ComPASS Coordinating Center Year 1 CHESI Capacity Needs Assessment Survey

The Capacity Needs Assessment Survey (CNAS) was completed as part of the larger "Advancing Health Equity Through Innovative Community Capacity Building, Data Science & Delivering Community-Centered Structural Interventions & Outcomes: Drexel's ComPASS Coordination Center (C3)" cooperative agreement. This funding tasked C3 with providing oversight for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program, a first-of-its-kind national effort to advance community-led health equity structural intervention research. Acting as its backbone, the C3 administered and coordinated multiple components of the ComPASS Program through its three interdependent cores (Administrative, Data, and Capacity-Building), and coordinating the work of 24 community-led health equity structural intervention (CHESI) teams located throughout the United States. The CHESI Capacity Needs Assessment Survey (CNAS) aimed to assess each CHESI's partnership experience and baseline capacity related to partnering, planning, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining a structural intervention. Its purpose was to understand CHESI team’s training priorities and needs based on their work so far under ComPASS, tailor C3 and regional hub supports, and evaluate how CHESIs' research capacity changes over time.​ ComPASS was terminated before the second annual survey.