Engagement with Our Community Partners
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The ELEVATE Center engages community partners at every stage of research. Our partners include the following:
- Organizations and individuals across the spectrum of health care
- Advocacy groups
- People with lived experience
- A range from community members to rural hospital organizations to intramural organizations
Within each center project, a primary community health care partner has committed and shared in the development of the project from inception.
Goals of the Elevate Center’s Community Advisory Board (CAB)
Our goal for the CAB is to establish our community partners in a central role advising on research directions, interpretation, and dissemination. The CAB will elevate the voices of individuals with lived experience with SUD and provide guidance across all three projects.
Representatives from each project’s community health partners will serve on the ELEVATE Center’s Community Advisory Board (CAB)
Community Partners and Supporters
American Indian/Alaska Native (Native) Focus and Experience
Utah Division of Indian Affairs promotes positive intergovernmental relations and the government relationship between the State of Utah and Utah’s American Indian Tribes.
Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, which owns and operates FourPoints Community Health, a federal Tribal Contract (federal 638) clinic in Cedar City and four other locations in South Central (rural) Utah. FourPoints provides medical, dental, and SUD care services and has partnered with Center investigators in the past.
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake is a Patient Centered Medical Home and an urban Indian Health Services (IHS) healthcare provider. UICSL is classified by the IHS as a limited Health Care and Outreach Referral Service.
American Indian Resource Center serves all tribal nations as the cultural conduit to tribal communities and the University of Utah by affirming tribal sovereignty and self-determination and supporting American Indian/Alaska Native students, staff, and faculty in social, professional, and academic arenas.
Rural Health Focus and Experience
Rural Health Association of Utah promotes and enhances the quality of rural health through leadership, advocacy, collation building, education and policy and legislation change.
PRONTO International develops and implements innovative training strategies for health care providers that act as a catalyst for individual, team, and system change.
SUD or Mental Health Focus and Experience
Utah Harm Reduction Coalition’s mission is to provide evidence-based interventions to aid people in reducing health and social harms associated with substance use.
Utah Naloxone Project is committed to increasing access to naloxone to prevent opioid overdose death in Utah.
Soap2Hope serves individuals who experience sex trafficking and addiction.
Focus or Experience in Broadly Relevant Areas
Utah Women and Newborns Quality Collaborative is a state-wide network of healthcare professionals, hospitals and clinics dedicated to improving the maternal and infant health outcomes in Utah using evidence-based practices, guidelines, and quality improvement processes.
Community Faces of Utah is a research advisory group partnered with the University’s Community Collaboration and Engagement Team. They serve as a critical connector of diverse community organizations and institutions so that partners can fruitfully collaborate to build trust, learn, and work together to enhance communities’ health.
Black Birthworkers of Utah Collaborative, cofounded by Ashley Finley, aims to create opportunities for Birthworkers of Color across Utah to connect and support one another and their clients and create systemic and institutional change in support of reproductive justice.
Postpartum Support International Utah’s mission is to bring mothers with lived experience together with medical, mental health and allied professionals in our communities.