REDIRECT
Research of Early child Development by Improving Resiliency and EquiTy (REDIRECT) and policies affecting the state of Wisconsin
Specific Aims
- Develop a conceptual framework and data infrastructure, and build capacity to measure and explore disparities in resiliency in early childhood development in the state of Wisconsin
- Examine the contributing factors to disparities, protective factors for resilience, and outcomes in ECD at individual, family, community, and societal levels
- Evaluate policies and develop community-engaged interventions to improve ECD outcomes
Sociology
Staci Young, Marie Wolff, and Team
Collect and analyze qualitative data about resident’s experiences with:
– Structural factors: SES; health, education and social service agencies; policies
– Assets: #, location, and intensity of services
– Care delivery: family healing, developmental screening, access to services, mentoring
Interview key community informants about organization function and inter-agency coordination
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Laura Cassidy, Sergey Tarima, Rodney Sparapani, & Team
- Design and implement a prospective data collection system
- Perform sentinel event reviews: child, family, neighborhood, and societal views for CQI
- Analyze primary and secondary
Bioethics
Fabrice Jotterand, Mary Homan, and Team
– Establish a health equity conceptual framework
– Document the ethical approaches of using big data
– Investigate whether policies stigmatize low-income children with developmental concerns (neuroscience of poverty)
Community Health
John Meurer, and Team
– Partner with community, campus, and national advisors, and with community agencies
– Hold annual conferences
– Provide $150,000 in annual pilot grants with collaborators to advance the above aims (RFA fall 2018)
– Apply for extramural funding to grow and sustain this research initiative
– Disseminate evaluation findings through presentations and publications, and community-engaged activities and technology