Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research

Community Liaison and Recruitment Core

The CLRC is the most “community-facing” of all the MCUAAAR Cores.  The goals of the CLRC are to:

• Provide health and health-related community programming;
• Extend and expand partnerships with community-based organizations in Detroit and Flint, Michigan;
• Disseminate to, and translate scientific information for, the respective communities; and
• Contribute to the science of recruitment and retention of older African Americans by further testing the efficacy and efficiency of the Participant Registry/Participant Resource Pool (PRP) and expanding the PRP to other Michigan communities.

Co-Leaders of the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core

Drs. Tam Perry, Jamie Mitchell and Vicki Johnson-Lawrence – on leave 2020) and Kent Key.

Related Resources

• Building and Sustaining a CAB Mitchell et al article (PDF)
• “It Takes Some Empathy, Sympathy, and Listening”: Telephone Outreach Project article (PDF)
• Social connectedness in older Urban African-American adults during the COVID-19 pandemic article (PDF)
• Consulting Program by and for Older Detroiters