National African American Child and Family Research Center
Better Serving Our Communities
The National African American Child and Family Research Center is designed to provide national leadership and excellence in community-engaged research to better serve African American children and families. Funded by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS), The Center is housed within the Prevention Research Center at Morehouse School of Medicine. Focusing exclusively on African American children and families, it is the first of its kind.
NAACFRC 2024 RESEARCH CAPACITY
BUILDING WEBINAR SERIES
Research and Resources
Providing national leadership & excellence in community-engaged research to better serve African American children & families.
Community
Community is the heart of the NAACFRC. Our purpose is to improve the effectiveness of service delivery to TANF families and thereby strengthen the African American community as a whole. We believe in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). We want our research to be informed by the perspectives, preferences, & life priorities of African Americans.
Practice
The NAACFRC prioritizes the needs and experiences of practitioners to promote access, equity, inclusion, and participation of families served by TANF, Head Start, and Child Care Assistance.Our fourth research priority is to identify and assess promising approaches for service provision to African American children. To facilitate this we are developing a national Community-Based Research Database of researchers, within ACF program areas that are relevant to the NAACFRC mission, who use a community-based approach.
Upcoming Events
Equity & Inclusion Language for Community Engagement
This webinar will identify best practices in language that foster community engagement, including common terms that are incorrectly/inappropriately used in equity and inclusion work. This session will provide guidelines to […]
Community Engagement Approaches
This webinar will discuss the ways academic research leaders have engaged African American communities in research throughout the entire research process, from planning to dissemination, and obtain community perspectives on […]
Community Research Training – Research Justice & Equity
This webinar will provide tools and strategies that will build the capacity of community and practice leaders to use data and conduct their own research and share leadership roles with […]
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