Recorded Webinars
2024 Capacity Building Webinar Series
An Introduction to CBPR and its Use in ACF Research
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.
Critical Research Design and QCM
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.
Developing a Community Engaged Research Agenda
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.
Equity & Inclusion Language for Community Engagement
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.
Community Engagement Approaches
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 include:
1) Identifying the importance of asset-based community development and community engagement in research
2) Understanding the need of addressing structural and systemic inequities and the importance of involving community members in the scientific process. Example will be provided
3) Implementing racial equity to elevate the voices of underserved peoples and organizations in research and decision-making processes, as well as practices.
2023 CER Annual Conference
The Role of Community-Engaged Research in Advancing Equity in Service
In 2021, OPRE issued a brief entitled, Enhancing Rigor, Relevance, and Equity in Research and Evaluation Through Community Engagement, which stated “Community leaders, community members, and researchers increasingly recognize that engaging communities in research and evaluation is critical for implementing effective programs and building trust. Researchers and communities also recognize the value of community-engaged research to improve the rigor and relevance of research and evaluation and better address historical and ongoing systemic inequities. Community-engaged research is more than a project or study; it is a process that requires commitment from researchers and communities to sustain long-term relationships and collaboration.” We will hear from community-engaged researchers and community leaders about the role of research in improving programs and services for African American children and families and ensuring services are equitable through positive outcomes.
Community-Engaged Research in Early Care & Education
Leaders from across sectors will share their research and programs with African American children and parents in early care and education.
Community-Engaged Research in Economic Mobility and Poverty Alleviation
Community and academic leaders will share how they address poverty and economic inequities among African-American children and families. Presenters will highlight approaches, research findings, lessons learned, and recommendations.
Using Data and Research to Advance Equity and Improve Services for African American Children, Families, and Workforce
Community leaders from diverse sectors will discuss the use of data and research to inform human services and ways to reduce the gaps between current human service practices and goals for better quality services and positive outcomes.
Community-Engaged Research in Fatherhood
NAACFRC pilot project program grantees, who are leaders in community-based organizations in diverse sectors, will share their fatherhood research including perspectives of fathers in early care and education and health and human services.
2022 CER Annual Conference
National African American Child & Family Research Center Conference: Day 1
Future research, practice, and policy recommendations to strengthen and support African-American children and families through TANF/Poverty Alleviation, Early Childhood Education, and Childcare programs were shared during an engaging panel session. Other presenters include community-based participatory or community-engaged scholars focused on research in the areas of TANF/Poverty Alleviation, Early Childhood Education, Childcare, and Fatherhood with African-American children and
families.
Fatherhood Town Hall
When we say families, do we include fathers? The need for integration, Inclusion, and Innovation.
Concurrent Session A | Authentic Collaboration: Public Benefits, Participatory Research And Advocacy.
Concurrent Session A: Authentic Collaboration: Public Benefits, Participatory Research And Advocacy.
Concurrent Session B | Early Education: Black Children’s Access, Experiences, and Outcomes.
Vast evidence points to the importance of early education for children’s school and life success. Furthermore, much of the short- and long-term social, health, and economic benefits of early childhood education are primarily based on studies that mainly included Black children. Unfortunately, studies show that Black children are less likely to access Early Head Start and Head Start and experience high-quality learning environments. The outcomes of participation in Early Head Start and Head Start are mixed and uneven. However, these findings must be placed in context through a holistic lens that recognizes the pernicious
impact of systemic racism. This presentation uncovers those disparities and suggest ways to create systems and programs that leverage the cultural assets of Black children, families, and communities while mitigating against systemic racism, inequities and biases.
Concurrent Session C | Early Care: An Exploration of Linkages Between Employment, Wages, and Child Care Access for Black Families to Inform Child Care Policy
Childcare enables participation in the workforce and is critically important to the well-being of families and society. This session includes a brief overview of employment patterns and wages in Black families, examine access to child care, and highlight the historical links between Black women and child care work to shed light on solutions for advancing child care systems and policy in the U.S.
Concurrent Session D | Fatherhood/Family Dynamics
A collaborative father engagement. Power of Fathers (PoF) was designed to improve the life circumstances of fathers by their addressing individual,
organizational, and systemic barriers in order to support father engagement and ultimately, impact outcomes for their children.
2022 Capacity Building Webinar Series
An Overview of Fatherhood Research and TANF Connections
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.
Populations Living in Rural Areas
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 and 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 gives an introduction to rurality as a cross cutting theme among Black families.
Community Conversations
MS Washington County 2022 MAY 18
AL Macon County 2022 MAY 31
GA Troup County 2022 MAY 03
GA Greene County 2022 APR 09
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