The objective of this study is to conduct individual interviews with Latino parents about (1) their parenting beliefs and practices, (2) how experiences of racism, discrimination, and the current state sponsored rhetoric about Latinos and immigrants impacts parenting; and (3) their interactions with healthcare professionals and paraprofessionals about their parenting. This mixed-methods research study will use a brief survey interview, followed by a qualitative, in-depth interview to inform the development of an intervention to support parenting in early childhood by reducing barriers for health care access specifically around ways that parents experience social service and health care providers in primary care settings.
Partnering with the School of Social Work’s Center of Improvement of Child and Family Services and the State of Oregons’s Department of Education’s Early Learning Division, the goal of this project is to develop a set of recommendations for design options for a statewide system for infant and early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) while centering equity and elevating the needs and voice of BIPOC communities. This qualitative project includes individual semi-structured interviews with ECMHC national experts and Oregon specific mental health and early care and education leadership, early childhood mental health consultants, and focus groups with early care and education providers.
Research examining parent, child, and family well-being within Latino families with young children who are at risk for, or involved in, the child welfare system in a nationally representative sample of children who were subject to reports of maltreatment to CPS agencies between 1999 and 2010.