Carolyn Patricia Parks

Carolyn often went by "Carol". During her years at UNC Chapel Hill school of public health her name was Carol Parks Bani

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• In memoriam
  1954 - November 2024
• Facebook page
• Email Vic sent on November 15, 2024
• UNC HBHE Faculty/Staff Profiles from 2001
  Courtesy of the Internet Archive; unfortunately the individual profiles were not saved
• Jo Anne Earp email about Carol's years at UNC
• Invitation to make a presentation
  at the 2002 Annual Minority Health Conference
• Recruitment and Training Issues from Selected Lay Health Advisor Programs among African Americans: A 20-Year Perspective
  Ethel J. Jackson, MPH, and Carolyn P. Parks, PhD; Health Education & Behavior 1997 (August);24(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/109019819702400403
  Abstract:
  The use of lay health advisors (LHAs) to address the health disparity among African Americans is well documented and considered a culturally appropriate model of community health promotion. The recruitment and training of LHAs are important components of the model but have not been fully explored in the LHA literature. Recruitment and training of LHAs should reflect both the existing roles they have in their respective communities and those proposed by the programs to which they are recruited. This article reviews and describes the components of recruitment and training as implemented in selected LHA programs among African Americans. The article will address the role and purpose of LHAs in health promotion among African Americans, a historical perspective of recruitment and training, recruitment and training methods in selected LHAs programs for African Americans, and recommendations for the recruitment and training of LHAs for health promotion among African Americans.