The National African American Child and Family Research Center (NAACFRC)
2025 Community-Engaged Research (CER) Conference:
Laboring Together – CER for Economic Success
June 12, 2025 | 9 a.m.–5 p.m. ET
Shirley Massey Executive Conference Center
Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA
Registration is now open for the
NAACFRC 2025 Community-Engaged Research (CER) Conference!
The 2025 conference will showcase innovative research approaches and share stories of successful research collaborations in:
Early care and education
Social and economic mobility
The National African American Child and Family Research Center’s (NAACFRC) annual CER conference helps build community-engaged research capacity. Community-engaged research is defined, “not by the methods used, but the principles that guide the research and the relationships between researchers and the community.” This research may range from involving community members in an advisory capacity to community members serving as leads or equal partners in the research.
NAACFRC 2025 registration is free and open to the public. This will be an in-person-only event at the Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.
Benefits of Attending
Build your network
Engage and ideate
Learn about timely research
Create partnerships
Share knowledge and experience
Conference Topics
Community-engaged research on:
- Early care and education & economic mobility
- Early care and education & mental health
- Poverty alleviation
- Economic self-sufficiency & fatherhood
- Improvements to early care and education, led by parents
Keynote Address
Community-Engaged Research to Advance Economic Success for African American Children and Families
Joseph T. Jones, Jr.
Center for Urban Families (CFUF)
Founder & President, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Jones is a national leader in workforce development and fatherhood and family services programming, and through his professional and civic involvement, he influences policy direction nationwide. He established the Center for Urban Families (CFUF) to empower low-income families by enhancing both the ability of women and men to contribute to their families as wage earners and of men to fulfill their roles as fathers.
Conference Showcases
NAACFRC 2024-2025 Community Pilot Project Program Awardees
NAACFRC 2024-2025 Emerging Scholars Cohort
Sylvia Annan, LCSW
Doreek Charles, M.S.W.
Kelley Hollie, M.S.W.
Heather A. Jones, M.S.W., LCSW
Conference Logistics
