This is a two-year pilot intervention project to plan and implement a community-based participatory research program aimed at reducing substance abuse and related issues among Cambodian American women in the East San Francisco Bay Area city of Oakland, CA. This proposal has been developed in partnership with Community Health for Asian Americans (CHAA). The local Cambodian American community is represented by: 1) a Community Work Group of Cambodian American women who are at risk for or have personal experience with substance abuse, and who will select the priority issue and design, direct and conduct all research and intervention activities; 2) a Community Advisory Board, as required, to provide community leadership, recruit women for the work group and thereafter support and oversee the project; and 3) two Community Host organizations who will provide the facilities and culturally-competent services in support of the group and board activities. This collaborative research effort involves selecting a priority area and designing a pilot intervention with leadership from Cambodian American women of the East Bay Area. While substance use will provide a starting place, the co-research may direct intervention activities toward underlying causes of substance abuse.

 

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