BACKGROUND Chicago's systemically underserved communities have disproportionately high cancer rates. The Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (ChicagoCHEC) brings together academic and community partners to address these health inequities. The community conversations known as "CHEC-Ins" provide a space for community members to voice their experiences and needs and for ChicagoCHEC to fulfill its commitment to advancing health equity through collaboration and action. OBJECTIVE This paper presents a community-generated approach to social networking about cancer health issues known as CHEC-Ins. Through this innovative approach, community members and organizations share cancer related information and experiences, as well as needs and concerns, which are then channeled to ChicagoCHEC academic and administrative members who incorporate them into outreach and research activities. In this way, community members set the agenda and the process and collect the information they deem relevant and important. This paper describes the process of organizing and conducting two pilot CHEC-Ins and the model of this approach, which we intend to employ moving forward to advance partnership building and collaborative research practice between academic institutions and community partners and organizations. This paper contributes a unique model of community-generated and led outreach as a cornerstone of the ChicagoCHEC approach to community engagement. METHODS The leaders of the ChicagoCHEC Community Steering Committee spearheaded the design and implementation of CHEC-Ins, including developing the question guide and hosting events within their organizations. LESSONS LEARNED CHEC-Ins proved to be a valuable strategy for defining the role of community partners and establishing the basis for a bi-directional flow of information, resources, and productive action. The two pilot CHEC-Ins revealed important insights related to sources of cancer information, meanings and associated attitudes, barriers to access and use of health services, and social support systems in the communities where ChicagoCHEC works. We will implement this approach and continue to refine it as we conduct CHECIns moving forward.

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社区驱动的对话：通过 CHEC-Ins 建立伙伴关系。

背景技术 芝加哥系统性服务不足的社区的癌症发病率异常高。芝加哥癌症健康公平合作组织 (ChicagoCHEC) 汇集学术和社区合作伙伴来解决这些健康不平等问题。被称为“CHEC-Ins”的社区对话为社区成员提供了表达经验和需求的空间，也为芝加哥CHEC 履行其通过合作和行动促进健康公平的承诺提供了空间。目的 本文提出了一种由社区生成的有关癌症健康问题的社交网络方法，称为 CHEC-Ins。通过这种创新方法，社区成员和组织分享癌症相关信息和经验以及需求和担忧，然后将这些信息传递给芝加哥CHEC 学术和行政成员，由他们将其纳入外展和研究活动。通过这种方式，社区成员可以制定议程和流程，并收集他们认为相关且重要的信息。本文描述了组织和开展两个试点 CHEC-In 的过程以及该方法的模型，我们打算利用该方法来推进学术机构与社区合作伙伴和组织之间的伙伴关系建设和协作研究实践。本文提出了一种独特的社区生成和主导的外展模式，作为芝加哥CHEC 社区参与方法的基石。方法 芝加哥CHEC 社区指导委员会的领导者带头设计和实施 CHEC-In，包括制定问题指南和在其组织内举办活动。经验教训 事实证明，CHEC-Ins 是一项有价值的策略，可以定义社区合作伙伴的角色，并为信息、资源和生产行动的双向流动奠定基础。两个试点 CHEC-Ins 揭示了与癌症信息来源、含义和相关态度、获取和使用医疗服务的障碍以及芝加哥CHEC 工作社区的社会支持系统相关的重要见解。我们将实施这一方法，并在今后开展 CHECIn 时继续完善它。