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The Future of Veteran Community Engagement: Perspectives on Engaging Veterans and Other Stakeholders in Research Agenda Setting Cover

The Future of Veteran Community Engagement: Perspectives on Engaging Veterans and Other Stakeholders in Research Agenda Setting

Journal of Veterans Studies
Volume 8 (2022): Issue 2
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Open Access
|Jul 2022
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Table 1

Core Values of the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership.

VALUEEXPLANATION
CollaborationWe engage stakeholders as partners to make decisions.
DiversityWe commit to equitable and inclusive veteran community reintegration research.
InnovationWe promote research that offers creative and resourceful solutions.
IntegrityWe conduct honest, ethical, and transparent research.
Veteran-centerednessWe empower and amplify veteran voices.
Table 2

The Principles for Inclusive Veteran Community Reintegration Research Developed by ENCORE’s Multi-Stakeholder Partnership.

PRINCIPLEACTION PLAN
Ensure community reintegration research programs reflect the makeup of the veteran population (e.g., race, culture, language, etc.).

  • Prioritize research thatsamples women and minority veterans (American Indian/Alaskan Native veterans, LGBTQ veterans, veterans of Color, religious minorities).

  • Promote research thatsamples geographically diverse participants.

  • Invest in research that samples veteransat risk for adverse social circumstances due to physical ormental health status, employment status, economic status, or legal status.

  • Design longitudinal research programs that follow veterans along the communityreintegration continuum.

  • Promote research that includes innovative strategies for accessingand sampling veterans who are not enrolled in the VA.

Focus community reintegration research programs on the interests of the veteran community, addressing issues that matter to them.

  • Invest inresearch that uses community-based, collaborative, or partnered research methods.

  • Support research that includes opportunities to engage the veteran communityin the research process. This can include creating Veteran EngagementGroups to co-develop research proposals and data collection procedures, provide feedback on findings, and inform dissemination of findings.

Access and represent the views and experiences of the communities in which veterans live and work.

  • Identify opportunities to develop research that involves non-veteranmembers of veterans’ communities.

  • Prioritize research that focuses on orincludes veterans’ families and caregivers.

  • Prioritize research programs that createand sustain partnerships with other national, state, and local governmentagencies, community-based veteran service organizations, non-profits, and businesses.

Engage veterans and members of the community in meaningful dissemination in accessible formats.

  • Promote the dissemination of research findings throughnon-research and non-academic sources.

  • Encourage researchers to workwith publishers and science journalists to frame research findings interms of impact.

  • Promote the use of veteran engagement groupsand advisory boards to identify (1) how to share themost relevant findings with veteran communities and (2) preferred information sources.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v8i2.360 | Journal eISSN: 2470-4768
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Language: English
Page range: 21 - 35
Submitted on: Jun 9, 2022
Accepted on: Jun 12, 2022
Published on: Jul 25, 2022
Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Veteran-engaged research,
veteran engagement,
community engaged research,
US Department of Veterans Affairs,
multi-stakeholder partnership

© 2022 Margeaux Alana Chavez, Kai River Blevins, Christopher Brown, Angela J. Giles, Monica M. Matthieu, Marete Wester, Jacquelyn Heuer, Bridget Hahm, Jason Lind, Christine Melillo, Christina Dillahunt-Aspillaga, Lisa Ottomanelli, Karen Besterman-Dahan, published by Virginia Tech Publishing
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