Working together to create a healthy community for all through high-quality, relevant research & publications.

 Our partnership is made up of staff and volunteers from diverse community, academic, and social service institutions.

We are a group of academic and community partners who work together to produce high-quality, relevant publications. Our community partners are actively involved in the creation of manuscripts, serving as co-authors and contributors. 

R: Rochester

RHCP began in 2004 as a partnership between community organizations in Rochester, Minnesota and researchers at Mayo Clinic to address health concerns of the community.

H: Healthy

Our primary aim is to improve the health of our community through community-based participatory research, education and civic engagement.

C: Community

We have developed an effective community-based research infrastructure and are experienced at designing and carrying out programs with community partners who also help identify health priorities within their communities. 

P: Partnership 

RHCP is made up of dedicated partners from community-based organizations, schools and universities, medical centers, and many community volunteers.

MISSION

To promote health and well-being among the Rochester, MN population through community-based participatory research, education and civic engagement to achieve good health for all.

OUR RESEARCH MODEL

OUR START

Every day we all make choices, but rarely does a simple choice have ramifications that last twenty years and affect hundreds of people…

OUR FOUNDERS
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How We Work

  • We value and respect diverse cultures, experience, and expertise.

  • We have shared values.

  • We maintain confidentiality.

  • We have clear and common goals.

  • We maintain a sense of humor.

  • We foster effective leadership.

  • We have a defined decision making process (majority).

  • We have a process for conflict management and resolution.

  • We encourage equitable involvement.

  • We maintain an atmosphere of trust.

  • We are committed to CBPR principles.

  • We have a defined agenda.

  • We prepare for meetings.

  • We share food at meetings.

  • We review and approve minutes in a timely fashion.

  • We agree on the timing, frequency and location of meetings.

  • We encourage communication between members.

  • We strive to begin and end meetings on time.

  • We have established a welcoming environment.

  • We address each other by first name.

  • We work in small groups.

  • We are informal.

  • We maintain a spirit of openness.

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Thank you to RHCP collaborators – accounted and unaccounted for, past and future - for sharing your talents with RHCP to advance health equity in our communities…

Thank You, Partners!

  • Alliance of Chicanos, Hispanics, and Latin Americans

  • Boys & Girls Club of Rochester

  • Cambodian Association of Rochester Minnesota

  • Cambodian American Partnership of Minnesota

  • Co-Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist Church

  • Community Health Service Inc – Rochester

  • Divanyx Event Center and Photography

  • Hawthorne Education Center

  • Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association

  • Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research

  • Hennepin Healthcare

  • Ethiopian Community in Rochester Minnesota

  • Fostering African-American Improvement in Total Health

  • Luther College

  • Mayo Clinic

  • Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine

  • Mountain Park Health Center

  • Multicultural Learning Center

  • New Faces of America

  • New Sudan American Hope

  • Olmsted County Public Health Services

  • Olmsted Medical Center

  • Pamoja Women

  • Rochester Area Family Y

  • Rochester Buddhist Temple

  • Rochester Cambodian Church of the Nazarene

  • Rochester Community and Technical College

  • Rochester Public Library

  • Rochester Public Schools

  • Rochester Ready

  • Somali American Social Service Association

  • Somali Community Resettlement Services

  • StoryCenter

  • Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation

  • The Center Clinic

  • The Church of St Francis of Assisi

  • University of Minnesota Rochester

  • University of Minnesota Extension

  • University of Mississippi Medical Center

  • University of New Mexico

  • Vision Church

  • Winona State University

Our work is currently funded through a variety of grant and philanthropic funding sources. In an effort to expand RHCP’s scope and enhance cross-disciplinary opportunities for local, state and national collaboration, we invite potential funders to contact us to discuss opportunities for support.

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