2024-2025 Speaker Series

“Culturally Responsive Healing Practices for Boys and Young Men of Color”

Abstract: This study presents a developmental evaluation exploring how grantees integrated the Robert Wood Johnson-funded Forward Promise Initiative’s Heal, Grow, Thrive (HGT) Framework and the dehumanization conceptual model into their existing programs. The evaluation identified and codified practices that organizations use to disrupt dehumanization, particularly among boys and young men of color (BYMOC). The findings revealed nine practices across three categories—new narratives, culturally responsive programming, and systems reform—that organizations used to disrupt dehumanization. These practices, grounded in both the lived experiences of BYMOC and robust research, provide a foundation for new hypotheses in the field, suggesting areas for future research on aligning specific practices with types of dehumanization as proposed by the NPO model.

Co-Sponsored with the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center

Dr. Graham is also presenting the BENNETT LECTURE
Thursday, October 3, 2024
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Bennett Pierce Living Center, 110 Henderson Building
“Conducting Rigorous Community-level Research: The Power of Possibilities”

“Embodied and Embedded Learning: Moving Beyond Theoretical, Methodological, and Cultural Divides in Developmental Science”

Abstract: Infancy is a remarkable time. Each emerging skill generates perceptual and social feedback vital to learning. And although researchers of infancy each zero in on a specific domain of development, our work is grounded in core principles of learning. In this talk, Tamis-LaMonda spotlights fundamental tenets of developmental science and the need for researchers to surmount soundbites, theoretical divides, methodological assumptions, and the narrow approaches to culture that persist in the field. Tamis-LeMonda illustrates with examples of infant-parent everyday home activities in samples from different socioeconomic status households, language communities, and global sites. She shows that infant learning is the product of immense amounts of time-distributed, varied practice; that cognition is grounded in action; and that venturing beyond the lab and expanding inquiry to diverse cultural communities offers unique insights into learning processes.

2024 Child Maltreatment Solutions Network Conference

“Biological Embedding of Caregiving Adversity”

Co-sponsored by the Child Study Center

Please register here.