267 Development of the Montefiore-Einstein Community Engagement Tracker

Objectives/Goals: * To identify community priorities and compare alignment with research initiatives * To connect research(ers) to community groups or members with similar priorities * To identify areas requiring outreach and/or collaboration * To build capacity and to catalyze new meaningful CTR partnerships * To evaluate ongoing collaborations for sustainability. Methods/Study Population: Together with our Medical School and Hospital, our Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) led the development of a Community Engagement Tracker (CE Tracker). This tool tracks organizations, events, programs, and individual contacts to provide insight into current and past collaborations and capacity with the goal of building capacity and catalyzing new research partnerships with community members and organizations. We implemented a 6-stage development process involving: 1) internal stakeholder engagement, 2) initial development, 3) collaborator feedback, 4) refinement, 5) ongoing use, and 6) further refinement. Results/Anticipated Results: In the process of internal stakeholder engagement, we engaged with key internal stakeholders including the Montefiore-Einstein Offices of Community and Population Health and Community Affairs and the Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Community Outreach team to align goals and development plans. With stakeholders, we created an initial set of linked databases for tracking community engagement. We then collected feedback from 36 collaborator groups including the Montefiore Care Management Organization. Our collaborators expressed concerns about privacy, so we refined our tracker to limit data accessibility. At present, there are 36 active users and 28 community and faith-based organizations are tracked. We are collecting data to improve usability of the tracker and plan to implement dashboards in the future. Discussion/Significance of Impact: Catalyzing and sustaining community engagement work in clinical and translational research are paramount but are limited by several logistical barriers. We hope the CE Tracker can decrease logistical barriers to working with communities by building on and tracking currently existing relationships.