Spiritual Thriving in African American, Latino/Hispanic, and Low-Income Families: Reimagining Messages and Tools for Changing Times
How do African American, Latino/x/Hispanic, and low-income parents and caregivers nurture spiritual thriving with their elementary-age children in the face of challenges and the complexity of life today? What supports might they particularly value? Those are among the questions being explored in this multi-year human-centered design project.
Spiritual Thriving in African American, Latino/Hispanic, and Low-Income Families: Reimagining Messages and Tools for Changing Times is a multi-year human-centered design project with families, community organizations, and faith communities to ideate, test, iterate, and disseminate messages and tools aimed at supporting spiritual thriving in families.
Members of the Search Institute research team include Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Ph.D. (project lead), Kara Hirano Ph.D., Nanyamka Redmond, Ph.D., Heather Poparad, Nicole Merriwether, MSW, and Brandon Wong. Search Institute is collaborating with the following organizations as Regional Design Labs for this project: the Center for Leadership at the University of Lynchburg, Virginia; SA Hope Center, San Antonio, Texas; and Stars: Illuminate, Educate, Advocate, Pasadena, California.
This project is funded by the Lilly Endowment.
