Product Type: Webinar

The NAACFRC Equity and Inclusion for Community Engagement webinar discussed the importance of equity and inclusion language for community engagement, with speakers emphasizing the need for a glossary of terms and the potential of language to shape collective health outcomes. Speakers also highlighted the significance of creating an inclusive workspace and classroom environment, and the importance of family engagement, particularly with African American families. The discussion concluded with a focus on leadership accountability, goal setting, and flexibility in human services organizations, and the importance of constructive dialogue for repairing structural racism. Interested in knowing/hearing more about NAACFRC? Check out our website www.naacfrc.org #communityengagement #equity #education #NAACFRC #caps #cbo #africanamerican #earlyeducation #research #webinar #powerofwords #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealth #language #inclusion

This webinar will describe how the Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center’s research and prevention initiatives are implemented in direct response to priorities identified through a community-based, participatory research-driven needs and assets assessment. Led by a community-majority coalition board, the assessment coupled city and state secondary data with primary survey data collected by and from community residents. The assessment informed and established a data-driven community-engaged research agenda, policy, systems, environmental change approaches, community-led grants and job creation leveraging neighborhood contexts and strengths.

This webinar will describe how to employ quantitative and computational methods (QCM) situated in context, history, and social relations when conducting community engaged research. Specifically, after this session, attendees will be able to: Name and define foundational epistemologies in research traditions and approaches. Identify at least three critical theoretical approaches and traditions for quantitative and computational research. Understand intersectionality as an example of critical quantitative and computational methodologies. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of at least five quantitative and computational approaches used to conduct intersectionality analysis.

The NAACFRC Equity and Inclusion for Community Engagement webinar discussed the importance of equity and inclusion language for community engagement, with speakers emphasizing the need for a glossary of terms and the potential of language to shape collective health outcomes. Speakers also highlighted the significance of creating an inclusive workspace and classroom environment, and the importance of family engagement, particularly with African American families. The discussion concluded with a focus on leadership accountability, goal setting, and flexibility in human services organizations, and the importance of constructive dialogue for repairing structural racism.

NAACFRC is deeply invested in improving the quality of life for rural Black populations participating in TANF, Head Start/Early Head Start, and the Child Care Development Fund. Our Co-Investigator, Rural Populations, is Dr. Nina Smith. With a background in Psychology Human Development & Family Studies, Dr. Smith brings an interdisciplinary approach to exploring rurality in Black families in the hopes of addressing their unmet needs. In this video, Dr. Smith introduces rurality as a cross-cutting theme among Black families.

In this short webinar, Dr. Cassandra Bolar, introduces the field of fatherhood research beginning with how interest emerged in this topic post World War II in the United States. Major researchers in the field of fatherhood are discussed as well as how fathering has shifted over the decades. Dr. Bolar highlights the intergenerational transmission of fathering in Black families and positive child outcomes associated with father involvement as a whole.

This webinar is one of two in the NAACFRC Autism Acceptance Month series. The series features dynamic speakers that share their research, lived experiences, recommendations, and opportunities in autism research and support services. This webinar discusses intersectionality in neurodiversity, navigating the challenges of parenting a black adolescent with autism, and explore coping in parents of black autistic children.

This webinar is one of two in the NAACFRC Autism Acceptance Month series. The series features dynamic speakers that share their research, lived experiences, recommendations, and opportunities in autism research and support services. This webinar discusses the need to foster autism awareness and acceptance, and how to improve services and opportunities for those with autism.