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Research Study: Are you a Community Development Practitioner or Community/Connector/Builder working in the United States?

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2021-03-24
By: Allison Lourash
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Hello—I am currently looking for volunteer participants for a research study titled “Exploring Practitioners’ Strategies for Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities.” This study has the potential to add knowledge to the field of human services and will be shared broadly once completed.

Participants need to:

- Be 18 years or older and live in the United States.

- Have experience as a community development practitioner/ consultant/connector/organizer or other similar role with communities or neighborhoods in the United States.

- Have experience working with communities that include, either purposefully or not, people with disabilities

- Are willing to be interviewed in English over video conferencing or on the phone.

Your participation is voluntary, and interview responses will remain confidential.

More information is available at www.lourash.com. If you are interested in participating or have questions, contact:

Allison Lourash

Email: Allison.lourash@waldenu.edu

Phone: 715-205-7305

This study has been approved by Walden University’s Institutional Review Board (The Institutional ReviewBoard number is: 01-14-21-0228087) to ensure that it is aligned with the University’s standards and that interviews are conducted in an ethical manner.

05/23/22 06:11:19AM @allison-lourash:

Wanted to provide an update on my dissertation and the research study that I posted here. The full dissertation and a summary are located at: https://lourash.com/research/

I will be hosting several conversations as follow-up to the findings and related topics. Two have been scheduled in June:

Part 1: Community is not a Service- Monday, June 6 at 5 PM Central

How can Human Services organizations support broader community work while recognizing their role as an institution?
Within individualized funding frameworks, how can human services organizations support broader community work?

Part 2: What is the role of Community Development? Monday, June 13^th at 5 PM Central

How can Community Development Practitioners promote the gifts and talents of people with disabilities in their communities?
What does community inclusion mean within the context of Community Development?

Pre-registration is not required, but if you like reminders and Zoom info on your calendar you can go here.

Please reach out if you have any feedback or questions. I am happy to set up times to meet as well. Thank you very much for your interest and support- Allison

04/20/21 05:31:38AM @allison-lourash:

Thanks for doing that - I continue to seek out research participants.

-Allison

03/24/21 06:15:00PM @sd-network:
Thanks for posting this, Allison. It’ll also be put in next month’s newsletter.

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