Prior to grant submission, the community-academia team met bi-weekly to work on the call for proposal. The T-3 research aims were to test the effectiveness of AcS, to measure the program effect, and the psychometric properties of the instruments. The T-3 community research project was submitted on April 2012 and was approved on December 2012. Due to challenges in the PRCTRC administration, funds were not disbursed until April 2013. Therefore, the CBO was required to pay the AcS facilitator and coordinator salaries until funds were allocated. The academic researchers did not receive a monetary compensation. This fund was used to buy program materials and to reimburse CBO expenditures during this year.
