GWU School of Nursing researchers, along with others, presented their poster, Developing a Student/Family-Centered School Health Collaborative, at the American Academy of Nursing. Check out the poster they presented above!

We recommend you check out this hard look at Universities and public engagement in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The article can be found here.

 

An interesting new book from Routledge, Debating Social Problems, by Dr. Leonard A. Steverson and Dr. Jennifer E. Melvin, is out now. Debating Social Problems emphasizes the process of debate as a means of addressing social problems and helps students engage in active learning.

The debate format covers sensitive material in a way that encourages students to talk about this material openly in class. This succinct text includes activities that promote critical thinking and includes examples from current events. For more information, click here.

A new report from the Global Women's Institute and the Inter-American Development Bank documents the lessons learned from a review of the planning, implementation, and evaluation of community mobilization interventions concerning violence against women and girls in Haiti. For more information and access to the full paper, click here.

Don't miss this opportunity to sharpen your skills and commitment to CBPR next week!

**This workshop is tailored specifically for researchers and/or community partners who are conducting collaborative, community-based research. The session is appropriate for basic, translational, and clinical investigators and community collaborators who seek to engage in these types of research.

The Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN) invites you to participate in an upcoming community-based research training workshop on June 4, 2018, Building Community Communication Capacities: From Bench to Communities.
The training is sponsored by the Community Engagement Core of the CTSI-CN as a way of bringing researchers and community partners together to foster dialogue and collaborate on important initiatives.
Space is limited and by invitation only. Register now! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-
community-communication-capacities-from-bench-to-communities-tickets-45909982995
The purpose of this workshop is to enhance the capacity of researchers and community partners to effectively form partnerships and communicate to make collective decisions, while creating
relationships that advance both research endeavors and community health.
Communicating and creating shared directions among multidisciplinary teams - clinicians, scientists and nonscientists - requires individuals to flexibly and competently respond to their audience. Yet, communication and partnering practices that facilitate functional relationships are rarely part of our training.
The half-day workshop will apply an innovative and interactive methodology, where participants will be led through experiential exercises that develop their abilities to listen, ask questions, and build with what others say. These skills are foundational for creating a mutual understanding, establishing shared goals, and fostering effective communication for the conduct of community-based research.
The workshop will be conducted by Dr. Raquell Holmes, a pioneer in the use of improvisation and
performance to advance scientific research communities. Trained formally as a cell biologist, Holmes works in the fields of high performance computing and computational sciences. As the founder of improvscience, she uses her training in human development and performance from the East SideInstitute to help scientists build collaborative learning and research environment.

Photovoice is a new participatory research method you can see some examples of it's use here: http://www.lslorenz.com/currentphotovprojects.htm#sthash.gYby4Iri.dpbs

And information about how researchers are using it here: https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/assessment/assessing-community-needs-and-resources/photovoice/main

and here for participatory action research: https://www.galaxydigital.com/blog/photovoice-service-learning/

If you would like to learn more about photovoice there is an online course for new users: http://www.photovoiceworldwide.com/Photovoice-CE.htm#sthash.m8PINO5B.dpbs

The 18th International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Annual Conference
July 18-20 2018

Just Research: Inclusivity and Intersectionality
JW Marriott, New Orleans, LA
LINK: http://www.researchslce.org/conferences/

"This year’s theme — Just Research: Inclusivity and Intersectionality — bridges IARSLCE’s mission “to promote the development and dissemination of research on service-learning and community engagement” with one of the association’s key guiding principles: to advance “research that examines the utility and impact of engagement within diverse communities.”

Just Research is a double entendre relating the principles of IARSLCE that this conference is designed for presenting research with social impact.

Inclusivity relates to engaging overlooked, underrepresented, excluded, or marginalized groups and topics – be it in topic of the research, or those who are part of the research. At a time in U.S. and global history when issues of subjugation, harassment, repression, and systemic injustice are at the forefront of discussions, decisions, politics, and policy, we ask:

• How can we include rather than exclude?
• Who is privileged, and in what contexts?
• Can community-engaged practice and research enhance, increase, and advance equity on our campuses, in our communities, and in our countries?

Intersectionality addresses the connectivity of people and groups, highlighting how community-engaged research is not conducted in a vacuum but rather includes diverse stakeholders and perspectives and extends to those who do the work as well as to those who are a focus of the work.

• How can community-engaged researchers call attention to the impact of such work on communities?
• How can community-engaged researchers address and confront conditions, positions, circumstances, and contexts that maintain rather than question and disrupt inequality?
• What values and ethics are present in intersectionality?"