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The primary mission of the NAACFRC is to provide national leadership & excellence in community engaged research to understand the social determinants of health & protective factors in order to help ACF programs & policies better serve African American children & families. 

Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)  elevates the communities’ perspectives, preferences, & priorities for whom programs & policies are developed

CBPR is defined as the involvement of a research topic of importance to the community and combines knowledge with action to improve health outcomes and eliminate health disparities.

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The Center uses Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) as the framework for its research priorities which are to identify, assess and measure:

  1. The needs, assets, & experiences of African American children & families in national datasets.
  2. Barriers & facilitators that impact human service provision to & utilization by African Americans
  3. Strategies to promote the social & economic well-being of African American children & families
  4. Approaches for service provision to African American children & families

The NAACFRC will produce and disseminate research that broadly focuses on child development (Early Head Start & Head Start), child care assistance, and social & economic mobility in the forms of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).

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