Product Type: Webinar

This webinar examines how research can provide support to policy development and improvement, to better serve children and families. Presenters describe the process of translating research findings into key takeaways for policy officials and how to build meaningful relationships between the community and decision-makers with research evidence.

This webinar discusses research that demonstrates how artificial intelligence (AI) can be implemented to enhance programs in human services. Speakers address challenges that come with utilizing this technology, and share specific AI tools that the community, practitioners, and researchers may find useful.

This webinar explores innovative, participatory research methods used in a study on home-based child care practices and experiences. Furthermore, this webinar sheds light on often-overlooked aspects of quality in home-based child care and examines its impact on children's long-term academic outcomes. #capacitybuilding #CBPR #publichealth #childcare

This webinar focuses the importance of new research to address historical inequalities and systematic racism. There is focus on efforts of the National African American Children and Family Research Center (NAACFRC), as well as the challenges of utilizing secondary data. Furthermore, this webinar emphasized the need to leverage existing data sets to increase understanding of African American children and families' experiences with programs overseen by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF).

This webinar focuses on the use of geographical information to assess Administration for Children and Families (ACF) programs and outcomes of African American families. This webinar discusses common uses, challenges, and tips for using spatial analysis. Learn more about how community-engaged research can inform programs and policies to serve African American children and families better.

This webinar will explore methods and uses for collecting information to assess the extent to which entities are equitable. It will also provide an overview of racial equity impact assessments, why these examinations are important, and when to conduct these examinations. Additionally, it will provide sample questions to ask to help identify racial inequities.

This webinar will explore types of equity and equity metrics that measure progress in equity action plans. It will identify equity metrics in federal agencies’ equity action plans that are in use or recommended.

This webinar will focus on community involvement and research ethics, sharing insights on critical issues including trust, equity and autonomy and navigating sensitive data that will benefit research and impacted communities alike. Attendees will learn how to: – Foster trust, equity, and transparency in their community when engaging in research. – Handle sensitive and identifying information. – Boost dual-relationship that benefits both research and community.

This webinar will focus on community research justice, specifically strategies for promoting equity, accountability, and active engagement for evaluation processes. Challenges of navigating federal research funding and ways to engage communities in research will also be discussed. By the end of this webinar attendees will be able to: Highlight strategies focusing on research justice and equity. Discuss challenges related to community engagement in research. Educate on resources and information that can benefit future research on justice and equity.

This webinar will describe how community-based research can improve and build on research strategies and approaches when interacting with marginalized and/or community-specific groups. Specifically, the topics of the webinar will include fatherhood research, asset-based research, and racial equity. Information that attendees will learn includes: 1) Identifying the importance of asset-based community development and community engagement in research 2) Understanding the need to address structural and systemic inequities and the importance of involving community members in the scientific process. An example will be provided 3) Implementing racial equity to elevate the voices of underserved peoples and organizations in research and decision-making processes and practices.