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Many federal agencies are exploring options to engage people with lived experience in federally funded research and evaluation. This session will describe how a community advisory board (CAB) can fulfill this need, how to convene a CAB in the federal research context, and lessons learned from the perspectives of one project’s CAB members, research firm staff, and federal staff. Speakers will describe and share lessons learned from the Advancing Contextual Analysis and Methods of Participant Engagement (CAMPE) project, funded by the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and implemented by Urban Institute.
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This NAACFRC 2024 CER Conference: CER Pathways to Equitable Programs and Policies program session includes three presentations about using community-engaged research to approach different sectors of economic mobility and poverty alleviation. 1) "City Talkin’ We Taking Notes: A Basic Income Project for African American Women Builds Hope & Healing", Speakers: Ebonee Bell, Multnomah Idea Lab; Voycetta Marie White, Multnomah Idea Lab; Kesha Canda, Multnomah Idea Lab 2) "We as a Country Should Provide: The Impacts of Guaranteed Income on Racial and Economic Justice", Speakers: Leah Hamilton, MSW, PhD, Jain Family Institute; Simone Smith, PhD Student, Clark Atlanta University; Aaron Quick, PhD Student, Clark Atlanta University; Desha Elliott, PhD Student, Clark Atlanta University 3) "Claiming #FATHERhood: The Building of Brothers United Nation", Avis Files, Program Director, Pathway, Inc.
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Three presentations will be shared within this NAACFRC 2024 CER Conference: CER Pathways to Equitable Programs and Policies program session: 1) Studying an Equity-Focused Universal Preschool Program: Lessons from a Research Partnership 2) Exploring the Experiences of Black, Low-Income Parents’ Access to Quality Early Childhood Education 3) Infusing child development science into the ministry activities of clergy in predominantly Black congregations
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The National African American Child and Family Research Center held an annual conference in 2024 with the theme of CER Pathways to Equitable Programs and Policies. During this session, attendees will identify community-engaged research approaches with parents, discuss the role of parents in research to improve programs, and identify outcomes and actions that might help ensure services and research are equitable through positive outcomes.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.