The CBPR Conceptual Model was developed by the UNM CPR team with national partners to provide a visual framework of how partnering processes contribute to capacity, system, health and health equity outcomes. Through validating and testing the Model, community-academic partnerships have found it useful as a guide for their own evaluation and collective reflection processes.
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The CBPR Conceptual Model follows the Context – Mechanism (Partnership Processes and Intervention & Research actions) – Outcomes (CMO) realist evaluation framework, enabling the discovery of middle-range theories and pathways of change. As a guide, rather than a static two-dimensional framework, we encourage partnerships to see the Model as a dynamic complex system with partnerships encouraged to re-create their own Model using the four core domains. Partnerships can assess the importance of distinct Model constructs and add their own so that the Model is relevant to their specific projects and partnerships.
We welcome an opportunity to exchange ideas and learnings about how other partnerships are using the CBPR Model for their own strategic planning, visioning or evaluations, adapting the constructs to their own settings, or creating new versions of the Model. To envision your own Model for planning or evaluation, see the CBPR Model Visioning: Planning and Evaluation Guide. Please contact us if you would like to share your Model and projects, or would like technical assistance in creating your own partnership evaluation.