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Our vision is that all families have the support they need to thrive.
We wish you joy, health, and success for 2024! We are excited to share updates from the Jordan Institute with you. In response to suggestions from our Institute Review, we have been partnering with Micro Root Media to better describe our work through a website refresh and storytelling. Click on the button below to read our first story! We have been working with a variety of partners to lay the groundwork for several big 2024 initiatives which we hope to announce this spring.
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Improving Child and Family Well-being by Preventing Overload
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In September 2023, the Jordan Institute partnered with The Children’s Home Society of America and the Duke Endowment to co-host the Wicked Problems Institute – Prevention in Action: Building Equitable Pathways to Child and Family Well-Being. The Institute brought together multi-sector, cross-system partners from across the country to focus on disentangling and addressing the constellation of factors that can overload families and lead to unnecessary involvement in the child welfare system. Click here to learn more and to access all of the graphic narrations (the image above is from Day One in the morning) from the event.The gathering created tremendous energy and connection focusing on economic supports for families to prevent involvement in child welfare systems. The event included a panel with Sarah Verbiest focusing on the challenges faced by postpartum families with strategies for providing increased supports and keeping moms and babies together. Stay tuned for much more ahead in 2024. | | | |
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Introducing: Beyond the Community Meeting: An Annotated Bibliography of Resources on Anti-Racism Research Methods
Co-authored by Allison De Marco, Hollis Smith, Alexandria Coffey, Kennedy Bridges, and Shareen El Naga, this annotated bibliography is intended to guide and enhance practices around anti-oppressive and anti-racist research methods. Key themes include the importance of authentically involving those who are the focus of research in the research process, considering the impact of research, notably that action-oriented policy recommendations should flow from research findings, and working to disseminate findings that go beyond traditional formats to elevate equity and justice for communities.
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Mark Your Calendars: February 2024 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
Based on excellent feedback from the community, the Racial Equity Challenge is back for 2024! For 21 days, we invite you to do one action daily to deepen your understanding of power, privilege, oppression, and racial equity. Being committed to anti-racism work is about deep self-reflection, learning new things, and building new habits. We welcome participants from across our community. New resources are continuously added, so returning participants will find new opportunities for learning and engagement. This challenge includes a new day addressing food justice.
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Moving Research Into Practice
Jordan Institute faculty and students have been busy sharing results from new research looking at the relationship between access to child care subsidy and involvement in the child welfare system for child neglect. After analyzing data from the North Carolina Early Childhood Integrated Data System (NC ECIDS), Dr. Paul Lanier and Alex Coffey, a doctoral student in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, presented findings at the Prevent Child Abuse America national conference in August as well as the NC Early Education Coalition’s Child Care Heroes annual event in November. Paul and Alex were joined by Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina’s President, Sharon Hirsch, who complemented the research with a discussion of how economic policies, such as child care subsidies, are impacting families in NC and beyond.
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Kayden Coleman: Allyship and Inclusive Care
In November the Jordan Institute teamed up with the Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center to bring Kayden Coleman to the School of Social Work in person and to a national audience online. Isabella Igbanugo's blog post shares highlights from this thought-provoking evening. Click here to read the blog.
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The Financial Well-Being of Black Families in the South
This blog post, also courtesy of Isabella Igbanugo, summarizes the highlights from the November webinar featuring the work of Lyneisha Dukes, Rehaana Herbert, and Maudia Ahmad on economic well-being among Black women and scholars. You can read the blog here and also access the recording of this event.
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Welcome Kun'Tre Pharoh
Kun'Tre is a first year MSW student with a vision to establish a private practice and contribute to positive change through policy advocacy. He is a proud father to a 6-year-old daughter. He has a health and wellness business, Health Heroes Connect LLC, which centers around promoting the significance of spiritual, physical, and mental balance. He lives by this quote by Barack Obama "Change will not come if we wait for others, we are the ones we've been waiting for."
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Welcome Isabella Igbanugo
Isabella Igbanugo is a first-year MSW candidate with a Bachelors in Justice and Law from American University in Washington, DC. Her research experience includes intimate partner violence, childhood maltreatment, and intergenerational trauma. She is interested in research centering on parenting, generational healing, and culturally inclusive approaches to child welfare. She is also a whiz with Canva!
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Congratulations to Katherine Bryant who welcomed her new daughter Lily into the world this fall! Sarah Verbiest was featured in The Daily Tar Heel talking about new federal legislation around accommodations for pregnant workers. Allison DeMarco and Sarah Verbiest were excited to join the NC Tax Coalition supported by MDC. Sarah had a chance to present to the National Advisory Council on Infant and Maternal Mortality on her just published paper - Looking Back, Visioning Forward: Preconception Health in the US 2005-2023 in the Maternal and Child Health Journal. Todd Jensen was awarded a five-year, 25.3 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to support Phase 2 of the Add Health Parent Study, which will collect data intended to advance research focused on multigenerational health and addressing racial/ethnic health disparities across the life course. Todd also delivered multiple presentations at the National Council on Family Relations annual conference, which featured his work on family maltreatment prevention among military-connected families and offered training in the use of intensive longitudinal data to study families. | |
Bolstering New Parents & The People Who Care for Them
The 4th Trimester Project Team as part of the Jordan Institute has created a resource center with mom-centered, evidence-based tools to help new families navigate their postpartum experiences, recovery, and health care. From customizable support plans to video reels, there is important postpartum health information on a variety of topics and in different formats. These are meant for new moms and families, as well as professionals and care workers. We are on a mission to improve the way America treats new moms which includes making sure that home visitors, social workers, and community leaders are current on postpartum health needs. Watch and share today!
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