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March 6, 2007
A GCI Seminar |
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| Title |
A Puerto Rican Community Responds to the HIV/AIDS
Crisis:
The Role of Social and Cultural Capital
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| Speakers |
Michele Kelly
Associate Professor, Division of Community
Health Sciences
UIC School of Public Health
Alejandro Luis Molina
Puerto Rican Cultural Center
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| Location |
Great Cities Institute, Suite 400 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607
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university-community partnership conducted a process evaluation
of a community driven HIV/AIDS program in Puerto Rican
Chicago. An ethnographic case study approach was employed
to address the main inquiry questions which were based
on concepts of social and cultural capital as described
by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Study findings add to
a small and growing body of knowledge regarding the nature
of indigenous approaches to community health threats and
suggest directions for future research with communities
of color. The problems of Empirically Supported Interventions
(ESIs) as opposed to Culturally Sensitive Interventions
(CSIs) in addressing health disparities will be discussed,
along with the effect of the inquiry process itself on
the partnership.
Michele
A. Kelley is a social worker by training, a social
epidemiologist and Associate Professor at the UIC School
of Public Health. Her interests include community context
of health promotion, minority youth, and community and
youth participation in health promotion.
Alejandro
Luis Molina is a life-long resident of Humboldt
Park and a community activist. He is an instructor for
literacy and technology at Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto
Rican High School and Secretary, Board of Directors, Puerto
Rican Cultural Center.
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