Podcast Episode 7
What Does the Research Say?
What Does the Research Say?
Guest host Dr. Dipesh Navsaria speaks to Allison Kemner, Chief Research Officer of Parents as Teachers, about the research behind home visiting and how the science behind the program translates into positive, everyday results for families. Nathan Jorgensen and Danielle J. Allen, both of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC Chapel Hill, discuss how this research can be used to speak directly to addressing issues such as racial inequality in childhood. And Emma Posner and Jess Goldberg, both of Tufts Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research at Tufts University, explain how the research into home visiting can shape child abuse prevention and protection.”
Guest host Dr. Dipesh Navsaria speaks to Allison Kemner, Chief Research Officer of Parents as Teachers, about the research behind home visiting and how the science behind the program translates into positive, everyday results for families. Nathan Jorgensen and Danielle J. Allen, both of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC Chapel Hill, discuss how this research can be used to speak directly to addressing issues such as racial inequality in childhood. And Emma Posner and Jess Goldberg, both of Tufts Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research at Tufts University, explain how the research into home visiting can shape child abuse prevention and protection.”
Guests
Guests
Allison Kemner oversees research and learning activities for the Parents as Teachers National Center and collaborates with a wide research network to advance the organization’s research and learning agenda. Additionally, she oversees the data collection, analysis, and dissemination of information about the impact and reach of Parents as Teachers, as well as providing guidance in the areas of quality assurance, quality improvement, and outcomes measurement. Allison serves as a Co-Investigator on six National Institutes of Health grants and has served on several national advisory groups including the Home Visiting Expert Consensus Panel through Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, and the National Advisory Committee for the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative, among many others. Allison also has prior experience leading federal, state, and local evaluations working for a research and consulting company and in academia.
Nathan Jorgensen is a postdoctoral researcher for the Equity Research Action Coalition at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC Chapel Hill. His research focuses on how cultural systems shape identity, social development, and brain development in childhood and adolescence. He has expertise in quantitative methods and statistics, but also in community-based research, believing that people and communities should be active and valued participants in the research process.
Danielle J Allen, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor of Public Policy at UNC Chapel Hill, a Project Director with the Equity Research Action Coalition, and a qualitative researcher at the Education Policy Initiative at Carolina. Her primary research interests examine the role of Black faith communities in advocating for and providing high quality educational opportunities for students and families as well as the broader role Black churches play in advocating for social, political, and economic justice for Black families and communities. At the Coalition, she is currently leading research initiatives on racial identity formation in young children and African-centered education in early childhood education settings.
Emma Posner works as Participatory Evaluation Project Manager at Tufts Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research. There, Emma manages the Community Evaluator project, a research training program that engages community-based evaluators to design and implement participatory evaluation projects. She also facilitated the PATNC/TIER Learning Community focused on improving supports for families involved with CPS. Prior to joining TIER, Emma worked as Home Visiting Capacity and Systems Coordinator and Parents as Teachers State Lead for the Massachusetts MIECHV program.
Jess Goldberg is a Research Associate Professor and co-director of Tufts Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research at Tufts University, and a Distinguished Fellow at Child Trends. Jess has decades of experience leading rigorous and applied evaluations of home visiting and other family support programs and public health initiatives. Jess has been PI on TIER’s evaluation for PATNC. She has also been a PI on other home visiting evaluations in MA, including all state-led evaluations of MIECHV in MA and currently the state’s MIECHV Coordinated State Evaluation and evaluation of the Innovations award.