Community Liaison and Recruitment Component

The Community Liaison & Recruitment Core (CLRC) conducts activities that are directly aligned with the Mass-ENVISION theme to provide resources, training, and sustained and tailored mentoring to underrepresented in medicine (UiM) scientists in ADRD (Alzheimer disease and related dementias) behavioral interventions that follow the NIH Stage model and incorporate the NIA Health Disparities Framework and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and NAM (National Academy of Medicine) prevention models, in both community and hospital settings.

The CLRC advances the science of diversity in ADRD behavioral interventions research via 4 specific aims to:​

Aim 1: Operationalize a precision science of diverse recruitment, engagement, and retention into ADRD research.

Aim 2: Convene a stakeholder group of Black and Latino individuals to determine optimal recruitment and engagement strategies for these populations in ADRD behavioral interventions research.

​Aim 3: Provide RCMAR Scientists with practical examples of RER (recruitment, engagement, and retention) strategies, such as the example of a trial at a local Federally Qualified Health Center.

Aim 4: Train and provide sustained and tailored mentoring of RCMAR Scientists in a community-engaged science of recruitment, engagement, and retention.