Equity & Inclusion Language for Community Engagement
May 14 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Virtual Event
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 use inclusive language in research and practice specifically with or about African American children, families, and communities.
Speakers
Discussant: Tabitha Temple, MSW, DSW
Senior Equity Advisor, Administration for Children and Families
Natalie Burke
Technical Work Group Member, National African American Child & Family Research Center •
President & CEO, CommonHealth ACTION
Natalie Williams, MPA
Chief Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) Officer, American Public Health Services Association
Dia Harris, MA
Chief Equity Officer, Administration for Children and Families
About The 2024 Research Capacity Building Webinar Series
The Center presents its 2024 monthly webinar series to advance interdisciplinary community-engaged research that will inform programs and policies to better serve African American children and families.
The webinars will build research capacity and recommend methods to conduct research relevant to the ACF program and policy goals and communicate community-engaged research approaches to a broad audience of students, community leaders, practitioners, researchers, and state and federal policymakers.
Ultimately, these webinars will inform approaches to improve the well-being of African American children and families.
Objectives
The objectives of the monthly Webinar Series are to describe:
Relevant research methods can be used to define and measure the needs, assets, and experiences of African American children and families, specifically those with low incomes.
Community-engaged and other research that identifies and assesses barriers and facilitators of access to and utilization of TANF/poverty alleviation, Head Start/Early Head Start, and child care financial assistance programs by African Americans.
Promising strategies and approaches in TANF, Head Start/Early Head Start, and child care financial assistance programs for African American children and families.
Effective strategies for communicating and disseminating relevant research findings that promote the well-being of African American children and families, specifically in areas aligned with ACF’s and The Center’s research priorities.
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 use inclusive language in research and practice specifically with or about African American children, families, and communities.
Speakers
Discussant: Tabitha Temple, MSW, DSW
Natalie Burke
Natalie Williams, MPA
Dia Harris, MA
About The 2024 Research Capacity Building Webinar Series
The Center presents its 2024 monthly webinar series to advance interdisciplinary community-engaged research that will inform programs and policies to better serve African American children and families.
The webinars will build research capacity and recommend methods to conduct research relevant to the ACF program and policy goals and communicate community-engaged research approaches to a broad audience of students, community leaders, practitioners, researchers, and state and federal policymakers.
Ultimately, these webinars will inform approaches to improve the well-being of African American children and families.
Objectives
The objectives of the monthly Webinar Series are to describe:
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