Community engagement through CABs and Community Weavers
The multicomponent strategy will be developed and optimized using the team’s established co-creation approach with guidance from the Community Weavers and engagement of the community through CABs. Community Weavers will be hired and supervised by the study’s community partner, the Global ARC, based on their established relationships with ethnically based community organizations. Hiring criteria for Community Weavers include that they are fluent in English and at least one of the three priority languages (Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese); are engaged with communities living near one of the three partnering FQHC clinics; have experience with community engagement, leading and organizing; and have the capacity to share back knowledge and information with their community as well as share the community’s perspectives and concerns with the CABs.Community Weavers will have a critical role in developing and refining tailored mHealth messages [During the first year, each CAB will meet up to four times. These initial meetings will be tasked with co-creating culturally and linguistically appropriate content and frequency for mHealth outreach and identifying topics, strategies, and processes for the care coordination program. mHealth outreach messages will be developed in the native languages of the CABs, and we will use professional translation as needed. To facilitate mHealth message development, Community Weavers will use a storytelling/narrative framework approach inviting residents to join open dialogue and share their journey through the decision-making process towards getting vaccinated, reflecting on the anxieties they navigated, the misinformation they were confronted with, and any structural or technological barriers they had to overcome to enhance the cultural resonance and tailoring of the mHealth messages [