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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development BUILD Las Vegas 2019 Event: Lessons Learned in Public Health Community Engagement

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) BUILD Las Vegas 2019 event brought together Las Vegas Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes Program (LVLHCHHP) staff, community leaders, and volunteers from multiple organizations for a neighborhood clean-up and community resource fair in a low-income, historic west Las Vegas neighborhood. In preparation for the event, LVLHCHHP staff encountered a lack of published guidance regarding past BUILD events or planning of community-based public health events. To address this gap in the literature, this brief report offers lessons learned from the process of planning and evaluating the HUD BUILD Las Vegas 2019 event. These include taking early planning measures, centering the focus on community needs, and forming strategic partnerships, which can provide a valuable foundation for future events that want to integrate community engagement with public health.

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This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes [Grant Number NVLHB0652-17].

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  1. School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4700 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite 335, Mail Stop: 3063, Las Vegas, NV, 89119-3063, USA

    Melissa Marshall, Selam Ayele, Casey Barber, Erin Sheehy, Daidre Gamboa & Shawn Gerstenberger

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Marshall, M., Ayele, S., Barber, C. et al. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development BUILD Las Vegas 2019 Event: Lessons Learned in Public Health Community Engagement. J Community Health 47, 387–391 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-021-01047-3

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