Community Engagement & Education Core

Promotes Healthy Development By Fostering Strong Community Connections

Director:
Anita Randolph, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Advance our knowledge of the developmental needs of the community.
Collaborate with the community to utilize our collective strengths to create innovative approaches to clinical care, research, engagement, education, and training programs.
Honor the intersectional lived experiences and perspectives of our URM community members regarding healthcare and research to ensure programming is culturally responsive and sensitive.
Improve accessibility to developmental services and research, particularly to our URM and refugee communities.
Engage the community through youth STEAM initiatives, seminars, workshops, and research.
Vigilant in our pursuit to not perpetuate systems that promote health inequities in our clinical, research, and educational programming.
Educate our community and ourselves to better understand healthy development, related disorders, interventions, and available services.