Spiritual Thriving in African American, Latino/Hispanic, and Low-Income Families: Reimagining Messages and Tools for Changing Times
The Spiritual Thriving in African American, Latino/Hispanic, and Low-Income Families: Reimagining Messages and Tools for Changing Times Project 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, PhD (project lead), Kara Hirano, Nanyamka Redmond, Heather Poparad, and Brandon Wong. Search Institute is collaborating with these organizations as Regional Design Labs for this project: the Center for Leadership at the University of Lynchburg, Virginia and Stars: Illuminate, Educate, Advocate, Pasadena, California. This project is funded by the Lilly Endowment.
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 the challenges and 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. Search Institute will work with families, community organizations, and faith communities to ideate, test, iterate, and disseminate messages and tools aimed at supporting spiritual thriving in families.
The resources for families, processes and resources for engaging families, and an online learning community for leaders will be available for others who are interested toward the conclusion of the project.