Equity From the Start: Latinx Families and Their Experiences With Tele-Education and Telehealth due to COVID-19 (Poster 33)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 10
  In Poster Session: 2022 Education Research Service Project Poster Session

Abstract

This project centers on Latino/a/x families' experiences with telehealth and tele-education for their young children (ages 0-5) in a high-poverty neighborhood in Worcester, Massachusetts. With COVID-19, home visiting programs for young children and their caregivers have shifted to telehealth and tele-education. Yet organizations and providers are unsure of how families are experiencing telehealth and/or tele-education, leading them to make decisions that are not informed by data or responsive to families' strengths.

The project is informed by critical and sociohistorical frameworks, and a model of research-practice partnerships. With the Together for Kids Coalition (TFKC), a cross-sector coalition with 50+ member organizations, Park and Ross will design and facilitate focus group conversations with 30 Latino/a/x caregivers who have participated in telehealth and/or tele-education. Focus group questions will target not only barriers to telehealth and tele-education, but also families' strategies for leveraging telehealth and/or tele-education. In addition to generating knowledge about telehealth and tele-education for Latino/a/x families with young children, from the perspective of the families themselves, the intended project will support TFKC in developing practice- and policy guidelines for telehealth and tele-education, which will be disseminated to its 50+ partner organizations and agencies.

Authors

• Laurie Ross, Clark University

• Jie Yie Park, Clark University