these public health concerns; and, (3) Develop an 
effective dissemination plan to (a) engage community members, partnering organizations, and service 
providers in disseminating and translating research findings into sustainable community and system level 
changes and (b) deliver customized messages and training to community partners and at-large community 
members. Quantitative and qualitative multi-level data from diverse sources will be used to produce 
comprehensive analysis of the targeted communities to facilitate intervention research in these communities 
and to inform public policy at multiple levels of influence. An extensive training and dissemination effort is also 
proposed.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9889817
- **Project number:** 5U54MD002266-14
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES
- **Principal Investigator:** Elena M Bastida
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $245,190
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9889817

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9889817, Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities-CLaRO Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (5U54MD002266-14). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9889817. Licensed CC0.

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