Areas Covered

Symposium Reports

Areas to be covered include:

Don't give up — How to stay persistent and get funded

Finding the Right Scientific Partner/How Do You Check Them Out? Defining your Research Topic Dealing with the Feedback Where to go for Help/Talking to the Staff

Maintaining Healthy Partnerships

Prevention Strategies — Creating Structures and Opportunities to Maintain Healthy Partnerships Dealing with Conflicts Barriers to Healthy Partnerships

Strategies for Community Involvement

Communicating with Funding Organizations Communicating to the Broader Community/Media and Presentations Communicating with Health Providers Reaching Out to Survivors Including Diversity/ What are the Issues?

Doing the Research

Recruitment and Maintaining Follow-up of Research Participants Science Issues — Randomization, Control groups, Clinical vs. Research Needs The Impact of the Research on the Client/Community Publishing Results — How to Do it Collaboratively, Where to Publish, How to Get Information Back to the Community