This year the institute will be offering:
Two week-long, intensive virtual courses August 2 – 6, 2021
One fall semester-long hybrid virtual course August 30 – December 17, 2021
Spearheaded by Drs. Desmond Runyan, John Fluke, and Carol Runyan, The Kempe Center has developed a series of child abuse research and evaluation courses to expand the researchers and evidence-supported programs in this field. The Interdisciplinary Research Institute aims to better prepare researchers to apply for NIH and other support for their work and ensure that practitioners use the best evidence available to structure interventions and contribute to the evidence base through well-designed evaluations. Instructors include faculty from Kempe and several other leading research organizations and universities. The courses include lectures, discussion groups, and mentoring by instructors and other visiting professionals.
Summer Intensive Virtual Courses
WHEN: Monday, August 2th - Friday, August 6th • 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (MST)
WHERE: Virtual!
COURSE 1: Fundamentals of Clinical and Epidemiological Research
COURSE 2: Challenges in child maltreatment research
GOALS:
- Expand the pool of scholars trained to conduct child maltreatment research, increasing knowledge, and the evidence base.
- Provide research training to clinicians working in the child maltreatment field.
- Increase the capacity of community-based practice in applying evidence-based strategies to preventive efforts and adding to evidence through high-quality evaluation planning.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Two Courses
- National and international participants representing multiple disciplines
- Mentoring
- Graduate course credit available through the Colorado School of Public Health
- Limited, competitive scholarships available, with emphasis on under-represented groups
FORMAT:
- To adapt the course to meet our student's online learning needs we will limit the length of each day to begin at 9:00 AM (MST) and finish by 3:00 PM (MST).
- Many of the core lectures will be converted to recorded, self-paced material that the students will complete before class. All recorded material will be available during July.
- During the week-long intensive virtual learning series, each course will meet live via zoom each day for dynamic learning experiences:
- Morning discussions about readings, pre-recorded presentations, and additional short lectures.
- Mid-day daily research seminars by distinguished experts from the field.
- Afternoon breakout mentoring groups where students will develop their research or evaluation ideas with diverse faculty from throughout the US and Canada.
DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR SERIES KEYNOTE TALKS:
- James A. Mercy, Ph.D., Director of the Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Sabine Maguire, MD, Senior Lecturer in Child Health, Cardiff Medical School, Wales, UK
- Alan J. Dettlaff, Ph.D., MSW, Dean, and Maconda Brown O'Connor Endowed Dean's Chair, University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work
- Meghan Shanahan, MPH, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina
- Cindy Blackstock, Ph.D., Executive Director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Professor of Social Work, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- John Leventhal, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) and Clinical Professor of Nursing; Medical Director, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital Child Abuse Program
*Fall course 3 participants will receive access to all distinguished seminar series keynote talks.
REGISTER NOW!
Registration Deadline – July 1, 2021
* If you are registering for academic credit through the Colorado School of Public Health visit our registration details tab above for additional information on how to register.
Fall Semester Hybrid Course - Online & Virtual
WHEN: August 30 - December 17, 2021
WHERE: Virtual
COURSE 3: Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention: Exploring Issues of Design, implementation, and Evaluation through a Public Health Lens
PARTICIPANTS:
Designed for practitioners working in community-based settings with a focus on child health and welfare and for practice-focused graduate students. Regardless of whether you are working in a resource-poor low-income country or setting or another type of environment, the principles of evaluation are the same.
- Are you a practitioner working to prevent child maltreatment in a community-based setting?
- Do you want to know how well the programs you implement are working?
- Do your funders require you to demonstrate that your efforts are effective?
- Would you like to learn how to do better evaluations and improve your practice?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, this is the class for you!
HIGHLIGHTS:
- One self-paced hybrid virtual course.
- National and international participants representing multiple disciplines.
- Graduate course credit available through the Colorado School of Public Health.
- Limited, competitive scholarships available, with emphasis on under-represented groups.
FORMAT:
This is a hybrid course that consists of online self-paced learning opportunities and live virtual sessions that will start the week of August 30 and extend over a period of 16 weeks. The course will consist of:
- Recorded lectures in addition to 5 - 10 live discussion sessions to be scheduled based on participants' time-zones.
- Readings to supplement the lecture material.
- Exercises designed to help participants put the course concepts into practice.
- Each participant will be expected to prepare regular assignments to be completed by set dates.
- Individualized feedback/technical assistance will be provided on all assignments.
REGISTER NOW!
Registration Deadline – July 1, 2021
* If you are registering for academic credit through the Colorado School of Public Health visit our registration details tab above for additional information on how to register.
