Diversity Supplement for Parent Engagement & Child Learning Birth to Five
This funding supplement provides 3 years of support to Jaime Gonzalez, a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology. The funding provides Jaime an opportunity to participate in a collaborative, interdisciplinary large-scale research project as a part of the 5-year longitudinal project, Parent Engagement and Child Learning Birth to Five. This grant is focused on strengthening relationships in children's lives, including relationships between parents and their young children, and parents and their children's caregivers and educators. The project investigates the effects of a comprehensive (child- and parent-focused) strengths-based intervention on child learning, socioemotional, and behavioral outcomes, as well as on parent engagement behaviors, across the years birth to five.
Through his involvement, Mr. Gonzalez will administer standardized assessments, administer questionnaires with families, conduct parent-child videotaping, conduct Spanish and English assessments of participating children and families, and assist in coding observational videos of parent-child dyads. Additionally, he will work collaboratively on an interdisciplinary research team as the group debriefs about methodological and implementation issues of concern to the parent grant.
Through this mentorship with the parent grant, Jaime will increase his research abilities. This will contribute directly to his stated career goals of (a) increasing knowledge related to early childhood intervention with diverse and disadvantaged populations, (b) enhancing knowledge of research methodology and data analytic approaches, and (c) gaining experiences working on an interdisciplinary research team and conducting research in field-based settings. The mentorship goals in this experience are to (a) build Jaime's competence in early childhood interventions for use with diverse and disadvantaged children and families, (b) develop Jaime's critical thinking skills as a researcher, and (c) encourage Jaime's self-reflection related to his development as a field-based researcher engaged in work with disadvantaged populations.
For additional information on this investigation, please contact:
Project Key Investigators: Susan Sheridan (PI)
Research Assistant: Jaime Gonzalez
