Training and Mentoring
Project 1:
RISER Network
Project Summary
The purpose of this project is to provide support to the RISER Network in creating research to address policy and practice barriers to healthy development of Black children.
Researchers Investigating Sociocultural Equity and Race (RISER) Network is a collaboration between senior, mid-level, and junior scholars working together to conduct applied child development research focused on the positive development of Black children and to disseminate research to policy makers in order to dismantle education and health disparities and to promote the thriving and academic success of children.
The team works together to publish research unpacking how racism is an environmental context that drives health and education disparities specifically across the child development trajectory from prenatal to age 8, focusing on disseminating research knowledge to scholars and policy makers that is actionable, strengths-based, and focused on wellness promotion.
Project 2:
UNC Public Policy-ECIC Early Childhood Racial Equity Research-Policy Partnership Program
Project Summary
The goal of this partnership between UNC Public Policy and Early Childhood Investment Corporation is to provide authentic projects for emerging early childhood research and policy scholars to engage in during their graduate and post-graduate training. Fellows will engage in racial equity-centered projects with policy-relevant implications.