scholarly journals The African Immigrant Dementia Education Project: A Community-University Partnership

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 486-486
Author(s):  
Wynfred Russell ◽  
Joseph Gaugler ◽  
Manka Nkimbeng
Keyword(s):  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Cultural Considerations ◽  
University Partnership ◽  
Evidenced Based ◽  
Dementia Education

Abstract The African Immigrant Dementia Education project is a community-university partnership with the goal of developing a culturally tailored dementia education program with African immigrants in Minnesota. In collaboration with our community partner (African Career, Education & Resource, Inc.), a project advisory board that features professionals and family members from the African immigrant community was assembled and its first meeting was held in February 2021. Preliminary discussions about content, mode of delivery and cultural considerations of an eventual dementia education intervention have begun. This presentation will offer details on the process of working with an advisory board and community partner to identify and culturally tailor an evidenced-based dementia education curriculum for a unique cultural group. Also, we will present challenges encountered during this process and offer suggestions and strategies to promote successful researcher-community partnerships.

scholarly journals The African Immigrant Memory Loss Project: A University-Community Partnership

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 332-332
Author(s):  
Manka Nkimbeng ◽  
Hayley McCarron ◽  
Gabriela Bustamante ◽  
Wynfred Russell ◽  
Tetyana Shippee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Dementia Care ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Term Care ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Dementia Prevalence

Abstract The few studies on dementia prevalence in immigrant communities show that immigrants from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds have a higher prevalence of dementia compared with their U.S.-born counterparts. However, this body of work is small, resulting in a lack of reliable estimates of dementia prevalence among African immigrants. The AIMLP is a partnership between the African Career, Education, and Resources, Inc. (ACER) and the Families and Long-Term Care Projects (FLTC) of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Guided by an advisory board, the goal of this project is to develop culturally informed instruments, and use these to collect data to identify dementia care needs, knowledge, and resources in the African immigrant community. Study implementation started in August 2019, five advisory board meetings have been convened and 2 pilot focus groups have occurred. Twelve individuals participated in the focus groups. The majority (90%) were from Liberia and 60% were over the age of 55. Two participants currently care for a family member with dementia. Preliminary findings reveal a great need for education on dementia, and general lack of awareness on management, and limited access to services/supports. Focus groups will be finalized in March and the study survey will be developed and administered in the summer. These survey findings will be available and presented at the conference in November 2020. This is the first project to identify the extent of dementia care needs and resources among African immigrants; which will inform interventions for this population.

Black African immigrant community leaders' views on participation in genomics research and DNA biobanking

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 196-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron G. Buseh ◽  
Sandra M. Underwood ◽  
Patricia E. Stevens ◽  
Leolia Townsend ◽  
Sheryl T. Kelber
Keyword(s):  
Community Leaders ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Black African ◽  
Genomics Research

scholarly journals I Didn’t Really Fully Understand Until I Came Into the States: African Immigrants’ ADRD Introduction and Awareness

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 463-464
Author(s):  
Kwame Akosah ◽  
Tetyana Shippee ◽  
Christina Rosebush ◽  
Wynfred Russell ◽  
Joseph Gaugler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Dementia Education

Abstract Most African immigrants report that they had never heard about dementia until their arrival in the United States. Conversations and insights from project advisory board meetings of the African Immigrant Memory Loss and Dementia Education projects (5 conversations and 8 meetings in the Minneapolis area) reveal unique cultural and immigrant characteristics surrounding dementia terminology and awareness. Dementia is often lumped together with mental illness which is associated with stigma. In addition to the fear of bad news and death, mental health issues are often considered a result of witchcraft, spiritual attack or punishment. Additionally, there are no traditional or cultural words for dementia in many African languages and current terms used are related to mental illness and all have negative connotations. There is a need to identify appropriate words for dementia in many tribal and immigrant dialects that can facilitate dementia awareness and education programs in African communities.

The Relative Effects of Normative and Instrumental Models of Policing on Police Empowerment: Evidence From a Sample of Sub-Saharan African Immigrants

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel K. Pryce
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Ghanaian Immigrants ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data

This study examines the relative impacts of normative and instrumental models of policing on willingness to empower the police in a sample of sub-Saharan African immigrants in the United States. Using data from a survey of 304 Ghanaian immigrants, obligation to obey, procedural justice, effectiveness, and gender predicted police empowerment; legitimacy of Ghana police and risk of sanctioning did not. The results also show that obligation to obey may be distinct from legitimacy. The findings from the current study point to the importance of the process-based model of policing in different geopolitical contexts, including the sub-Saharan African immigrant community in the United States. Specifically, obligation to obey and procedural justice play pivotal roles in engendering willingness to empower the police in the sub-Saharan African immigrant community. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Mehdi Charef and theInvention of Beur Writing

2016 ◽  
pp. 35-79
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Kleppinger
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
North African ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Unique Information ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
News Programs

After a brief discussion of political activism in the early 1980s by the descendants of North African immigrants to France, this chapter explores the reception and promotion of Mehdi Charef’s début novel, Le thé au harem d’Archi Ahmed (1983). Charef appeared on several top literary, society, and news programs, and successfully established himself as an insider providing new perspectives on France’s North African immigrant community. To better understand the contours of Charef’s media appearances, the chapter also explores the lack of attention accorded to Nacer Kettane’s Le sourire de Brahim and Leïla Sebbar’s Shérazade, 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts. Kettane promoted his work dogmatically as a political intervention, while Sebbar focused artistic and feminist aspects of her writing. These case studies reveal how Charef successfully positioned himself in a middle ground, as an author who accepted social and political readings of his work but also provided new and unique information on a population that had come to be heavily discussed by journalists and politicians.

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