an innovative simulationbased communityengaged intervention for training research assistants in culturally appropriate informed consent background enrolling underrepresented groups in biomedical research remains challenging owing to limited health literacy historic medical abuses and mistrust addressing such barriers requires scrutiny of informed consent processes and training of research assistants ras applying simulation methods that are wellestablished in medical education simulationbased communityengaged research intervention for informed consent protocol testing and training scriiptt engages community members as community advisors cas to train ras in implementing culturally appropriate approaches such as addressing difficult issues related to race and power dynamics into the informed consent training processobjectives to present scriiptts development implementation and preliminary findingsmethods over 12 months our communityacademic partnership 1 introduced scriiptt to the greater community using the truth amp reconciliation model which acknowledges the wrongs of research and offers an apology 2 deepened understanding of community concerns 3 developed the intervention 4 conducted a pilot and 5 disseminated findingsresults scriiptt included a comprehensive training manual scenarios for simulated informed consent encounters and a 37item checklist to measure performance outcomes include ca and ra satisfaction surveys and ra performance rating the checklist adequately measured observable behaviors ras reported important gains in knowledge selfconfidence and cultural competence in conducting informed consent cas reported positive experiences being fully engaged and valued as members of the research team and participants during simulation encountersconclusions this pilot study demonstrated the feasibility of scriiptt with preliminary evidence of effectiveness and acceptability scriiptt offers an innovative approach for community engagement in research training and advancing the skills of ras in culturally appropriate informed consent